First thing's first, what a fun Opening Day, right? There are only a few things that I'm questioning going into the second game of the series, and not all of them relate to the field.
First of all, the opening ceremony was a bunch of garbage aimed at all of the syrupy-sweet Sox fans who still love to wallow in the false underdoggy nature of Red Sox-Yankees. It was good to bring out Pedro for the first pitch because he'll always be remembered as a Red Sox, but there's no need for the "wake up the Bambino" stuff. Nomar would have been better considering he just retired from the sport. Also, the audio (and likely) video montage of all the Boston-Bronx fighting moments was just plain classless. Frankly, we should be past all of that. Yes, I hate the Yankees, and yes, I'll always remember 2003 and 2004, but we've now won 2 World Series titles, and our team is perennially competitive in the baseball's toughest division.
That Miracle kid should never have seen the inside of the ballpark. Seriously? We're now the US Hockey Team? I guess Josh Beckett is just an aw-shucks amateur playing with heart. Please.
For the game itself, Beckett is in his typical even-year form (kidding, it's the first game of the season). I have questions about batting Ortiz fifth and immediately following him with Captain Strikeout, Adrian Beltre. Ortiz certainly showed improved patience, but he's still dropping his bat in the zone and fouling off pitches he should be squaring up on. That said, I'm, again, not too concerned about the offense.
Also, see the link below for the skinny on Beckett's 4 year extension with the Sox. Maybe he's one of the first players to realize that despite not getting 5 years, he's still going to be pulling in close to $70 million, and that's probably still enough to live off of.
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amen... glad to finally hear someone else talk about the ridiculousness that seems to makeup the beantown/bronx "hatred" nowadays.
personally, i've felt the blood only boils for two parties: the media, who needs it for viewing numbers, and any fans that has been following the yankees since 2001 and the sox since 2003. it seems to be all they have and all they know. do they even know about the 70's and 80's? neo-yankees/sox fans seem to understand baseball only in terms of an unrooted (for them), misunderstood hatred for the other - their "enemy," rather than seeing the game for what it is... a pretty frickin' sweet sport!
that having been said rather unintelligibly at 3:19 in the morning, it's great to have the rays as a competitor in the division. to think at least one, if not two of the rays, sox and yanks will be left out of the playoffs is the underlying beauty of baseball.
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