The New York Yankees are currently the best team in baseball.

They have a record of 57-34 and since May 30 they’ve scored three-or-more runs in every single game – that’s a 42-game streak if you’re keep score at home. They’ve also averaged 5.31 runs per game during the streak and have only lost 11 games. So why are so many people complaining?

It’s because a lot of Yankee fans are never satisfied.

One of the biggest complaints I hear people talking about incessantly is that the Yankees hit too many home runs.

Yes, suddenly hitting too many home runs and scoring runs are bad things. The train of thought is that the Yankees will be shut down in the playoffs if they rely too much on home runs because they will be facing much tougher pitching. Now, this could be true but so far, the Yankees have held their own against some big name pitchers – David Price, King Felix and Justin Verlander to name a few. Also, it’s July. How about enjoying what we’re watching and stop being such Debbie Downers?

And playing into this silly train of thought? The media.

Case in point, last night I had the displeasure of watching Baseball Tonight on ESPN. It wasn’t by choice, it was because I was too lazy to leave the room. Anyway, Orel Hershiser and Doug Glanville were ranking the best lineups in baseball. Where did they place the Yankees? Not in first. In fact, Glanville put the Yankees fourth. The reason? Too many home runs.

Really? I just shook my head at the TV.

Another thing that has been occurring with great frequency because the Yankees have been so good is that people are booing Alex Rodriguez just because they can. It seems like no matter what he does, he’s booed. The whole team could be held hitless but if he grounds out, he’s booed.

It’s unbelievable. It’s as if the 2009 playoffs, never happened.

Guys like Tino Martinez and Scott Brosius are put up on pedestals for having one or two big playoff home runs and poor Rodriguez, who nearly carried the Yankees on his back into the 2009 World Series is still persona non grata in New York. (Okay, I’ll give Brosius props for his 1998 World Series MVP but it was really the only good series he had in his entire time as a Yankee.)

During yesterday’s game, a ball was hit to Rodriguez and as he charged in to make the play it took a funny hop and he couldn’t make the throw to first. The crowd booed. Then in the next play, the batter hit a pop up to Rodriguez, he caught it and the crowd cheered derisively.

Really, people?

Oh, and did I mention the Yankees were up 6-0 by that time in the game?  This sort of stuff makes me apoplectic and it also makes me hate being a Yankee fan. Well, okay, not hate, that’s too strong a word but it is really embarrassing. The whole booing just to boo nonsense got old years ago. Enough is enough.

So stop complaining about a team that owns the best record in baseball.

Stop booing Alex Rodriguez just to boo him.

And stop acting like spoiled brats. You’re embarrassing the rest of us level-headed Yankee fans.

So the Yankees lost. Big deal. It’s not the first time they’ve lost on Opening Day and it’s certainly not the last time. It’s just the way they lost with Mariano Rivera blowing the game that made it seem worse. And you’d think that Mo’s “meltdown” would be the worst thing, right?

Wrong.

It was the meltdown that happened on Twitter immediately following the game that was the worst part about it. From the people declaring the season over to the people calling for Joe Girardi’s head, it was a total sh*t show.

Actually, I’m lying, that’s still not the worst thing.

The worst thing that happened following today’s Yankee loss would be the flurry of tweets from people who were saying they hated Mariano Rivera, the tweets saying that he should have retired two years ago, etc. One guy even went so far as to call him Grandpa and said he was surprised Mo didn’t die of a heart attack on the mound.

Oh and did I mention that these same people claimed to be fans of the New York Yankees?

Yep!

I was flabbergasted. I was actually so angry that I had to log off Twitter because if I had stayed logged on, I would have responded to every single one of those people, called them nasty names and that wouldn’t have been a good thing for me or for them.

How on earth can you call yourself a Yankee fan and say you hate Mariano Rivera? Fans from other teams don’t even hate Mariano Rivera. Red Sox fans don’t even hate him!

I couldn’t believe it. Even someone I followed said she hated him and told him to eff off. I sat there in shock. Then I retweeted her so everyone could see her overreaction, unfollowed her and blocked her. I’m sorry but I have no tolerance for that kind of stuff in my timeline. Hating Mariano Rivera is like hating a puppy or a kitten.

Seriously, what the hell is wrong with you people? Not should you only hand in your Yankee fan membership cards but frankly, you should be thrown off the Planet.

As I was looking through my Twitter timeline this afternoon, I noticed a couple of my fellow female baseball bloggers tweeting a link to something called “Baseball Boyfriend.” They were not happy about it.

When I clicked on the link and I saw what it was all about, I quickly became just as enraged.

It’s a Fantasy Baseball app designed for girls which is fine, a starter Fantasy Baseball app could be cool.

Nope, this app is not cool. It’s not cool at all.

The app’s description: “Baseball Boyfriend is a single draftee fantasy sports mini game designed for girls. Pick your boyfriend for the season, dump him if he can’t perform and pick up a new BBBF. Boyfriends earn you points daily. Girl with the most points at the end wins.”

So you pick your studs, you dump your duds, and you can view your dating history! I am assuming that would be your transaction history.

The actual website is worse than the site describing the app. Their version: “Baseball Boyfriend is a single draftee, fantasy baseball, mini game. You collect points based on your boyfriend’s stats for the day. Each day, you can pick a new hottie or hang onto your hunk. The one with the most points at the end of the season wins.”

Notice the “subtle” difference?

What’s worse? This app was first brought to people’s attention on CBSsports.com. My question to CBS Sports is, how can you even get behind something as degrading as this?

Female sports fans are already having a pretty tough week.

First, we had the Huffington Post article this weekend, written by the woman who wasn’t going to let her husband to watch the Super Bowl because it was their first wedding anniversary.

This afternoon a video surfaced of a drunk girl at the New York Giants parade exclaiming that the player she was most excited to see was Mark Sanchez, who as we all know, plays for the New York Jets.

And now, we have this insulting app which appears on CBS Sports’s website. It’s only Tuesday! I’m a little afraid of what’s to come the rest of this week.

What’s next? Hockey Hottie? Basketball Boyfriend? Football Fellow?

So to the people behind Baseball Boyfriend thank you so much for allowing us girls to participate in Fantasy Sports and to do it in such an insulting and degrading manner! How did we ever do it before this app came along to help us?

And to CBSSports.com, in the future, you should be a little more thoughtful and smart about what you choose to promote on your website.

When the news of Ryan Braun’s positive PED test rocked the baseball world last night, memories of Alex Rodriguez’s 2009 steroid admission reared their ugly head. Mainly because everyone and their mother was bringing him into the discussion. It was as if Alex Rodriguez was the only person to ever admit to using steroids – even though he’s not.

There have been plenty of other players who have been involved in the steroid web of deceit. I don’t have to list them all – I will only name a few key players – but the point is that as of last night, people were saying that Ryan Braun deserved the benefit of the doubt before he was crucified. A lot of those people were the same baseball writers who seemed perfectly happy to skewer Alex Rodriguez when word of his steroid usage came to light.

So I’d like to know, where was Alex Rodriguez’s benefit of the doubt before his admission of guilt?

» Continue reading “Alex Rodriguez Is Evil, Ryan Braun and Others Are Not”

A rant…

So I’m in the kitchen with my mom, shooting the breeze and talking about our day when I hear someone on the TV saying some nonsense about the Yankees fearing the Red Sox should Bobby Valentine become their manager. I laughed it off because it was some person on The Wheelhouse on SNY and I usually laugh them off. Then in a span of an hour, I heard the sentiment repeated two more times. Adam Schein and Frank Isola also said the same thing on Loudmouths, twice.

I know that SNY is the Mets channel but why on earth would the Yankees have to “fear” the Red Sox “if” Valentine becomes their manager?

Will his mere presence make them win 140 games? I don’t get it.

And apparently this meme is spreading like wildfire. People who write for ESPN NY and Harold Reynolds on MLB Network are also kissing Bobby V’s ass. (By the way, every time I’ve type Bobby I’ve had to correct myself because it keeps coming out as Booby. What does that say about him? Kidding.)

Is he a good manager? Sure. I’ll give him that but he hasn’t managed in a while. He’s been too busy torturing viewers on ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball broadcasts this past season.

And how about waiting until he actually signs with Boston before making these crazy proclamations? Didn’t these people learn anything this past season? Remember all of “the Philly and Boston will be in the World Series!!” crap we had to endure before the season started? And look at what happened there. Yeah.

So, come on people. Chill.

So I woke up this afternoon – yes I said afternoon – to more tweets and articles expressing outrage over Derek Jeter’s decision to skip this year’s All Star Game. (Along with the outrage over CC Sabathia and Mariano Rivera also skipping the festivities. I’ll get to them in a moment.)

I looked at said tweets and articles to see what people were saying about Jeter and thought to myself, “Why did I do this?” The answer: Because I’m a glutton for punishment.

So here’s my opinion of the whole situation: Derek Jeter doesn’t owe anyone anything.

The same people who were complaining that he was elected to the All Star Game in the first place are now the same people who are outraged that he is skipping it.

Really?

Derek Jeter has earned the right to skip the All Star Game. He’s 37 years old, coming back from a calf injury and again, he doesn’t owe you a thing.

» Continue reading “Defending Derek Jeter, CC Sabathia and Mariano Rivera”

Our New York Yankees last played on Wednesday afternoon against the Blue Jays. It’s now Friday morning and we still have to wait nearly twelve more hours for a game.

ARE YOU KIDDING?

We get that the Yankees needed an off day – they’ve played 32 out of the past 33 days. We also get that they were travelling to the West Coast to face Seattle and that it’s a long flight. They need to get acclimated to the time change, yadda yadda yadda. I also understand that the world doesn’t revolve around us Yankee fans – though it should – but come on. This is ridiculous!

By the time the pre-game show starts, we will have been without Yankees baseball for two full days. That’s just too much for us to handle right now.

Personally speaking, I even gave in and watched the Mets yesterday! That’s how badly I needed to watch baseball. If this long of a break happens again, I might even stoop so low as to watch a Red Sox game.

Desperate times call for desperate measures.

Hopefully our boys will be well rested, will continue their winning ways this weekend and even shock some people in the fan base and actually win the Nova-King Felix matchup on Saturday. Hey, you never know.