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Watched the Red Sox – Yankee’s game on Fox this afternoon. The game went better than I hoped. Boston 11, New York 0. Watching was great, but listening sucked. Tim McCarver was in the booth with Rick Sutcliff and they couldn’t get it together. Both of them seemed tongue tied too often. Maybe it is because the aren’t used to working with each other or something. Then there was an inning or two that Ozzie Smith joined them, trying in vain to explaining a Radio Shack promotion (something I’m sure he is getting paid to do) having to do with lifetime tickets to the World Series. Lamo.

About the second inning they flashed across the screen that the broadcast was available in Spanish via SAP (if available) by inning 5 I tired to get it in Spanish, but my local FOX affiliate didn’t have it available. I guess we don’t have that big a Hispanic population…

So Cowboy Up. And the Sox did just that tonight in the first of a 3-game series against their arch-nemesis’s the NY Yankees in the house that that candy bar fellow built. I think we will have to win at least one more this weekend from the Bronx Bombers if there is any chance of taking the division from them. A sweep would be nice, but 2-1/2 out with 25 to play, and the way they are playing, is not to big a hill to climb.

Turns out that a 40% chance of rain showers means a 60% chance of cloudy, gray skies with no precipitation. Got the ride in to work with it down, but that was it. After work-work we went to work-out, so the ride home was broken into 2 short trips with a long pause in the middle. The skies looked iffy so we just left the roof up.

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Top motion was the exact opposite of yesterday today. We even saved an errand for tonight just for the pleasure of an evening drive, only to have it start to rain just as we left the house.

Red Sox – Yankees on ESPN2 tonight. I’ve got the game going in a small window in the upper left as I type this. The dreaded Yankees just took the lead in the top of the 7th. On certain Wednesdays ESPN2 is brining back legendary broadcasters and tonight it is Curt Gowdy. Brings back wonderful memories of warm Connecticut summer evenings listening to Curt call the Red Sox games. Pardon me while I get all misty eyed here.

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Another gray day. No depressing movie for tonight, just a depressing baseball game. Red Sox are playing the Yankees and coming into the game tied for first place in the division and the Yankees scored 5 in the first and so far 2 in the 8th making 7 to 1. The Sox are bringing in another pitcher and I’m turning it off.

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They are in the playoffs while the Red Sox are all at home doing what I’m doing, watching the playoffs on Fox and rooting for Anaheim. And I’m sure just like our regular season hopes, our post season wishes will be squashed by the boys in pinstripes.

Damn Yankees. They won tonight’s game in the bottom of the 9th inning. Damn Yankees. we’ve still got 5 games against them (2 home & 3 at NY) before the season is over so we can get some revenge still. One good thing is we’ve got 4 games coming up against Tampa Bay this week and the Red Sox have positively owned the Devil Rays this year. (Damn I hope haven’t just jinxed them.)