Month: October 2018

Scorebook

Flashback, October 30, 2013.  The Boston Red Sox had a three games to two lead over the St Louis Cardinals in the World Series.  In a moment of cautious optimism and in the hopes that the Sox would win the series that night I printed out a couple of baseball scorebook pages and kept the book for game six.  The gamble paid off because they won that night and I didn’t waste my time booking a loss.

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Fast forward back to tonight. The Red Sox have a three games to one lead over the Dodgers. For the first time since 10/30/18 they will play an elimination game in the World Series. A win tonight gives us the World Series Championship. So to celebrate….

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3.5 hours to go until the first pitch. Red Sox in five has a really good ring to it. Fingers crossed. Cautious optimism.

18 Innings of Torture

I tried to stay awake for the whole thing, but it just wouldn’t end!

The Red Sox lost game three of the World Series this morning.  It started last night and it ended this morning.  I was watching the Fox Sports steam on my computer when the game started.  My beloved wife wasn’t feeling well so after a little while she went to bed and I moved over to the TV.  I watched the first two games on the computer so it was nice to watch on the big screen.  When the kids came home from their game night I went back to the computer.  We were down 1-0.  Almost as soon as I got the stream running Bradley tied the game with a bomb into the right field bleachers.  So while sitting at the computer, they won two games.  While watching the TV they never scored a run.  Guess where I’m watching game four.

When extra innings came along I valiantly tried to keep watching, but by around midnight I was running dangerously low on gas.  I took my phone and my Air Pods and listened to the WEEI radio broadcast through the MLB app and laid down to pretend to sleep.  From that point on it was sleep a few minutes, listen a few minutes, wash-rinse-repeat.

I did not hear the Red Sox score their second run.  I did hear Kinsler Buckner in a run to tie it at two and keep L.A. alive.  (note: he did not let the ball through his legs, he actually made a great stop, but he did throw the ball away when he should have just held it.  He also nearly got picked off first earlier in the game (he did get picked off first but the umps missed the call) only to then overrun third base and nearly get tagged out, and then get thrown out at home.  Bad night for Mr Kinsler).  At some point I got a low battery warning from my Air Pod.  That came about 10 seconds before the game ended.

So game four is tonight.  Will Red Sox Nation be able to stay awake for it?  More important, who the hell is going to pitch?  Pomeranz?  He and Sale are the only two pitchers who didn’t get in the game last night.  Can Price pitch again?  Eovaldi?  Dude, Eovaldi got the loss last night but he is the hero of all heroes.  He’s pitched in every game in the series and last night he pitched about 300 innings.  He’s a horse!

In summation, we aren’t sweeping the Dodgers this year.  We didn’t sweep them 102 years ago either, but that’s okay.  We’ll beat ’em in five!  Or six or seven if we have to.  I am still extremely cautiously optimistic.

Go Red Sox.  But before you play again, take a damn nap!

Crash

Twice today I have heard birds fly into the bathroom window.  Twice.  Was it two birds with low bird IQs?  Was it one bird with a really super low bird IQ?  Was it due to the high winds today?  Say the birds were trying to lift up over the house but the wind knocked them down like a fly ball to right field in Fenway Park?

Do the birds that don’t fly into the house make fun of the birds that do?  Science needs to work hard to find answers to these questions.

The World Series Match Up is Set

In 1916 the Red Sox made their fourth World Series appearance.  They beat the Brooklyn Robins four games to one to capture their second championship in a row, third in five years, and fourth overall.

At some point during the 1930’s the Robins changed their name to the Dodgers.  In 1958 they moved from Brooklyn to Los Angeles.  In 2018 they won the NL pennant, and on Tuesday they will face the Boston Red Sox in the World Series (game one) again.

For 102 years, the world has been waiting for this particular rematch (no it hasn’t).  Last time around we had Babe Ruth and they had Casey Stengel.  Now they have Machado and Puig and Kershaw and we have Mookie and Xander and Sale.

Game one is on Tuesday.  Clear your calendar.

We all know that the Yankees have the most World Series championships in MLB history (27, the assholes).  The Cardinals are in second with 11.  Who is in third place?  Why, your Boston Red Sox are in third place with eight.  Hopefully a week or two from now it will be nine.  We’re coming for you, St Louis.

Go Red Sox!

Wallet Blues

Jen got me this super cool wallet for Christmas.  You put your credit cards into this one slot and they stick there.  You can’t pull them out, and they will never fall out.  There is a button on the bottom though that when you push it, the cards pop out the top.  It is so freakin’ cool.

Tonight while we were out looking for someplace to have dinner, the button broke off.

I’m super sad.  My wife is so good at getting Christmas presents that I never would have thought of, that I end up really loving… and this one is dead.  Sad.