I should be happy with this match-up but after three hammerings by the Yankees I think the Sox should lobby to have the 6th and 7th innings outlawed from baseball in the way that buildings have no 13th floors. Maybe the need to outlaw triple-A pitching making up most of the bullpen, too. And why does Curt Schilling look like Old Man Smithers from Scooby Doo?
Anyway, there is a chance that this will be a heck of a game. Unless the bullpen gets called in in the fourth.
Rain Delay Update: OK, Sox are up and Schilling looks good but who knows what the world will look like in 45 minutes when the weather passes. By the way, here is the Boston Herald's extensive angstity nailbiter of a 2007 outlook...only the Red Sox can stir up a review of next season's gaps 2/3s of the way through this one. Sadly, there is not word as to how Arroyo would have done in 2007 if the Willi Mo trade has not gone through.
Happy Birthday While It Rains Update: By the way, this is the man who I want to be with the Sox next year. It will be his 22nd season in his 49th year because, yes, Julio Franco turns 48 this week.
...he was a rookie 7 years before Robinson Cano's Father was a rookie...
Comments
gr - August 21, 2006 8:41 AM
Dangit. Depressing baseball weekend. With football around the corner, I can forget about this typical late summer sox slide.
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portland - August 21, 2006 11:52 AM
my new online name is pakofy. how nifty is that?
on another note, i stayed up and watched the game last night. you know one of the things that watching the expos teaches you is that you dont mind being beat. i love those epic sox/yankee battles no matter who wins if it goes to the wire, if both teams are just killing themselves to win. but to just have a guy come in and serve up a gopher ball in his first ten pitches after an amazing 9 inning effort by both teams is galling. paplebaum was brilliant no matter what the press says this morning. hanson should back to triple A today until he's ready. that's the problem with the sox this year. that's why it's been such a hard year. it isn't the lack of pitching. it's the number of chumps. how many ming vases have chumps dropped on the hard tile floor this year?
Alan - August 21, 2006 12:11 PM
That is wise. We have to remember that teams do not continuously reign and also that bringing in triple-A players is no strategy. I feel badly for Hanson. I think chump is a bit harsh except in the way he is being treated like on, being put in when he is not ready because no one in the proper stage in their career is avaiable. It is important to note, perhaps, that this is the point where Bronson would have pitched if he was not actually a starter by this point in the season.<p>$9.5 million for Clement, by the way.
gr - August 21, 2006 12:28 PM
PAKOFY????
Alan - August 21, 2006 3:51 PM
I can tell the future.
portland - August 22, 2006 12:33 PM
youre right. chump is harsh. he's just a kid. he should not have been in that situation. as for taverez, well, i'm still pissed about minnesota.