As good as Saturday’s game was – Andy Pettitte looking very sharp, Mark Teixeira and Jorge Posada hitting homers, and the whole team looking sharp – Sunday’s game was pretty bad.
I was running around doing errands, and just around the time Mariano Rivera came into the game for a four-out save, I had to leave my car for a few minutes to pick up some food. A few minutes later, I get a call from my brother, asking “Do you know what happened in the game?” He was watching it on the TBS national broadcast, so he told me about the bases-loaded walk, and the grand slam. I felt like I got punched in the stomach. Yikes!
Then I called Squawker Jon to tell him what happened, and his voice perked up. I haven’t heard him so happy since, um, the last gut-wrenching Yankee loss! Sheesh. Of course, he needed something to cheer him up after the latest Met debacle. I did make sure to bring up how John Maine threw12 balls in a row the night before to start the game.
My Facebook friend Joe – a Red Sox fan – blames me (!) for Mariano and “Joba the Mutt,” as he calls him, spitting the bit today. He thinks I brought “negative karma” to the Yankees by my rooting for the Philadelphia Flyers over the Boston Bruins this weekend. Joe says:
“The sports gods don’t like transferring loyalties strictly to hate…they penalize you somewhere else. It’s OK to hate on the nemesis, but you can’t become a “fan”. You goofed by becoming a Flyer “fan” instead of just a Bruins “hater”… by the way – how’s the Magic loyalty going for you so far?
Ouch!
Speaking of Joes, I forgot to mention that Joe Mauer is dead to me, after he failed to sell his soul become a free agent. What the heck is wrong with that guy, re-signing with the Twins and staying with his home state? He’ll never get to host “Saturday Night Live” now!
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