Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: beckett, derek lowe, dice-k, Lester, Theo
This just in: Derek Lowe put Boston on the top of his list.
I have two reactions. First is joy. Elation if you will. Pure ecstasy. The second is oh god, here we go again. If I remember correctly the reason we let the big fish get away in the first place was due to the extreme amounts of partying, carrying on and other chaos he created, albeit outside of the clubhouse. Then he goes to LA and self destructs in his personal life and has his best pitching season in 6 years. I say, Derek Lowe, the price is right, COME ON DOWN!!! I’m all for it Theo, incase you were asking for my input. He isn’t bad to look at, he still has that fire in his eyes and I think a 1-2-3 punch of Beckett, Lester, Lowe and the added bonus of the NEW Dice-K would be PHENOMENAL! Varitek is probably having a wet dream over all of this right now.
I just don’t know how my serious baseball side feels about this. I think she feels like this: As I said, this was Lowe’s best season in 6 years. He had a 3.24 ERA and a 1.13 WHIP over 211 innings this season. He was fired up after Torre took him out of his Game 5 outing after 5 innings. I see the old fire coming back to D.Lo’s eyes. So what if he is 35? These guys are pushing themselves way past what used to be considered retirement age. Let’s sign him up for 4 or 6 years. After all, we’ve got Wake, and in my eyes he is pretty well past his prime, what harm could Lowe do?
Once again Theo, my vote is to bring him back.
Filed under: things | Tags: Angels, Josh Beckett, Lester, pedroia, Rays, Timlin
so, my crush on josh beckett is disappating as we speak. during his pitiful start with the angels, i brushed it off as rust…last nights ridiculous outing against the rays there is no excuse. The offense was helping him out and he still couldn’t keep his ass out of trouble. i believe the phrase “beckett, get off your knees, you’re blowing the game” came out of my mouth more than once last night. i was freaking out…but thank goodness for PEDIE!! he came through last night in a big way and I think we can look for him to be his normal self for the rest of the series now. “98 comin’ in…102 goin’ out” haha. The pitching off Beckett and Kazmir was disappointing at the least, horrendous at most. Both bullpens did what they had to do…Ole Timlin just couldn’t get it done. I’m not ready to say (like one of my fellow bloggers so eloquently did) that Timlin is ready for the glue factory just yet…but I do think he needs to hang it up for a while. Let’s hope Lester is on top of it tomorrow night and gets us in a 2-1 lead and then we can blow it wide open on tuesday for the 3-1 lead…I still love Beckett, but it’s going to take a freakin’ miracle for Sox Nation to fall back in love with the guy….
