A Sound So Sweet

Is there any sound sweeter in all of sports than Yankees’ fans booing their hometown heroes?  I think not.  Oh, and do the Bronx faithful have plenty to boo.

Their team is down 3-1 in the ALCS to the visitors from Houston.  No matter how much the fans bang their arms against the outfield padding or bait the Astros’ players or throw stuff at them (as it appears they’ve been doing a lot of those last two), the Bombers keep coming up short, as they did last night, 8-3.  For this Yankees’ hater, that’s a good, no, wonderful, thing, if only it didn’t come at such a high cost to our erstwhile national pastime.

The game took four hours and nineteen minutes to play, what with the parade of thirteen pitchers used by both sides.  Houston starter Zack Greinke went all of 4.1 innings while his New York counterpart Masahiro Tanaka went five-plus.  The Fox Sports One announcers may sound excited and the sprinkling of Astros’ fans, too, but we’re talking a baseball playoff game entering into the time realm of the Super Bowl, without any entertaining commercials. 

You’re whistling past a mighty grumpy graveyard, Commissioner Manfred.