October 18, 2008 – 8:40 am Honestly, how does one begin to write about Game 5. You need to see it. Actually, you need to have experienced it live as it was happening. You need to have hit rock bottom as a fan of the 2008 Boston Red Sox (for me, that was around the time Papelbon came in and gave [...]
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 10, 2008 – 11:22 am I actually don’t dive into stats very much, but a couple have jumped out at me while I’ve been surfing the web and thinking this series. Total runs scored: In head-to-head matchups, the Rays won 10 of 18 games, but the Red Sox scored 20 more total runs than Tampa in those games. Rays won [...]
September 15, 2008 – 2:14 pm Reading this morning how Yankees manager Joe Girardi pulled 2B Robinson Cano for not hustling in the fourth inning of Sunday’s game. Perfectly encapsualted with the New York Post headline “Cano Doesn’t Get Meaning of Hustle.” There’s no way to think about this as the latest contrast in the ongoing Hatfield & McCoys rivalry that [...]
In the ongoing debate about who should be the two hitters at the top of the lineup, we now have a 10 game sample to look at with Jacoby Ellsbury leading off for the Red Sox. And the sox record in those games is 9-1. While I’m not able to put my finger on it [...]
