Tao of Pauly

Yankees Win a Wild Game in Boston...

"Head-hunting, benches clearing, coaches fighting, players jawing, Yankee relievers skirmishing with Red Sox employees in the bullpen. All that was missing were the elephants and the clowns..." - Jackie MacMullan, staff writer at The Boston Globe

In case you missed it, there was a classic Yankees-Red Sox match up last night in Boston. The Yankees won 4-3 after some serious hijinks. Yes, even Ben and J. Lo. were in attendance to catch the wicked festivities, filled with taunting, beanballs, punches thrown, and and old man Zimmer getting shoved to the ground by Pedro Martinez, after he taunted and threatened to throw at more Yankee heads.

Here are some ESPN articles:
1. Freak Show... Battle of the Ages written by Jim Caple.
2. Tempers Flare During Game 3
3. 2 Yankees May Face Police Charges After Brawl

Here are NYC articles:
1. Yank Class Trumps Bozos: A Great Team Rises Above Ugliness is written by Mike Lupica (NY Daily News)
2. Fued Flares and Turns Ugly is written by Tracy Connor and Jon Lemire (NY Daily News)
3. Fenway Punk is written by Ed Robinson and Ed Miller (NY Post)
4. Clemens Keeps Cool on Mound is written by Jack Curry (NY Times)
5. On Frenzied Day at Fenway, Yanks Survive is written by Tyler Kepner (NY Times)

Here are some Boston articles:
1. Sox Lose Game 3 Melee is written by Dan Shaughnessy (Boston Globe)
2. More Ugliness Gives Teams, Game Black Eye is written by Jackie MacMullan (Boston Globe)
3. Sox Fall as Showdown Turns to Throwdown is from Jeff Horrigan (Boston Herald)
4. Beautiful People Hit Town as Game Gets Ugly (Boston Herald)

Articles from Elswhere...
1. Tempers Left Smoldering in Yanks, Red Sox Series (Seattle Times)
2. Take Me Out to the Brawlgame (Chicago Sun Times)
3. Bad Blood? Try Curdled Blood (San Francisco Chronicle)
4. Heated Rivalry Sparks Fenway Free-For-All (Toronto Star)
5. An Ugly Night at Fenway (Detroit Free Press)

As you can see, the Tao of Pauly is fair and balanced in providing coverage on Game 3. I included links to articles from both NY and Boston newspapers, as well as ESPN.com, and articles from a couple of other newspapers outside the Northeast. And yes, I read every article this morning. I can gauge this from each writer: the Yankees might have won Game 3 yesterday, but the Red Sox lost a lot more than a game yesterday. Even the Boston writer penned thier articles with a certain air of doom and depression... like yesterday's result was somewhat expected. Game 4 tonight... and I'm pumped!