Beckett’s Epic

The Sox are play­ing the Texas Rangers in Texas tonight and ESPN2 is kind enough to be show­ing the ball game. I have com­plained here before about the length of the Red Sox games, but tonight is one for the ages. Josh Beck­ett is on the mound for the FRS and he is what the announc­ers politely call delib­er­ate, but you and I would call it slow, a lot slower than the other Sox pitchers.

The game has been going for just a lit­tle under 2 hours and we are exactly mid­way through at 4-/2 innings. May be look­ing at a 4 hour game. Because it is in Texas the nor­mal start time was to be 8:10 East­ern, but was moved up to 7:10 for TV. Good thing too or I’d already be think­ing shower and bed, now I’ll prob­a­bly get to see another inning and a half…