for love of the game

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.