The Village Idiot

Another noteworthy point: The Yankees haven't even really started the playoffs yet. Minnesota, unfortunately, doesn't ever really count at this time of the year. The Rangers or Rays will have momentum on their side versus the MFYs, while Jeter's been having chicken parm at Nino's Positano all week and A-Rod's spent the week shopping at the Limelight marketplace and getting facials/pedis at Bliss after ladies' lunches.

The Rays are overrated. Their line-up isn't really that great. My bet is they'd choke against the MFYs, and that Texas has more cajones this year to beat the MFs.

I'm really rooting for Texas here. They'll have home field advantage against the MFYs; the Yanks bats will choke against Cliff Lee; the Rangers haven't won a playoff series in years; their fans have to suffer through brutally hot summers to watch this team play and thus deserve this; and last but not least, the Rangers have David Murphy on their squad--one classy dude. Not to mention...enough with the Rays and their lame ass stadium and prima donna players like Eva and BJ, whom I like to refer to as the white and black versions of A-Rod in their doucheyness.

Twins making Pettitte look like a good pitcher. That's no easy task this year!

Twins are going to do this.

Get Cano here and the Twins are winning this game.

A-Rod is such a little bitch. Sincerely.

This Yankees team isn't even that good this year. Twins deserve to lose if they can't find a way to keep a one-run lead for more than 30 seconds agains this Yankees squad. Just pitiful.

Ugh. Mauer needs to start earning his coin in this series. Here's hoping he has a big late inning HR to win it. Twins fans deserve that.

Come on, Twins, capitalize here. Thome needs to connect.

I'm still proud of this Sox team. Plus, mow I can go to Spain and enjoy it in peace without worrying about baseball. Although, nothing would've made me happier this week than to know something amazing was happening in my absence. (For what it's worth though, I have just two rules in life: No weddings, and no international travel during the month of October. That being said, this trip to Spain this week is a very special occasion: a reunion of my Irish uncles and my right off the boat Mom for 5 days in Costa del Sol hanging out, drinking wine, and soaking up the sun and relaxing vibe. I couldn't say no to my dear Mom who's been through hell the last couple of years fighting cancer and dealing with my dad's illness. Maybe in some weird way, the baseball Gods are saving up some greatness for us for 2011 because they know I wouldn't have been here this week to witness a great comeback from the Sox. Cuz yup, it's all about me! Anyway, thank you Red Sox, for a great season during injury turmoil galore, and no matter what happens, do your damned best to tire out those Yankess before round 1 of the playoffs. We love you and we're still proud of you. Wicked proud. Good night, sweet Sox, and to the off-season and hot stove, friends.

I had to treat a MFY fan for dinner tonight here in the East Village who's moving out to Las Vegas next week for good. I'm thinking that my generosity of spirit and my maturity in keeping tonight's plan despite last night's debacle contributed to tonight's fortuitous results, but alas, I can't take credit for everything! Good win tonight by the Sox, and here's hoping the Yanks sweat just a little more tomorrow...and the next night. And if they do, and if the Sox remain victorioius, then this coming weekend is going to be one hell of a showdown. I'll be in Europe from Wednesday through Monday and will thus miss all the festivities. As a result, I'm expecting a total miracle, as that's the kind of s*** luck I tend to have. Go Sox!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Yankees have a healthy line-up (Swisher's ouchie doesn't count...if it does, you have to tack Beltre's hammy onto our list of injuries too) and a healthy rotation now with Pettitte back. The fact that the Red Sox made them squirm at all this weekend, and are still not statistically eliminated, given that literally 1/2 of Boston's starting lineup on opening day has been out for the season for quite some time now speaks volumes about this team's organizational depth, and the character of the guys still standing. (Jacko knows this deep down, but like most Yankees fans, he lacks the ability to ever take the high road.) So no Yankee fan can go on a message board, or to the watercooler in a break room, or wherever, and give a Sox fan any s*** for anything that the Sox have or haven't done this season and have any credibility as a baseball fan. It's as simple as that. What the Sox went through this season is exactly the same as if the Yankees had lost ALL of the following players for 1 month or more this year: Teixeira Cano Gardner Granderson (know he was out early on for about a month) Posada Cervelli AJ Burnett Phil Hughes Any Yankees fan who thinks the Yankees would have been anywhere near a Wild Card spot if this was their situation this year is, quite literally, sniffing glue. What the Sox pulled off this season in adversity shouldn't be forgotten, but sadly, it will be. I'm proud of what this team has accomplished. All this being said, the bullpen can definitely go f*** itself. They royally f***ed us over this year, and there's no question that the Red Sox would, miraculously, be about 5-8 games up on both the Rays and MFYs if they had not royally f***ed up. Just. Staggering. Go Sox.

I hope he doesn't so that the situation can be adequately rubbed in his cocky-assed face.

And that's your 2010 bullpen. Still, this team--our Sox--are a bunch of tough mother f***ers, much moreso than can ever be said for the weenies in pinstripes. 'Night, fellas. Have fun jacking off, jacko!

Absolute douchenozzles, one and all.

Holy s***! Bel-tray!

Papelbon giving up all those base hits in the 9th is just so incredibly infuriating. It's hard to imagine him getting through another year with the Red Sox and not completely losing all composure/value/ability to do anything of value. I know this makes little sense, because his numbers actually aren't as bad as they might seem, but still. It just feels like in every single solitary "important game/big spot" this year, Papelbon has been a colossal failure. I hate that I'm typing this, but what can you do?

Seriously though. Where the f*** is Bard? (I know he's pitched a lot in September and they don't want to kill him, but seriously.)

Mother f***er, Victor's down. f*** the Yankees.

Oh-ki, oh-ki, oh-ki. Sigh...

WTF, Papi.

Son of a bitch, take more pitches!

Wow. No one is left at Yankee Stadium. That place sucks.

The Yankees inability to put that game away right then and there, all things considered, is f***ing staggering. Holy s***.