Red Sox fans somehow got even weirder overnight about Yankees' Cam Schlittler

You're not going to believe this, but Boston Red Sox fans have 100,000 more tweets for you about how much they "don't care" about Cam Schlittler "trying to make himself the villain" of the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry. Maybe another 100,000 tweets will get the point across. The point that they don't care at all, actually.

Schlittler is poised to make his first career start at Fenway Park on Thursday in an environment that will almost definitely be extremely normal. You know, normal like a Red Sox Twitter mob deciding that they didn't believe Schlittler's assertion that his mom loves her soon and roots for his team now after previously being a Boston lifer. Normal like that mob blowing up his mom's DMs over her Twitter bio, fueling Schlittler to throw eight shutout innings and mouth "F*** Boston" on his way off the mound after single-handedly knocking the Sox out of the postseason.

That should have been a mic drop or, at least, the start of something great. Instead, it's become the inflection point for Bostonians pretending Schlittler is "soft" and attempting to absolve themselves of the role they played in their own team's downfall.

Cam Schlittler claiming Red Sox fans have sent him "death threats" ahead of Yankees-Red Sox ... certainly seems possible!

Now, ahead of Schlittler's Fenway unveiling, Boston fans have decided there's no way he's received death threats, a fairly standard awful thing that happens to most athletes online these days (and is more likely to happen to an athlete that an entire city has popped forehead veins over for a half-year now). They're also objecting to Schlittler stating, "They're gonna probably have dudes that are my age or a little bit younger, sitting right outside the bullpen, yelling, whatever, probably throwing stuff at me, trying to grab me."

For years, Boston fans were defined by being an intimidating crowd. Now, all of a sudden, when their rival who's already been harassed online and seen his family dragged into the picture says, "I dunno, they've been weird about me for six months, they're probably gonna be intentionally weird about me again this week in person," he's crossed a line?

You want to set a fire? Fine. It's a rivalry again (thanks in large part to the pitcher in question). You want to pretend Schlittler's rebuke started the fire?

Pretending anything else happened is hilarious.

All the Schlittler blowback would hold much more weight if he'd crumpled against the Sox in a deciding game, then used the family harassment as an excuse for his performance. Instead, he chewed on it and spit the Boston lineup out in historic fashion. It's really hard to swing the narrative the other day, but dammit if the most annoying fanbase in baseball isn't trying very hard to do exactly that.

The best Schlittler can do is deliver the same message again on the mound. And if he doesn't, get ready for a whole bunch of Red Sox fans to suddenly pretend April 23 is the equivalent of a do-or-die playoff game.

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