As Sox charge, Yankee fans lose a bit of their swagger
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Across from Yankee Stadium yesterday afternoon, Joe Luchetta, wearing his Yankee hat and jersey, sat in a bar, drinking beer and trying to understand his increasingly rotten luck.
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NEW YORK -- Sunday night the Red Sox were three outs from being swept from the playoffs by the hated Yankees. They had lost a playoff game at Fenway Park by the humiliating score of 19-8 Saturday night and some members of their loyal Nation felt betrayed and abandoned.
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AT WORST the Boston Red Sox have restored their pride; at best they have made history. The decisive seventh game of the American League Championship Series took place at Yankee Stadium in the early
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Two sour notes jarred the upbeat mood at Yankee Stadium after New York won the deciding game of its series against Boston on Wednesday, Jason Giambi's downward spiral and the end of pitcher Carl Pavano's season.
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You did it again, didn't you? You fell into the trap that these fun-loving, baseball-bashing Red Sox set for you. You became so enamored with their irreverence and their pizazz and their long hair and their long-ball capabilities, you actually convinced yourself they were better than the New York Yankees.
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Joe Torre heard enough. He felt insulted. He felt unappreciated. He won't even set foot in Yankee Stadium anytime soon, not even to clean out his office. "I walked out of there, I'm not going back," he said. "I just leave the memories."
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By the time things mercifully came to a conclusion last night -- or was it early morning? -- the dominant story for the first two-thirds of Game 1 of the ALCS, a 10-7 Yankees victory, had been reduced to a footnote.
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There is too much of the one-sided version of the story going around, especially in Boston, now that Pedro MartÃ­nez has said he is on his way to Shea Stadium.
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You have to admit the Curse was fun. Talking about it, laughing about it, lying about it, those thrills are gone now, at least as they pertain to the Boston Red Sox.
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The sports pages were an early-morning kick in the stomach. The dreary skies out the window didn&#39;t help. And the constantly ringing telephone with the die-hard Yankees fans - &quot;wait &#39;til next year,&quot; they mumbled
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NEW YORK The Yankees are one loss from sinking to an inglorious place in baseball history. Their fans beat them to it Tuesday night.
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The Red Sox, seemingly in control of their division only a week ago, are feeling the heat from the Yankees, bringing back memories of a notorious collapse in their past.
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David Ortiz had a different view of a familiar situation.
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For much of the regular season, Boston Red Sox fans fumed about their $70 million right-fielder, taunting J.D. Drew with boos as he struggled at the plate and venting their anger in bars and on radio phone-in shows.
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A kid named Joba Chamberlain came along and threw a couple of pitches behind Kevin Youkilis's ear, got himself ejected, and started a new chapter in this Red Sox-Yankees rivalry, much to the delight of 55,067 fans at Yankee Stadium yesterday.
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Another game, another charge of dirty play levied by a player involved in the Red Sox-Yankees series.
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BOSTONâSome fans with shockingly short memories made the mistake of chanting &quot;Who&#39;s Your Papi?&#39;&#39; last night when it looked like David Ortiz and his Boston Red Sox would run their opponents all the way back to Missouri.