October 11, 2003

Thoughts From the Brink of Insanity, if Not Elimination

Sox lose to Yankees.

I didn't see the pregame, so I'm not sure if the Fox announcers were wearing only Yankee caps, or full uniforms. Could they be any more biased? From Tim McCarver's 25-minute soliliquy on how the DH has ruined baseball because Clemens wouldn't have a chance to throw at Pedro, to the knee-jerk condemnation of Pedro for flipping Don Zimmer (after 5 replays, Joe Buck quietly said, "maybe Pedro's not entirely to blame" - nice call, Joe, since the Gerbil was speed-waddling towards Pedro with a left hook winding up the whole time), to the deification of Mariano Rivera. Maybe he's so effective in the postseason because McCarver spends 5 innings giving him a full-body massage - am I the only one who thinks this?!?

And to save time tomorrow, Nomar's planning to swing three times at the first pitch and then go sit down. Not that I'm bitter.

My Dad and I have remarked in the past that nowhere else but Boston is there such a universal combination of loyalty and loathing towards the home team. The city motto is, "These guys suck; what time's the game?"

8:00 tomorrow.

Comments

man, rough that you would give such a bad name to gerbils.

Posted by: christine at October 13, 2003 01:30 AM

It's from a comment Bill Lee made about Zim when Zim was steering the Red Sox towards another iceberg in the '70s - he called him "The Designated Gerbil".

Having had a few gerbils as pets, I can assure everyone that they're very well-behaved, and definitely smart enough that they never would have let Bernie Carbo rot on the bench.

Posted by: Michael at October 14, 2003 12:58 AM

A gerbil would also have not let Bill Lee rot on the bench or pitched Bobby Sprowl in a big game vs Yankees with 1st place on the line when he could have pitched either Lee or Luis Tiant - who was begging to pitch in that game.

Posted by: Vin at October 15, 2003 10:53 AM

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