Playing under protest: Why the Yankees are a bunch of elitist cry-babies

Ty Hampton
Sox Swaggerista

You may not have caught this last night amongst the epic 9th inning comeback victory from the Boston Red Sox, but the Yankees were playing that game under PROTEST.

Why you ask? When Josh Beckett almost bit the dust at the 5-1/3 inning mark, coming up wincing in pain from a re-aggravated lower back strain, Yankees Joe Girardi came out to home plate and argued with the ump stating his team’s protest with the Sox starter being relieved for the injury.

Girardi implied that when Manny Delcarmen was given near two minutes to warm-up and get in the game to replace the injured Beckett, the Sox pitching staff had collaborated on a scheme with the ailing starter “pretending to get hurt” so that a reliever would be given more time to get in the game. The Yankees manager protested that the injury replacement was not gone about in the correct manner and gave the Sox an advantage at that point in the game.

Mind you this is when the Yankees were up 5-1. Thus the New York home team played the game in official protest. However, it looks like they won’t be taking up the matter with the league as of Wednesday.

If anyone has been following Beckett’s well-documented woes, they would already know that he has been struggling with a lower back strain and was pulled from last Thursday’s start for just that. Now today Beckett was placed on the 15-day disabled list.

So, yes Yankees fans, I’m sure our ace pitcher put on one hell of a show to get pulled from the game just as he is now faking he’s hurt to sit on the DL. Pleeeeease people, get in the real world. Josh may be struggling, but he if he is nothing else to you Yanks, you must acknowledge Beckett as a competitor.

So stop your crying Yankees. After all, you did have a 4-run lead through the 8th until you blew it in the 9th on your fancy new home field. Sacrilege, absolute sacrilege. Stop whining, and keep in mind we’re only 5.5 games back and intend on improving that number with Cameron and Ellsbury returning to the lineup in early June.