Baseball

According to my daily e-mail from Jerry Remy, we are only 14 days away from pitchers and catchers. This puts me to mind of renewing my Red Sox Nation membership Citizenship and baseball blogs. Some of my favorites include Centerfield, Soxaholix, Sox Nation and a few others. No surprise, they are all Red Sox related.

I just added a link to a blog called touch em all. It's a blog out of LA - Dodger LA, not that fake Los Angeles that's really Anaheim. So why read it, why link to it? It's Alyssa Milano's blog. Yes, THAT Alyssa Milano. Actress, clothing designer and blogger. She would be perfect.... except for her politics.

I think this would look good on my wife:



Let's see what having a picture of Alyssa Milano does for the blog's stats.

Justice is served

Justice delayed isn't always justice denied. It's shameful he had to wait until his last year of eligibility, but he's now Jim Rice, HOF.

16 years. One team. Left field.

I was always thrilled when he came to bat. Anything could happen. A towering homer over the nets... or the lamest double play ball. Hell, he was the first player I ever saw break a bat on a check swing.

Get this picture at Escape to the 70s

Red Sox' New Hat

I've let this percolate for over a month. But I just can't get behind the new "alternate" hat for the Red Sox. The hat should have the "B" (not a B, THE B) on it. But the new "alternate" hat is gayer than bike shorts.

I'm OK with the semi-retro road jerseys. But that hat... It would be fine on my 11 year old son, but not on a major league player.

Note: I have a picture of the hat in question, but Blogger just won't let me upload it. Bastards.

Schilling on signing with the Sox

I dare not cherry pick quotes from number 38. Read both parts of his article/posting.

I can't figure out if this is a 'retirement goodbye' or a "I'll come back in August - for another team" goodbye.

I hope that if he does want to come back for a 1/2 or a third of a season, that Boston finds a way to do it.

World Series

So the Tampa Ray Bays (Mike Ditka should copyright that) and the Phillies are tied... and I was still 'conflicted' about who to root for. But a dedicated Red Sox blogger has changed all that for me. Put me in the Phillies camp. Texas Gal is pulling for the Phillies and blows away one of the few reasons I had for tepidly rooting for the Rays.

I could give two shits about whether the AL wins the series - I have no loyalty to any team other than the Sox, much less will I ever feel compelled to root for a team simply because they were arbitrarily placed in the same league and division as my team. Tampa can suck it.

Texas Gal's blog has quickly become one of my favorite Red Sox blogs... It's wicked good. Go visit!

It's Over

The Rays win it. I haven't decided if I should "rally to the AL cause", or be bitter and embrace the Phillies. I guess I'll have to console my self with the Patriots... oh, wait....

Even at 3

Sox take game 6, 4-2. I should have known... Texas Gal at Center Field reported that during batting practice, Big Papi:

...was taking batting practice, he crushed a ball to deep right-center field, some 430 feet from home plate and deposited a ball into the fish tank with live Rays in it.

He put his arms in the air and screamed "I just killed a Ray."

Not Dead Yet

For obvious reasons today:

Incredible, but Rays still lead 3-2

The Tampa Bay Devil Rays hadn't blown a lead bigger than 3 runs all season.

Until last night/this morning. 7 run lead. League Chamopnship on the line... At Fenway... as summarized by our friends at soxnation.net:

Down 3 games to 1

While we have been here before... this is not 2004. This is more like how I expected the Angels series to go.

We prepare for the worst while we hope for the best.

Series tied at 1

After last night's marathon of pitching mediocrity, and subsequent Sox loss, I roamed the innertubes looking for consolation. I washed up on the shores of Theo Spark's Flickr page. Where I saw this beauty from almost 2 years ago... I still find it uplifting...

Red Sox v Rays

Daisuke Matsuzaka started the game with 3 walks in the first, but took a no hitter into the 7th, as the Red Sox took game 1 2-0 over the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.

Which makes these T-shirts even more ironic... put on sale before the ALCS by the Rays Shop at mlb.com... I guess putting "AL East Champions 2008" on the shirt wasn't enough for them:

Angels and devils

Once again, from soxnation.net.

And a flashback from last year:

ALCS

Stolen from the fine folks at soxnation.net.

Lester goes 7 strong innings... but mistakes by Okie and Masterson opened the door. But some guy named J-Bay...

And since I was remiss in posting after their loss the other night, I direct you to soxaholic for your daily comic strip needs.

Up 2-0

The Red Sox have beaten the Angels in game 2... thanks to a 9th inning home run from JD Drew:



Big Papi doesn't seem to mind someone else doing the late inning heroics.

Game 3 Sunday Night at Fenway. I feel for the Angels fans. I really do. I've seen "that look" before. So often, it was a look worn by the Fenway Faithful many times. It even pained me to see it on St. Louis fans in 2004.

Sorry Angels fans, the rally monkey was a no show against the Sox. Again.

Red Sox Win Game 1... and Pats News

So the Red Sox have beaten the California Los Angeles Anaheim Los Angeles at Anaheim Angels... for the 10th playoff game in a row. I was very worried going into this game...

I check for early summaries to catch up on the early innings I missed, and what do I see at Yahoo sports? Al Freakin' Davis... not content to run his football gulag into the ground, he has to reach up from his scooter to drag my Pats down? Mr. Davis, at long last, have you no decency sir?

Patriots coach Bill Belichick denied Wednesday the claim by Raiders owner Al Davis that New England had a workout with Randy Moss before obtaining him in a trade with Oakland.

Davis said Tuesday that the Patriots had tampered with Moss before the deal in April 2007 that brought the wide receiver to the Patriots for a fourth-round choice that year on the weekend of the NFL draft.

“I’ve told the story about Randy many, many times,” Belichick said in a conference call with members of the media covering the 49ers, “and the first time I ever talked to Randy was the Sunday morning of the second day of the draft last year.

“So that’s the first time I met him. That’s the first time I talked to him. There was no workout. There was no other contact with him.”

Davis made the tampering accusation after ending a news conference in which he announced the firing of coach Lane Kiffin.

I think it's time that the Commissioner of the NFL sits down with Al and explains a few things - namely when you fire someone with a contract you have to pay him (I think Davis still owes money to Shanahan for Pete's sake)... and secondly, your crazy Hitler in the Bunker management style is killing the team and harming the league.

I hope Kiffin gets a job at a good Division 1 school. A switch to NCAA would probably be a good fit for him.

And Al? Hands of my Patriots, you fetid freak.

A greeting card for Yankees Fans

I simply couldn't resist stealing this from Center Field... It's against my nature to rub someone's nose in it, however I can't resist a cheap shot to Yankees fans... (Knowing they'd take their turns in spades given half a chance).

That's just Manny being.... A Dodger?

Manny Ramirez, Yankee Slayer, had been dealt away....

From Boston Dirtdogs: