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Go Sox

It seemed kind of grim on opening day, the Red Sox looked like they had spent the spring training time signing autographs and appearing on TV talk shows instead of brushing up on their baseball skills and were routed.

In yesterday’s game they showed a bit of spark by not just rolling over in the end, but tying the game in the top of the ninth. Unfortunately it was only to be swatted back down by a walk-off homer in the bottom of the inning. A battle of the team Captains and Boston’s lost.

Today’s game showed more of what they had going on at the end of last year. A see-saw battle down to the ninth inning, but this time instead of just a solo homer against the Yankee closer like Tuesday, they sent 8 guys to the plate and beat up Mariano Rivera with 5 runs. Now they will play three in Boston starting Monday, if it goes according to past history Boston will win two and NY one so the season series will be tied at three games apiece.

This is going to be fun. (But being a long time Boston Red Sox fan I still can’t get to upbeat for fear of jinxing them. 🙂 )

Started down, still down.
Miata Top Transitions since 01/01/05: 81

A World Topsy Turvy

If things were as they should be, tonight would be game seven of the 2004 World Series where the Red Sox would lose and once again have been mere outs from being Champions. My whole world is upside down.

Thanks:
Bronson Arroyo
Mark Bellhorn
Orlando Cabrera
Johnny Damon
Alan Embree
Keith Foulke
Gabe Kapler
Curtis Leskanic
Derek Lowe
Pedro Martinez
Doug Mientkiewicz
Kevin Millar
Doug Mirabelli
Bill Mueller
Mike Myers
Trot Nixon
David Ortiz
Manny Ramirez
Pokey Reese
Dave Roberts
Curt Schilling
Mike Timlin
Jason Varitek
Tim Wakefield
Kevin Youkilis

And of course manager Terry Francona and coaches Ron Jackson, Lynn Jones, Brad Mills, Euclides Rojas, Dale Sveum, Dave Wallace.

I Didn’t Take Any Chances This Year

Unlike last year I waited, even though I so wanted one of those Curt Schilling shirts that read “Why Not Us” I waited. My reward came this morning when I ordered:

My New Hat

I’ll be here in a week or so and I can hardly wait.

I Musta Missed Sumpin’

Did a female fan flash a tittie on TV during a Red Sox playoff game? An awful lot of people think so, because I’m getting a ton of search engine hits looking for “red sox fan boobie.” And of course the fact that I have this little referrer thingie on the right of the page makes it self perpetuate. Maybe the camera showed some fat guy shirtless for a second as it panned the crowd and somebody got confused (or wishful.)

Or do they mean to be searching for “red sox fan baby”?

I don’t have any Red Sox fans flashing, but so you don’t go away totally disappointed, here is a 4 year old video from the Today Show where a female on the street exposes herself for the panning camera: 2.2Meg Today Show Flasher Flick.

Pigs Fly! Hell Freezes Over! Red Sox Beat Yankees!

For once in my lifetime the roles were reversed between these two teams that most sports shows claim to be the best rivalry in baseball, maybe all sports. The Red Sox looked confident in games 6 and 7 in Yankee Stadium. The Yanks looked scared. They made the inopportune errors. The breaks went our way. Has the Curse been reversed?

We’ll see about that starting Saturday in Fenway.

Will This Be The End?

Game seven is tonight. So will this be the last game of the Red Sox 2004 season? If we go by past history, they will lose in some spectacularly unexpected way. If for some miracle the do win, I still won’t able to celebrate because the only possibly reason for advancement would be to lose the World Series to who ever. I know most of you are hoping the Sox lose so I will shut up about them and get back to my usually witty repartee. My wife is hoping they lose so we can get to back going to bed at a normal hour again. Blogging early so I can watch the game on TV. I’m sure I will have something to say either way tomorrow.

Monkeys On My Back

I can’t stop rooting for the Red Sox just yet. I listened to the game on MLB.com until the 9th inning last night. Then I watched innings 10 through 13 on Fox. I turned it off about 10:30 thinking that they just might be at it all night. I’m watching or listening as long as it is convenient, I can seem to turn off the game and not worry about the out come. Maybe that is why the Red Sox keep hanging in there, they feel the same way, like they have nothing to lose, so what the heck. Of course it could be their master plan to fight back, forcing a 7th game, just so they can rip my heart out with a tragic loss on a walk-off homer by the unlikeliest Yankee (ala, Bucky Fucking Dent.)