What rivalry? When a SOX player helps a Yankem player to his feet after tagging him at 2nd.
The dislike these two teams had for each other ended a long time ago.
Btw, just curious, for those who live in the NE area is NESN part of your cable package or is it something you have to pay a premium monthly fee for? Living in central NY, NESN is unavailable to me on the two main cable providers.
How bad are the SOX? Well, in the past when the SOX/Yankems played over the weekend FOX would carry the Saturday game and ESPN would cover the Sunday game. SOX are so pathetic that even MLB network won't bother televising their games. The only reason I'm able to watch this weekend series is because YES is part of my basic cable.
The drama of a SOX game is strictly centered on "how will they lose this one?"
Also, starting these games at 7:30 is ridiculous. Do the cutouts have trouble arriving at the park before 7:30?
When this 60 games of whatever it is is over, I hope the JD stands for Just Disappear. Unfortunately, I doubt the SOX can trade him unless they eat about half his remaining salary.
An excellent job by Perez tonight. His stuff is definitely good enough to remain on this SOX questionable starting staff in the future. And using the word 'questionable' is being nice.