ESPN has put Tim Tebow aside for a minute to get into its other obsession: The Boston Red Sox.
Really, enough with the Red Sox. The only Sox I care about wear White. And by the way, thanks Boston for Kevin Youkilis. He’s been great.
However, I do want to point out a piece by ESPN Boston’s Gordon Edes. In response to all the whining that the media has contributed to Boston’s woes, he plants his tongue firmly in cheek and writes a positive tale about the Red Sox going into their series with the Yankees.
Here’s Edes:
NEW YORK — A weary but gallant group of Red Sox players, led by their plucky skipper Bobby Valentine, gathered in Baltimore’s Penn Station late Thursday night to board the iron horse that will carry them to the Big Apple and a rematch with the Mighty Bombers of Gotham.
The Sox played their hearts out the past three nights against the Orioles, but Fate and Lady Luck dealt them a tough hand. Despite their best efforts — which included a five-inning no-hitter (!!!) by Aaron Cook — the Sox were able to claim just one hard-earned victory, steady Clay Buchholz spinning a beauty Thursday night in Camden Yards. Once again, the game’s greatest fans were represented in large numbers, having made the arduous journey down the Jersey Turnpike to show their support for A-Gon, Pedey, Our Josh and all the Boys.
And more:
It was only three weeks ago, you may recall, that the Sox last visited Gotham and had their spirits lifted by the team-only pep rally organized by their wise and benevolent owner, John W. Henry. Gosh, was Mr. Henry embarrassed when someone spilled the beans on Henry’s private cheerleading.
“No good deed goes unpunished, does it, Larry?” an abashed Henry declared to his most trusted adviser, Larry Lucchino, who along with Smiling Tom Werner had secretly assembled at the Palace Hotel in New York to surprise the lads with a morale-boosting rendezvous. They beamed as one player after another paid tribute to their skipper, Bobby V, who was detained in another room for fear he would literally burst with pride at all the compliments sent his way.
And finally:
It grieves this correspondent to note that the division title might now be out of reach for your heroes, but while they arrive here wounded, they remain unbowed. There is no quit in these Red Sox, no loss of determination by Bobby V, for whom the word “surrender” does not exist in his vocabulary. Do not abandon your heroes in their hour of need. Invite Don and Jerry into your living rooms this weekend, Joe Castig and O’B on your car radios, and root, root, root for the home team. Remember the words of Al Michaels: “Do you believe in miracles? Yes!”
Great stuff, Gordon.
