No games until next week, so we get team presidents trading insults. First, Red Sox CEO Larry Lucchino, talking about the Yankees’ big offseason free agent signings:
“We’re very different animals. I’m proud of that difference. I always cringe when people lump us together. Other baseball teams sometimes do that. They are still, this year at least, relying heavily on their inimitable old-fashioned Yankees style of high-priced, long-term free agents. And, uh, I can’t say that I wish them well, but I think that we’ve taken a different approach. … If you compare what we did last year in the offseason to what they did this year, there’s quite a contrast there.”
Then Yankees President Randy Levine fired back:
“I feel bad for Larry; he constantly sees ghosts and is spooked by the Yankees. But I can understand why, because under his and Bobby Valentine’s plan two years ago, the Red Sox were in last place. Ben Cherington and the Red Sox did a great job last year winning the World Series, but I’m confident Cash and Joe and our players will compete with a great Red Sox team to win a world championship this year.”
Meanwhile, the rest of the baseball universe makes the wanking motion, noting that the Red Sox and Yankees have for more in common with each other than they have differences when you compare them with how most of the rest of baseball operates. In terms of finances, in terms of expectations, in terms of domination of the local conversation, everything.
Indeed, listening to the two of them try to contrast themselves with one another is like this:
Both of their buns have seeds, man. Both of their buns have seeds.
