tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730822.post114425595954518059..comments2024-03-29T04:32:39.897-07:00Comments on the joy of sox: G3: Red Sox 2, Rangers 1allanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04673233312198832937noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730822.post-1144343885052949462006-04-06T10:18:00.000-07:002006-04-06T10:18:00.000-07:00I was in my local bar yesterday after work to watc...I was in my local bar yesterday after work to watch most of this game. It was packed with about 25 alocholics in Yankee caps getting ready to get on a chartered bus loaded with beer to go across the Bay Bridge to Oakland for their game. Most of them are good-natured about the minority Sox following in the bar, and I ran into the fellow I met during the NFL playoffs who bet me Schilling wouldn't get 12 wins this year. I showed him the blue post-it with the ten dollar bet and both our signatures on it and he laughed and said he must have been very drunk.<BR/><BR/>After they left the few of us left barked with savage glee at Nixon's homer. And even though it came to naught, watching Coco tear around the bases into third was a hoot.<BR/><BR/>Later I howled with pleasure at Frank Thomas's three-run double that put the Yankees away. Let them pay three of their fellas $20m+. Let them blow teams out 15-2 -- it will probably happent to us -- but let them choke on the close ones. The Yanks will win their share of games this year, if they're lucky, but it will all be wihtout an ounce of grace. We have a balanced team, and we have a future.<BR/><BR/>Go Sox.Zenslingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06040836002694584468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730822.post-1144328462762273272006-04-06T06:01:00.000-07:002006-04-06T06:01:00.000-07:00Seeing Beckett settle down was very nice. Was it ...Seeing Beckett settle down was very nice. Was it just me, or did he start listening to Tek more right around the same time he started pitching better? Remy made a comment early on (2nd inning I think) that Beckett was shaking Tek off on almost every pitch. I wasn't paying quite as close attention to it later in the game but it seemed like there was a little more agreement on pitch selection after the 4th.Jackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00097483445247878842noreply@blogger.com