peter martin

jakehurwitz:

I think I need to stop watching baseball. Something happens to me when the Yankees play the Red Sox, specifically, when they lose to them. I just never knew I was capable of so much hate, I’m starting to think I’m a bad person.

A long time ago I can remember watching baseball with my dad, he was raised a Yankees fan, so I was raised the same way. My dad was always relaxed, if the Yankees won, great. If not, no big deal. I didn’t even know the Red Sox were a rival team until I was almost 13. But something in me has changed.

Now I find myself despising every Red Sox player that comes to the plate. Each one more than the next. I think Dustin Pedroia is the worst… Anyway, hating the Red Sox has taken all the fun out of loving the Yankees. You see, my disdain for one team, has lead to an even greater disdain for a team that can’t seem to beat them. I hate Jonathan Papelbon for being such a good pitcher, but I hate Alex Rodriguez more for not hitting off him, and I hate myself the most for getting so worked up. It’s a vicious cycle.

Full disclosure: When the Red Sox came back from 3 games down to beat the Yankees in the ALCS in 2004 I’m one of the people who didn’t get out of bed the next day. I’m not lying.

In conclusion, I am officially done caring about baseball. Starting tomor- fuck who am I kidding? Please God just let them win tomorrow.

Well, not that I want to make a Yankee fan feel any better, but that’s how it was for us Boston fans a decade ago…it’s sports, these things are cyclical and depend much more on ownership than we want to admit. It’s easy to hate Clemens for joining the Yankees or O’Neill for being a dick (and yeah, I see the flip side in Youkilis or Pedroia and have also come to surprisingly love O’Neill as an analyst, but still, fuck that guy I hope he gets hit by a truck), but the more sobering realization is that the Red Sox lost because of the long terrible legacy of the Yawkey family and its trickle-down effect. The Yankees will be back, just as soon as Hank gets suspended for rigging games or something and the actual baseball people can make decisions, just like the four championships that can be traced from Georgie boy’s suspension.

Oh and if that happens I will still root for every Yankee to get sudden-onset testicle cancer. Just want to get that straight.