the one that ended up not really being about baseball

for you non-baseball fans, see the last line. ;-)



if there's any way you want to start off a post season series, it's with a performance like we were given last night.

Commander Kick Ass with his complete game shut out.
Youk with a solo homer to (hopefully) show his wrist is feeling better.
a two-run blast from Papi.
Lowell driving in Manny for the fourth run.
that catch by Jacoby Ellsbury when he subbed in for Manny.

getting a chance to see our ace be an ace, our defense looking as sharp as it has all season, our 2-3-4-5 hitters being the force to be reckoned with like the hype proclaims.
so good! so good! so good!

we start it off with a win. and a decisive one, at that.
which i feel better about with The Hundred Million Dollar Pitcher showing us his October game on Friday.
but that first one is down & that's a start. ten more to go.

by the way, the best quote from last night's TBS announcers (so weird to hear DonO calling the Rockies game; these two guys that the Sox got aren't too bad, if not a little dorky from time to time, but they became the instant cool kids with comment while Beckett was on the hill):
"You can take the first pitch if you want, but it's just going to be strike one."

tonight we root for CC as he takes on the EE.
and maybe a little post season fire-and-brimstone vintage Trot. because i have to believe that he will live & die a Yankee-hater, no matter uniform he pulls on before the game.

i would have better commentary about the game but i got a phone call just as the game started from someone with some extremely exciting news to share if you give her a few days. ;-)