Let me preface this by saying, I still hate the Boston Red Sox and hope them and all their fans die in fiery plane crashes.
Now that being said, I still felt compelled to watch the last few innings of the World Series last night. As I was watching I kept asking myself why? Why was I watching the inevitable? Since the Yankees have lost I probably haven't watched three innings of playoff baseball. But as I watched the Red Sox wrap up another World Series sweep I felt the excitement that is what baseball provides.
No matter how big the lead is, at the end of the World Series you have to get three outs. It is not like the other sports; you have to make the plays in order to win. In basketball you can be up by 15 and cruise to victory in the final game of the series. Plenty of times the Super Bowl has been anti climactic, we already know the winner, guys have been hugging each other on the sideline for 10 minutes and the celebration is sort of fake, even though the joy is real.
Last night as I was watching, you could see the anticipation on the face of the Red Sox. This is just one more of things that makes baseball so unique and I think why certain people are so protective of the game and its traditions. Papelbon finally blew away Seth Smith with a fastball and the celebration is still spontaneous. You never know where the game is going to end. When the Yankees won in 1996 who would have thought Charlie Hayes would have caught the ball down by the tarp at third base. That spurred the Yankees celebration to go toward the mound but never really reach it, because the celebration always seems to center around whoever made the final play. And that embrace between pitcher and catcher, that is the embrace of 1000 celebrations, gloves and hats go flying in the air and one grown man leaps into another’s arms.
Baseball is so great for so many reasons and means so much to plenty of us baseball nerds. The spontaneity of the celebration is just another one of those joys we baseball fans should relish. P.S.Watch the video again, after the strikeout when Varitek is sprinting out to the mound he takes the final ball and slips it into his back pocket.
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More importantly, A-Rod opted out of his contract. Mah.
I can't stand the Red Sox, but I thought it was pretty bush league for him to make this announcement in the middle of the game last night. It's as if everything has to be all A-Rod all the time or else he's not happy. Instead of talking about a really close potentially final WS game, Fox was covering the latest chapter in A-Rod's $250 million journey around MLB.
And I can't believe he opted out because Torre and Posada and Pettitte might be gone. Why didn't he stay around and try to recruit free agents to come to NY to play with him? Perhaps because he has no leadership skills? Maybe because he's a greedy bastard looking for an even more monstrous payday?
Andrew,
Every time they say it's not about the money, it's always about the money, just remember that.
There is a reason Scott Boras is the best agent in the game. What he is doing is representing his client in the best possible way and getting him the best deal.
We could go on and on about this A-Rod thing but it is really a spiral that just leads down a dark path and you wind up getting sick of talking about it.
Just remember this, the Yankees are all talk about winning championships and all that, but at the end of the day it is still a business and the point of business is to make money and remember this, in 2003 the year before A-Rod arrived the Yankees drew 3.4 million fans, those figures have steadily climbed each year
2004- 3.7
2005- 4.09
2006- 4.20
3007- 4.27
And Boras knows these numbers by heart.
Oh, settle down Beavis.
You're going to wish death on someone, it shouldn't be sports fans.
Unless they're bandwagon fans.
Joseph, I agree with your assesment on bandwagon fans, and 94% of all Red Sox fans are bandwagon fans. They are simply Sawx fans because they hate the Yankees.
They are the type of people who don't know shit about shit and tell you how the Yankees just buy all their players. Well just a point of fact, the last Yankee World Chmpionship in 2000 the Yankees had 10 players that were homegrown out of 25 this year the Sawx had 9 out of 25. Last time I checked, 9 was more than 10.
I believe that 9 is actually less than 10. But 10 is more than 9. Math is cool, like real bagels.
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