C'mon Yankees fans, don't fear the Reaper

Bill:
"But the crowd's bloodlust for Papelbon - who unfairly had been portrayed as less than properly reverential toward resident closer Mariano Rivera - trumped its desire for an AL victory. Thunderous boos rained down as Papelbon jogged in from the dugout to start the eighth.

The boos gave way to a singsong chant of "Ma-ree-a-no," which was followed by a mocking 'Oh-ver-ra-ted.'"

 

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Bill:
You stay classy, New York.

 

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Mike:
Well, it's like Will Leitch wrote shortly aftah getting ambushed by Buzz Bissinger on the Costas Now show:

"The simplest, most obvious emotion that comes when we are faced with what we do not understand is fear, followed quickly by rage."

 

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Mike:
There was a time, not very long I ago I might add, when Yankees fans would have looked upon a guy like Papelbon and the Red Sox as a whole with a sarcastic bemusement totally secure with the knowledge that in the end the Yankees would win and the Red Sox would lose.

 

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Mike:
But now rather than confidence they project fear and rage. It's a beautiful thing to behold, really.

 

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Bill:
Yeah, have I told you before how much I'm enjoying the first paht of the 21st Century?

 

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Mike:
Only about 300 times …

 

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Bill:
Go Red Sox - Defending World Champions.

 

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Author's Notes
Barring any crazy news surfacing, I'm planning on taking tomorrow off from The Soxaholix as there won't be much going on in MLB until the games resume.

Comments

[NYSoxfan]

I can only imagine how violated I would have felt if an MFY had won the MVP at the Fenway All-Star Festivus of '99. It surely would have roiled... but nothing could have taken away from the magic of seeing Teddy Ballgame not to mention the Yaz, Fisk, et al on that field of dreams. That said, the Sox came to NY last night and walked away with the bling and home-field. Mission accomplished. On to L.A. to mete out some revenge on the Angels for spoiling Masterson's fine debut...

[Matt of CT]

BB needs to go to the circle-jerk that is Murray Chass' blog NonBlog-website-of-writings-and-articles-but-not-a-blog-really-guys.

[chris]

christ.

chass has officially gone off the deep end. its kind of pathetic, really. sad, sad old man...

[Griffin]

//You have never, ever been correct in your characterizations of Yankee fans.//

This from a guy who utilizes the insult "fag."

Oh, irony.

[Harwich Rich]

I can't wait to see what TeeHee aka Big
bri has in his pj's for us today :)