Back in November I posted:
Terry Francona, the ex-Red Sox manager, announced today that he was not going to try to manage in 2012. Cool, maybe FOX will hire him to replace Tim McCarver.
Tim McCarver is still announcing on FOX, but Mr. Francona has basically swapped jobs with Bobby Valentine and he now will be broadcasting on ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball and will also serve as an analyst on their Baseball Tonight show too.
They are now playing NFL games on Thursday night, but you can’t watch it unless you have the NFL Network. It wasn’t a big deal last week, but tonight I have a player going, Plaxico Burress, a wide receiver for the NY Jets. How the heck am I going, be able to root for ol’ number, er, hold on, let me look up his number, 17, that’s it. Go seventeen!
Terry Francona, the ex-Red Sox manager, announced today that he was not going to try to manage in 2012. Cool, maybe FOX will hire him to replace Tim McCarver.
Hollywood’s next “new” idea, remake the Munsters. It will possibly be a summer series on NBC and won’t be a traditional sit-com, but a visually spectacular hour-long program. I’m guessing Brad Garrett as Herman…
I’m thinking on opening a Facebook account so I get get some free porn because I can’t find anything like that anywhere on the internet.
Enough already with the pink. I can relate to the sentiment, but when NFL quarterbacks star wearing hot pink shoes, it has gone too far.
The Purple Whales bounced back from their loss last week by knocking off one of the two remaining undefeated teams in the End Zone Entourage FFL, thereby pulling back into a first place tie in the Western Division.
Maybe because I’m a homer, but I thought ex-FRS manager, Terry Francona didn’t sound half bad as a color commentator during the first two games of the American League Championship Series.
When I turned on the first game of the ALCS I thought for sure I had stumbled onto some sort of wildcard game. Detroit? Texas? Where were the Red Sox, Rays or Heaven forbid, even the Yankees?
That is about how many times I’ve been disappointed with the Red Sox this season. There won’t be any more of them until next year though, as last night, as they have done most of all of September, they managed to grasp defeat from the jaws of victory in the late innings to a team they should have beaten.
While on a short trip to top off the Emperor’s tank for a weekend trip, it passed through the 122,000 mile mark.
Right now, from where I’m sitting the FRS have really earned their F. They have lost the first of two against the Yankees today and Tampa Bay has won their game, so what once was a 9-1/2 game lead in the AL Wild Card 3 weeks ago is now just a 1/2 game. If the Red Sox lose the evening game they’ll be tied for the last playoff spot with just three games to go. And what with the way they are playing, I’m looking at my evenings being free after Wednesday.
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…
5-1/2 innings or only 61% of tonight’s game and it has taken 2 hours and 20 minutes to play. The score? One to one. This puppy is going to be over around midnight or approximately 1 hour after I’m in bed because I’m taking a shower as soon as this half inning is over.