you know it's bad when i wake up still angry.

yes, i am aware that the Sox weren't going to win the game anyway, since you have to score actual runs for that to even be a consideration. something the Sox offense apparently forgot how to do in Game One of the ALDS. (something we will remedy for Game Two, *right* boys?? ::pointed look::) but separate & apart from the glaring lack of offensive production, i have an additional beef with that game.

since when does an umpire TWICE voted the worst in MLB get the post-season nod?! i thought the best of the best were selected?! and instead we get C.B. Bucknor at first base, where he manages to make such an astoundingly bad call that it's a small miracle *i* didn't ejected from the game after all the screaming i did at him. seriously. never mind the two questionable close calls that replays show he may also have missed (lest you think i am being biased & whiny, one of those said close calls went against the Angels) but Howie Kendrick was out at first by a full stride when he was called safe. i am not sure where he was looking but it could not have been at the play three feet in front of him.

now, i'm not going to go all Brian Fuentes & suggest that the umpires were intimidated by Thundersticks & Rally Monkeys or that they threw the game to appease the Angels. i am fully aware that the Sox lost that game on their own merit. what i *am* saying is that Angels fans should be equally concerned by thisthat next jaw-droppingly awful call could be against them. i just can't help but to wonder at what crucial, game-altering juncture the next blunder will occur, one that actually *does* affect the outcome of the game and/or series?

umpires are human & certainly they may make errors, but multiple bad calls by one umpire in a single game? an umpire notorious for his lack of skill? why is he even working a game after the regular season has concluded, if he still has a job at all?

i am fuming. i was hoping i would wake to the news that Bucknor had been tossed in a foot locker & strapped to that projectile being launched at the moon this morning before he can do some real damage to the ALDS. no such luck. oh well. i guess there's always post-season Beckett to rely on. provided the umpiring doesn't play a detrimental role.