I'm with Curt on this one

We don't need the Rocket.

(I can't believe I'm actually saying that, but I actually feel that way this year!)

Noooooooooooooooo!

The baby mama drama we could forgive, Tom, but caught wearing a Yankees cap?

The ever-vigilant paparazzi snapped New England Patriots QB/QT Tom Brady sashaying through the streets of New York City yesterday shamelessly sporting a New York Yankees cap!

Tom and his galpal, soon to be ex-Victoria’s Secret model Gisele Bundchen, were strolling hand-in-hand in the West Village when he was snapped committing the horrid topper transgression.

Red Sox Nation was shocked and appalled and - as is our way - making excuses for the Bronx Bombers blasphemy. “We know that Tom has an array of Red Sox caps from which to choose,” said team spokesguy Dr. Charles Steinberg. “But we fully respect that he needed to wear a suitable disguise for his own health and protection. We don’t doubt that he’s a card-carrying member of Red Sox Nation.”

Yeah, he was in disguise... that must be it!

(Ouch! The Boston Herald scooped the Globe's own Dirt Dogs on this?)

Does this constitute 'griefing'?

While roaming Second Life during the wee hours last night I managed to stumble upon a replica of Yankee Stadium, so I did what any member of Red Sox Nation would do - put on my team colors and represented:


(That's me flexing in the Yankees outfield.)

IM IN UR HOUSE, DISRESPECTING YOUR RUTH!

Guess who's coming to town?

Yankees versus Red Sox at Fenway Park - the greatest rivalry in sports is renewed this evening at 7:05pm, when Curt Schilling takes the mound against Andy Pettite. The coverage of this series will go national as the weekend progresses, with Saturday's matchup on Fox Sports and Sunday's debut of Daisuke against the boys in pinstripes - including fellow countryman Hideki Matsui - the main event on ESPN Sunday evening.

Major League Baseball has gotten itself rather heavily involved in promoting the Sox-Yanks rivalry this year as part of a multi-million dollar advertising initiative in Japan, a lucrative sports entertainment market that MLB would desperately like to tap. The Boston Globe had a fascinating piece about this initiative in last Sunday's paper. It seems the major obstacle to MLB's penetration into the Japanese consciousness is the fact that many baseball fans in Japan don't have the same kind of team loyalty that we take for granted here in the States - if a star player leaves one club for another, his fans tend to go with him as well, whereas in American baseball a fan is practically married to his or her team for better or for worse (and will actively ridicule a fan who changes those loyalties at some point in their life, even if he or she moves!).

Right now the Japanese are buying up both Yankees and Red Sox merchandise in record amounts, plunking down millions of yen for baseball pilgrimages to Yawkey Way and the Bronx, and participating in "the rivalry" as cheerfully as possible. Will they remain Boston and New York fans when Matsuzaka and Matsui head on for greener pastures? Probably not. But who knows... in the meantime, let's all sit back and watch the fireworks!

High treason

I just let my morning work-study go home ten minutes early so that he - a diehard Yankees fan - could go catch the first pitch of New York's home opener in the Bronx against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. What on earth is wrong with me? This is the sort of behavior that gets your citizenship revoked here in Red Sox Nation.

Speaking of which, three more hours until the Red Sox play...