Squawker Jon, I just listened to WFAN’s broadcast of Cole Hamels calling the Mets “choke artists.” And I am disappointed that you weren’t more “worked up,” as you put it, over it. I expected you to destroy a water cooler, or overturn a buffet table or something. Instead, you were all “meh” about what the Phillie said. What’s up with that?
Hamel’s comments reminded me of the way Red Sox players Curt Schilling, Trot Nixon, et al spent the first few days of spring training after the 2004 World Series bashing A-Rod. And you know how annoyed I was over that! I expected more of the same peckishness from you. But it does say something about the rivalries – in both cases, you’d expect the winning players to be above it all, but they still took potshots at the losers.
Then again, Red Sox fan site Surviving Grady tweaked the Yanks this week, and instead of being outraged, I kind of nodded my head in agreement.
The site featured the latest edition of the “Cashman-Headwarmer Dialogues,” called “Haven’t We Been Here Before?” where Brian Cashman and his infamous Adidas headband talk it out about each year of the Yanks’ free agent signings. Here’s a snippet:
2002:
Cashman: Well, it’s done.
Headwarmer: Excellent. If I had hands, I’d be rubbing them together, doing a sort of menacing laugh.
Cashman: Indeed. Now that we’ve signed Jason Giambi, who can stop us?
Oh, and not that I get a vote on these things, but the new Red Sox primary road jerseys are hideous (click here to see what I’m talking about). Newsflash – when your team is called the Red Sox, you might want to have some, well, RED on the uniform!
Come to think of fit, the uniform looks like a poor imitation of the Yankees’ road jersey. I guess the Yankees really are in the Sox’s heads. Maybe now’s the time where I should rub my hands together in glee and do a menacing laugh!
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