I expected many things of last night’s game, but a poor performance from Schilling wasn’t one of them. Nor was being no-hit for the first 6 innings.
Yankees fans being obnoxious? That I expected, though not to the point of the crotch-grabbing and swearing at a few young girls – Sean McAdam’s daughter included – seated next to us that occured. To be fair to Yankee fans, however, Sox fans are little better. And that’s coming from someone who had beer poured on him at the age of 6 at Yankee Stadium for having the temerity to wear a mini Sox batting helmet (now you understand why I TRULY hate the Yankees). I’m all for beers at the ballpark, but it’s the idiotic, drunken fan of New York, Boston, or anywhere else that can just ruin the experience for everyone. In the absence of people policing themselves better (which isn’t likely to happen), I wish stadium security was better about hustling out the loud mouth drunks who are there to harass, not enjoy.
Anyhow, the silver lining from last night? It’s multi-faceted.
1. We didn’t get no-hit
2. Not only didn’t we get no-hit, we came back. Ortiz missed tying the game by about 6 inches
3. Yankees fans know they could have lost. You should have heard the stadium after Ortiz hit that ball – dead quiet
4. We got to their ace setup guy (and our former ace closer) Gordon
5. We were seated in some Sox employee seats near other Sox fans, so we were screaming and yelling for the Sox with no real issues (once we had something to scream and yell about)
Of course there are worrisome signs on the Sox side – notably Schilling – but I’ll ignore those for now. And just for the record, I think Schilling is hurt considerably worse than he’s letting on. He’s never spit the bit in his career, and didn’t last night.
So for now, I’ll just tip my cap to Mussina on an outstanding game, and wait for Pedro tonight. (No, I’m not going. At least, not now).
