Yankees should smell blood in water after Anthony Volpe forces crybaby Red Sox ejection

Everyone in Boston is seemingly on edge nowadays. Red Sox fans are a different version of insufferable with their daily complaining and misdirected trash talk about the Yankees. The Knicks won the NBA Finals. The Patriots got pummeled in the Super Bowl. Little Title Town isn't getting its way and the kids are throwing a temper tantrum.

And there was nothing more emblematic of that on Thursday night during the Yankees-Sox series opener. In the top of the ninth with New York trailing by three runs, Boston brought in Aroldis Chapman (another fragile child who recently had a breakdown over blowing his first save in 18 months) to face Anthony Volpe, Jazz Chisholm and Jose Caballero.

In a hilarious turn of events, Volpe ended up walking to lead off the inning when the first base umpire missed a check-swing call that should've tilted the count in Chapman's favor to eventually lead to a strikeout. Instead, on a full count, Volpe took ball four.

When the check-swing call was made on a 2-1 count, Red Sox manager Chad Tracy immediately chirped the first base umpire. When Volpe walked, pitching coach Andrew Bailey blew his lid and got ejected. Let's put this into context for you.

Leading 6-3 with one of the best closers on the mound in a home game, the Red Sox coaching staff couldn't fathom the thought of a missed call in a mismatch Chapman should have handled with ease. So they lost their minds because they probably knew a meltdown was coming. They just experienced it Monday against the Rockies in a nightmarish loss, and they are on edge at the moment because they can't handle further hits to their ego.

Yankees need to build off of animated Red Sox ejection after childish display

This should be a message to the Yankees. Smell the blood in the water. Know that the Red Sox are officially on their heels, desperate for any possible advantage they can get. Acting like this in a 6-3 game with Anthony Volpe in the batter's box is as try-hard as it gets.

Funny enough, that walk eventually led to more Chapman traffic, as he loaded the bases and brought Ben Rice to the plate. Sadly, Rice weakly grounded out to end the game, allowing the hot-headed Red Sox coaching staff to let out a sigh of relief after they unnecessarily raised their blood pressure in a game they had won after they managed to score four runs off Cam Schlittler. As you can imagine, Red Sox fans were totally not unreasonable about that.

Imagine living this life. Imagine being this. You are 33-46, surefire trade deadline sellers, and have the balls to act like this during a regular season game in June. The classic Boston response would be "this is passion, this is fandom!" because ... of course. Is it fandom when you're threatening to protest the Red Sox's existence but never do, because you don't have the gumption? Is it fandom when you cry and cry and cry on social media when things don't go your way? Fandom is not expressing the extremes at every possible turn. That's what we call being a four-year-old.

And apparently its reached the Red Sox dugout, where the guys calling the shots are sh-t-talking an umpire who looks like a third grade math teacher so they can feel better about themselves.

For the love of god, win the next three games, Yankees. And get us out of Boston. The end of this series can't come fast enough.

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