Thank God that's over.

Beckett and Dice K will be better next time they face the Yanks. Oh and we swept you. Give us credit, we came from behind, that isn't easy to do.

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To: Joseph

No, they won't. Beth's right about Red sox's rotation.

If that's all the red sox has to offer. The Yanks will prevailed at the end.

To: Beth,

I'm a little surprise about your reaction tonight. I thought you gonna rip them a new one, but your tone seems so mild. I guess that's what separates the troll and the fan. If you can't support your team at a time like this then when,

Keep the faith.

//Oh and we swept you.//

I can read a box score, sir. I don't need you stating the obvious in an arrogant tone. Save that garbage for someone else's blog. I hope to not have to say that again.

//To: Beth,
I'm a little surprise about your reaction tonight. I thought you gonna rip them a new one, but your tone seems so mild. I guess that's what separates the troll and the fan. If you can't support your team at a time like this then when,

Keep the faith.//

If we were expected to win and then didn't.....I probably would have been angrier, yes. However we were putting a kid making his 2nd major league start on the mound against Mr. Gyroball himself. I was hoping when we took a 3-0 it would hold, but it wasn't to be. The Sox were better, but if you watched the games....not by much. They were never outright dominant against us, IMO. We hit up their "aces" to the tune of an ERA a little over 5. That's not impressive in any sense of the word.

And I'll always keep the faith. :)

Because you are trying to make us feel inferior when we swept you. We have won 8 of the last 9 games we played against three playoff caliber teams. Are all of those wins a fluke? I mean I am ready for the next series already.

//Because you are trying to make us feel inferior when we swept you.//

Give me a break, buddy. Seriously. Give me a **** break. I'm trying to make you feel "inferior"? Better yet, don't give me a break.....spare me.

We hit your "aces" up to the tune of an ERA over 5. Aside from Andy Pettitte on Friday, we threw a **** rotation out there and you had to come from behind to beat us in the last two games. You didn't have us outright dominated in ANY GAME THIS SERIES. Yeah you won. Yeah you swept us. Whoop-de-freakin'-doo. You go get ready for your next series and we'll do the same.

I more than admitted our team had no chance, but it seems you don't want to admit that your team wasn't nearly as good as the NESN2 hype machine would have you believe.

Boy, Joseph, tell me that all Red Sox fans don't embody the same noxious admixture of arrogance and obtuseness that you displayed in your insipid comments here (And don't worry, I won't hold my breath about it). Can you read? That Beth needed to reiterate her comments to you about what she considered, rightly, to be the Yankees' chances in this series with their lineup and rotation is more than pathetic on your part. The only comeback of the three, of ALL THREE GAMES to reiterate, worth its weight in dung was the first, against Vizcaino and Mariano. The others were against perennially minor-league pitchers, one of whom was making his first start coming back from injury, and the other, with all due respect to him, has pitched more years in A ball than anything above that combined. That's far from excuse-making, that's reality which for anyone capable of analysis would have realized by reading various Yankees blogs, this and others.

As far as your exhibiting a flair for the obvious with your snotty comments about Boston having swept the series, big deal. It's April. The Yankees were seriously depleted yet still battled well enough that Boston HAD to come from behind every game. Boston's starters were exposed by Yankees lineups that missed Matsui for three games, Posada for two, and Damon for one, yet Boston still HAD to claw from behind. On what basis do you believe that "Beckett and Dice K will be better the next time they face the Yanks?" Hope? Good luck. At least the comments about the Yankees returning injured players for the next series between the Yankees and Boston next weekend, and the use of minor-league pitchers, was rooted in reality, not seemingly praying the rosary while trolling Yankees blogs.

Anyone with half a functioning brain and a cursory attention span would see that for what it is. Boston swept? Duuuuuuuuhh! But how impressive of one? That's an analytical question that seems to have eluded your acumen, not surprisingly. It wasn't posed to sing sour grapes, or to "make us [Red Sox fans] feel inferior." Beth's blog is a Yankees blog. Trust me when I say this, and I don't want to speak much for Beth or the other posters here who are more than capable of articulately stating their views, but I dare say that you would have been hard-pressed to find any of the posters here trolling on your little blog had the Yankees swept in return. Why? Because people here and elsewhere on Yankees blogs are for the most part not interested in that, are interested in speaking about the game and the team they revere intelligently. They are for the most part uninterested in elevating themselves and their team by denigrating their rivals.

This not surprisingly seems to elude you, probably because like so many Red Sox fans, you're at least, if not more so, as interested in bashing the Yankees as you are in rooting for your own team, which is warped and true down to the bone. Take for example the "Yankees ****!" chants emanating from the so-called Fenway faithful in the top of the 8th on Friday night. Not "Let's go Red Sox" to stir their dormant team that night until they actually mounted a rally, but a pathetically stupid chant to demean the other team that has historically dominated the rivalry and achieved the ultimate success far, FAR more in baseball, and has done so with infinitely more grace and dignity that the team for which you root. If you disagree, take Ramirez's home run last night, immediately followed by his trademark walk of several strides down to first admiring what for this season is a rarity for a guy who just got above the Mendoza line. Tell me the last time, any time, Yankees players have ever exhibited such arrogance when hitting a home run in the middle of the game, when the team was still losing. Typical, just typical.

Lastly, let me remind you that you trolled your way over to Yankees Chick. No one paged you to come here and chin-wag about the game or the series. You started this argument, so don't snivel when you get things pointed out to you repeatedly that most prepubescent children would be able to understand the first time. You started this with your snippy comments that no one solicited, that were responding to posts likely intended for the Yankees fans who read and comment here, and as importantly as anything, WERE TRUE!

If you can't handle that, and believe me when I say that I couldn't care less either way, then go back to your kiddie blog and let the adults handle the baseball talk from here on out.

Because not one Yankee fan is giving the Red Sox credit. They swept the Yankees. The fans make it sound as if the Yankees were another version of the Royals. They still had Giambi, AROD, Cano, Jeter, Damon, Abreu. They had a chance in the 9th in every game and failed to come through all three chances. She put "aces." Which could be taken as a sign of disrespect. She said the Sox should be "worried." So just as you are taking my words a certain way, that is the same way I percieve yours. These blogs are meant to be read. If we didn't want people to read and leave comments we could write in our own personal journals. What I felt after the series? A sweep. 8 of 9 against 3 good teams. Our offense starting to look legit again. What I saw from Beckett especially is that he can do better. He looks better than last year, no question in my mind. Dice-K needs to make adjustments, but he has the "stuff." So next week it is set up so we have: Dice-K, Wakefield, and I think Tavarez? I am not a Yankee basher, well somewhat I guess. But I do not say "Yankees ****." It is boring just as "Red Sox Nation" has a rather unoriginal, mundane feel to it. I wrote a short blog about this. I actually signed up for mlblogs to talk "baseball." I want to discuss "who would you build your team around." That is the kind of stuff I prefer to talk about. Going back to what I said above about them being similiar to the Royals. This is exactly why I feel Jeter should not have won the MVP last year (he didnt I know). He helped a team that lost two key pieces in Sheffield and Matsui. But he still had a good team that he helped carry. And while he had a good year I don't think he should have won it. But don't get me wrong Jay, I have told you in the past when I feel like they deserve credit I will give it to them. Arod currently, Matsui apologized to the fans when he got hurt, I would love to have a guy like that. Jeter in the 9th, he will do whatever it takes. Move a guy into scoring position, whatever. Posada even as a Yank is somewhat underrated. But really, I digress. I am confident that we can take 2 of 3 next weekend, just as you are confident that you will do the same.

http://statisticianmagician.mlblogs.com/

Again and as usual Joseph, you fail to address the crux of my posted comment. Of course they swept. As Beth said, that wasn't really necessary to point out. She can defend the terms and merits of her points on her own. Mine mainly relate to your tone and purpose, which was snotty, period. Again, this isn't my blog, nor did I say you weren't welcome to comment here. That's not my place to say, but rather that your comments were annoying and obnoxious when you came over to Yankees blogs and rub Yankees fans' noses in this garbage, which is what you did. I told you that if you couldn't handle these posts and comments contextualizing the Yankees losses, then perhaps you shouldn't troll in places where you'd read them. The Yankees fans who posted on your site offered congratulations, telling you to enjoy the wins and eventual sweep, and how do you act in turn? Like a spoiled kid, period. All you've done is whine about Yankees' fans not giving the Red Sox credit, when all they who posted at your blog, I and other have said, is that this is nothing to get in a panic about, that there were mitigating factors such as using minor-league pitchers and injuries, and that it's early. Perhaps she put "aces" because they didn't pitch like aces, as anyone watching the games saw. They looked like what they are--pretty good pitchers, far from dominant this past weekend. No one came to your blog and disrespected your team or you during the series, and I sincerely doubt Beth would have had the Yankees swept in turn.

Saying these games were close despite losing some key people, and having a seriously depleted starting staff, is hardly dismissing the Red Sox. It's simple common sense, and more importantly correct. As I've posted on my blog and other Yankee bloggers have said as well, a more accurate barometer will be next weekend, when the Yankees have better pitchers and players. As others and I have said also, these issues are systemic to the organization in addition to being related to injuries.

As long as you continue to troll Yankees blogs, which is what you did since they are public sites and you did come to argue brusquely and disrespectfully, not to discuss, you can expect responses such as mine in this comment and the one I posted above. Also, don't give me this, "Don't get me wrong, Jay" stuff. I got you just right. If you want to discuss baseball, fine. Do it without acting like an immature troll next time, which is what you did. When you act snotty in such circumstances, you get smacked around, as you did. If you're going to hide behind a defense that these are public blogs, then you can adhere to the guidelines that bloggers maintain on them, and exhibit similar courtesy on others' blogs that you received on yours, again, typifying vast differences between how I've seen Yankees fans and Red Sox fans often operate. To sum up in three words, kid, show some respect.

http://heartlandpinstripes.mlblogs.com/

Nice post Jason, who needs school when he have such great Yankee bloggers?

Oh and Beth about hitting "Manjaya" (I spit out my coffee reading that one, too funny) I'm all for it, heck make it a two-fer and plunk Chubbs Ortiz while your at it. Notice every HR A-Rod has hit, even the game winning ones, he is not standing at the plate waving goodbye to it or anything. He hits the **** out of the ball, looks to make sure it's out and goes around the bases. Obviously the ones that are game winners he's a little more enthusiastic but that is too be expected.

No props for Papelbon, taking out Captain Intangibles and Mr I Hit Balls with a mean stare?

Tsk.

I'm disappointed.

I love Manny's pose myself, especially at the beginning of a four-HR humiliation on national tv.

//No props for Papelbon, taking out Captain Intangibles and Mr I Hit Balls with a mean stare?

Tsk.

I'm disappointed.

I love Manny's pose myself, especially at the beginning of a four-HR humiliation on national tv.//

If I wasn't a lady, I'd tell you where to shove your comment. In the meantime, allow me to remind you that you are on my blog and when you are commenting on my blog you will respect the blog author (moi) and that if you don't, it will be the last time one of your comments appears on my page. Is that clear? Good. Don't make me repeat myself.

As for Jason and Joseph.......

*munches popcorn, kicks back in recliner*

Also,

//She put "aces." Which could be taken as a sign of disrespect.//

No, I put the word aces in quotation marks because they were supposed to outright murder us and they didn't. They didn't look like aces against our rag-tag lineup. Hence the quotes. I hope that's clarified now.

Wow, Beth, I see what you were talking about now. Lisa, I love Manny when he hits a home run as much as any Sox fan, but it is ridiculous how much time he takes watching it go. Like many of the things Manny does, it's just unprofessional. We accept it because he's on our team and he's a great hitter.

One thing I must say: there's nothing better than watching the Sox and Yankees. I love the heated discussions when they're fun. But the cheap shots coming from both sides (more from Sox fans this time around because they won) make it less fun. Why so much anger, people? We're commenting on baseball, not debating Roe v. Wade. I appreciate passion for one's team, but when fans reduce themselves to name-calling and third-grade logic, what's the point?

Steve

http://soxblog.mlblogs.com

//Wow, Beth, I see what you were talking about now. //

I deleted a couple comments last night right after the game. Let's be real though, I fully expected this. I can honestly say that I don't know a Yankee fan who would do this, but to the victors go the spoils. I guess coming to Yankees blogs and behaving like children are the spoils.

//Why so much anger, people? We're commenting on baseball, not debating Roe v. Wade. I appreciate passion for one's team, but when fans reduce themselves to name-calling and third-grade logic, what's the point?//

I completely agree. Ordinarily I'd be far less juvenile and I admit that I was wrong in that respect, but sometimes you get so fed up at the c-rap people are posting you just react.

Actually, I was referring to the commenters who are more concerned with their rival's shortcomings rather than the good stuff they've accomplished.

There are jerks and trolls on both sides of the fence. If the Yanks sweep Boston next week, I'll forward some of their equally moronic comments before I delete them.

Ok Beth. This is a legitimate question. I am not being a troll. How many teams lineups are better than that "rag tag" lineup you featured on Sunday?

I need to come up with something to incite such reactions for my own blog.

And, Beth, I thought Manny (Manjaya - HA!) should have been knocked down BEFORE he hit the homerun. After Matsuzaka hit two of our top guys, two out and no one in the third would've been a perfect time to hit someone back.

Jacob

http://yankeesco.mlblogs.com

"Because not one Yankee fan is giving the Red Sox credit"

Please...tissues are on sale this week. Did one Red Sox fan give the Yankees credit for that 5 game sweep at Fenway in August? And why was it okay for you to use the injuries as an excuse, but we can't? And why are Yankee fans arrogant and obnoxious when they gloat about a win on a Red Sox blog, but its okay for you to do it on a Yankee blog? Hypocrisy at it finest I guess.

//How many teams lineups are better than that "rag tag" lineup you featured on Sunday?//

If you take Alex Rodriguez out of our lineup, how fearsome do you think we are? Without him, people will pitch around Giambi because he's getting hot now. The bottom of our lineup when Posada is not there, is a black hole of s-uck. We might as well bat the pitcher there instead of Minky/Nieves/Phelps/Melky.

Our lineup is good, but not as good as it could be. We have too many injured players and not enough decent players coming off the bench to help.

With that in mind.....quite a few teams. Boston, Oakland, Minnesota just to name a few.

I don't know why Manjaya likes to admire his dingers. You'd think he'd never hit one before. Somebody will plunk him one of these days. I don't think it will be on Torre's watch so I'm not expecting it from the Yankees.

J

http://www.boogiedownbaseball.mlblogs.com

Beth, I want to take a minute for conducting this at time heated discourse (mainly first first post comment in this thread), not for the tone or content, but rather for doing this in your blog backyard, so to speak. My intent was not to sully this blog or to dissuade people from being/coming here to talk by any stretch, and I solemnly promise to be more "high ground" in the future, as I believe I was in the second comment. I have a general theory about how and why this got started in the comment section that I will post at Heartland Pinstripes, likely very late tonight.

I just wanted you to know that I don't take for granted the opportunity to talk Yankees baseball. But I felt, and still feel rightly I believe, that there was a breach of etiquette that you, I, nor others would have performed in return to Red Sox bloggers had the results been a Yankees sweep. If my responses in any way offended you, I sincerely apologize. I just wanted to put that out there officially.

BTW, "Manjaya" is nothing short of hilariously genius.

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//If my responses in any way offended you, I sincerely apologize. I just wanted to put that out there officially.//

Jason, nothing you said offended me. You actually dealt with him better than I would have, so I was tipping my cap to you...so to speak.

//My intent was not to sully this blog or to dissuade people from being/coming here to talk by any stretch, and I solemnly promise to be more "high ground" in the future, as I believe I was in the second comment.//

Jason...you didn't sully my blog! It's cool. My issues with this post and the comments contained therein had nothing to do with you, trust me.

//I need to come up with something to incite such reactions for my own blog.//

You know, I'm fairly certain that if my post was real bitter and angry and full of expletives.....I wouldn't have almost 25 comments. Why I don't know. Maybe the fact I am trying to find positives in all this angers some people.

And yes Manjaya was HILARIOUS.