As luck would have it, Saturday’s Yankees-Red Sox game happened to be on at the same time as my beloved Texas Longhorns were playing UCLA. Unfortunately for me, both games were debacles — UT played about as well as they did when I was in college, and the Yankees looked pretty flat against the Sox.
Oh, and there was the always-obnoxious Tim McCarver to listen to on FOX, stumbling on people’s names (how long did it take him to get King Felix’s name right?) and condescending to viewers. At least Joe Buck wasn’t in the booth this time, though. Thank goodness for small favors.
About the only highlight yesterday was that I did my part in helping to jinx Jon Lester’s no-hitter — I wrote about it on Facebook, and just a few batters later, the no-hitter was history! Yay!
It ticks me off, though, that the Yankees could have clinched a playoff spot against the Red Sox this weekend. Instead, they’ve lost four games in a row at home for the first time all year, and seem to be a real mess.
It reminds me a lot of early fall of 2000, when the Yanks were in a September swoon. I remember being at a particularly bad game that month, when I was moving back to the tri-state area after living in Texas for many years. I hadn’t seen the Yankees play at the Stadium since I attended Game 1 of the 1996 World Series (another debacle), and this 2000 game I attended, where Jose Canseco played right field and made several errors, was a 15-4 loss to Cleveland that left fans in a foul mood. Kind of the way Yankee fans have been feeling as of late! Let’s hope that 2010 ends up having the same results as 2000 did, with the Yankees triumphing, and Mets fans in despair.
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