Is anyone else completely over the moon about the Red Sox right now? They took two of three from Detroit and followed it with three straight against the Yankees. They can complete the Bronx sweep tomorrow afternoon. It’s been so much fun over the last week that I can’t wait for the next game. We are seven days into September and thus far we are collapse free. Keep it up!
Go Red Sox!
Is there anything better than Red Sox vs Yankees baseball?
Sox down 8-4 in the seventh inning. Full count, two outs, bases loaded. Napoli lifts one into right field that just barely squeaks its way into the seats.
Grand Slam.
Tie game.
Go Red Sox!
Well it’s September 1st and the Red Sox are still in first place. I took a look at the wild card standings in the AL today, just to see how far we had to fall this month to be out of it completely. As of this morning, Oakland gets the first slot, and Tampa Bay gets the second. The Yankees are next in line, followed by Cleveland and Kansas City.
Could we have a post season featuring three teams from the AL East? I certainly hope not!
My hopes for the playoff picture are this: the Sox win the East, and Oakland gets the first wild card. As for the second? I’m going back to an old, old baseball allegiance from the early 1980’s. for the first time in about 30 years, I’m rooting for the Royals! I want the Yankees and the Rays to both get eliminated, and I’m not a Cleveland fan at all (too many post season match ups with Boston in the recent past). During the George Brett days I was a big Royals fan. Those days have returned! Lets go Royals and A’s. Lets squeeze New York and Tampa Bay out of the post season picture!
Most important of all though, is…
Go Red Sox!
The boom was lowered yesterday. 12 Major League Baseball players were given 50 game suspensions for using performance enhancing drugs. Alex Rodriguez was given a 211 game suspension for using PEDs and for hindering the league’s investigation of the clinic, Biogenesis, responsible for these 13 players (14 when you include Ryan Braun) cheating. There is also talk that he recruited other players to Biogenesis and if so that might be a factor. Only A-Rod is appealing. He is the highest paid player in the sport’s history and he will lose about three times my annual salary per game when the suspension starts. He is allowed to play while the case is under appeal.
211 games amounts to the rest of this season and all of next season. A-Rod is 38 years old. Two years out of the game at this point probably means his career ends when the suspension starts. Good. I want him gone. It’s bad enough that cheating is still rampant in Major League Baseball, but the idea of it’s highest paid player pushing dope to other players is beyond evil. He joins Barry Bonds as the poster children for scum in baseball. Even a gambler on a lifetime ban like Peter Rose can feel comfortable looking down his nose at a jerk like A-Rod.
I feel anger toward every player who gets caught cheating. I don’t look at the two recent Red Sox World Series wins in quite the rosey way I used to now that I know that Manny Ramirez and (probably) David Ortiz were using. It has taken a great deal of fun out of the game of Baseball for me. Still, when players are straight with us I am willing to put it behind me. Ryan Braun will probably be the exception after the way he handled his failed test. Now he’s all apologetic, but for you it’s too little too late. The other 12 players who took their punishment yesterday will come back and all will be right again, assuming they stay off of the crap.
Rodriguez though, like Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens before him, is dead to me. He’s taking money over integrity. Cash over self respect. The hell with him. I hope his appeal is denied and he never plays another game. Even though he was a Yankee and a member of the Evil Empire, I once thought of him as the guy who would erase Barry Bonds from the all time home run record book. Sure he comes off like a putz in the personality department, but he’s the best player in the game. If anyone can topple that juiced up cheater Bonds it’s A-Rod. Not anymore. Bonds… Rodriguez… One in the same. I hope they both go away and never come back.
Yesterday was the first time in ages that I caught a large chunk of a Red Sox game. I didn’t want to miss Peavy’s debut, and he was pretty awesome. Just imagine if he can keep it up at that level for a couple of months, and then if we can get Bucholtz back too!
We caught most of the game in the car as we were driving around, looking for something to do. Eventually we decided to just go home. When we pulled into the driveway the D-Bags D-Backs had the bases loaded with no outs in the 8th, with the Red Sox holding a 3-1 lead. It was tense. I heard the second Arizona run and the play at the plate, but that was it. In the time it took me to get into the house, get settled, and put the radio back on, the Sox had gotten out of the inning with the 3-2 lead in tact.
I feel like such a bad fan. I want to get into this team as they are surprising the hell out of every one. I’ve just been so pissed off after the damn Stanley Cup Final that I don’t want to get wrapped up in a team and get hurt again. Maybe now that we are post trade deadline I might be able to start caring again.
Go Red Sox!
Way to go Ryan Braun. Let’s recap. MVP season, followed by humongous contract with the Brewers, followed by a flunked drug test with it’s mandatory 50 game suspension, followed by an appeal, followed by a rescinding of the suspension due to the test being mishandled, followed by a connection to Biogenesis, followed by a 65 game suspension for violating the leagues drug policies.
Ryan, you tool. You got off! You got to keep your 8 million and whatever dollars! You got to keep your NL MVP award! Why didn’t you just keep your mouth shut and play nicely? Remember last season when the first suspension was announced? This guy denied and denied and pissed and moaned and I swear, not a single baseball fan with a brain believed a single word he said, but he kept on bitching and denying and blah blah blah I didn’t do it yadda yadda yadda. Urgh. If he had just fessed up to it. Yup, I’m a doper. Punish me. It would have all gone away. You would have had a long vacation and then everyone would have taken you back and you and your Brewers could go back to the national obscurity you are all used to.
But no.
Ryan made a huge stink and then after he magically got off (the only player to do so, thusfar) he kept at it and now there is enough documented proof to warrant a new suspension. What does he say to us now? I’ve made mistakes. No shit, Sherlock. Urgh, it just makes me so mad. You signed an eight million and something dollar deal and somehow beat an unbeatable suspension and STILL you’re messing with this crap. Take your money. Be a good player in Milwaukee instead of a great player. Work hard but don’t cheat, and all would be if not forgotten then pushed aside. I don’t get it.
So who’s next? A-Rod? Colon? Does it matter? Will the next suspendee do the right thing and just fess up and take the punishment?
There are two ways to deal with steroid allegations. There’s the Andy Pettitte way, and the Roger Clemens way. The two of them were named in the Mitchell report. They were said to have used PEDs together. Pettitte says, Yup ya got me. I’ll be good from now on. Clemens screams and yells and brings in the lawyers and whatnot.
Pettitte is still pitching. Clemens still looks like a douche.
Urgh, baseball. What is wrong with you guys. Do the right thing. Clean your dumb ass selves up. Stop being stupid. Stop dragging my game through the mud. Just stop being idiots.
Sorry, folks. I’m an idiot. A total and complete idiot.
The Red Sox vs Yankees series didn’t start yesterday, it starts tonight.
See how out of touch with baseball I’ve become?
You know something? I pretty much forgot about the Red Sox. That other Boston team’s run to blowing the Stanley Cup first occupied all of my sports watching time and energy, and then after the choke I was too depressed to enjoy any athletic event other than watching tiny birds.
The all-star break is over. Yay. Goodbye to the dumbest scrimmage game of the year. But as the second half of the season kicks off tonight, the Red Sox find themselves in first place in the American League East with the highest winning percentage in all of the American League, and the most wins in the majors. So this is what happens when schmucko the clown gets the sack? Works for me.
As of this moment, I officially dedicate myself to paying a lot more attention to my home town team. It starts with a series against the fourth place (4th place) New York Yankees at Fenway tonight. Nothing would be sweeter than kicking off the second half of the season with a hearty sweep of the Yankees. That would please my baseball fan self to no end.
Go Red Sox!
That wouldn’t have happened in my day. Back in the 80s we little league umpires took our jobs seriously. Calling a game was a sacred trust.
We never would have given a kid four strikes the way this ump gave four strikes to my step son.
And we used to walk five miles each way, up hill, in five feet of snow.
We could use a clicker and we liked it!
We have two games at the same time today. We have a house that needs to be cleaned from top to bottom. We have a lawn mower that still won’t start damn it! We have two more baseball/softball things tomorrow at roughly the same time. We have a 12 year old’s birthday party tomorrow afternoon.
There is so much to do!!!!
Inside the Red Head's Head 