It's Not The End Of The World/Season

As a Yankee fan, I feel I'm entitled to watch my team win practically everyday. As a Yankee fan, I look down at the team in Boston. As a Yankee fan, I use to know everything was gonna be alright. This all changed in the fall of 2004. The hate Red Sox made their historic comeback and it still stings today that I've had to see them win two World Series titles.

This year as you all know the Yankees are winless against their biggest rival. The last man to beat the Red Sox was first time 20 game winner, Mike Mussina. Well Moose is gone and so are a lot of Yankee fans, who are jumping off the bandwagon of their second place team. Well I am staying on board. I can't jump ship just yet. It is after June 11th. 

They've played 59 games so far this season. The Yankees are 34-25 this year so far. There are 103 baseball games left. Out of those 103 games, 11 games will be against the Red Sox. I have no excuse for the Yankees failure thus far against their biggest rival. As a rational thinking fan though (there aren't many of us in NY), I warn my fellow Yankee fans not to think the season is over on June 11th if our beloved team falls again. Last night's game was suppose to be a must win. What does that make tonight's? 

It is June baseball folks. Yankee fans might hate to watch their team lose again and again to the Red Sox, but if you told me April 1st that the Yankees would be 0-7 against Red Sox on June 11th and still only a game out of first place; I'd take it. Because in the big scheme of things as history shows us, if you make the playoffs (and if the regular season ended today the Yankees would be the AL Wild Card) anything can happen. Don't believe me? Look at what the Cardinals did the 2006 playoffs. 

This won't be a popular idea in the minds of those Yankee fans who read this, and it shouldn't. We expect victory every night. When it doesn't happen against our biggest rival, it embarrasses, enrages, and kills us. God forbid the Yankees lose tonight because tomorrow morning when you read the paper, listen to the radio, or watch the tube you'll think the Yankees pulled another disaster like 2004.