Spring Quiz Time!

Last night there were three local teams in action. Let's see if you can correctly (guess - edit) which one Shank decided to write about:

A) The Boston Celtics won Game 2 of the first round playoff series, 99 - 91, over the Indiana Pacers;

B) The Boston Bruins won Game 4 of their first round series, 6 -4, over the Toronto Maple Leafs; and

C) The Boston Red Sox lost to the New York Yankees, 5 - 3.

If you guessed C), step up and claim your prize!

NEW YORK — The Red Sox stink. They lost to the Yankees, 5-3, Wednesday after Ryan Brasier surrendered a grand slam to Brett Gardner on an 0-and-2 pitch in the seventh inning. The Sox are 6-13 and a whopping 8½ games out of first place.

I grew up on Hub hardball gloom. I came of age as a baseball fan when the Red Sox annually finished eighth in a 10-team league and flirted with 100 losses. I learned talk radio at the right hand of Eddie Andelman, who perfected the sky-is-falling mind-set of Red Sox Nation.

I did a Sunday night TV show with Bob Lobel, who had a panic button on the set and kept saying, “Why can’t we get players like that?’’ every time an ex-Red Sox did something good for some other team. I wrote “The Curse of the Bambino,’’ my doctoral thesis on Red Sox negativity.

Continuing the negativity and seriously dating yourself multiple times? It's a two-fer!