October 18, 2008 – 11:19 pm A thoroughly enjoyable Red Sox playoff game to take in. Depsite the fact that I couldn’t really take it in until the bottom of the first inning (with the Rays already in front 1-0) thanks to a totally ridiculous FAIL by TBS. Can we please just let Fox show these playoff games? I can’t shake [...]
October 16, 2008 – 1:16 pm There’s really not much to write about ALCS Game 4, unless I feel like writing about the Rays and I don’t. In short, the Sox are not doing a single thing well on the baseball field. No pitching. No hitting. OK, they fielded the ball well. But that was when the ball wasn’t sent flying [...]
October 14, 2008 – 2:35 pm I can barely bring myself to write about yesterday’s game. It’s take my all day just to even start composing this. I’ve avoided sports web sites and boston.com all day. And now game 4 is a few hours away and here I am. Writing a blog post just to get all the negative thoughts out [...]
October 13, 2008 – 9:44 am Timlin? Did Mike Timlin seriously make an appearance in the 11th inning of a tie playoff game? WTF, Francona????? As much as I was in disbelief over Dice-K’s dominating game 1 performance, I’m in disbelief that Francona brought in Mike Timlin in the top of the 11th of Game 2. Hell, I’m even surprised that [...]
October 9, 2008 – 11:13 am Let’s be honest. The Red Sox did not beat an Angels team playing at their best. Game 4 offered a lot of evidence to support that. Howie Kendrick still looked totally overwhelmed by the moment Bad baserunning by Torri Hunter And the fatal blow, the failed squeeze play I give Scoscia tons of credit for [...]
October 6, 2008 – 11:30 am Well, that game was a bummer. Did the Sox deserve to win that game? Probably not. Did the Angels deserve to lose it? Absolutely. From Bad News Bears-esque fielding to baserunning blunders, the Angels looked for every way they could to lose this game. Why Howie Kendrick is still in the Angels lineup is bizarre [...]
September 11, 2008 – 12:21 pm It’s a lock that Carlos Pena will hit a home run this series That’s exactly what Crundy said to me when the 3 game series with the Rays began. Low and behold, he was right. Only it took until the 14th inning of last night’s game for it to happen. The last 2 games have [...]
And on the second night of the Papi-less part of the 2008 Red Sox season, the formula of good starting pitching and improved bullpen work continues to result in wins. All three of the key setup pitchers – Delcarmen, Hansen, and Okajima – pitched scoreless innings. If there is anything to pick on, its that [...]
“Dont’ worry. About a thing.‘Cuz every little thing gonna be alright” – Bob Marley Thanks to fantastic pitching performance from Jon Lester (and by the way, Roy Halladay, not Johan Santana, is the premier starting pitcher in baseball today) the Olde Towne Team ended their 5 game losing streak last night. Being on the west [...]
My version of JJ’s first post: A few years back, before we got the monkey off our backs, a few of my friends and I were at Buffs Pub for game 6 of the ’04 Yanks/Sox series. We had tickets for game 7 purchased before the playoffs began with the anticipation it might come down [...]
