More of the Same

I'm not going to declare the season over, because most people will expect me to do that. Last time I checked, teams who lose the first game of the season, especially on the road, do sometimes go on to win the World Series. But if you're not feeling a little bit nauseous after this latest Yankees-Red Sox clash then you must not have watched all nine innings. It was a typical Yankee meltdown at Fenway Park in April.

The Yankees got off to a great start with back to back homers, but immediately, Sabathia begins coughing it up. Even after the Yanks come through with some clutch base hits and a steal of home by Brett Gardner, Sabathia starts walking guys and giving up base hits. This looks all too familiar from the man who couldn't even get through five innings against the Baltimore Orioles on Opening Day 2009.

It's just one of those things. In Fenway Park, the game is never over. In Fenway Park, I don't even feel comfortable with Mariano Rivera on the mound, unless he's got a three run lead. Even when the Yanks came through and took a 7-5 lead, I was terrified to see what would happen to Chan Ho Park. As it turns out, Park is a lot like his buddy, Chien-Ming Wang. He's all about "keeping the ball down," but Pedroia hits one over the Monster, and Youkilis nearly follows with his own bomb.

Jorge Posada can still swing it, but watching him try to catch the ball makes me wish that Joe Mauer didn't sign an extension with Minnesota. The unbelievable part of this is that it was another Yankees-Red Sox game that took over four hours, and the Red Sox just start waking up after the fifth inning. You count the outs, but they get more and more spread apart. No one, other than Rivera, has a prayer of pitching a clean inning in this ballpark.

Nice job by ESPN by the way. Thankfully, the game was shown on YES in New York, so I didn't have to listen to Miller and Morgan compare the Red Sox to the Big Red Machine. But it's also nice to see Curt Schilling on television. The guy never shuts up, and the Red Sox are sponsored by Dunkin Donuts, so it really should be a perfect fit. Another Opening Day, another disappointing start for the Yankees. Heaven forbid the World Champions get to start, or end, the season somewhere other than Boston.