i wonder how much of RSN gets *any* work done during day games?

1. i wouldn't pay ten cents for that outing yesterday, never mind a hundred million dollars. Matsuzaka reminds me of how Joshy pitched last year. either very well or very not well. of course if that means he will pitch like this year's Joshy next season? this would all be worth it.

2. still no clue who Andy Sonnanstine is. but i know i don't like him.

3. i don't care if Bedard kicked our collective Boston behind last weekend. today i ♥ Erik Bedard. and Chad Bradford for closing out that game against the Yankees in the tenth after the black & orange bats took back the three runs Jamie Walker gave up to tie the game in the bottom of the ninth. still a five game lead.

4. i loved me some Julian in relief yesterday. that's the guy we expected to see from the bullpen!

5. Tek seems to be the guy designated to make key hits lately. ::salutes the captain::

6. i can get used to Mike Timlin coming into bail us out of two-out runners-on situations if he keeps doing what he's done the last two game with the Ks & all.

7. =O Papi scored from first in the eighth?!

8. three good points:
a) i expected to lose a game this series. i just thought it would be Lester's game, not Matsu's. but we're still 2-1 in the series, and i'm ok with that.
b) we've seen that Mike Timlin is still Mike Timlin. i'm *more* than ok with that.
c) regardless of the fact we lost the game, the Sox rallied back from a 6-0 shutout, and lost only 6-5. what this means to me is that we are finally scoring some runs late in the game. Tuesday night we scored enough to win. Wednesday we fell a little short, but i'm happy we are at least scoring late. that's a vast improvement. and i am *thrilled* with that.

feels like we just had an off day but here we are with another one. four-game weekend series with the Angels kicks off tomorrow with a day-night double header. probable pitchers listed as Joshy pitching the early game, Schill on Saturday, and Wake on Sunday. big fat question mark queued up for Friday night. against ::gulp:: John Lackey. rumors have been swirling that Clay Buchholz will get his Major League debut but absolutely no one will confirm a word or even acknowledge the question. maybe we just anticipate losing that game no matter who we match up to him so we're just going to use a cardboard cutout?