The Red Sox managed to take game 3 against the Yankees to avoid a sweep. Baseball is a funny game. Your team loses one night and all you see are problems; a win the next day and everything seems brighter. So here’s 4 positive thoughts*:
The Yankees are on a role. The Red Sox have been [...]
Tagged red sox, yankeesIt doesn’t take long to get over a 1-0 loss. Games decided by 1 run are more a result of luck than anything else. One team gets a break, the other doesn’t. If Lowell’s single off the monster is 2 feet higher and Giambi isn’t hitting into the shift the we’re talking about Beckett’s great [...]
The Yankees come to Boston for a 3 game series starting tonight. The Red Sox are tied for first with the Rays with the Yankees a few games back. Despite the hype, the series won’t make or break either club’s season, but it certainly makes for good drama.
We’re a little over half way done with [...]
Kevin Cullen today called for an end to ‘Yankees Suck’ chants. It’s the kind of drivel written simply to garner attention (mission accomplished) and it’s rightly getting ripped apart across the internet. Evidently Mr. Cullen missed the ‘boston sucks’ chants during the All-Star game. I’ve never chanted ‘Yankees Suck’, but I might do it simply [...]
Going into the 7th inning with a 4-1 lead I had Boston’s 3 game series with Tampa in perspective. Sure, the Sox would only take 1 of 3 games at Tropicana Field. But the Rays were hot, had the favored pitching match-ups, and the Sox had been miserable on the road in 2008.
Then the [...]
Dear Major League Baseball,
This is Gary. You know, your biggest fan?
We buy the jerseys and the caps; the Mike Lowell World Series MVP bobble head. We buy the MLB Extra Innings package even though we know it won’t include Red Sox games if they play in Florida, or against a team from Florida, or [...]