Friday, Sept. 24, 2004
Orioles vs. Tigers, posted at 11:49 p.m.
Epiphany in Baltimore has moved to epiphanyinbaltimore.blogspot.com Damn Estaban Yan and your 3-run homeruns. Damn Miguel Tejada, who now officially is having a better season than Carlos Guillen, but only because Guillen was hurt. Damn Alan Trammell and his damn smallball, making Ryan Raburn bunt in what could have been a much bigger inning.I was a beautiful night at Camden Yards, though, at least. And, despite the heartbreaking loss, the game was pretty good.
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I hate to say it, but I'm rooting for the Yankees over the Red Sox right now. It's for a number of reasons, and they all have come to fruition in the last year, since last fall I was rooting for the Red Sox to win. Here they are:
1. Whininess: The Red Sox whine that the Yankees always get star players from other teams. The thing is, they do the same thing (Martinez, Schilling, Foulke, even Johnny Damon), they just don't do it as well as the Yankees (they could have had A-Rod, but they didn't want to pay him the money). Their fans seem to all have a victim complex about the whole Yankees thing, but, the truth is, the Yankees, while obviously rich, also have been run very well for years. The Red Sox have not been. They have made Jeff Bagwell for Larry Andersen trades and Nomar Garciaparra for Orlando Cabrera trades. They decided that replacing Todd Walker with Pokey Reese was viable. They do not make smart moves.
2. The Red Sox fans are just as bad as the Yankees fans when they come to Camden Yards. Actually, they might be worse. I saw one wearing a shirt that said, "A-Rod is an A-Hole" last time the Sox were in town, as if it was his fault that he was traded to the Yankees.
3. I work with three people from Boston and live with another guy from Boston. There is constant ribbing. Today, my roommate told me he didn't want to go to the Tigers/Orioles game, because he wasn't that interested in "little league ball." So the knife cuts both ways.
Anyhow, I will be rooting for Oakland this post-season. And everyone should read Moneyball.
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The city substitute teacher pool in this city is so bare that one had to be led away from our building today by police. Talk about a raving lunatic.