Haters
Jim Caple has a column on ESPN about whether Yankees-haters should root for Team USA in the World Baseball Classic. While I recognize that his column isn't completely serious, it does get to an underlying difference between Yankees fans and anti-Yankees fans (better known as the Red Sox Nation). While the anti-Yankees fans truly have a dilemma ever rooting for a Yankee or ex-Yankee, I don't know many Yanks fans that care if there are any Red Sox players on the team. For example, just because Johnny Damon is on Team USA doesn't cause any... wait, he is a Yankee now isn't he. Okay, let me try that again. I don't have any problems rooting for Jason Veritek, the captain of the Red Sox, while he is wearing the stars and stripes. Caple on the other hand, is having serious problems rooting for A-Rod and Jeter.
What this shows is that even a World Series Championship has not allowed the Red Sox Nation to mature at all. They still carry hate in their heart, and it looks like they always will. I pity them.
posted by Brendan @ 9:22 AM
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First of all, Gossage is all talk. There were brush-backs just like there are now - but I wonder how many times Goose beaned more than one player in an inning or got into a fight in the parking lot. The only sport that can really claim a more violent past is hockey where there were huge, uncontrolable brawls on the ice.
There always have been and always should be pitchers who use fear as a weapon. Today we have Pedro and Clemens, yesterday we had Nolan Ryan and Bob Gibson.
I would also give credit to MLB and the umpires for keeping games under control. Anybody who wanted to retaliate against the Sox for Pedro would have been tossed, which is unacceptable in the playoffs. I wonder if Gossage would have allowed himself to be taken out of a pivotal playoff game to settle a score.
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