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Jonathan Broxton and George Sherrill are dead to me. They threw away a perfectly awesome game. I’ve never been so upset over sports… UGH.

My cousin took me, the husband, and my dad to the last of the Dodgers/Yankees series today for the husband’s birthday. We were up 6-2 at the top of the 9th and out comes Jonathan “Iron Man” Broxton who, believe it or not, I was excited to have come out and close the game. Them Yankees fans were going to STFU and exit Blue Heaven on Earth with their pinstripe tails between their legs.

Fffffffffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!

That didn’t happen. Broxton allowed 4 runs alone, to tie up the score. Extra innings! Yay! Not… Out comes Sherrill (who?) and he allows the two losing runs to make all the awesomeness of that night just go away.

It was so damn disappointing. It’s bad enough the Dodgers have been on & off losing streaks for the past few weeks to increase the goading I get at work from all the Padres fans (FML), but to have Yankees fans get the last hoorah of the series and game this time around? FUCK.

You can bet that I’m not a fair-weather fan. I’m not into sports, but the Dodgers is the one team I grew up actually going to their games and baseball’s the only game I can really follow. That’s not to say I know anything and everything about the players and their stats and shit, but the game of baseball itself is awesome. Growing up, L.A. didn’t have a football team, and the Lakers weren’t as big of a deal (that I remember) then, and while I went to a couple Kings games, it was baseball that I was drawn to.

The atmosphere is just awesome. Going to Dodger Stadium, smelling the garlic fries cooking, having a Dodger Dog loaded with the works and now, spending $10 on a domestic beer, there’s nothing else like it. The cheering, camaraderie, singing… It’s one of my favorite things to do. Next to hearing Randy Newman’s “I Love L.A.” playing when we win

Next time, Dodgers… Next time…

Tags: baseball, Dodgers, Los Angeles, New York, Project: Blog, rivalry, sports, Yankees

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