After reading his article that appeared on Boston.com (and I guess in the globe, but if you read here, you probably don’t read print anyway) today titled The Start of Something (Too) Big. Of course, I invite you to read the article on your own and agree with everything I say here in order to stay objective.

But anyway, unless Bob Ryan was celebrating the date today with all the college kids in Boston, he has to be a closet Yankee fan. Seriously, this pisses me off - just look at the caption! “Red Sox Fans Have Spoiled Rivalry” I think not! We’re the ones who live for these games. All of his examples of the so-called real rivalry are pre-free agency era. Yes, its true that players don’t hate each other like they used to. This is because people move around so much. The game is different today. Doesn’t that mean that we’ve successfully held on to the rivalry (which is great for baseball in general, not just us) IN SPITE of the game changing around it? The heroes and villains are still there, they just don’t have control over it anymore.

Speaking of villains, he directly asks, what has Derek Jeter done for us not to like him? I’ll tell you why I don’t like Jeter:

1. That stupid fist pump that he does
2. The gay way he half swings at an outside pitch with his ass sticking out and bent over the plate to try and fool the umpire into not calling a strike
3. That damn play in ‘04 where he lunged into the stands running out of control to catch that pop-up. Yes, it was a great effort, but it’s his show-boat mentality that pissed me off. There was no need to end up in the stands, and if you watch that game over, Pokey Reese did the exact same thing, covering just as much ground on a pop up that was not hit as high, AND he was even able to settle under the ball and not careen widely into the stands.

There are plenty more reasons to hate the Yankees. Like A-Rod. Someone needs to show A-Rod how to celebrate a walk off home run. My advice: Act like you’ve been there before when you are running out of the batters box before the ball has even left the stadium. Don’t throw your bat widely into the air and raise your arms to the crowd and your dug out like you have some kind of God complex like Alec Baldwin in Malice. The pre-home run celebration is almost as bad as when Barry Bonds would spin around once he left the batters box after hitting one. Also, do I even need to mention the way he slapped at Bronson’s glove in the ’04 ALCS? Talk about selfish poor sportsmanship.

You say the Red Sox fans have ruined the rivalry? Well I say the Yankee fans have ruined curtain calls. Why the hell do Yankee fans give a curtain call when anyone hits a moderate-big home run (exception being that last nights curtain call was legit)? When was the last time Fenway fans did that? Probably in 1999 when Nomar (the correct way to spell his name Bob the Jackass, no wonder he didn’t like the media in this town) had 3 homeruns including 2 grand-slams? That is when you give a curtain call; Not because someone tied the game in the 7th inning against the Royals. I mean come on, curtain calls are for outstanding performances, not when athletes do something they are paid to do. It’s when the do the extraordinary, that they deserve it.

I am sorry (actually, I’m really not) but I think he secretly wants to be writing for the Yankees. I also think his daughter should hate the Yankees since her father wrote that stupid article that I regretfully spent time out of my day to read. Or maybe I’m just overreacting. Who knows, but I am going to have a beer in my hand in front of an HD television all weekend NOT giving curtain calls for undeserving plays.

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