Monday, April 05, 2010
And That Happened
Posted by Craig CalcaterraHey, whaddaya know? Studes didn't change the locks after I left last November!
Red Sox 9, Yankees 7: The Yankees were supposed to have a great bullpen. The Red Sox weren't supposed to have enough offense because of all that run prevention they had imported. Well, The best-laid schemes o' mice an 'men gang aft agley, and all that. The Yankees blew a 5-1 lead. The Red Sox pounded out 12 hits, five of which went for extra bases. One of the Yankees runs -- on the double steal -- was the result of approximately 14 defensive mistakes on the same play, aptly pointed out by what I'm going to henceforth call ESPN's "Matrix-vision."
And I probably owe an apology. Before the game I kept claiming that it would be a turgid, boring and sloppy four-hour affair, and I was wrong about that. It was a turgid, boring and sloppy three hour and forty-six minute affair. But as Sox and Yankees purists have warned me, I shouldn't complain. The additions of bad live singing by Stephen Tyler ("God Bless America") and Neil Diamond ("Something that sounded almost but not quite entirely unlike 'Sweet Caroline'") only added to the pure, unspoiled majesty that is The Greatest Rivalry in All of Baseball.*
Oh, and the Red Sox' magic number is 161.
*Why they didn't have the best musical talent in the house performing last night is beyond me.
Craig writes the HardballTalk blog for NBC Sports.com