Weekend thoughts on baseball
* Ugly, just ugly, the ugliest Game 1 in "the
history of my life" (a phrase stolen from Rocky II). How a team makes 4 errors
and still wins is beyond me. I saw it all the time in the Hal McRae era, and
they didn't win shit, much less a World Series game with 4
errors.
* Then the Red Sox turn around
and commit 4 more but have the bionic man on the mound so all is
good.
* What I wouldn't have given for
Houston to have made the World Series, and Fox prepares a photo op by having W
throw out the first pitch in game 3, not realizing that he's in (what used to
be) Enron Field.
* But back to the
hardball - I guarantee this will be a different series in St. Louis, for several
reasons: A lot of those shots off the "Monstah" will be lazy fly balls to So
"What?" Tagucci. David Ortiz will be playing first base, either benching Kevin
Millar or moving him to RF and benching Nixon. Either way the defense, which was
all ready piss poor with 8 errors in 2 games, suffers mightily. And speaking of
moving Ortiz to the field, Pedro and company have to take their turns at the
plate. Is Terry Francona well versed in the art of the double
switch?
* I think 6 million shots of
the nervous Chowd crowd between pitches are great.
Posted: Mon - October 25, 2004 at 01:55 PM