There is nothing better than watching the Red Sox sit in
last place in the American League East. To me, that’s glorious, but I also
understand that when my own team is struggling, anything and I mean ANYTHING
can happen. After all, it’s baseball Suzyn, it’s baseball.
The Red Sox seem to turn it on when they play the Yankees
and have for years. That’s what makes
this rivalry so damn special. When we
face each other, it really doesn’t matter what happened before we met up. What
matters is that series. The players come out
of no where and just dominate! Plus,
there is always that seesaw between teams, that tug-o-war that goes late into
the night. That’s the Yankees and Red
Sox, to me, that’s some of the best baseball of the season.
The Yankees are starting to come out of their hitting
slumber, courtesy of Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez and Curtis Granderson. Russell Martin has showed some signs of life
and for a brief moment, Mark Teixeira came back, only to get hurt again the
other night in Baltimore. There was a report that
suggests Tex will miss 10 to 14 days, read HERE. I guess that's a good problem because if he was out the rest of the season, that would
be a heartbreaker, but the Yankees made a smart move, resigning Steve Pearce
and they’ll platoon he and Nick Swisher at first base. Is it perfect? No, but it's stable for 14 days.
Hopefully Nick Swisher’s
bat wakes up. He was on such a tear
this year but lately the dude's been streaky. We obviously want him streaking at the positive, not the negative. But back to my point…the
Yankees and hitting. It’s happening ladies and gentlemen and I believe that’s a
major factor over the next few weeks.
We’re only a success though if our pitching holds down the fort and
gives our bats a chance to tack on runs and not play catch-up like we’ve been
doing for the past 3 weeks. We need to
play like champions, bottom line.
Do I think the Yankees can win the next 3 games? No doubt in
my mind, but only if we don't walk in cocky, meaning, instead of walking in thinking this
is a last place Red Sox team we’re playing and “we got this”, we should instead walk in like it's the World Series, like it's a challenge, a hurdle that we must get over. To me, winning every game is
important right now. Winning the series is the second part of the puzzle. We do those things and we are in the
playoffs, but we can’t just stroll in thinking the next 3 days will be a
breeze, they aren’t, they’re the Red Sox… no doubt it’s a blood bath and it
should be played that way.
Guys like Dustin Pedroia still lead that team of
misfits. Guys like Pedro Ciriaco is one
of the most talented underrated young athletes in baseball right now. They make things happen, we need to counter
that. We need to score early and stomp
the guys that try to bring life to that team. That’s the bottom line.
So here we go. We’ve just come off an enormous win against
Baltimore 13-3 and now we enter Fenway park ready to tack on more wins in what
is the closing of the season…20+ more games and every game needs to be played
hard. Can we do this? Yes, I don’t think so,
I know so.
#28 is coming ladies and gentlemen… I feel it, I really do.
Let's Go Yanks! The time is now!
Let's Go Yanks! The time is now!
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