Interleague is finally over
This interleague nonsense is finally over. I’m done with it. I am sick of it. Look, I liked it for a while. I like to see the AL pitchers step up to the plate, I like to see the NL use a DH, like the strategy of NL play. I like to see the White Sox and Cubs, Mets and Yankees, and…other teams as well. But 18 games are way too much. And I’m not just saying that because the Sox went 94-2 during that time and put some distance between them and the Yankees. I just want the teams that I watch (AL) to play other AL teams. I’ll be honest, it wasn’t fun to watch the AAA NL teams lose game after game to the Red Sox while the Yankees struggled. But now we’re back in the AL. And guess what? The Sox have lost 7 in a row to American League teams with one more in Tampa tonight.
It’s hard to throw stones though with the Yankees spiraling down. Interleague wasn’t fun, especially the Nats. And after tonight the Yanks go to Tampa to play a pretty good lineup with Damon hurt. But it’s still nice to see the Sox playing more to their standard now that they’re back in the AL.
That’s another thing. The local media guys are putting the Yankees as third best in the American League East. Hmm. They could be right. I’m as worried about the Yankees as anyone else. They are hurting in every aspect of the game – starting pitching, middle relief, offense. But the local guys, fans included, actually especially the fans, have always had an inflated and unrealistic view of their own team. I remember in 1998, the year that the Yankees had what some considered the best team in the history of baseball and won 114 games before going 11-1 in the playoffs to win the World Series, I had an argument, a few of them, with local Red Sox morons who kept saying over and over “Yankees Suck”. They still believed that the Sox were a better team after the Yankees had a great year. Freakin idiots.
Anyway, only time will tell who ends up where when the season is over. Last year the Yankees started 11-19 and ended up winning the AL East. A couple of years ago the Sox started out really hot, had to only go 500 the rest of the year to win the AL East, tanked it, and missed the playoffs. That was a great year. Lots of fun.