Monday, June 12, 2006

Lester - Dissapointing As The Rain


Saturday was Lester's major league debut... and though many were excited about it and saw it as promising - I was not as pleased.

Lester was streaky moving from hyped, intense and aggressive to frightened, passive and apathetic.

He worked too late into counts... went from 0-2 to 3-2 too often and allowed the crowd to influence him a few times. Not what I would expect from a pitcher known for his sturdy head and intense work ethic....

The good news is Manny got 450 and the game was played bringing my travel time for the game to 20 hours, wait time almost 30 days.... well 30 days not to mention over an hour on the T... and 5 hours at Fenway (though they were filled with an exciting Oakland win over NY and lots of conversation with Fans of all sorts....thanks for the Coffee)

Lester - From my Camera

Tuesday, June 06, 2006

The Killer

I got a phone call from my uncle this weekend while I was staff at HOBY and he called to plesantly remind me that Josh Bard aka the killer (who was born less than an hour from where Ii live...) is batting .348 with 15 rbis, and 5 homers in 22 games with the Padres this year....

Oh yeah... he hasnt had a past ball yet with the padres... Doug Mirabelli already has 5 with the Sox and has allowed 9 stolen bases in 13 starts while Bard has allowed 5 in 11 starts (18 games)....

I guess this is a sort of hah... I told you so from me.

:-)

GO SOX!!!!

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I am going to the game saturday... the early one that is... give me a hollar if you are too!!!