Rain washed out what could have been yet another epic weekend in Fenway Park... for the New York Yankees. While the Yanks have been playing better since we being swept out of Tampa the opening weekend of the season, the home team was losing like it was still September of 2011. In addition to the injuries and the complete lack of anything approaching effective coming out of their bullpen, the Bosox were in a manager versus players controversy after Bobby 'the mouth" Valentine came out with comments questioning the dedication of Kevin Youkilis.

The Yanks rolled into town to start the scheduled three-game series with an afternoon game on Friday. That was the 100th anniversary of their dinghy, dump of a park and for some reason, the locals thought a celebrations was in order. The game started at 3:05PM as that was the same time "Play ball' was called a century ago. The Yankees - then called the NY Highlanders - dressed the part in retro gray uniforms with the logo on front (instead of "New York") and no numbers on the back.

Looking like he was playing with a hundred year old glove, Pedroia dropped Jeter's easy pop fly which lead to an unearned run on the way to an eventual Yank 6-2. The Sox had beaten the Highlanders 7-6 in eleven innings in 1912, but there was no comeback in the team come 2012. The normal drama that is usually part of the intense rivalry was no where to be found on this day. The Bosox seemingly just rolled over and played dead.

Saturday, a national TV televised game, was more more dramatic and eventually so much more painful for the Fenway faithful. Freddy Garcia did his part -- for Bosox that is -- giving up runs the way subscription cards fall from magazines. And in what should have been a laugher when the Sox were up 9-0 with two outs in the 6th became ... well ... something for the history books.

Sox fans have been booing the hell out of Valentine (who got the dreaded "vote of confidence" from team management over the weekend) had to take his starter out after giving up one run as he had hit his page count. Little did the big mouth expect that no one in his much-maligned pen would be able to get an out. The Yanks scored seven in the 7th and then, for great measure, seven more in the 8th inning toward an eventual 15-9 smack-down.

And while I did want to see CC sweep 'em last night, the rain-out does help Girardi skip the ineffective Garcia and have our #1 go against the Rangers in Texas tonight. It also lines up a pitching match-up that will see a lot of baseball fans in Japan being late for work as Kuroda now lines up against Yu Darvish on Tuesday. I would also like to imagine that the Sox players and manager really didn't want an extra day to think about what the Yankees had done to them.

New music piece here: http://musicscenempls.wordpress.com/2012/04/23/the-reckless-ones-at-harriet-brewery-sol-bock-april-21-2012/