For Freedom!

Alright John Lackey. Listen up, buddy.

I'm not normally a flag-waving, chest thumping, jingoist but there would be something terribly wrong about losing to the British (Canada can pretend that it's an independent country all that it wants, as subjects of the crown they're British) on today of all days. So keep your act together: throw strikes but not meatballs; get ground ball outs. And if you won't do it for yourself or for your team, then do it for America, do it for the French, do it for Sam Adams, John Hancock, and Paul Revere, do it for self-government, do it for "all men are created equal" or "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness", do it for the Quebecois still under mother England's thumb, do it for freedom.