A.L. East

I am a Baltimore Orioles fan. I'm not from Baltimore, but I've rooted for them for as long as I can remember. Tonight I saw the highlights from the Orioles/Red Sox game. Rodrigo Lopez has pitched incredibly against the Sox all season, and tonight was no exception. But then the umpires asked Lopez to take his hat off -- they were questioning whether he was cheating.

He wasn't.

I can only assume the Red Sox mentioned something to the umpires. And this distraction took Lopez off his game, he suddenly lost control of his pitches, and was pulled soon after. The Orioles ended up losing.

Now, Baltimore is a bad team. Losing one game -- who cares, right? I guess so. Except that was kind of bullshit checking Lopez's hat for sandpaper or vaseline or whatever.

Every year the Red Sox think they're hot shit and better than the Yankees, but every year they fail. In wonderful, heart-breaking fashion. I'm sick of the Job complex. They and their fans decry the Yankees for spending $250 million while they spend $225 million on salaries. Each team vies for the best free agents. At least Yankee fans, when they're acting like dicks, have the best team as their rooting interest. The Yankees and their fans are like the high school quarterback -- sure, he's a dickhead, but he actually throws the game-winning touchdowns and dates the head cheerleader. And I hate that guy as much as anyone, sure. Except the Red Sox and their fans are like the back-up wide corner back. They push nerds into lockers and act like hot shit because they're on the varsity football team, but -- and this is important -- they don't fucking start. I hate that guy, too.

So even though this is like rooting for Satan to destroy the world, I hope the Red Sox make the playoffs and lose to the Yankees in the seventh game of the ALCS in the bottom of the ninth.