Sweet Sweep
Ordinarily, I'm not the type to gloat or rub it in. After five-plus decades of wandering the planet, I've learned one thing - what goes around, comes around. Don't dish it out if you're not prepared to take it.
But it's been a pretty dreary season for Yankee fans, what with injuries, subpar performances from overpaid and overrated athletes, questionable managing by Father Joe Torre, sloppy defense and inconsistent pitching. Make that consistent pitching when it comes to the bullpen - as in consistently mediocre. Thank God for Mariano - and go Joba!
Speaking of which - is that umpire who threw him out of the game without a warning going to get the suspension he deserves? What a bogus call.
So it's hard not to get excited when the hated Red Sox roll into town all puffed up with their eight game lead and a seeming lock on first place. How sweet it was to see them taken down a peg or two or three.
Of course, the apologists of Red Sox Nation need to seize on some rationalization - so let's focus on two pitches a 21-year-old rookie with all of 11 innings of pitching in the big leagues behind. I'm sure those same folks will now show up in two weeks at Fenway wearing helmets.
Here's the scoop, guys. Your team has feet of clay. You have a banjo hitting ball club that can't hit it's way out of a paper bag. You can't bust up on the White Sox, but not against the likes of Pettitte, Clemens and the Wanger.
It's probably too late for the Yankees to overcome their earlier dreadful playing and overtake the Sawx, but the wild card works for me. Just get in. I like our chances in a Yanks - Sox matchup in a short series - something I didn't think plausible last May.
Comments
Wow, you aren't shy about not letting first amendment rights run loose here are you? Have to be approved? Well at least I have the opportunity to say the old website was much more interesting than this one. I especially liked the opportunity to catch up on ole Manchester's activities through a very workable archive when I had missed a few weeks of the journal. If possible would like to post a poem entitled, "Did They Die For You" written by myself in July. A perspective from myself and dead soldiers. What do you say, if I'm brave enough to post it are you brave enough to let it remain here?
Posted by: karen felsen | September 9, 2007 04:45 PM