there should have been no need for The Memo

there should have been no need for me to pace in (what was at one time anyway) a shutout game. there should have been no need to pull out the starting pitcher when he is capable of going nine innings & was pitching the kind of game where success need not be tinkered with. there should have been no need to call on the "assistance" of the bullpen who all but ruined a fine outing by Lucky Number 49.

great to see Coco back in the lineup. let's hope Manny makes it back in tomorrow to round out the batting order. hoping no news is good news on the David Wells front. and severely missing Timlin for another 12 days.

i leave you with what shall heretofore be known simply as "The Memo", as submitted by friend & fellow diehard fan, Daniel, which arrived in my inbox & sums up my feelings on the disaster otherwise known as "The Ninth Inning: May 28, 2006".

(for those who do not know: RSN = Red Sox Nation. and i will question why it is you do not know this.)

To: Tito
From: Dawn and Daniel
Date: 28 May
Re: The "EZes"

Whereas, RSN FL and RSN West are becoming wearied of watching nearly perfectly pitched games be shortly turned into near-death scenarios, and

Whereas, the culprits are known as one "Seanez" and one "Tavarez," with the latter also known as "The Ugly One," and

Whereas, this dastardly incompetent duo has threatened numerous wins, undoing the work of our heroic pitching rotation, and

Whereas, the aforesaid members of RSN can no longer abide the *pacing* and hypertension caused by the above, and

Whereas, the aforesaid members of RSN recall the days of the Great Tom Gordon, "Halloween" Mike Myers, et al., and ardently long for them to be restored,

Now, therefore, RSN FL and RSN West hereby enjoin and demand, in the Name of the Stahl, and of the Dineen, and of the Young, and by the cryogenically preserved Head of the Williams (peace be upon him), that you forthwith desist from utilizing the EZes, and that you immediately (as has been suggested by Surviving Grady), have the offenders drugged, gagged, and tied to a deep space probe.

Respectfully,
RSN FL and RSN West