Alex Kreitman - Stealing signs

I hate that I do this, but every Sunday I pull for Tiger Woods.

I know he’s always the favorite and he’s the best golfer in the world and everyone else pulls for him, but I just have to.

I like the guy and I enjoy watching him play and win. I like nothing better than seeing him creep up the leaderboard on Sunday. This time, that didn’t really happen.

Sure, he crept up the leaderboard, but he really never contended.

All the talk leading up to The Masters was about Woods finally completing the grand slam, winning all four majors in the same year. But losing the first makes the rest of the season almost pointless. I know there will be great golf tournaments, awesome shots and exciting finishes, but in April, we already know there won’t be a grand slam. Tiger finished second.

But I do have to credit Trevor Immelman because he stayed on top of the leaderboard for most of the tournament and never caved under pressure. Even with windy conditions Sunday, he never slipped far enough down for Woods to catch him. Her also lucked out that Woods only shot even-par, but he didn’t blow up, which makes him deserving of the green jacket.

I was able to sneak out for a round of my own Sunday. I hit up Indian Valley Golf Course for a round of 18. I’m trying to get out on the course more often to improve my game and it seems to be working.

I shot an 87 yesterday which is a good score for me. A few years ago I used to flirt with 100, but now I seem to be flirting with 90.  Basically, I’m keeping the ball in play and hitting it straight. The biggest accomplishment for me yesterday was avoiding the blowup hole.

I always seem to have at least one blowup hole. Usually a hole in which I throw a club, curse loudly, get really pissed off and of course finish with an 8 or worse. But Sunday I didn’t have that and my worst score was a double-bogey 6. I had five of those, mixed in with a lot of pars and bogeys. I missed three birdie putts by inches, so I feel like a left a few strokes out there. Hopefully next time out I can get those putts to drop.

The Red Sox and Yankees closed out their first series of the series with my beloved Sox taking a 2-1 series victory. New York took Game 1 on Friday night, but Boston fought back to take the last two.

It wasn’t a super exciting series, but still had some good story lines. New York’s prize pitcher Phil Hughes choked last night, getting the early boot in the third inning after allowing what seemed like 10 runs, but was more like seven.

Hughes, pitching in his first game at Fenway Park was obviously nervous for the rivalry. A-Rod stunk, going 0-for-4.

The rivalry took on a new twist last week after it was discovered that a construction worker working on the new Yankee Stadium buried a Red Sox jersey in concrete in the new stadium.

Saturday, the Yankees had the jersey dug up. It took five hours to remove the David Ortiz jersey that Gino Castignoli, a longtime Red Sox fan planted there to supposedly start a curse against the Yankees. Click here to watch video.

To me it’s kind of a funny story, but the part that is ridiculous is that the Yankees are now talking to the New York district attorney about filing criminal charges against Castignolli. Filing charges would be ridiculous.

This was a harmless prank. There are plenty of people out there doing much worse things that it is so unnecessary to waste the DA’s time with this. This man isn’t a criminal; he’s just a diehard fan like me. Granted, I wouldn’t go to his extremes, but either way, it didn’t hurt anyone, just laugh it off and let it be.

I think the Yanks are just bitter that they seem to be on the short end of the rivalry these days.

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