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(What? You expected coherency?)

I’m taking a quick poll.

Now, I’m not a fan of pink sportswear, in general. Not really the color, per se, but the pink hat fans who have their pink jerseys and don’t understand the infield fly rule. You know, the ones who give all female fans a bad name because we seem like we are all girlie about baseball and that our appreciation for the game only goes as far as the knowledge that Gabe Kapler is hot. (He totally is, but that’s beside the point.) And apparently the girlie-fication of sportswear is calming down a little, because I couldn’t find a pink jersey in any online sports store, and thus am unable to illustrate part of my point. But let’s move on.

Not long ago I bought Jack (Cath? Am I allowed to link to your blog, or would you prefer I didn’t?) a Red Sox cap, because apparently he has friends who are Yankees fans, and I feel it is my duty as honorary aunt and crazy person to nip that in the bud. And while I was browsing the MLB shop, I bought a henley that looks like this, except it has a Boston logo on it.

OMG, you’d think I’d have bought a pink jersey with DAMON 18 on the back, the way that Danielle carried on. She says that my pink henley is EXACTLY like that, but I say it is almost totally different. It’s not like I took the team’s jersey or t-shirt or whatever and waved my magical princess wand to make it pink and girlie. I bought a pink henley that has, as an added bonus, a Red Sox logo on it. I say it is completely different. She says I make us look bad.

Dear Reader(s), what are your thoughts? Feel free to tell Danielle how wrong she is in the comments.

Yeah, that really wasn’t what I had in mind, Rays.

Carlos Pena and Delmon Young, you two are on My List. You have a chance to redeem yourselves, though: Please beat the crap out of the Yankees–otherwise we will be breaking up again.

Dear Rays:

First of all, let me say that I’m really excited that you will only be the Devil Rays for a few more days, and then next season we switch over to Just Plain Rays. That is spectacular news, guys. It is almost as exciting at the thought that you will no longer have those stupid sleeveless uniforms anymore.
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In the spirit of Overheard in New York, I give you Overheard at Camden Yards Last Weekend:

Guy Who Was Teaching His Date a Lot About Baseball: They’re not booing him. They’re saying, “Yooouuuuuuk,” which is short for his name: Youkakolis.

Youkilis: Originally uploaded by emmyl658

I would probably have been less snarky about this comment and much more forgiving had there not been a giant picure of Kevin Youkilis accompanied by his name in GIANT LETTERS right there on the Jumbotron.

And that, my friends, is why Red Sox Nation rolls its collective eyes at Orioles fans.

On a related note, I would like to say that although I seem like the likely candidate, I am in no way responsible for Youk getting injured yesterday.

For once.