Yankees

The (my) Yankees win one of their first two playoff games in boston and the articles in the New York Post suggest that suddenly the Yankees have some sort of edge and I'm thinking, "Yeah right" because I've watched enough playoff baseball and basketball in my life to know that in most cases these series swing back and forth with each game and one win in game two rarely decides anything and even more rarely has any bearing on the next game despite what all the people writing articles in newspapers and online and expressing opinions on television spout off. And sure enough, they turn around and get blasted in game three by the red sox (who I refuse now and always to capitalize), 16-1 or whatever the hell the score was.

And the only time that I've ever felt that one win changed everything was in 2004 …. same two teams and the Yanks had been up three games to none. And I'm laughing and feeling good. Then red sox win game four to make it 3-1. OK no problem, despite feeling a very small but nagging amount of trepidation. Then the sox win game five!!! Yankees were still up 3-2 at that point but it felt like the series was suddenly over with the red sox having won and moved on to the World Series and I might have even been ok if they had called it at that point and declared the sox American League champs because it just felt like something elemental had changed in the universe and there was a ominous wave of momentum building and spreading in the wrong f'ing direction ….. and all true Yankee lovers know how that ended up. I don't need to go any further dredging up bad memories.

And I truly want to live forever and outlive everyone currently alive or still to be born and also including all objects in the universe such as the moon and stars but I never wanted to live long enough to see that bunch of steaming, smelly B.S. And I recall some teacher at some level of my education telling those of us who were attentive in the classroom that day that one should never start a sentence with the word "and" but I often don't care any more about that lesson then I do about the red sox.

And anyway game four happens tonight ….. "God willin' and the river don't rise" as I heard John Wayne once say.