This Should Be Fun
This weekend we have a Yankees-Sox series with the two teams tied for first. It doesn't get much better than this in the regular season. It was just about two months ago that Boston came into New York and swept the Yankees out of first place. Since that series, the Yankees have had the best record in the AL and Boston has had the second best.
In some ways, this series is very similar to an August 2009 series between the Yankees and Red Sox. New York entered that series in first, but they were 0-8 versus Boston. This year's club doesn't have the lead the 2009 edition did coming into this series, but they are 1-8 versus Boston. The criticism that they can't beat Boston has to be ringing in their ears.
We all know what the 2009 club did. Can this club do the same? Assuming Colon and Garcia remain what they have been all year, I like their chances. Both of these teams should easily make the playoffs. Neither one will admit that the AL East crown matters, but it does. Three big games coming up. I can't wait.
UPDATE I find this video hysterical.
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Despite having been woken from the dream of my childhood and most of my adult life when the Sox finally won in '04 and '07 I still have a bad feeling that they will somehow come up on the outside this season. It isn't anything to do with talent, how things are going, just the old dread of "the curse of the bambino" still resonating inside my head.
I hope both teams make the playoffs. Makes for a fun ALCS potentially. Rest of the country hates us (all) for it but fans of these two teams gotta enjoy it.
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August 5, 2011 05:29 PM
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