Red Sox coming for weekend, but rivalry with Yankees might be taking a holiday
Yes it's true. The Red Sox - Yankees rivalry, which has been considered the biggest rivalry in the history of american sports, is officially on hold.
Maybe it will still be a Yankee-Red Sox season in the American League East before it is over, the way it always has been in the past. Maybe they will fight it out for first place in September the way they usually do. Maybe the Rays aren't for real, as real and young and talented and hungry as they look these days, against the Red Sox and everybody else. Maybe. It is not just a Yankee-Red Sox season so far, even if they are about to play four against each other at the Stadium over the Fourth.
Maybe you can stop using the word "maybe" over and over. You don't need to be a sports journalist to know that any of these things can happen. But thanks for pointing them out, Master Of The Obvious.
You want to understand why things look a little different in the American League in the season that has been played so far? Start here: Start with a Yankee-Red Sox series in September of 1997, when the Yankees were in second place behind the Orioles, where they would stay until the end of that regular season. The Red Sox were nothing that year, running third in the AL East, a couple of games under .500, years away from John Henry and Larry Lucchino and Tom Werner getting the team and changing baseball in Boston and New York forever.
Apparently, forever only lasts eleven years, because, according to the midget sports genius, the rivalry is being put on hold for this weekend.
And why does that series from '97 matter and why should you care about it? Because according to the Elias Sports Bureau, which knows everything, it was the last time the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox played against each other this late in a season - after Memorial Day - and at least one of them wasn't in first place at the time.
So Lupica is saying that nothing has happened between these two teams since 1997 that could have upped the rivalry.
Let's see - Aaron Boone, Pedro, Roger Clemens,1999 ALCS, 2003 ALCS, 2004 ALCS, 2007, both teams finishing in first and second place 10 of the last eleven years, 3 rings for the Yankees, 2 for the Red Sox, the Red Sox breaking the curse…throw all that out the window. It's all worthless, because neither team is in first place the first week of July in 2008.
That's right - there will be plenty of empty seats in Yankee Stadium this weekend, because conversations like the following are taking place all over the tri-state area and in Red Sox Nation:
Fan #1: "Hey, do you want to go to the Yankees - Red Sox game this weekend?"
Fan #2: "Holy crap let's go!!! Oh, wait a minute..."
Fan #1: "What's the matter?"
Fan #2: (flipping through Lupica calendar) "Well, it's already July 3rd, and neither team is in first place. That's not much of a rivalry."
Fan #1: "Wow, you are right. This four game series is gonna suck. Why don't you come over tonight and we'll watch some horribly effeminate reality TV, like 'Dancing With The Stars'?"
Fan #2: "That sounds great!"
Fan #1: "Don't forget the lube!"
It is still the Yankees against the Red Sox for four over a holiday weekend, ending up with one of those ESPN games on Sunday night that both teams hate. There will probably be at least one four-hour game, and maybe some hard feelings because of all the guys who got thrown at the last time they played at the Stadium. But for the first time in a very long time, neither one of them leads the division at this time of year, neither one of them leads the conversation in baseball.
And that, my friends, is the brilliant conclusion that Lupishit has come to - neither team is in first place, therefore, the biggest rivalry in sports is officially put on hold until further notice.
Mike, you are such a scary talent.
Monday and Tuesday night the Yankees pitched and didn't hit. Wednesday night they hit like crazy, hit all game long, came from behind twice, scored nine runs in an inning, tried to make up with this one night all the bad nights of this season when they left everybody on base. Before they busted out Wednesday night, the whole thing had started to get older at Yankee Stadium than, well, Madonna.
Yesterday, Douche Bag Mike wrote a trashy tabloid article about ARod and Madonna that would make the paparazzi over at The Inquirer blush.
Today? Well, the Madonna story, according to Lupica, is getting old. One day after he "earned" his paycheck writing about it. What a hack.
It is still the Yankees and the Red Sox this weekend, still a very big deal. Just nobody in first place this time.
The premise of this article is this: The Yankees - Red Sox rivalry is on hold because neither team is in first place.
And Lupica sums it up by saying this: The Yankees - Red Sox rivalry is alive and well, despite neither team being in first place.
Make up your mind, you retarded dwarf.
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Ding Dong, The Rivalry Is Dead
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Clearly, someone needs to tell the 230,000+ fans going to the Stadium this weeknd (all 4 games are sold out - but how can that be?) that these games hold no interest.
And shame on ESPN for presenting and airing Sunday's game as a premiere event. Honestly, who wants to watch Joba pitch against the Red Sox, while the Yanks try to tee off on Wakefield? Neither team is in first place!!
The fact that neither team is in first place is irrelevant - it's the Yanks-Red Sox, something that you clearly do not understand. You obviously only show interest when either team is in first (praise when it's the Red Sox, bitter criticism when it's the Yanks), and can't understand why anyone cares when that's not the case.
Let me break it down and make it easy for you - we are sports fans. You are an asshole. We enjoy sports. You abhor sports.
And furthering my point regarding you being a loser - after dismissing the weekend's games, I guess you won't be writing anything about the Yanks-Red Sox games this weekend, will you?
Do you ever feel shame collecting a paycheck?
'Tard.
Since Midget Mikey the Met fan is out of ideas for his column...tell him he can use this:
> A Met Fan walks into a bar and says,"Give me a seven and seven?"
The bartender says, "That'll be 137 million dollars"
The Met Fan says, 137 million dollars for a cocktail? What are you crazy?"
The bartender says, " Oh,I'm sorry...I thought you wanted a pitcher." <
TJseven
Since Midget Mikey the Met fan is out of ideas for his column...tell him he can use this:
> A Met Fan walks into a bar and says,"Give me a seven and seven?"
The bartender says, "That'll be 137 million dollars"
The Met Fan says, 137 million dollars for a cocktail? What are you crazy?"
The bartender says, " Oh,I'm sorry...I thought you wanted a pitcher." <
But I guess that's not as funny as saying..."200 million dollar payroll" every other paragraph!
TJseven
This is honestly one of the most hilarious and on-point blogs in the history of blogdom. I'm serious, by the way. Lupica's Yankee-bashing knows no limits. At least Bill Simmons is able to extend some credit, even if he's lost his edge.
Lupica's act has become far too tired. Bob Raissman's has, too. (Evne though he's toned his blatant Yankee-bashing down some, likely because of his SNY gig. Hard to continuously take jabs at YES when you're working for an operation that essentially does the same thing for a different team.)
I posted before praising this blog. Let me just clarify one thing: I have no problem with a columnist having an opinion on a team or a topic and there are times the Yankees deserve to be criticized. But Lupica's gone to the "let-me-bash-the-Yanks (or the Steinbrenners)" well too many damn times.
I'm sure Lupica has heard all kinds of criticism and may just scoff at it. But sometimes, he needs to be called on the carpet for it. You may want to tone down on the personal insults, but keep up the good work.
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