Chosen because I need to be reminded of the players who play for love of the game and aren't money or publicity whores. Â Plus the sticker is timely!
Well the Yankees PR machine did us in but we gave it a good shot. Sorry we came up short, Youk. Hopefully the rest will do you good and you come back after the all star break and break the Yankees (and the rest of the American League) into tiny pieces. As has been written, we all know you deserved to be an All Star. Hope you know it too.
Between the news about Youk and the ridiculousness surrounding LeBron James, I decided to go offline early last night and purge my brain of sports thoughts…so waking up this morning to the news that the Mariners will, most likely, trade Cliff Lee to the Yankees wasn’t quit how I was hoping things would go.
Of all the months in a baseball season, I hate July the most. Between the All Star Game (which I used to enjoy but Bud Selig making it “count” just to save his own ass has turned me off of it) and the trade deadline I spend most of the month on edge. (Fair warning for the crankiness and snark that might permeate this blog for the next couple of weeks. I’ll try my best to contain it.) Youk getting out-voted by Nick Swisher and the possibility of the Yankees acquiring Lee has made me temporarily lose all hope in humanity. All the stars are aligning for the Yanks right now and that isn’t a baseball world I enjoy participating in.
Tomorrow I’m taking my 9 year-old niece to the Futures at Fenway double header. We’ll get to watch players playing because they enjoy the game and not because they’re looking for money or attention. For a few hours tomorrow, I’ll forget that the Yankees are back to owning the universe and just focus on what the future of the Red Sox looks like. Maybe it’ll help clear my head and make me not want to stab MLB to death? Maybe I’ll come home to the news that Cliff Lee got traded to a team that could actually use his help and not one that just wants to add to their collection? At least I’ll get an afternoon to pretend that baseball is about how much talent you have and not about how much money or pull you have. I’m looking forward to the day even more than I already was.
I’m on the fence about the All Star live chat right now. If the Lee trade to the Yankees does go through, it’s definitely off. The idea of listening to Buck and McCarver slurp all over the Yanks for four hours makes me extremely stabby (it’ll be bad enough listening to it without the trade happening). So stay tuned!
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