This Red Sox series is utterly exhausting. Even when they win, you still feel sick, drained, and ready for a vacation. Game 6 has always had a harsh ring to Sox fans and it was another dribbler down the first base line that may stay in memory for years to come. There we saw A-Rod, the overpaid money-over-legacy baby, slap the ball away from Bronson Arroyo. If you had any doubt the Yankees are in fact the evil empire, A-Rod had this to say about the play (I don't have time to find the exact quote): "I wish the umps wouldn't get together, everytime they do the call goes against the Yankees."

Excuse me? You mean you wish they wouldn't get the plays RIGHT?! You wish you could cheat and get away with it and win with dirty, underhanded play?! We didn't see you complaining about the umps when they missed the call in game 5 where Jeter missed tagging Ortiz at second by about a mile. And Bellhorn's homer was just that, this isn't Jeffery Meyer and the Baltimore Orioles. Just another reason to hate the Yankees.

Win or lose, there's no way to compare this Yankees team with those who forged the legacy of the team in the 50's. What's there to like about A-Rod (tries to cheat), Sheffield (does cheat--who's your dealer?!), and Matsui (he's ugly). I'll give you Rivera, Jeter, Williams, and Olerud. But as a team, the 2004 Yanks radiate a nastiness that makes them so easy to hate.

Let's hope the "idiots" on the Sox can give New England something to cheer about tonight. Normally we fear game 7's, but this one...this one feels different.

PS FOUND THE A ROD QUOTE:"I don't want those guys to meet anymore," Alex Rodriguez said after he was called for runner interference for his bush league play when he knocked the ball out of Bronson Arroyo's hand. "Every time they meet, it goes against the Yankees. I told John Hirschbeck: No more meetings."

Posted by James Dziezynski @ 11:01 AM