What? You don’t see the resemblance?So, I’m getting ready to come online and write about tonight’s game. I was considering writing about Yankees fans. How this game is the, what, fourth or fifth game this year where they needed to say "Okay THIS is the game where they turn it around"? Hell it’s the third game this WEEK where they’ve said that.
Anyway, I decided against writing an entry about the fans because it isn’t their fault they have to finally accept that the small victories might be the only ones they get this year. But then I log on and old RSC fan favorite "EvilSnare" is here, after quite the long hiatus, to try and talk his version of trash. And any sympathies I had for Yankees fans disappeared.
I said from the beginning that not winning this series wouldn’t be a big deal, so EvilSnare and others of his ilk will be disappointed to find that I’m not terribly broken up about this loss. Curt looked crappy, and I’m reminded that I thought Theo, yet again, made the correct call…this time in waiting until the end of the season to talk contracts with Schilling. I’m certainly not writing him off. For as poorly as he pitched at times, he had some bright spots too and got himself out of trouble, but I’m definitely wary of his pitching right now.
(And, let’s be honest, these are the Yankees. And with Demon, Captain Intangibles, Slappy, HGHiambi and Sid the Sloth – you know they’re going to win some games. It’s silly to think they won’t.)
Still, this loss is as far from a big deal as you can get. Would I rather the team be 11.5 ahead instead of 9.5 ahead? Of course. But this is the first series that the Sox have lost since getting swept in a two-game series by Toronto on April 23rd and 24th.
(They split a two-game series with Oakland on May 1st and 2nd, after sweeping Baltimore and taking two out of three in New York – from that point on they beat Seattle in a makeup game, won the Minnesota series, swept Toronto, and then took the Baltimore series as well as the ones against Detroit and Atlanta.)
So, losing the series to New York doesn’t grate on me the way it might have in years past. The Sox are 6-3 against the Yankees and 25-12 against the rest of their opponents.
Regardless of what happened tonight, still looking pretty damned good, I’d say.
Let the Yankees fans have their moment. At this rate, it might be all they get.
Random Bronson Arroyo news: Tonight is "Bronson Arroyo Bobblehead Night" at the Great American Ball Park. Bronson pitched on Monday, so he wasn’t in the game, and the Reds are currently losing 12-7 going into the bottom of the ninth. The Reds are 18-28 and last in the National League Central Division…so I’m getting the good and the bad out of my baseball fandom!
Jesus Colome is pitching for the Nationals and the Reds broadcaster just said the Reds need help from "The real Jesus" to win this game. He then added "People, relax, it was just a joke". Wee…religious/ethnic humor! 
Reds held on to lose, Sox get a day off and then are in Texas for three days. Good times ahead, folks!
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