Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: beckett, Kotsay, lowell, Ortiz, pedie, varitek
i cried. there, i said it. i was driving home from the Fitch’s and i shed a few tears. i am not ashamed that i cried, i am just sad that it came down to that. pedie made me so happy with that homerun. for a guy who has struggled in the post season this year, he started it off the best way he knows how and i just wish we would have been able to keep that going. kotsay was a little frustrated with himself last night (which I can’t say as I blame him) breaking a bat over his knee…what a man. I think even Varitek was a little upset with himself last night and his continuing struggles at bat. i really thought that homerun on Saturday would lift him up where he needed to be to get it done, but evidently i was wrong. dead wrong. the rally in the 8th looked promising, if only maddon would have brought in BALL FOUR Balfour. Price came out of NO WHERE! Good for him. And I would like to give kuddos to Dustin Pedroia for the appropriate way he acted after the game, giving the Rays their props. I don’t think I could have been that classy. I am going to miss baseball. I have this issue every fall. I don’t know what to do with my free time. Maybe I will start kickboxing again…take my aggression out that way. maybe I will take up hunting? i mean, that’s what all the players do in their off time. I remember after the marlins won the world series someone interviewed beckett and asked him what happens now and he said something like “well i mean, its cool and all, but i am happy i get to go hunting tomorrow.” last off season jon lester’s girlfriend shot her first deer. ahhh bonding over bullets and dead animals. nothing solidifies a relationship like that. it would only be better if he proposed by sticking the diamond ring in a pile of deer guts and making the poor girl find it. ha!
so my annual poll, what will happen this off season to keep things interesting? i don’t have manny to pick on anymore, although i will be interested to see what happens with him this off season. what will happen to Tek? Do we sign him again? Or do we say goodbye to our fearless leader? We have already signed Oki to a deal…so we don’t have to fret about him. What’s going to happen with Lowell? I sure hope he makes a quick recovery (though my little sister had the same surgery a year or so ago and she still isn’t 100%)…And is Beckett going to be okay? Ortiz and his wrist…Ahh the list goes on and on…
Let me know what you think…
for love of the game.
Filed under: things | Tags: dice-k, Fenway Park, Ortiz, pedroia, the Fitch's
So it’s do or die. Make or break. It’s the big deal tonight. And this much I know is true, Dice-K will be our man. I was listening to my local sports radio show this morning on my drive to work and there was all this talk about David Ortiz bunting. Yes, BUNTING! I just don’t get the school of thought on that. I can see it maybe once, maybe if we are losing by a lot…but even then I have a hard time with it. I just don’t see the use. Ok, say he beats out the throw and he is standing on first…then what? It’s not like he is going to steal second. So why bother? I just feel like you might as well sit his ass on the bench and let John Henry hit for him. I say Ortiz finally comes through tonight, Pedie keeps on keeping on and Ellsbury steps up. I have this feeling that Youuuuuk’s going to hit a “homah”.
I am getting pretty frustrated with the haters around here. It seems like we are turning into the Yankee fans. For the past 4 years the red sox could do no wrong for so many of us. Suddenly it’s like the curse is back and we are going to turn our backs on the sox. I just don’t get it. We always loved the sox, heartbreak and all. So what if they are down 3-1 in the ALCS…stranger things have happened. I am not always this optimistic, but I just feel like, it gives us something to believe in, it gives us hope when in many other aspects of American life right now we are just getting shot down and rejected. To the fans sitting in Fenway Park at game time tonight: Get off your ass and on your feet. Jump up and down, do the wave, cheer, drink beer and be merry. Now is not the time to sit quietly and chat on your phone at the Park. The Sox feed off of the emotion of the fans…give them something positive to feed off from. I don’t care how much you paid for your seat (or your standing room)…Get your monies worth and cheer your head off. I will be cheering from the couch at the Fitch’s house…I expect you might even hear me all the way down in Boston if the wind is right.
for love of the game.
Filed under: things | Tags: Bay, beckett, Go Sox, Kotsay, Lowrie, Ortiz, pedroia, SUDO
i have a couple of friends that are in the military and one of them has passed along a saying they use quiet frequently in his company, “SUDO”. Suck it Up and Drive On. I feel like the Sox need to have that mentality right now. Yeah, two hard loses in a row…last night was a miserable outing, but they gotta keep going, got to keep driving. Ten games left, we aren’t out of it yet…SUDO ya’ll. We have had these brilliant flashes of greatness in the past week or so…Beckett was AMAZING the other night, David Ortiz was on fire last night…Dustin has been great lately, Kotsay and Bay and Lowrie are fantastic…Let’s make the end of the season one to remember…GO SOX!
for love of the game.
