Is It Wednesday Yet? As I write, there are still 83 hours until Hudson's first pitch to Damon. 83 long hours. ... Jeff Suppan will be in the bullpen for the ALDS. ... Trot Nixon would like to DH Sunday; he believes he'll be ready for Game 1 Wednesday night. Nixon said: "We think it would be awesome if they all wear something red for the games. People talk about painting the town red. It would be great to see a sea of red in the stands."

Art Martone: "Score one for the stat geeks." ... McAdam notes the team's "bounce-back ability": "While the Sox suffered 15 defeats in their opponents' last at-bat, they were 13-2 in the games following those tough losses." ... Hohler on Theo ... The Cubs have 7 fewer wins than Boston. Anyone saying they celebrated too much? ... Garry Brown predicts: Red Sox in 4.

MVP? Art Davidson (Metrowest Daily News) says Ortiz deserves it; A-Rod thinks so, too. ... Larry Stone (Seattle Times) picks Posada (Nomar #2). ... Joel Sherman (New York Post) says Posada is a better candidate than Manny. No word yet on when Sherman will bring his stand-up act to a comedy club near you. ... Jack O'Connell (Hartford Courant) gives Vernon Wells the nod over Delgado. ... John Perrotto (Beaver County Times) is voting for Manny. Mark Saxon (Oakland Tribune) also has a vote and he's picking Giambi over Manny because Ramirez "simply disappears when it suits him." Giambi's selling points? #3 in OBP (.412) (Saxon "forgets" to mention Manny's #1 at .427; oops!) and "he's the only man on a playoff team in the top seven in both home runs and RBIs." Actually, Giambi is #8 in RBI. Double oops!!

AL Batting Race

Bill Mueller  .32695

Derek Jeter   .32567

Manny Ramirez .32513

From the Blue Jays PR staff on Delgado's career HRs:
#1 - April 4, 1994, a 1-HR game.
#100 - September 17, 1998, a 2-HR game;
#200 - April 20, 2001, a 3-HR game; and
#300 - September 25, 2003, a 4-HR game.

Playoff starters on 3 days rest (1998-2002):

                                     IP   H  R ER BB SO  Dec

Kevin Brown        Game 3 NLDS '98  6.2   3  1  1  5  5   ND  

Sterling Hitchcock Game 6 NLCS '98  5.0   2  0  0  3  8    W  

Kevin Brown        Game 4   WS '98  8.0   8  3  3  3  8    L

Shane Reynolds     Game 4 NLDS '99  5.0   9  4  4  1  4    L  

Bartolo Colon      Game 4 ALDS '99  1.0   6  7  7  1  1    L  

Charles Nagy       Game 5 ALDS '99  3.0   6  8  7  2  2   ND  

Bret Saberhagen    Game 5 ALDS '99  1.0   4  5  5  1  0   ND  

Al Leiter          Game 6 NLCS '99  0.0   2  5  5  1  0   ND  



Roger Clemens      Game 4 ALDS '00  5.0   6  6  6  4  5    L  

Andy Pettitte      Game 5 ALDS '00  3.2  10  5  5  2  4   ND  

Darryl Kile        Game 4 NLCS '00  3.0   8  7  7  3  2    L  



Chuck Finley       Game 5 ALDS '01  4.1   4  2  2  4  7    L  

Jamie Moyer        Game 5 ALDS '01  6.0   3  1  1  1  6    W  

Aaron Sele         Game 1 ALCS '01  6.0   7  3  3  3  3    L  

Freddy Garcia      Game 2 ALCS '01  7.1   7  3  3  4  6    L  

Greg Maddux        Game 4 NLCS '01  3.0   8  6  4  0  2    L  

Tom Glavine        Game 5 NLCS '01  5.0   5  3  1  3  3    L  

Curt Schilling     Game 4   WS '01  7.0   3  1  1  1  9   ND  

Curt Schilling     Game 7   WS '01  7.1   6  2  2  0  9   ND  



Jarrod Washburn    Game 4 ALDS '02  5.0   6  2  1  1  2    W  

Tim Hudson         Game 4 ALDS '02  3.1   5  7  2  2  4    L  

Mark Mulder        Game 5 ALDS '02  7.0   9  2  2  1  9    L  

Tom Glavine        Game 4 NLDS '02  2.2   7  7  7  5  1    L  



                G     IP    H   R  ER  BB   SO  W   L   ERA 

Totals         27  105.1  134  90  79  51  100  3  13  6.75