The wrath of the Canadian Soldiers

As a staunch Boston Red Sox fan, I have to tell you, it was quite amusing on friday night to see our "Canadian soldiers" come to the rescue of the Cleveland Indians late in Game 2 (8th inning). From MLB fanhouse:

The game's still going on in Cleveland but what was a tense pitching duel between the Yankees and Indians has been hijacked by a swarm of insects that are making it impossible to focus on anything else. Craig Sager of TBS just informed us that the bugs are Canadian Soldiers and that they've come to become our insect overlords and force us into a system of socialized medicine and hockey.

Just kidding, but they do seem to be seriously affecting the players. Joba Chamberlain walked Grady Sizemore, threw two wild pitches to bring him home and hit Victor Martinez during the bottom of the eighth as the Yankees surrendered their 1-0 lead. His neck, shown in terrifying closeup several times, looked like a carnival sideshow attraction and/or a pile of rotting meat with bugs teeming all over it. It clearly affected him on the mound although he got out of the inning by striking out Jhonny Peralta.

If I wasn't a Sox's fan, I probably would have felt a bit sorry for Chamberlain as he swatted and struggled for over 10 minutes as the bugs swarmed the area between the mound and home plate. But I don't.

And furthermore, the bugs subsided somewhat after the game went into extra innings, so in retrospect, they weren't that much of a factor in the end. Though many argued that the Yanks never seemed to recover after the 8th inning bug swarming, losing in the 11th after a Travis Hafner game-winning, bases-loaded single.

As I always say, it's all fair in the battle of playoff baseball, although I see Yankee pitcher Roger Clemens wouldn't agree with that statement. Anyway, enough playoff baseball talk for now, I must go watch my Pats beat up on the Browns.