Blasting the NY Times

Here's my contribution to the discussion on the NY Times blog. A little history:

When the Sox went up 8-0 in the season series, Tyler Kepner, not one to give his unsolicited opinion very often, said flatly and unimaginitively, "the Red Sox have a better organization." Later he relayed a moronic tweet from John Henry, the Sox's principal owner. The tweet went something like..."The MT curse?"

We'll here's what I wrote today on the blog:

"At what point, Mr. Kepner, did it occur to you this weekend that the Yankees have the best organization in baseball? Was it when the Sox tried to parade John Smoltz into Yankee stadium and instead watch his career end in a devastating hitting display? Was it when the Yankee bullpen outpitched the vaunted Sox bullpen in that 15-inning epic? Did it cross your mind then? How about while Burnett, CC and Pettitte manhandled the vaunted Sox lineup for 31 innings?

Was it when Ortiz stepped to the microphone and without even a prepared statement lied so brazenly, so disrespectfully to every baseball fan? Did it occur to you how differently A-Rod had handled it, perhaps because steroids cannot explain A-Rod’s brilliant career, but that they clearly have everything to do with Ortiz’s rise to stardom? Did it occur to you that A-Rod’s and Ortiz’s handling of the steroids issue reflects the positions and the cultures of the organizations for which they play?

You know when it occurred to ME that the Yankees have the best organization in baseball? Well, at all of these moments. But maybe most strongly it was in the last game, in a moment where every intangible game together. It was while the New Yankee Stadium, the team’s new, glimmering throne for the kings of baseball, was rocking with a sound that only the destruction of the Red Sox can elicit, as Mark Teixeira, the Yankees’ proud free-agent steal from under Boston’s nose, trotted around the bases (care to tell us what John Henry was tweeting then?), as the Yankee pitchers CC, AJ, Pettitte, Joba, and their star hitters A-Rod, Jeter, Damon, Matsui, and Posada, all of whom contributed so much to this Boston Massacre 2009, and the rest of the Yankees celebrated in the dugout, and in the most familiar sight of all, as Mariano began to warm in the bullpen once more. That’s when it really hit home.

Don’t you think?"