Tag: Red Sox

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!

Very Short OS X Mavericks Review

I updated both of my Apple computers to OS X Mavericks. I haven’t really done much on the iMac since upgrading. I’ve been using the MacBook Pro while watching the two World Series games. I have two things to note about Mavericks:

1. The Good. I used to get about two hours, maybe a little less, worth of battery time. Since upgrading, I’ve gone from 99% down to 93% in about 30 minutes. That seems like a really good start as far as the battery life improvements go. Granted, I haven’t done anything more involved than posting to Twitter, reading Facebook, and posting this update to WordPress. Nothing major, but still a good start.

2. The Bad. I don’t know if this is related or not, but the time to boot up is insane. It’s like Windows bad. Really bad. I didn’t time it, but it took a seriously long time. I was very disappointed.

That’s all I have for a Mavericks review. I hope it helps you, loyal readers.

And in case you were wondering, David Ortiz just hit a two run home run to give the Red Sox the lead in the sixth inning of game two.

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!!

Crazy Day

So much going on, it’s crazy. The World Series starts tomorrow, and if you hadn’t heard the Boston Red Sox are involved. I ran my group meeting for the first time today and magically nothing caught fire or exploded and no one died. Can you believe it? Mac OS Maverick is downloading on this iMac as I type this. Maverick… does that mean the next OS release has to be Goose? Did I mention that the Sox are in the World Series? I really didn’t dream that, it’s the truth. I think the cat may have barfed again. I just heard her trying to bury something under the tile floor. She hasn’t figured out yet that no matter how much she digs, nothing ever gets covered up. There is going to be an update to GarageBand. Just in time for NaSoAlMo. Cool, huh?

What else…

Oh yeah, the RED SOX ARE IN THE WORLD SERIES!

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!

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Go Red Sox!