| 05 February 2009
I was reading some stuff at Mass Hysteria and linked my way over to a Yankees blog call 3:10 to Joba...
Normally, giving props to anything Yankee of Joba-related would be a physical impossibility for me, but it's February and this was pretty funny. The guys at 3:10 are writing a preview for all 30 teams as we head into spring training and each preview start with an allegory that describes the 2008 season. Here's what they had to say about the Red Sox:
Last Season as an Allegory:
Imagine yourself a giant locked in an eternal struggle with another giant over the world's biggest Twizzler. You manage to club the other giant with a number of blunt objects that seem blunter than usual and will probably never be as blunt ever again. One of your blunt objects even manages to win an award meant for blunt objects and lands itself on the cover of some video game. Finally, you win the gigantic Twizzler only to find that it is not in fact a Twizzler but a rancid shoelace. Someone else is eating the Twizzler in the corner and is about to whip you with it.
I thought that was pretty funny and, well, it pretty much summed up how I felt after the ALCS. The Rays didn't win it all, but they got the Twizzler and I want it back. The Yankees bought a few new blunt instruments this offseason, but the Red Sox and Rays have a few nice ones of their own... The Battle for the Twizzler is going to be ugly this year and reading the allegory just makes me that much more excited for the 2009 season.
Bottom Line: Twizzlers are red, so that means we should have it.
You can read the entire 3:10 to Joba preview here, but I'll warn you, it's full of Yankee resentment.
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