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[catslash]

An excerpt from a fic I wrote during spring training:

[Alex] feels someone draw up next to him and looks over to see Gary in full default smirk mode.

"Lookin' good, Alex."

Alex goes hot in the face and is about to retort, when Gary gives him a lingering lookover and continues, "Lookin' real good." A quick leer, then he puts on a little speed and pulls away. [. . .] [S]hit, he doesn't want to do this all over again. He thought Gary got the Not Interested message last year. Making him back the hell off was a tricky and exhausting process, and Alex still wonders if Derek didn't finally settle things by pulling Sheff aside for a quiet word or two behind Alex's back. Maybe Gary thinks that everything starts fresh in the spring.

Now check out this article (link goes to a post in ayrdaomei's journal, since the Post requires registration and she was kind enough to copry and paste. Thank you!). Looks like the Princess finally caved to the Sheffield charm. Or, you know, the Sheffield scariness.

The best Sheffield quote: "We're going to bring our gold, our jewel in there, which is A-Rod." Damn, dude. First he tries to get to first base with Jeter on the field, now this? Tone it down a few zillion notches, Sheff.

And do I even need to get into the rest of that crap? How ridiculous it is to go in there assuming that the Sox have it in for A-Rod? Guess what, Gary: they're just playing ball. I suggest you do the same. The idea of any of the Yankees going in actively looking for trouble gives me the creeps, because when you are looking for trouble, you tend to find it. I just hope that the rest of the Yankees are smart enough to ignore Sheffield's bullshit and concentrate on the series at hand, because as much as I love a good baseball brawl, there's an explosive edge to the Sox/Yankees that I just don't like. After the problems with Sheffield and that fan, there was discussion in the Sox blogosphere about how at this rate something really terrible is going to have to happen for hostilities to get down to a reasonable level again. Sheffield's remarks reminded me very strongly of that and I think I'm going to be on edge during the entire series. Please, guys, just play the game, okay?

Comments

[all-ahoo.livejournal.com]

A-Rod is Gary Sheffield's "jewel," huh? G-A-Y.

[catslash.livejournal.com]

God, I know. Did he not even think about how that would sound? Wait, this is Sheffield. No he didn't.

[lissa-ann.livejournal.com]

I've got to admit, I'm a bit on edge about this series, too. It's not that I wouldn't like to see Tek go for another smackdown (especially since I missed last year's).

But none of the other encounters between the two teams have seemed quite so...explosive. I mean, outside of Sheffield, there weren't really any problems with the home opener series, and nothing happened while the Sox were in New York. I don't know if it's just because it's falling around the date of last year or what.

*sigh* Boys will be boys. And so will most middle-aged men.

[ayrdaomei.livejournal.com]

Did you post that fic anywhere? Because the baseball slash reading has been way lacking lately. I've been reduced to reading NBA slash and I don't even know the first thing about basketball ^_~

After the problems with Sheffield and that fan, there was discussion in the Sox blogosphere about how at this rate something really terrible is going to have to happen for hostilities to get down to a reasonable level again

Wow, really? Huh. I'm pretty sure nothing will come of all this, because seriously, you guys are playing a 4 game series, separated by only 2.5 games in the standings. The whole thing doesn't need any more drama, that's intense enough as is.

[catslash.livejournal.com]

Did you post that fic anywhere?

Yep, I spread it around the baseball/sports slash communities - theboysofsummer, sportsslash, and sport_slash. Probably the first place will be easiest to find it, since it's baseball-specific and so lower-volume.

The whole thing doesn't need any more drama, that's intense enough as is.

I trust the players to keep it together more than I trust the fans. I wouldn't be too surprised if any trouble during this series happened in the stands. The rivalry is way crazier for the fans than for the players. It's kind of hard to explain adequately, I guess, to someone who's outside the rivalry, but inside it you just keep expecting things to explode. Because they keep exploding. Your observation is completely logical and obvious and would apply to a similar situation for any other teams, but with Red Sox/Yankees, you can't be sure if you'll get a perfectly civil series or if something nasty is going to happen.

[ayrdaomei.livejournal.com]

I trust the players to keep it together more than I trust the fans. I wouldn't be too surprised if any trouble during this series happened in the stands.

Oh, I could definitely see that, over the players inciting anything. With the atmosphere these series engender, I can understand being concerned about some jackass in the stands causing drama. Well, here's to a series of wellplayed games sans any other bullshit.

[catslash.livejournal.com]

Also, it might help you to know that the title of the fic is "Clown." *duh's at self*

[hoedogg.livejournal.com]

Fuck Gary Sheffield and the pantyhose he prances around right field in. A-Rod is their "Jewel"? So he writes really bad poetry about unicorns and sings crappy folk songs? I bet the Red Sox are REAL scared now. Bwah!