Red Sox win the AL East Division
There you go. The Sox won the division. Congrats to the enemy, they're the king of the hill for 2007.
Watching the nonsense on NESN, especially the Yanks blowing a three run lead in the ninth and looking at a bunch of drunk fans jumping around a dark Fenway, was painful. I didn't live in Boston 61 years ago when the Sox last won the division so I didn't get to see the fun. In fact, I wasn't even born.
Ok, so maybe it was 1995, but I still didn't live here, I moved to Boston in 1998. The Yanks won the division in 1996, Baltimore in 1997, then the Yanks every year since then, as we all know. With the Sox increasing their payroll, it was only a matter of time until they won the division. Plus they have a decent farm system and made some good free agent moves.
The two remaining games for both teams will be like class after final exams. Players with Game Boys, DVD players watching 300, taking sips from beer hidden in a Gator Aid cooler, joking with fans near the dugout.
Now off to the playoffs.
Comments
Congrats to the Yankees for making the wild card. I truly hope we get another shot at playing each other in the ALCS - outcome of 2004, not 2003 of course. It was heroic the way the Yankees came back from that 14 game deficit to make it interesting in the end. Of course, they had a large hand in why they had to come back from that 14 game deficit in the first place. That's besides the point, though - who ever said it was about the whole season not about a part of it, anyway? Now that the Yankees won the wildcard, and the Red Sox won the Adams Division, I guess we just move on to the playoffs. Oh, forgot, there's still the bragging rights to best record in baseball for the entire 2007 season - that would be pretty cool if the Red Sox got that, too.
For the playoffs, the Yankees are firing on all cylinders and the Sox are not so invulnerable any more - that means no excuses from Yankees fans, now, right? :)
PS I would just like to point out that there was no actual "Na, na, na, na, na" in my post - though it would have been easier and allowed me to go back to mindless drinking and swearing, which, of course, is my nature as a Red Sox fan.
Barry
Posted by: Anonymous | September 29, 2007 03:33 PM