Dice K and Wake
Just a few tardy thoughts on the last few days.
Dice K lived up to my expectations. And I have incredible high hopes for his year with the Red Sox. I know there are a lot of things that can happen - injury, etc. But what I saw Thursday made me glad John Henry loosened up the pursestrings. 7 inning, 108 pitches, 10 strikeouts, one earned run. All the numbers were great. But the best part was watching him on the mound, getting into some trouble and bailing himself out. The cute exchange with Youk when they nearly misplayed a ground out to first. Manny giving him the half-bow, half-karate chop. His poise. And the very cube, cherubic smile. I can't wait for the Fenway opener on Tuesday, to see how he handles that.
I've love reading the gripes from the press corp in Kansas City. Apparently, the usual press room buffet had to be shut down - too expensive to run with all the Japanese media there. The poor press had to settle for box lunches. Bummer. One KC wag sent his condolences to the Boston press - too bad, pals, you're going to be stuck with the second rate meals all season.
Poor Wake. Why does the team hate him? He never gets the run support that the other pitchers get, and he probably needs it more than the power pitchers. At least he has Doug's shoulder to cry on again.
So the Sox are 0-2 on season openers. They lost to KC in their opener, and to Texas last night in their home opener. One hopes they'll fare better in their own home opener!
Tonight - "Batshit" Tavarez starts. You know, when he was pitching against us in the World Series, I hoped he'd go nuts. Now that he's pitching for us, I still hope he'll go nuts. I love to watch him - the way he directs the infielders on where to throw a ball. Awesome article in today's Boston Herald on Julian's various "home" remedies for aches, pains and cold weather.
Dice K lived up to my expectations. And I have incredible high hopes for his year with the Red Sox. I know there are a lot of things that can happen - injury, etc. But what I saw Thursday made me glad John Henry loosened up the pursestrings. 7 inning, 108 pitches, 10 strikeouts, one earned run. All the numbers were great. But the best part was watching him on the mound, getting into some trouble and bailing himself out. The cute exchange with Youk when they nearly misplayed a ground out to first. Manny giving him the half-bow, half-karate chop. His poise. And the very cube, cherubic smile. I can't wait for the Fenway opener on Tuesday, to see how he handles that.
I've love reading the gripes from the press corp in Kansas City. Apparently, the usual press room buffet had to be shut down - too expensive to run with all the Japanese media there. The poor press had to settle for box lunches. Bummer. One KC wag sent his condolences to the Boston press - too bad, pals, you're going to be stuck with the second rate meals all season.
Poor Wake. Why does the team hate him? He never gets the run support that the other pitchers get, and he probably needs it more than the power pitchers. At least he has Doug's shoulder to cry on again.
So the Sox are 0-2 on season openers. They lost to KC in their opener, and to Texas last night in their home opener. One hopes they'll fare better in their own home opener!
Tonight - "Batshit" Tavarez starts. You know, when he was pitching against us in the World Series, I hoped he'd go nuts. Now that he's pitching for us, I still hope he'll go nuts. I love to watch him - the way he directs the infielders on where to throw a ball. Awesome article in today's Boston Herald on Julian's various "home" remedies for aches, pains and cold weather.
Tavarez also has a bottle, covered with white tape on which the words “Yo Yo” and “51” (Tavarez’ number) are written. It includes a substance that’s more jelly-like than the snake oil, but just as vile-smelling. He applies that to keep him warm, and with cold, rainy weather forecast for tonight, he will use it (as well as liberal amounts of baby oil and Ben-Gay applied who knows where else).He may be f***ing crazy, but he's our crazy!
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