Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader, once again, spent all night watching television. He watched that Red Sox/Yankees game. Wow! What great baseball! Your Maximum Leader doesn’t believe he is mentally capable of describing how good this series is without resorting to all the clichés you can read elsewhere.
Yesterday, while composing the Tuesday Sports Roundup post, your Maximum Leader believed that both series (AL & NL) were living up to the highest expectations of baseball fans. Today, he believes that the Red Sox/Yankees seies is far exceeding the highest expectations of baseball fans (and red-blooded Americans).
Yesterday, your Maximum Leader felt that if the game was called on account of rain, the Yankees would regroup and win game 6 whenever it was played. He felt that if they played, the Red Sox would have an edge; but you just couldn’t call it.
If the Red Sox don’t have a huge advantage now, your Maximum Leader doesn’t believe they ever will. The Sox (Sawks - as the natives speak it) are tired. They are battered. They have given everything they have physically and mentally. And they are giving more.
The Yankees are just as tired, worn-down, and depleted as the Sox. But they have been, as your Maximum Leader wrote yesterday, on the receiving ends of the blows. This must have some sort of effect on their play tonight.
Your Maximum Leader believes that the Yankees may be beaten mentally already. The Sox may see their place in history and are giving up everything to attain that place. The Yankees may not have the mental strength to stop them.
These games are amazing to watch. This is as high a drama as sports can possibly produce. Your Maximum Leader knows that many of his Ministers are not big baseball fans. That is sad in some ways. Baseball, while not the bastion of Americanna that it once was, is still so deeply rooted in our national conscience. This history between these teams and the long-standing bitterness just add to the drama.
In over a century of playing the game in a way that we would recognize it, no team has forced a game 7 after being down 3-0. That is incredible. If the Sox win, and your Maximum Leader is inclined to think they will, they will be the first team EVER to come back and beat an opponent who had them down, pinned, and was going for the coup de grâce.
If the Sox win the AL Pennant, they could just go all the way.
Carry on.
