Tense days in Red Sox Nation
Baseball, as I have mentioned many times before, is a religion in New England. The Red Sox had gone without silverware for 86 years till 2004, something they partly blamed the Yankees for (Check out the Curse of the Bambino for an interesting read).
The current state of the MLB, 1 game to go in the regular season, is something like what we have with cricket during the World Cup. Imagine 3 teams are tied on points, tied on net run rate too. That was pretty much what it was yesterday, before the start of a 3 game series between the Sox and Yanks. After 2 games its 1-1. But here is the irony, with today's win, the Yankees took the American League East title (since the Cleveland Indians are 2-0 down at home against the Chicago White Sox). All this at the home of the Red Sox. Result: the Yankees are in the playoffs, the Sox.. not yet. Talk about rubbing salt in the wound.
Now, if the Red Sox win tomorrow, they are into the playoffs on a "wild card". If you are confused by all this, don't worry, you are not alone ;-) But do hope that the Red Sox to win tomorrow.
Tickets for any Sox-Yankees game is always a big deal. A $40 ticket is going for upwards of $400. There was talk of someone paying $2050 for two tickets ($1025 apiece!!). To top it all, selling tickets in "black" isn't illegal here - there are no regulations/tabs over prices.
The current state of the MLB, 1 game to go in the regular season, is something like what we have with cricket during the World Cup. Imagine 3 teams are tied on points, tied on net run rate too. That was pretty much what it was yesterday, before the start of a 3 game series between the Sox and Yanks. After 2 games its 1-1. But here is the irony, with today's win, the Yankees took the American League East title (since the Cleveland Indians are 2-0 down at home against the Chicago White Sox). All this at the home of the Red Sox. Result: the Yankees are in the playoffs, the Sox.. not yet. Talk about rubbing salt in the wound.
Now, if the Red Sox win tomorrow, they are into the playoffs on a "wild card". If you are confused by all this, don't worry, you are not alone ;-) But do hope that the Red Sox to win tomorrow.
Tickets for any Sox-Yankees game is always a big deal. A $40 ticket is going for upwards of $400. There was talk of someone paying $2050 for two tickets ($1025 apiece!!). To top it all, selling tickets in "black" isn't illegal here - there are no regulations/tabs over prices.
posted by Ananth Narayan at
2:32 AM
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I wanted to post a comment here, but it started getting quite lengthy, so I moved it to my blog!
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