Celebration Tonight?? YES!!!! HAPPY DANCE!!!!

Oh man.
What a night!!
First I miss the entire game except for the very last Twins out!!! Today is my daughters 13th birthday!! So we were celebrating at my parents house. I was watching a bit on my cell but that was just the score..
Thanks Sox!! You gave her a great birthday present!
The game......I can watch the replay on MLB.TV so I will not talk about that now.
After doing all the required Dad stuff after the 10 seconds of the Sox game I got to watch, I finally was able to watch the whole 10th inning of the MFY vs O's.
Chumpies loaded the bases and could not score.. Nice watching A-Rude standing on third with his mouth hanging open with no place to go!!
O's also load the bases with 1 out Millar comes up. I was hoping he would drive in a run. How poetic would that be?? I great ex red sox players nailing the lid on the coffin on the yankees.
Well Kevin tried but struck out...2 down up comes Melvin Mora ( Red Sox fans new hero) who lays down a bunt along 3rd base bring in Tike Redman.


I'm buying my 2007 American League East Champ Hat right now!!

I can not begin to tell you how thrilled I am!!

GO SOX!!!

Celebration Tonight?? NOPE!!!!

Ok Red Sox Nation.....
Put the champagne back in the fridge...stow the special Oktoberfest beer back in the cooler... we came up a bit short tonight.

Beckett has an off night and our bats did not sing well enough. Leaving the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth hurt a heck of a lot.
We really need to work on that LOB stuff one day!!

Does it matter... not really as we are in the playoffs!!!! That's what counts.
Sure I would have loved to see Beckett get number 21. But it was not meant to be.

Even Lowell was not hot tonight..

Tomorrow is another day and we will see our Sox rise up at Fenway and play the greatest game in the world!! Dice-K is going to serve up some wasabi coated sushi to the Twins !!! They will be to busy fanning their burning bung holes to swing the bats!!

Magic number is still at 2. Three games left at Fenway!! I can not think of a better place for our boys in their red socks to play!!

GO SOX!!!

Celebration Tonight??? Maybe!!

Will we be seeing this kind of celebrating tonight???
It's possible!!!

Going into tonights game our magic number is 2 for the Division Title.

If the Sox beat the Twins and the Yankees loose to the Rays we will have clinched the Eastern Division!!!

Pitching for the Sox tonight is Mr. Joshua Patrick Beckett 20-6 ERA 3.14.


Pitching for the Twins we have Boof Bonser
( with a name like that he gets no MR. ) 7-12 ERA 5.09.

Well not much of a match up there Boof's ERA for September with three games is a wopping 11.17!!!
Joshua Patrick's ERA for September with 4 games is a wee 2.25

OK...I bet the farm on Joshua Patrick tonight!!!

Looking at the MFY at the Rays.....

Pitching for the Yankers is Philip J. Hughes ( No Yankee player gets a MR. ) 4-3 ERA 4.80.
Pitching for the Rays is Mr. Scott Edward Kazmir ( Rays players get the MR. for scrappyness) 13-9 ERA 3.54.
Hughes ERA for September with 4 games is 3.18.
Kazmir ( who we Sox fans know all too well) whos Era for September is 2.16 with 4 games.
Kazmir faced the Yankers 3 times , 2 in April ( both losses ) and once in July for a win.
While Hughs has faced the Rays only once in August for the loss.

This matchup is on the fence for me. Kazmir's win was in July when the Yankers started their surge. So he might be able to shut them down if his control is spot-on. He did not win any games against the Sox.
Hughs was called up in August and has done a good job on the mound.

So Sox fans.. lets send positive vibes to the Rays so the Kazmir can get the ball dancing and the Ray's bats get so hot that they bust into flames with ball contact!!!

Also lets send good vibes to Lugo and hope his bat starts to sing ;>)

GO SOX!!!

Great Night in Boston

Wow..nice night in bean town. The Athletics are in town for two games.
Tonight we see Manny back in the line up!!!! HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE!! Also YOUK did a wee bit of batting . It was really good to see them back in the game. My nerves are a bit calmer now.
Weird event of the game was in the 7th A's pitcher Lenny DiNardo chose to intentionally walk Veratek to get to Ellsbury. Bad move for the A's ..God move for us!!! Ellsbury whacked in an RBI. I guess that the A's scouts have packed it up for the year?
Even Gagne did ok and pitched 2/3 of an inning and his buddy Paps came out to close down the 8th with a 1 pitch pop out.
Corey pitch in the ninth giving up 2 runs and having a rought time of it. But the night was saved when the Mighty Mite snagged a pop-up behind his head for out number 2 and then fired it to second to Lugo for the game winning out!!
Final score Sox 7 A's 3.
Yes we can all sleep a bit better tonight!!

Playoff 's Here comes da RED SOX!!!

RED SOX WIN!!! Tigers Loose!!! Red Sox first team in 2007 to solidify a play-off berth!!!

Music to the ears of everyone in the Red Sox Nation!!

Saturday night saw Dice-k and Lopez get rough up a bit but the Boston Bats were singing a high note and the game was ours!!
I will be at the Trop on Sunday and hope the winning keeps on coming as I would love to do a HAPPY DANCE in the sands!!

GO SOX!!!

Happy Dance!!!

Baseball might be dragging me down a bit but I can always count on my three kids to cheer me up.
Today we received interim report cards for them.
Alexa, our 16 year old has all A and 1 C.
Kayla our 12 year old has all A's and 1B.
Kyle out 11 year old has all A's one B.

I AM DOING THE HAPPY DANCE!!!!!

Way to go Gagne

This man is Boston's Public Enemy Number One !!!

Well, he did it again. Gagne lost another game for the Sox.

Game was going fine Lester pitched 6.2 innings allowing 1 run. Manny D. comes in for the final out of the 7th. In the eight, Gagne gets the first 2 batters out then allows a hit, 3 walks then another hit. He gave 2 runs on a plater to the Jays.

Lugo gets a homer in the ninth but then the Soxs are halted and we have yet another loss 3-4.

Now I am 100% convinced that Gagne is working for the Yankers as a 5th column agent. The Yankers have killed Baltimore 12-0 ...so we will wake up on Wednesday morning with only a 2.5 game lead..

UGH.. I have such a headache now.....

Now for somthing different..

SOCCER!!!!
Here is a great was to help forget my Red Sox woe's.
1. Volunteer to coach a U-12 boys soccer team
2. Spend hours on the phone hooking up with kids parents.
3. Plan for hours how to run your practice.
4. Have a practice day and watch your well planed drill fail miserably.

Well. its not that bad. This is my 12th year of coaching Soccer. This year I have only 1 team. Some years I was Head coach for two teams and an assistant coach for a third. Yes, I was busy. Every week night book and Saturdays at the field were an all day occasion.

Tonight for an 1 and 1/2 hours I will have the rapped attention of eleven boys aged 10 and 11. As it is a rec team, lets just say that attendance is hardly ever at 100%. So I press forward and gauge each childed to see what position the will be their strongest at, try to keep their interest in a variety of drill and lift their failing spirit's once the Florida heat bakes the top of their heads.

For 1-1/2 hours today I will not think of the Sox at all....something I really need at the moment.

Dear Blue Jay's,

We, the nation of Yanker lovers would like to thank you from the bottom of our nefarious little hearts for beating the Red Sox.
We are also pleased to say that all Blue Jay fans are now Yankee fans as your club is helping us reach the AL Pennant.
We will collect your souls on October 1st.

Thank you,
The Evil Empire

Thats finally over.

After much teeth gnashing, lip biting and nail gnawing the regular season games between the Sox and Yankers is finally over. It did not end with the final three game sweep we all hoped for. Instead we lost 2 out of three. We are still 4.5 games ahead of them and seem destined for another post-season match up.

The last three game found me plastered to my chair, bleeding with the team and rejoicing also.

There were some fantastic plays on both sides and some heartbreaking events too.

On Friday Dice-k did well ...up to loading the bases and then Timlin let 2 runs in. What Okie-dokie and Paps did...well I need some pain killers before I go into that.

Saturdays game , our win, was great as all wins are. Hinske's running through Posada will go down in Red Sox history!

Sundays loss was a classic match up between two great pitchers...except for one pitch. And this game did high light a big problem. That the Captain is in an offensive downward spiral. Can't say too much about it as we are all just fans and really do not know whats is going on. Some say he is tired...I hope its just a slump and he will climb out of it . Captain..I'm sending as many good vibes your wayas possible!!! Lowell's Home Run off of Joba the Schmuck was worth the loss. The unbroken Hut, who prior to this game had no un-earned runs. Well we got a homer off of him!! ESPN cut real close on him about 45 seconds after the homer and it looked like he was about to cry. The ever yankee-loving espn jackasses cut real quick from that.

In closing, yes we got stomped on...closing out the regular season with 8 wins and the Yankers having 10. But when it is all said and done they are the Yankees, a bunch of rude , loud, obnoxious players and fans , players who act like they are god gift to man-kind and fans who think they deserve every Pennant and World Series till the end of time.
While we are the RED SOX!!!! We fight hard, stick with our team through thick and thin and do it all with a smile! Enough said!!
GO SOX!!!

So numb :>(

It's 11:55 pm Friday Sept 14. The Sox had the game..then lost it. Final 7-8 Yankers. I'm just numb.... don't know what to say.... Think I'll go hang out in a cemetery so I wont have to hear the gloating Yankers fans.

THANK YOU SOOOOO Much Blue Jays!!!

Had a bit of baseball withdrawal with the Sox all at home tonight eating popcorn and watching reruns of the Three Stooges... So I decide to watch the Yankers and Jays go at it. I tuned in at the top of the 8th , game tied 1-1. OK, I'll watch this, Yankers just might get beat. For my efforts I got to see A-Rod strike out , the Jays shut the Yankers down for those two innings and in the 9th they manufactured the game winning by playing some good old fashioned baseball.
Yes, Tonight was a GOOD NIGHT!!!
Yankers come to Bean Town 5.5 back.....
Ya got a love it!!!!
GO SOX!!

Watch out Yankees ! PAPI's Back !

Missed the first 1-1/2 innings due to the power outtage from the wacky thunderstorms we get here in Florida. So I missed Lester's meltdown. When your starter is on the ropes in the first inning and can't get off them then you konw you have some trouble. Tavarez did a nice job getting 9 outs with one strike out and one walk. Manny D. and Okie were flawless and Paps walk away with the win . Not many strike outs to night as Lester had the most with 5 and a game total of only 7 so a big round of applause to the defense.
The mighty mite, Pedroia was stellar as usual. Drew is hitting like he was in a National League Stadium 2 hits and 2 walks. That is VERY nice to see.
The night really belongs to big PAPI. All the runs were his and all the rbi's were his. He has really stepped up his game in the last week and I for one am very please. Two big homers and the stay at 5 games over the MFY.

OK beantown....you ready for them??? Let's get our game on and sweep 'em!!
GO SOX!!!

Oh my achin' Drew.....

Slug fest in Fenway!!! Bats and balls flying everywhere.....Mike Lowell gets 4 hits..almost had five!!! Congrats Mikey.
The hit and home run god even let J.D.Drew in on the fun! I almost fell of my chair when he connected with his 2nd hit. Then a homer!?!?! whats going on??? I'm heading out to get a lotto ticket. May be I can get some luck too!!
Youk just short on two hits that with a bit of tail wind would have been homers. Bummer...
Pedroia smacked a homer into the monster seats....very nice!!
Pappi and Ellsbury also hit homers...love the Pappi swing and Ellsbury, well what can I say...you sooo good,man!!
Condolences to Wake... got a bit beat up... at least the game will not go against your record.
Gagne just had to give up a run... I still think that he is a sleeper agent for the Yankers...
Series against the Rays ends tomorrow ( wed 12th) Heres to another victory then.

Blue Tuesday

Have not done much to this blog as I thought I would. I guess it's the down deep ache I feel every year. That the Sox will flounder again. As I do not want to be a negative, moaning blogger, I just have not posted. So, Lets cheer the Sox in a positive way and try to overlook the fact that they have a big problem in the worst time of the season.
With the Monday night loss to the Devil Ray the Sox's showed that their bats are dead. Loosing a 1-0 game to a basement team on your HOME turf is quite sad.
Ok enough negative stuff ( plenty of other blogs will have that) .
Here is to taking taking 2 out of 3 from the Rays and I will start praying to the Blue Jay God that they take at least 2 game from the MFY.
Wake is on the mound tonight and is due for a sure win, I tip my hat to you Wake, in advance of your spectacular victory later today.
The picture was taken by me during the 2007 Spring Training game between the Tigers and Sox in Lakeland, Fl. I think the main issue discussed here was where should they go after the game for pizza and beer!!!