Yankees vs. Red Sox

Yankees vs. Red Sox

Well the Yankees squeaked out the Wild Card win against the Oakland A’s.  They won 7-2.  Why is that a squeaker?  Because there is no clock in baseball.  The game is never over until that last out, and if you are a fan you have seen your team lose a big lead in the ninth inning many times.  All games are squeakers until they are over.  This is true against very good teams like the A’s and it is especially true against the Red Sox.

No lead is enough in Fenway Park, and no team knows how to use that park to their advantage better than the home team Sox . 

So it is the Yankees versus the Red Sox.  

I don’t like that we had to win a wild card game to get here, but in the old days it would have been the Red Sox win the pennant and season over, so the wild card system is not so bad.

RT - We used to say Yankees “against” the Red Sox, or the Yankees “playing” the Red Sox but now it is “versing.”  I did a double take the first time one of my kids asked me before a LL game, “Who are we versing today?”

It should be a good series.  Home field advantage goes to the Sox and Fenway is a big advantage. 

Fenway Park, a great Iconic Stadium

If we face the July/August Red Sox it will be a short series, the Red Sox were unbeatable in July/August.  It may be interesting though as when a team wins going away like the Sox did this year, sometimes they lose that competitive edge of adrenaline and it does not always come back easily (wishful thinking.)

Mrs. C is rooting for the Red Sox so she doesn’t have to put up with my fan craziness.  I may yell a bit at the TV from time to time. 

Mrs. C simply says, “You know they can’t hear you don’t you?”

Yes, I do know.  Doesn’t stop me.  

Being a fan just makes  no sense.  Fans are crazy.  When a homerun is hit fans start pumping their fist and hollering like they just did something.  They have a “Take that attitude” and act all tough and macho…it is really stupid.

I am that fan!

So for a few days at least Mrs. C will have to put up with it.

She will call me a jerk.

She may be right.

GO YANKEES!