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And there wasn’t a beanball in sight, if you don’t count Grant Balfour’s kiss on J.D. Drew’s right shoulder in the top of the eighth.
As a matter of fact, there wasn’t much of anything wild in sight to open the American League Championship Series Friday night, if you didn’t count the frequency with which Daisuke […]
Squeezed
Stop me if you’ve heard it phrased this way before, by me or by anyone else. But wasn’t it once the way of the world for the Red Sox to lose a) a shot at the pennant; b) the pennant; or, c) the World Series in ways such as this?
Perhaps that’s what winning two World […]
No Sweep Thunder
Let’s phrase it this way: The Los Angeles Angels against the Boston Red Sox were beginning to resemble the Red Sox against the New York Yankees pre-2004, and they went into Sunday’s proceedings needing Josh Beckett a) like a cobra needs a dinner date with a mongoose; and, b) to be anything but Josh Beckett […]
Wait ‘Till Next Century?
At least this time the Chicago Cubs and their fans were shown a dollop of mercy. They didn’t have to be in Wrigley Field to watch the best team in the National League, according to the season’s won-lost record, get shoved out of the postseason before they really got into it.
This time, there was no […]
Bobbles, Bangles, and Beads
There will be those calling it a laugher, considering the 10-3 final, but that will not be the Chicago Cubs laughing very much about it, since it puts them on the threshold of postseason elimination before they had much beyond catch-a-breath time to savour their National League Central conquest.
Only those wearing Los Angeles Dodgers silks […]
Ex-Yank Sox 7, Cubs 2
I suspect a few will make note: A former Yankee manager and two former Red Sox have shepherded the Los Angeles Dodgers to their first series-opening postseason win since Dennis Eckersley learned the hard way that you never throw a slider to a cripple. (His words, not mine.)
And that would be Ryan Dempster learning the […]
CC Ridden
Everyone has their questions and their wonderings when the postseason begins, and I have mine, paramount among them whether the Milwaukee Brewers rode CC Sabathia too hard to the National League wild card and whether the Boston Red Sox this postseason look too much like the Los Angeles Angels last postseason.
The Red Sox have been […]
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