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World Series Game Three

I’m reaching the point of frustration. The Red Sox are striking out left and right again. The Cardinals lead 2-1 entering the bottom of the fifth inning. Peavy is out of the game. He was awful in the first, great in the second and third, and got out of a bases loaded no outs jam in the fourth. Dubront is on to pitch the fifth.

The strike outs are unbearable. This line up could make my grandmother look like Nolan Freakin’ Ryan. K after K after K after K.

Salty and Drew need to go away. Neither of them can even make contact at this point. It’s humiliating.

They finally got to Kelly in the top of the fifth though. Hopefully that is a sign that things are looking up for us here in game three.

Please, go Red Sox.

From the Highest High to the Lowest Low

Back in 2002, all those years ago, Rush recorded a song called “Ghost Rider”. In it Geddy Lee sings the Neil Peart penned line, “From the lowest low to the highest high.” That is exactly the opposite of what Red Sox fans are feeling.

For Red Sox fans it’s from the highest high to the lowest low.

We won game one and the universe was ours to command. All of the secrets of creation were in the palm of our hand. Then we lost game two and civilization has collapsed. We are crushed by a depression so profound that it’s as though heaven was in our grasp and then was yanked (yankee’d) away from us.

When the Cardinals had their flash of playing like a little league team in game one we all thought, they can’t be that bad, they’ll not puke all over themselves (figuratively) again. Now that the Red Sox have had their little league moment too, we have to think the same thing. Peavy pitches tomorrow. He was pretty bad against the Tigers. He needs to be the pitcher he was when he first came to Boston. Those first few starts were beautiful. We need more like that. As for game four… who knows. Will Buchholtz be able to go? Is the team’s training staff supervising his sleep behavior to make sure he doesn’t hurt himself again?

Based on the pitching match ups, games three and four are winnable for the Red Sox. If Peavy and whoever goes in game four can pitch a decent game and keep the Cardinals offense at least down to Earth, the Red Sox should be able to handle the St Louis starters. I am still cautiously optimistic, I’m just not in a state of elation the way I was 24 hours ago. The worst part is that we have to wait until tomorrow night for game three.

The series is tied at one game a piece. The Red Sox have plenty of time to recover from the bad news bears that was the seventh inning last night. Just forget it ever happened and win yourselves the best of five series that remains.

Go Red Sox!

Red Sox Win Game One

The Boston Red Sox won the first game of the World Series to take a 1-0 lead over the St Louis Cardinals. John Lester was excellent for the Sox. The Cardinals defense was awful.

One win down, three wins to go. Game two is tomorrow. I can’t wait!

Go Red Sox!

Game One Update

I was thinking about live blogging the game, but I figured that would be lame even for me. I might do it tomorrow instead.

After six innings, the Red Sox lead the Cardinals 5-0. St Louis has been abysmal defensively. Lester has been pretty good. He’s been in trouble a couple of times and pitched his way out of it. Carlos Beltran injured himself robbing David Ortiz of a grand slam and he’s left the game to go to the hospital. Far be it from me to be excited over an injury but… I’ll take it if the Cardinals are giving it.

Three innings to go.

Keep it up. Go Red Sox

Game One Tonight

I’m two minutes away from quittin’ time and a touch over 2.5 hours away from the first pitch of game one of the World Series.

I am super excited!

Happy World Series Opening Day, Boston!

(okay, I guess to St. Louis too)

Screw Fox, let’s start the game now!!

Can You Believe It?

Can you believe it? Has the reality sunk in?

We live in a world where the Boston Red Sox are going to play in the World Series.

Really.

I’m not kidding.

I suppose I’ll take this opportunity to go over my predictions in the MLB post season thus far. After the wild card games and the Division series, I was at a pathetic two out of six. Now after the two League Championship series I have improved to four out of eight.

I picked the Heroic Red Sox over the wimpy Tigers, and the Red Sox won. I was right, damn it! I was right!
I picked the Cardinals over the Dodgers, and the Cardinals won. I was right again.

Two for Two in the LCS. I like being right when it counts. Of course, I wouldn’t care what happened as long as I was right about the Red Sox. What a glorious time we live in!

Do I need to actually voice my pick for the World Series?

Boston Red Sox vs St. Louis Cardinals. I’m picking the beards, beetchez! It’s time for the Red Sox to reclaim their place at the top of Major League Baseball. The Red Sox are a team of destiny and will win their third World Series 10 years!

PleasePleasePleasePleasePleasePleasePleasePleasePleasePleasePleasePleasePleasePleasePleasePleasePleasePleasePleasePleasePleasePlease

Go Red Sox!

Thanks, Dodgers

I’d like to thank the Los Angeles Dodgers for rolling over and playing dead last night in game six of the NLCS. I know I said that I wanted the Cardinals to win the series, and yes the Dodgers’ suck fest last night gave the series to St Louis. That’s true, but I also wanted the Red Sox to start at 4:00 today and that required a Dodgers win. So thanks for nothing, Dodgers.

Red Sox vs Tigers tonight at 8:00 from Fenway Park. A Red Sox win clinches the series and punches our tickets to the World Series.

Win it tonight, Red Sox.

Championship Series

Do I suck at predicting the outcome of playoff series in baseball? You betcha. Do I care? Nope. Why? Because the one series I picked correctly involved the Red Sox winning. Who gives a toss about the rest of the league when the Red Sox win.

I was 1 of 2 in the wild card games. That is not good. I was 1 of 4 in the Divisional series. That flat out sucks.

I picked the Red Sox over the Rays. Thank the baseball gods I was right.

I picked the A’s over the Tiggers. Nope.
I picked the Pirates over the Cardinals. Nope.
I picked the Braves over the Dodgers. Nope.

That puts me at 2 out of 6. I am wrong 2/3 of the time. Again, who cares so long as the Sox keep winning.

Here are my picks for the League Championship Series.

Boston Red Sox vs Detroit Tigers. Obviously I am picking the Red Sox, but that Tiggers pitching staff scares the holy hell out of me. The only possible chance for Boston is that Detroit had to use their two stud starters in games four and five against Oakland, and maybe there is a chance that we won’t have to face at least one of them twice. Slim chance. Really, no chance. Still, I have faith in the Red Sox. I believe in the beards. The Red Sox will rise to the challenge and take the series, although it’s probably going to be in seven supremely painful games.

St. Louis Cardinals vs Los Angeles Dodgers. I hate the Dodgers. At the same time, I keep finding myself forced to back the Cardinals and while they have come through, they have also let me down. Still… I freakin’ hate the Dodgers. I am going to pick the Cards once again in the hopes of getting a rematch of the 2004, 1967, and 1946 World Series. Sure the Red Sox lost two of those three match ups, but they won the most recent one, and winning this year would even up the history. That would be nice, eh?

Here’s to a Boston/St. Louis World Series… again.

MLB Playoffs

I made my divisional series picks yesterday. Both NL series played game one. Both teams I picked got beaten badly. Pittsburgh got trounced. Ah, can I pick ’em or can I pick ’em? The Cardinals and Pirates are just starting the second inning now. Incredibly, the Cardinals failed to score in the first.

Of course the big deal starts at 3:00. Tampa Bay at Boston in game one. The Rays scare me. Sure, they weren’t all that great down the stretch but they won when they needed to. They also have some awesome starting pitching. Yeah, I’m nervous.

Please, Red Sox, destroy them so that I can stop feeling nervous.

Thanks. Go Red Sox.