Red Sox/Yankees

Mussina their best pitcher pitched a hell of a game, Schilling had his worst outing of the year, we were down 8 runs at one point and still came back to within one run. No such thing as a good loss but I'm thinking that's the best pitching performance the Yanks are getting this series and they had to struggled to hang on.

Game 2 is gonna be crazy and Pedro brought it upon himself so he better show up. This is the game where he'll end up determining how much he's worth this winter so I he'll have a good game, I hope!

 

Two words for Johnny Damon:

1. shave
2. haircut

 

is that a "baseball fashion statement"? All that pine-tar on the batting helmets?

 

what's up with the MLB having to force a recall on the "who's your daddy" shirts? Guess the bosox fans can't take a joke. Is it fine to call the yanks the evil empire, but not make a joke out of a quote pedro even said?

 

ha ha ..just like the red sox. they cock tease their fans like no other team in the history of the world. hey! lets come back from 8 runs down and then give up a couple more.

 

pedro is playing the yanks for all their worth. mark my words.

 

Thank God Fox is bucking the debate tonight.

 

You have no fucking idea. None at all.

 

As everyone knows, any Yankee Stadium gathering involving the Red Sox provides an excellent incubator for profound scientific study.

Polled last evening about the renowned Red Sox misery, Yankees fans chose between A and B:

A) Over the next three years of your life, the Yankees will win two World Series and the Red Sox will win one World Series; or

B) Over the next three years of your life, neither the Yankees nor the Red Sox will win a World Series.

Deep question: How many subjects must you query before you find a "B?"

"A," said first subject Harold Atkinson, 41, of the Bronx, and he began a brief treatise on decency, which included, "We want to prove that we can lose. A good winner is a good loser."

Gazing deeply into the future, he envisioned an entire new "curse" originating. "It would start a whole new cycle," he said.

"I would take the first choice," said second subject Al Ortega, 42, of the Bronx, wearing a T-shirt with "BOSTON" followed by a verb many deem unflattering.

How many Yankees fans must you query? Scientific answer: three.

Rapidly answering "B," Fred Miller, 41, of Waterbury, Conn., wearing a T-shirt having to do with Pedro Martinez's deathless "daddies" remark, said, "Just to see the Red Sox not win . . ."

Rapture, he said, albeit not exactly.

"Red Sox fans are the worst fans you ever see," he continued. "All they do is complain about everything."

Asked to imagine a TV screen showing a bouncing Red Sox scrum around the mound after a World Series victory, Miller said, "I wouldn't even watch the game."

Choosing "B," David Dickey of New Fairfield, Conn., wearing a T-shirt having to do with Martinez's deathless "daddies" remark, envisioned a Red Sox title and said, "Horrible. Horrible. It would ruin all the future games."

So a 26-0 advantage in World Series titles since 1918 may not suffice among the subjects. It may even, in fact, breed a certain, odd fear, a fear of the apparently enormous difference between "0" and "1," even from the vantage point of 26.

"B, absolutely," said Andy Heine, 48, of North Woodmere, holding a large "1918" placard and telling of a Yankee tattoo on his calf.

His "1918" placard, after all, would have to go into storage if the Red Sox won.

"It's become a fan thing," he said. "To keep them from winning, to Yankee fans, is more important," he said.

"First of all, if Boston wins, sitting in Yankee Stadium with Boston fans will be unbearable 'cause they won't remember all the years that lapsed in between 1918 and 2004 or 2005," he said.

It's an uncommon dread, the dread of leading only 26-1.

"B," said Frank Gasparrini, 56, of Babylon Village, as a landslide took hold. "Because there's not enough bad things that could happen to Boston."

Boston's misery? "I revel in it."

His friend, Angelo Buonconsiglio, 45, of Lake Ronkonkoma, said, "I just feel they're so obsessed with the whole thing, it's ridiculous." He resents their presence in Yankee Stadium, "cheering for their team. I don't go to Boston and cheer for my team."

He voted "B."

In fact, the lopsided fabric of the rivalry served as the subject in their westbound car heading for the stadium. "It's gonna end sooner or later," Gasparrini said. "We were talking about it coming down here: The Yankees have got to continue to win or they're failures.

Boston can win only one time and they're a success.

"No matter what," he said, and he opened his jacket, revealing a T-shirt with "BOSTON" and an unflattering verb about Boston.

"B," said Joe Manzelli, 39, of River Edge, N.J. Picturing a Boston victory scrum, he said, "Disney hasn't made up that one yet."

And so they piled up the votes for "B," "B" upon "B" upon "B," one guy even saying he lives in fear of "A," but nobody answering "B" quite so overpoweringly as a bartender and graduate elementary-education student from Port Jefferson.

In his Derek Jeter "2" jersey, with his placard concerning Martinez's deathless "daddies" remark, issued by a radio station, Jordan Tsunis is only 23.

The curse, it turns out, can be a friend. "It is," Tsunis said. "It definitely is.

"It's important to see the curse live on," he said. "Everyone wants to see it go past the 100-year mark."

 

would expect no less.