Haters Unite Behind the Tigers
It's official; I'm a Tigers fan for now. And who knows, if they knock the Yankees out of the post-season, perhaps all of RedSox nation will be so happy that we'll be willing to donate a couple of our best players to Detroit for 2013 and thereafter. How about John Lackey? Don't you think that Lackey would look good in a Motor City uniform? But let's not get ahead of ourselves, because the Tigers have a tough road ahead. The Yankees proved very resilient in their ALDS series with the Orioles; and it often seems that teams who manage to win games with miracle finishes find a way to keep advancing through the post-season, often toward a championship banner. Let's hope that Ibanez doesn't repeat his ALDS heroics. Someone ought to turn a fire-hose on that guy and cool him off.
And speaking of Tigers fans, here's a hater who was recently photographed at an undisclosed location, somewhere in the Nation. I know is shirt is politically incorrect, but can you really blame him? One thing about the shirt though; it ought to name A-Rod and not Jeter, because didn't Rodriguez play like a little bitch in the ALDS? Imagine having the highest salary in the majors, and then getting benched for a decisive game five. A-Rod has often disappeared in October, but I'm not sure I can ever recall him sitting for a play-off game. Of course, that made Girardi look like a genius. Except that when one guy bats .125 with zero RBIs, and zero extra base hits, and the other guy bats over .400, with a walkoff home run thrown in for good measure, maybe you don't need to be a genius to figure out who can better help your team. The freakin guy is forty years old!!
The other thing here, the unspoken thing, is how pathetic it is to be relegated to hating in October, after not having had a single thing to cheer about all summer long. Ever since Hurricane Irene swept through New England, and washed out Boston's 2011 season, fans throughout RedSox nation have teetered between apathy and despair. And now, we're faced with another post-season when the only thing that might give us some satisfaction is seeing the Yankees booted from the playoffs. Only thing is that, so far, it hasn't happened. But we're counting on Detroit to fix all that. We're counting on Detroit to give us some some warm and hateful memories to carry us through the winter months and into spring training. We're relegated to that old RedSox mantra - wait till next year. And in the meantime, Go Tigers!
And speaking of Tigers fans, here's a hater who was recently photographed at an undisclosed location, somewhere in the Nation. I know is shirt is politically incorrect, but can you really blame him? One thing about the shirt though; it ought to name A-Rod and not Jeter, because didn't Rodriguez play like a little bitch in the ALDS? Imagine having the highest salary in the majors, and then getting benched for a decisive game five. A-Rod has often disappeared in October, but I'm not sure I can ever recall him sitting for a play-off game. Of course, that made Girardi look like a genius. Except that when one guy bats .125 with zero RBIs, and zero extra base hits, and the other guy bats over .400, with a walkoff home run thrown in for good measure, maybe you don't need to be a genius to figure out who can better help your team. The freakin guy is forty years old!!The other thing here, the unspoken thing, is how pathetic it is to be relegated to hating in October, after not having had a single thing to cheer about all summer long. Ever since Hurricane Irene swept through New England, and washed out Boston's 2011 season, fans throughout RedSox nation have teetered between apathy and despair. And now, we're faced with another post-season when the only thing that might give us some satisfaction is seeing the Yankees booted from the playoffs. Only thing is that, so far, it hasn't happened. But we're counting on Detroit to fix all that. We're counting on Detroit to give us some some warm and hateful memories to carry us through the winter months and into spring training. We're relegated to that old RedSox mantra - wait till next year. And in the meantime, Go Tigers!
posted by pops | 2:55 PM
3 Comments:
I agree. First I thought the Orioles would be my Red Sox proxy team (yes, it was a sad summer in New England, but indeed we have back-ups. Miguel Cabrera, Justin Verlander and others. Yep, lets go Tigers!
Chipper
Berg,
I know you posted this before the 1st game of the ALCS so the events of that game override your redsox fan "Haters Unite" post.
Having said that Arod is a bitch. His head has come totally unscrewed. Who would have thought that the pitching and Raul would reign the day. I think the difficult September fending off the Orioles took its toll on the aging line-up and put too much pressure on the younger ones. No one will have a pity on the Yankees but they are just tried. They should have won game 1 by 4 runs. I just finished watching game two and Kuroda pitched fantastic and still the line-up can not string 2 hits together and every pitcher they face is named Cy Young.
Jeter's injury is the bookend to Mo's injury. It was good they won the division but they were not good against +500 teams all season.
Soon the my season will be over and the Yankees can join the redsox on the golf course. Then your newly minted post will go into the archive and we will both turn to the off season rumors to see how both organizations can rebuild for the 2013 season.
Oh BTW another win for the Yankee fans to carry into the Hater Ball celebrating the 2012 season. So no matter how disappointed I will be for the season to be over at least my season didn't at the All-Star break.
Maybe we can pull out a miracle but if not thanks for a great season.
Go Yankees.
G-man
I have lttle doubt that by the time our granddaughter starts kindergarten, the Sox will claw back into post-season play, but of course she doesn't start kindergarten until 2016....
Chipper
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