September 2009

If life was like the movies, then the last playoff game I ever took in with Dad would have been game three of the 2003 ALDS. We were in the bleachers, freezing our asses off and loving every minute of it, when Trot went yard and shit went nuts. It was back in the days [...]

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Somebody, anybody, give me one good reason this guy is in the line-up? If I were at the game last night I would have charged onto the field and ripped the “C” off his chest after he singlef@*kinghandedly blew the game. Let’s break this down into the simplest of concepts with a little help from [...]

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Teets, you know I love you. And you know I rarely criticize. After all, you’ve won two World Series titles, while I’ve… well, I write a blog. But tonight, with the chance to sweep away and crush the spirits of the Anaheim Angels, why in the heck did you pull Youkbacca out to the on-deck [...]

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Because he knows that for the Angels, there’s nothing that’ll wash away the taste of last night’s loss like beating up big time on Commander Kick Ass. Our fearless leader. The guy who’ll likely start game one of the 2009 ALDS. He knows that if Anaheim can knock him around but good tonight, it’ll give [...]

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I’ve come to the conclusion that the thing I love most about these games against the Angels is watching the managers go through the motions. As all hell breaks lose in the final frames, Teets just paces the dugout, that faraway glint in his eyes, as if his astral self just returned from the future [...]

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They’re one of the best hitting and run scoring teams in the American League. He’s a guy who’s just getting back into this whole “baseball for a living” thing. And to make it interesting (or, as the French might say, “easier for the Angels”), both Youkbacca and V-Mart are out of the line-up again. Meaning [...]

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First things first: Who the f@#k was that guy in the Daisuke Matsuzaka costume last night? Because the last time I’d heard anything from the real Matsuzaka, he was floundering in the minor leagues, on the verge of becoming one of the more curious footnotes to Red Sox history. A big-money signing who arrived on [...]

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Look, we all now how this post-season is going to pan out: The Sox and Yanks are going to collide in the ALCS. But before that, we’ll have yet another mash-up with the Anaheim Angels. Which makes tonight’s game a bona fide playoff preview. Am I nervous? Let’s just say with Daisuke Matsuzaka back on [...]

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I know some people question Heidi Watney’s on-field reporter techniques, and it’s fairly obvious that you won’t find her and Josh Beckett making out in a quiet booth at Sonsie anytime soon. But I don’t think anyone can deny the twin cannons of charisma and pulchritude she wields in that Olympia Sports commercial. I’m sure [...]

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