Red Sox fans are feeling humiliated and downtrodden, and deeply wounded, by the fact that Manny is a cheat. They feel their 2004 and 2007 championships are tainted. Headlines read "History Blown Away" and "My Worst Nightmare." Here's a great story about how lousy they feel:
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I used to bitch in the late '90s that the Yanks didn't have any guys putting up the big offensive numbers, they way other teams did.
Guys like Bernie and Pauly would hit about 25 dingers a year, and we didn't have anybody coming close to 50. I was upset at the time. Now, I'm glad. The '96a nd '98 teams were probably clean. Rocket was there in '99 and 2000, but other than him, I don't think any of the major contributors on our championship teams were juicing. (Maybe Knoblauch and Justice, who were in the Mitchell Report, but they were not our No. 3and No. 4 hitters.) If anything, I really think Gonzalez, from Arizona, who got "the bloop in the desert" in 2001 that cost us a championship, was a juicer, so if anything, steroids cost the Yanks a championship, they didn't win us any. Boston? The attached column says it all. Nice. - Mel
BA HA HA HAHA!!! This almost takes the edge off of the Yanks losing every game they play these days!
I've been saying this about Papi forever..couldn't hit for crap before he came to Boston, then he's like Babe Ruth, and now...does he even have a HR yet this year? Funny how he'll never be outed..and it took Manny going to L.A. to be nabbed..odd isn't it? The Mitchell report seemed to have little Boston mention in it. Seems like someone "up there" likes the Sox. I wonder how long they can protect the guilty?
Maybe this gets some press off A-Rod now that Sox fans have a better reason to shut-up. Hypocrites.
Let's see ... Sox fans feel shitty about something. How could this be viewed as anything but totally excellent. Great column.
Clemens and Justice had some big moments in the 2000 playoffs. Rocket killed the Mariners one game in the ALCS,and also dominated the Mets in one of the World Series games. And Justice also had a big ALCS. That one - the2000 championship - might have a stain on it, but I agree the 1996, 1998 and 1999 teams were probably pretty clean.
Look at Gonzalez's stats. He hit 57homeruns in 2001, the year Arizona beat the Yanks in the World Series on his piece-of-shit-broken-bat- dinker off of Mo in the bottom of the ninth of Game 7. Luis Gonzalez? 57 home runs? Maybe that little bloop had a little "help."
Looking back on that era, it will always be hard to tell what was real and what was not.
Let's face it. In 2004, the year we collapsed in the ALCS against Boston and blew the 3-0 lead, our No. 3 and No. 4 hitters were A-Rod and Sheffield. Both have since been linked to steroids and have admitted using them. Boston's No. 3 and No. 4 hitters that series were Manny and Papi. Until now, they had been viewed as "clean." Do you think for one minute, if the Yanks had won that series, Sox fans wouldn't be mentioning it now, and questioning its validity? We have every right to give them some grief over this. Maybe, because of A-Rod, Sheff, Manny and Papi that whole series gets a big * astrerick next to it. And that - no doubt - will bother them a lot more than it will us. Very nice.
I do have a new perspective on what happened in 2004. The Yankees big hitters on that team were A-Rod, Giambi and Sheffield. All have been linked to steroids. If they had won a championship that year, it would clearly be tainted. Now, Manny - the key to Boston's team that same year - gets nailed for steroids, and there's no reason to think he hasn't been doing it for years. And Papi? His fast rise from mediocrity, and now his fast fall into mediocrity, cleary indicates something may have been up with him. Fact is, the 2004 Boston Red Sox - the most glorious team in franchise history - is now tarnished. Excellent.
I heard a great interview with the owner of the California, Aneheim, Los Angeles Angels, whatever they are this year. He is ashamed at the black eye that baseball has received from the steroid use and the publicity that it has received. He wants a no tolerence policy of caught once and you are banned for life. He also thinks that A-Rod is getting a bad break only because of the focus on him and not others. He believes that the other players on that list should be exposzed for what they are, cheaters. As for the Red Sox, Manny finally gets caught and Ortiz all of a sudden can't hit. Varitek hit about .192 last year and by the way made the All Star Team. What a joke! When we look at hitters like Brady Anderson, Barry Bonds, Mark McGuire, Rapy Palmerio Manny and others, we can't help but think one thing...ROIDS.
Jim McCabe
It must suck to have won only 2 championships in your lifetime and have both of them questionable. At least as Yankee fans we have definite clean championships in our lifetime to remember, even if some of the recent ones are tarnished.
In the grand scheme of things, this probably makes old Sox fans happy because it means even when they win they lose.
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