Magic Numbers
Yeah, it was a bad weekend in the Bronx and the mightiest lineup in baseball is looking truly awful -- even Jeter's getting booed at The Stadium. But this is ridiculous. "After everything that happened over the winter, and everything that happened last October, and everything that's happened between these teams since 1920, it would be hard to script a better 10 days for the Red Sox. Citizens of Red Sox Nation -- and many were here over the weekend -- already are calculating the Sox' magic number and planning Yankee Elimination Day parties [my italics]."
Good. Remember when they painted the World Series logo on the Fenway field before play had commenced in Game Seven of the American League Champtionship Series?
Alex Belth has a post that I think pretty effectively describes the whole insanity that is a Red Sox/Yankees regular season game (and ironically enough, the Comments section does a neat job of underscoring Alex's point).
I have to say, though, I can remember going to Red Sox/Yankees at the stadium in the late 1980s (when the Yankees did, in fact, "suck"). The violence was far more predictable than it is nowadays and I don't think it's because the security has improved. But over the weekend I noticed an uptick -- the announcers were mentioning "disturbances in the upper deck" a lot more than I recall recently. I think that's because in both the late '80s and this weekend, the futility of the Yankees' game makes Yankee fans at The Stadium a lot less benign and understanding when they hear the Sox fans chanting.
Update at 5:03 PM: Shockingly, there are some in the sports press who aren't buying the Greatest Rivalry in Sports hype. Jim Caple even suggests that there might have even been other professional baseball games played west of the Hudson River over the weekend.
Good. Remember when they painted the World Series logo on the Fenway field before play had commenced in Game Seven of the American League Champtionship Series?
Alex Belth has a post that I think pretty effectively describes the whole insanity that is a Red Sox/Yankees regular season game (and ironically enough, the Comments section does a neat job of underscoring Alex's point).
I have to say, though, I can remember going to Red Sox/Yankees at the stadium in the late 1980s (when the Yankees did, in fact, "suck"). The violence was far more predictable than it is nowadays and I don't think it's because the security has improved. But over the weekend I noticed an uptick -- the announcers were mentioning "disturbances in the upper deck" a lot more than I recall recently. I think that's because in both the late '80s and this weekend, the futility of the Yankees' game makes Yankee fans at The Stadium a lot less benign and understanding when they hear the Sox fans chanting.
Update at 5:03 PM: Shockingly, there are some in the sports press who aren't buying the Greatest Rivalry in Sports hype. Jim Caple even suggests that there might have even been other professional baseball games played west of the Hudson River over the weekend.
posted by John at 10:43 AM
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