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Rays, Red Sox, Yankees One Team Has Got To Go

Timing is everything, especially in the American League East.

It will no doubt come down to the last second with an end result with either the Rays, Red Sox or Yankees deeming 2010 a complete wash-out.

Where are the three best teams in MLB currently standing?

  1. New York Yankees 52-31
  2. Tampa Bay Rays      50-33
  3. Boston Red Sox 49-35

Personally, an old-school ALCS would be mucho appreciated and I am not alone in my sentiments.

It does not get much better than Red Sox vs. Yankees that is a fact.

Problem is the Tampa Bay Rays are on the move and things are heating up for this talented ball-club.

Maybe it is just me, but the Rays make me cringe. Nothing is more unsightly for a team just to be talents, entitled and lazy individuals, which is the Rays in a nutshell.

One lesson I learned earlier this season was not to count out the Boston Red Sox. Even with 10 players on a DL list that reads Ellibury, Pedroia, Buchholz, Beckett and Martinez do not underestimate the Red Sox.

The day I first counted out the Red Sox within two weeks my foot was in my mouth. Red Sox GM Theo Epstein is the master at fixing things. Epstein has proven himself, so all hail to the Red Sox organization without question.

Back to being a Yankees fan, it is easy to forget that the Bombers are a second-half team. Always exploding in July and August, but getting there is the tricky part. The ups and downs are ones that Dr. Phil and Oprah can’t even dissect. Continue reading ‘Rays, Red Sox, Yankees One Team Has Got To Go’ »

Baseball Basics: Welcome

Not everyone is a baseball fan, but everybody should be.

Attempts to gain such status are made all the time. The success ratio is about 50/50, with biggest complaints being not understanding the basics, which in turn make games boring, endlessly to long and cause resentment towards the sport itself.

Lady Loves Pinstripes wants to help with a new featured tab called ‘BASEBALL BASICS’.

‘Baseball Basics’

  • is a guide for the beginner fan.
  • will provide explanations/answers to fundamental questions.
  • new ‘Baseball Basic’ posted as questions come are recieved.

Hooked On A Feeling…..

First place arouses everyone from the fans to the bat boys of the team at the top. Its a reminder why being the paramount, the peek at the mountain’s top that everyone is climbing towards and the reason a player became a pro just cause of a love for baseball in the first place. I guess that answers why it is such a unmistakable high.

I hate how first place makes the lows, ruts or the inevitable setbacks life can bring so much harder to absorb because you wonder how you ever could have let go of that awesome feeling that seemed to leave as fast as it come.
I can’t explain it very well but any one with a passion for a sports team knows what I am referring too.
  • You follow these athletes as if you all are BFF’s since childhood.
  • Your mood is based on if last night’s game was a win or loss.
  • You will debate why you’re reasons are the obvious ones like a litigator in a courtroom and really thinking that ‘your way or the highway.’
  • You actually listen to Mike (miss you Maddog) more intently then the actual news on CNN or that it is for that matter the only news.
  • When you set your cable box’s favorite channel to ESPN so when you hit power its the familiar voices of SportsCenter, or the PTI guys or my fav Jim Rome is Burning.
  • You love the competition of sports in general and crave it like an addict.

I truly think of my Yankees and my Giants (nfl) like a part of my family. As crazy as it sounds to some people to be so attached to a team that have no idea who the hell I am is total bullshit. Maybe Posada doesn’t wave to me as he walks out with Andy from the outfield in the minutes before the first inning or that I will never text with Cano, Jeter Mariano or anyone of the players about anything but I can promise anyone or everyone one thing.

‘The team needs the fans just as much as the fans need the team!! First place is more stressful for both parties involved…and as a Yankee‘s fan this season it means more.’ Continue reading ‘Hooked On A Feeling…..’ »