I was at the Yankees game on Saturday, surrounded by many Yankee fans, and they were still talking about the Red Sox and checking the Red Sox scores on their blackberries.
The Red Sox scores are of interest to me because I'm a baseball fan.
I also have interest in the scores of the Dodgers, Giants, Blue Jays, Marlins, etc.
But nobody seemed too interested in the the Tigers, Mariners, and Indians.
The Yankees are not in competition with the Red Sox anymore. The Red Sox are going to win 100 games. The Yankees have been out of the AL East race since May. Eric Gagne didn't seal this deal. Kei Igawa and Mike Mussina and Bob Abreu already sealed the deal.
There was a monkey and a scientist placed some bananas on the other side of a wall. A small hole in the wall allowed the monkey to reach the bananas. The hole was small enough for a flat monkey hand to fit through. But, when the monkey hand clenched and grabbed the food, it could not fit through the hole.
So, there's the monkey, trapped by its own clenched fist, unable to free its hand and also unable to get the bananas. The monkey could only free itself by releasing its grip on the bananas and sliding its unclenched hand through the hole.
That banana is first place in the AL East, the Yankees are the monkey, and the scientist is me.
It's a metaphor, don't you see?
We are not getting first place, people.
Just let it go.
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