Seventh Inning
I missed Pedroia’s at bat because I just had a great conversation with some lady who is hosting a Spanish exchange student. I think she thinks that my mom and dad lost my brother’s exchange student, my bad but seriously lady I’m just home watching the Sox game on the big screen ok. I claim no responsibility for Spanish kids or their whereabouts.
Back to Pedroia, I’m not ready to go with Chris Comer that was a gut reaction I’m working on it thought. The Sox went rather quietly but Pedroia was on base so that’s a good sign right?
Dice-k has nine strikeouts now, Jerry just informed us that it’s the most strikeouts by a Red Sox rookie in his debut since Kevin Milton, and Don replied with the fact that Red Sox rookie with the most strikeouts in his debut (11) was later traded for Jerry Remy. Make that ten strike outs for Dice-k. This is what I love about Don and Jerry they have a great chemistry and you can really tell they enjoy working together and as goofy and predicable as they are sometimes they really make it fun to watch.
Dice-k and Greinke are both done. Dice-k had a really nice first start and if we see more games like that he’s going to be real tough especially if he gets his velocity up as the season goes on.
As for Greinke, I think he got over looked a little bit but he only allowed two runs and strike out Papi three times so it’s tough for him to have to leave on the hook but not a bad outing for him either.
Papi, is pumped to have Greinke gone dropping a double into left. The outfield is massive at Kaufman Stadium, by the way and I’d really like the Sox to get another run here before going to the bullpen. I’m confident in Papelbon but the other guys make me a little nervous. J.C. Romero and Brendan Donnelly, this isn’t xbox fellas lets pick up another one.
Ha, I rule everything I just said about Greinke, Jerry and Don just said the same thing, sign me up NESN.
Big Papi just wheeled home from third on a wild pitch that really didn’t get very far from the plate, apparently Papi is Michael Johnson, I had no idea. Guy is absolutely out of gas in the dugout. Please get Ortiz some oxygen and Power C right now he may or may not pass out.
Do you think Teahen is pissed right now? Alex Gordon just let an easy grounder go right between his legs. Teahen has look lost in the outfield but Gordon isn’t having a good time at third either…Ladies and Gentleman your 2007 Kansas City Royals.
The Sox have had a base runner in every inning and are 0-11 in scoring position, wait now Coco is up make that 0-12. I love eating crow I really do, one of my favorite meals. Coco just lined one up the middle bringing in JD Drew from third, 4-1 Sox.
Yes, while I was in the middle of searching for a good comparison for Pedroia he loads the bases with a single, NIIIICE!
Nothing doing with the bases loaded, but 4-1 Sox.
Bottom of the Eighth Inning
Romero is on the hill now and Jonathan Papelbon is loosening up in the bullpen, I really hope we see Paps, he’s electric. This is why I love Remy and Orsillo, they aren’t over doing the whole Dice-k thing but when they realize that they are starting to they just start messing around and saying stuff like…
“He should just make up a bunch of different names for different pitches and really throw off the opposition. You know like the gyroball, the um, ah, the spin ball, I don’t stuff like that,” gold I tell you solid gold plated diapers baby, I love Jerry Remy.
J.C. Romero gets through the eighth pretty easy but I’m a little bothered by this new Foxwoods commercial. I don’t like it what happened to the old Foxwoods commercial that may have been my favorite jingle ever. More importantly why can’t I find that commercial or the ‘my luck chip’ commercial on youtube. The ‘my lucky chip’ commercial is my favorite commercial ever, it has that great unnecessary boob shot at the end when the girl tucks a poker chip into her red dress and goes “oh my lucky chip”. Boob shot and the old Foxwoods jingle, a match made in TV heaven, I think so.
Ninth Inning
Papelbon is in to close this is like a double-plus-good game, Dice-k and Papelbon good times. Emil Brown goes down on a hard biting slider from Paps, who got his first Major League save a year ago today according to Don.
Alex Gordon grounds out for out number two. Someone is gingerly massaging Dice-k’s shoulders in the dugout, definitely on of the gayest things I’ve ever seen, actually it was Julian Tavarez, still gay (not that there is anything wrong with that). Wily Mo Pena just told Tavarez to knock it off and now he’s trying to get Dice-k to wave to the crowd, this is retarded.
Back to the game, Papelbon, fastball outside corner, good night, game over, drive home safely.
Post game thoughts – I’ll keep it short I promise. I was really pleased with Dice-k’s first outing it was what I was hoping for, he scattered some hits, gave up a run struck out 10 and got himself out of trouble a couple times. How can you not be happy with that? Also the Sox responded with a couple runs when they needed them. There are still a few guys that need to get things going, like Tek, Coco and Lugo but a great start for Romero, Dice-k, JD Drew and Pedroia.
Well that’s all for my first attempt at a Live Blog, Sox take it 4-1, of the two running diaries I’ve written we’ve got two Boston (New England) wins.
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Thursday, April 5, 2007
Live Blog: Part II - Innings 4-6
Fourth Inning-
Mike Lowell just hit a double that was almost a homer and should have been caught, if that makes sense. Oh and more importantly Dice-k stood on the dugout steps to see if it was a homer, easy dude it’s game three of the season not the ALCS.
Ross is up, with two outs and Lowell on third, Joey just informed me that Ross was a senior on the last season of two-a-days, not sure how he went from being a freshmen to a senior in the span of two seasons, but Joey is an authority on shit like this. Ross just struck out…weird, he’s like Bellhorn without the greasy hair and homers.
By the way I bought Power C Vitamin Water aka the David Ortiz kind, he’s struck out twice, I hate vitamin water.
According to Wikipedia I am an idiot and Ross was a junior in season one of Two-A-Days so he went from a junior to a senior in two seasons, logical progression right? Yeah the whole Pedroia-Ross thing is out but he still looks like a freshman that got called up to the varsity, think Chris Comer at the beginning of Friday Night Lights that’s what watching Dustin Pedroia is like.
Meanwhile, Dice-k is mowing down the Royals, stat line from Joey, “five strikeouts, one hit, he’s retired ten in a row, just struck out the side and he’s at like 58 pitches, I love it, I know, I know four innings in and he’s the Cy Young winner but still I love it.”
Joey pretty much just summed things up right there, Dice-k’s only at 54 pitches and he’s got five k’s through four, we are very happy right now.
Fifth Inning
Lugo leading things off with a double and I really am starting to feel bad for Mark Tehan, he looks lost out in right field.
Lugo is running on a curve ball up an in on Youk and John Buck just fired the ball into left field prompting this from Joey.
“What is this little league? Who throws past the third baseman like that? And why is he just standing there run home”
Lugo scores on the error, 2-0 Sox in the fifth. Big Papi strikeout number three, I’m never drinking Power C again.
We seriously need to stop talking about high school TV shows and movies cause we must absolutely sound like creeps, but it’s not our fault they don’t make high school girls like they used to (channeling my inner Wooderson).
Alex Gordon, who’s supposed to be the Rookie of the Year just got his first major league hit, which was the second hit Dice-k gave up, pretty cool for Gordon.
Great slider from the Diceman for his sixth strikeout of the afternoon, and Ross Gload just smashed a ball but it turned out to be a routine fly ball to Drew. I think I listened to a few to many Jerry Trupiano games cause I was about to give that one a “WAAAY BAACK!!!”
We’ve lost Joey, he had to go to work. I’m going to miss his off hand comments I guess that means I need to step it up.
John Buck just dropped a blooper into center and Coco nearly f’d it up enough for Gordon to score, I’m really trying to be positive about Coco but he’s not showing me much right now.
Matsuzaka is in a bit of a jam here with runners on the corners and two outs, and we have our first mound conference between Dice-k and Tek. What do you think they said to each other? Here’s my guess.
Tek – “Fastball.”
Dice-K – “Fastball” (with heavy accent)
Tek – “yeah fastball”
Dice-K – “ok fastball” (again with the accent)
Well it worked, chopper back to the mound for out number three. Chopper back to the mound doesn’t do that play justice it was more like a swinging bunt, I’ve really been impressed with Dice-k’s fielding, you have to love a guy that helps his own cause like that and pounds Akashi Extra Dry in single gulps on youtube.
2-0 Sox after five…
Sixth Inning
Ok Coco, show me something. 0-8 on the year and 0-2 on the day with a groundout and strikeout and a near error is not cutting it…sweet make that 0-9, 0-3 on the day with a groundout and two strikeouts.
Dice-k just gave up a solo jobby to David DeJesus, Dice-k just left that fastball out over the plate and it got roped. I really just got a sinking feeling like it’s going to be one of those games that the pitcher throws well but the offense can’t help him out, I’ve seen way too many of those as a Sox fan.
Strike ‘em out throw ‘em double play that was huge, Dice-k absolutely just froze Teahan, who is still lost somewhere in right field, for strike three then Varitek just barely gets Emil Brown at second, if Beckett was on the mound I think his head might have exploded.
That double play turned out to be huge since Dice-k just gave up a well hit double. Big spot for Dice-k and he comes up with another strikeout, guy is lights out in tough spots so far.
Observations after six innings…this game definitely has that Pedro start feel to it with Dice-k taking the mound, I don’t know a lot of teams that can say that about their number three starter. Dice-k has pitched really well so far, he really has an arsenal of a pitch that he can use, we’ve seen strait fastballs, fastballs with movement, cut fastballs, change ups, splitters, sliders and curveballs and that’s just what I have noticed. He struggled a little bit in the sixth so I wonder if we’ll see him out there again in the seventh, he’s getting close to 100 pitches, if he’s not over 100 yet, I think he’s done but we’ll see.
96 - pitches so far, by the way.
2-1 Sox after Six…back with the final three innings and post game thoughts next.
Mike Lowell just hit a double that was almost a homer and should have been caught, if that makes sense. Oh and more importantly Dice-k stood on the dugout steps to see if it was a homer, easy dude it’s game three of the season not the ALCS.
Ross is up, with two outs and Lowell on third, Joey just informed me that Ross was a senior on the last season of two-a-days, not sure how he went from being a freshmen to a senior in the span of two seasons, but Joey is an authority on shit like this. Ross just struck out…weird, he’s like Bellhorn without the greasy hair and homers.
By the way I bought Power C Vitamin Water aka the David Ortiz kind, he’s struck out twice, I hate vitamin water.
According to Wikipedia I am an idiot and Ross was a junior in season one of Two-A-Days so he went from a junior to a senior in two seasons, logical progression right? Yeah the whole Pedroia-Ross thing is out but he still looks like a freshman that got called up to the varsity, think Chris Comer at the beginning of Friday Night Lights that’s what watching Dustin Pedroia is like.
Meanwhile, Dice-k is mowing down the Royals, stat line from Joey, “five strikeouts, one hit, he’s retired ten in a row, just struck out the side and he’s at like 58 pitches, I love it, I know, I know four innings in and he’s the Cy Young winner but still I love it.”
Joey pretty much just summed things up right there, Dice-k’s only at 54 pitches and he’s got five k’s through four, we are very happy right now.
Fifth Inning
Lugo leading things off with a double and I really am starting to feel bad for Mark Tehan, he looks lost out in right field.
Lugo is running on a curve ball up an in on Youk and John Buck just fired the ball into left field prompting this from Joey.
“What is this little league? Who throws past the third baseman like that? And why is he just standing there run home”
Lugo scores on the error, 2-0 Sox in the fifth. Big Papi strikeout number three, I’m never drinking Power C again.
We seriously need to stop talking about high school TV shows and movies cause we must absolutely sound like creeps, but it’s not our fault they don’t make high school girls like they used to (channeling my inner Wooderson).
Alex Gordon, who’s supposed to be the Rookie of the Year just got his first major league hit, which was the second hit Dice-k gave up, pretty cool for Gordon.
Great slider from the Diceman for his sixth strikeout of the afternoon, and Ross Gload just smashed a ball but it turned out to be a routine fly ball to Drew. I think I listened to a few to many Jerry Trupiano games cause I was about to give that one a “WAAAY BAACK!!!”
We’ve lost Joey, he had to go to work. I’m going to miss his off hand comments I guess that means I need to step it up.
John Buck just dropped a blooper into center and Coco nearly f’d it up enough for Gordon to score, I’m really trying to be positive about Coco but he’s not showing me much right now.
Matsuzaka is in a bit of a jam here with runners on the corners and two outs, and we have our first mound conference between Dice-k and Tek. What do you think they said to each other? Here’s my guess.
Tek – “Fastball.”
Dice-K – “Fastball” (with heavy accent)
Tek – “yeah fastball”
Dice-K – “ok fastball” (again with the accent)
Well it worked, chopper back to the mound for out number three. Chopper back to the mound doesn’t do that play justice it was more like a swinging bunt, I’ve really been impressed with Dice-k’s fielding, you have to love a guy that helps his own cause like that and pounds Akashi Extra Dry in single gulps on youtube.
2-0 Sox after five…
Sixth Inning
Ok Coco, show me something. 0-8 on the year and 0-2 on the day with a groundout and strikeout and a near error is not cutting it…sweet make that 0-9, 0-3 on the day with a groundout and two strikeouts.
Dice-k just gave up a solo jobby to David DeJesus, Dice-k just left that fastball out over the plate and it got roped. I really just got a sinking feeling like it’s going to be one of those games that the pitcher throws well but the offense can’t help him out, I’ve seen way too many of those as a Sox fan.
Strike ‘em out throw ‘em double play that was huge, Dice-k absolutely just froze Teahan, who is still lost somewhere in right field, for strike three then Varitek just barely gets Emil Brown at second, if Beckett was on the mound I think his head might have exploded.
That double play turned out to be huge since Dice-k just gave up a well hit double. Big spot for Dice-k and he comes up with another strikeout, guy is lights out in tough spots so far.
Observations after six innings…this game definitely has that Pedro start feel to it with Dice-k taking the mound, I don’t know a lot of teams that can say that about their number three starter. Dice-k has pitched really well so far, he really has an arsenal of a pitch that he can use, we’ve seen strait fastballs, fastballs with movement, cut fastballs, change ups, splitters, sliders and curveballs and that’s just what I have noticed. He struggled a little bit in the sixth so I wonder if we’ll see him out there again in the seventh, he’s getting close to 100 pitches, if he’s not over 100 yet, I think he’s done but we’ll see.
96 - pitches so far, by the way.
2-1 Sox after Six…back with the final three innings and post game thoughts next.
Live Blog: Part I - Innings 1-3
Live Blog
Welcome to my first Live Blog. Here is how this is going to go I’ll be keeping a running diary of the game and interjecting my thoughts and observations along with the thoughts and observations and off hand comments of my good buddy Joey. I’ll be posting the blog in three segments. First three innings, middle three and final three, enjoy.
First Inning
Rushing home from work I missed Lugo leading off the game but nothing big he made an out…Youk worked his first walk off the season and Jerry Remy just told us that Zach Greinke has been working through anxiety problems and that crowds especially bothered him…today might not be the best day for Zach
Ortiz three pitch K not really that cool, Greinke is looking pretty good so far.
I’m not going chronicle every at bat and pitch but Manny just lofted an opposite field double that drove Youk in from first, 1-0 Sox…tough times for Mark Tehan in the outfield…has to be rough switching from third to right in your second season.
Grenke just struck out JD Drew...guess I spoke a little too soon about him having anxiety attacks today he’s looking pretty good so far…first commercial break, Dice-k in t-minus five minutes, give or take.
Dice-k’s first pitch fouled off by DeJesus…gives up a single…oh no HE’S A BUST…just kidding
1-6-3 double play, Dice-k through the first, minor jam but he got out of it with a nice fastball jamming Emil Brown inside.
Second Inning
Joey starts things of with a great comment on Pedroia “it’s like he just got called up to the varsity.” I can’t think of any better way to put it, that’s exactly what he looks like. I think we’ll have to dub Pedroia ‘Ross’, the kid from Two-a-Day’s, freshman quarterback on the high school football powerhouse, little bit wide eyed but he’s got to come right in and not suck.
So far so good from JD Drew, he’s hit pretty well and made some real nice plays in the field…I definitely under estimated his fielding ability.
Dice-k gets his first strikeout on a nice outside fastball, 1-0 Sox after two…Don Orsillo has told us Dice-k is the fourth Japanese pitcher to start a game four times
Third Inning
Finally something from Lugo, sort of, he legged out a single after Alex Gordon bobbled a ball at third.
Alex Gordon having a tough time at third, he’s dove and knocked two balls down but cant come up with either of them…again gold from Joey “Look at Manny, he’s jogging like ‘fuck I wish that was just an out now I gotta run all the way to first”
Dice-k can field his position he just made a nice running play on a chopper between first and the mount. The best part about that play thought, the fact that for some reason Youk wasn’t sure what was going on and just sort of stared at Dice-k sprinting off the mount before he went to cover first. That provided the first of many akward conversations between Dice-k and the other players. Dice-k and Youk just looked at each other and started chuckling, like ‘I have no idea what you just said’, ‘yeah no clue, so lets just laugh’
We know they had a six man rotation in Japan; seriously we all got that memo, but if you’re going to keep telling us add in more about how Japanese pitchers throw a lot more between games.
Impressions after the first three, good things, one I really like Dice-k’s demeanor and he has really settled down since getting that double play.
Welcome to my first Live Blog. Here is how this is going to go I’ll be keeping a running diary of the game and interjecting my thoughts and observations along with the thoughts and observations and off hand comments of my good buddy Joey. I’ll be posting the blog in three segments. First three innings, middle three and final three, enjoy.
First Inning
Rushing home from work I missed Lugo leading off the game but nothing big he made an out…Youk worked his first walk off the season and Jerry Remy just told us that Zach Greinke has been working through anxiety problems and that crowds especially bothered him…today might not be the best day for Zach
Ortiz three pitch K not really that cool, Greinke is looking pretty good so far.
I’m not going chronicle every at bat and pitch but Manny just lofted an opposite field double that drove Youk in from first, 1-0 Sox…tough times for Mark Tehan in the outfield…has to be rough switching from third to right in your second season.
Grenke just struck out JD Drew...guess I spoke a little too soon about him having anxiety attacks today he’s looking pretty good so far…first commercial break, Dice-k in t-minus five minutes, give or take.
Dice-k’s first pitch fouled off by DeJesus…gives up a single…oh no HE’S A BUST…just kidding
1-6-3 double play, Dice-k through the first, minor jam but he got out of it with a nice fastball jamming Emil Brown inside.
Second Inning
Joey starts things of with a great comment on Pedroia “it’s like he just got called up to the varsity.” I can’t think of any better way to put it, that’s exactly what he looks like. I think we’ll have to dub Pedroia ‘Ross’, the kid from Two-a-Day’s, freshman quarterback on the high school football powerhouse, little bit wide eyed but he’s got to come right in and not suck.
So far so good from JD Drew, he’s hit pretty well and made some real nice plays in the field…I definitely under estimated his fielding ability.
Dice-k gets his first strikeout on a nice outside fastball, 1-0 Sox after two…Don Orsillo has told us Dice-k is the fourth Japanese pitcher to start a game four times
Third Inning
Finally something from Lugo, sort of, he legged out a single after Alex Gordon bobbled a ball at third.
Alex Gordon having a tough time at third, he’s dove and knocked two balls down but cant come up with either of them…again gold from Joey “Look at Manny, he’s jogging like ‘fuck I wish that was just an out now I gotta run all the way to first”
Dice-k can field his position he just made a nice running play on a chopper between first and the mount. The best part about that play thought, the fact that for some reason Youk wasn’t sure what was going on and just sort of stared at Dice-k sprinting off the mount before he went to cover first. That provided the first of many akward conversations between Dice-k and the other players. Dice-k and Youk just looked at each other and started chuckling, like ‘I have no idea what you just said’, ‘yeah no clue, so lets just laugh’
We know they had a six man rotation in Japan; seriously we all got that memo, but if you’re going to keep telling us add in more about how Japanese pitchers throw a lot more between games.
Impressions after the first three, good things, one I really like Dice-k’s demeanor and he has really settled down since getting that double play.
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
Day (or two) Late Blog & Dice K Mania
It’s snowing right now…April 4 and it’s snowing like a bastard add in the facts that the Red Sox got knocked around by the Royals Monday, I didn’t get to watch the game, they had yesterday off and I’m most likely going to miss tonight’s game and this so called “best week in sports” isn’t really going so well.
Alright enough bitching and moaning from me on to more important things. I was going to do a “ramblings” column but there are two main things I wanted to touch on this week so let’s just stick to that. One – the NCAA Championship game…I know, I know I’m late but that’s how I roll sometimes. Two – Dice-K’s first start.
NCAA Championship – a day (or two) late – When I first started this blog I wrote about how I didn’t have a college team to follow, no dog in the fight so to speak, but the NCAA tournament is a great time for someone like me, I can easily jump on any bandwagon I choose and after abandoning my brackets, which I did successfully, I was ready to go. Even though this year lacked any notable Cinderella stories the fact that two number one seeds and two number two seeds made the final four provided us with some great games. I would have liked to see Texas make it a little further (by further I mean the title game) but I digress.
Monday night’s championship game was awesome. On the one hand you had Florida, who’s not only won back-to-back basketball titles but the Gators are the BCS National Champions and the college hoops champs, that’s unheard of now-a-days. Ohio State’s had a bad run of luck, if you can really call it bad luck but losing to Florida in two title games in two months. Three potential top ten draft picks in Noah, Horford and Brewer on the Gators then the consensus number one pick, especially after last night, in Oden and the best point guard in the country in Mike Connelly Jr., you just don’t see that.
I was rooting for Florida since my buddy’s mom is a Florida grad but I really wanted to see Oden dominate, since I hadn’t watched him play much I wanted to see why he’s the number one and why he is decidedly better then Kevin Durant, who I really like and have paid more attention to this year. Well I got what I wanted. Even though the Buckeyes lost Oden was unreal. His two handed swallowing of Corey Brewer, who has grown on me and was the second best guy on the floor, and the way he dominated in the middle against three legit Florida guys, not to mention the four absolute ‘jungle dunks’ that brought us out of our seats. If the Celtics get the number one pick I hope they take Oden, as much as I like Durant, Greg Oden is going to be unreal with an offense that runs through him.
Speaking of Oden, I don’t think Ohio State ran it’s offense through Oden enough especially when they were struggling from three-point range, imagine if they could have hit a couple. I guess I don’t really have a whole lot of insight into the game but I felt like I had to talk about it.
The other thing that made Monday so great is that it was the one year anniversary of the Dave “wait, wait, wait, I think my wiener fell out” Bridgewater night, classic.
Ok hopefully this will salvage this post but Dice K makes his first start tomorrow at 2:10 in Kansas City, let’s just say I’m excited, ok excited isn’t really the right word I think this event needs more of a phrase, like “I’m fucking pumped” or however you say that in Japanese.
When you’re favorite team pays $51 million just to talk to a guy there are a couple of things that run through you’re head. That he must be incredible, that he’s going to be a bust and that you pray to God he is incredible. From what I’ve seen and read, he is going to be good. He’s going to be very good but held to insane standards. I really hope that he pitches well tomorrow, I’m thinking six innings, scatters a couple hits maybe gives up a run or two but the Sox win. Unfortunately the way people can be around here, if he pitches unreal people are going to go nuts and say he’s the next Pedro. On the other hand if he pitches poorly (I really don’t want that to happen) Red Sox fans might be borderline suicidal, especially if Beckett doesn’t pitch well tonight.
Way too many negative thoughts in that paragraph, we are moving on. Dice k’s debut has to be the most anticipated Red Sox debut in a long time, even though he’s technically a rookie Dice k is the most high profile free agent the Sox have signed since, Curt Schilling/Manny Ramirez. It’s been Dice k mania since the Sox signed him and even though he pitched in spring training tomorrow afternoon it counts, I really haven’t been this excited for a baseball game since the 2004 playoffs (2005 I was still in the ’04 haze).
I’ve been kicking around the idea of a live blog for the game, I’m sure I won’t be the only one but since I’m leaving work early and parking in front of the TV for the game I figure why not. I haven’t done a running diary since the Pats Super Bowl win over the Eagles but it’s pretty entertaining so why not make my live blog debut during Dice K’s MLB debut.
Stay tuned.
Alright enough bitching and moaning from me on to more important things. I was going to do a “ramblings” column but there are two main things I wanted to touch on this week so let’s just stick to that. One – the NCAA Championship game…I know, I know I’m late but that’s how I roll sometimes. Two – Dice-K’s first start.
NCAA Championship – a day (or two) late – When I first started this blog I wrote about how I didn’t have a college team to follow, no dog in the fight so to speak, but the NCAA tournament is a great time for someone like me, I can easily jump on any bandwagon I choose and after abandoning my brackets, which I did successfully, I was ready to go. Even though this year lacked any notable Cinderella stories the fact that two number one seeds and two number two seeds made the final four provided us with some great games. I would have liked to see Texas make it a little further (by further I mean the title game) but I digress.
Monday night’s championship game was awesome. On the one hand you had Florida, who’s not only won back-to-back basketball titles but the Gators are the BCS National Champions and the college hoops champs, that’s unheard of now-a-days. Ohio State’s had a bad run of luck, if you can really call it bad luck but losing to Florida in two title games in two months. Three potential top ten draft picks in Noah, Horford and Brewer on the Gators then the consensus number one pick, especially after last night, in Oden and the best point guard in the country in Mike Connelly Jr., you just don’t see that.
I was rooting for Florida since my buddy’s mom is a Florida grad but I really wanted to see Oden dominate, since I hadn’t watched him play much I wanted to see why he’s the number one and why he is decidedly better then Kevin Durant, who I really like and have paid more attention to this year. Well I got what I wanted. Even though the Buckeyes lost Oden was unreal. His two handed swallowing of Corey Brewer, who has grown on me and was the second best guy on the floor, and the way he dominated in the middle against three legit Florida guys, not to mention the four absolute ‘jungle dunks’ that brought us out of our seats. If the Celtics get the number one pick I hope they take Oden, as much as I like Durant, Greg Oden is going to be unreal with an offense that runs through him.
Speaking of Oden, I don’t think Ohio State ran it’s offense through Oden enough especially when they were struggling from three-point range, imagine if they could have hit a couple. I guess I don’t really have a whole lot of insight into the game but I felt like I had to talk about it.
The other thing that made Monday so great is that it was the one year anniversary of the Dave “wait, wait, wait, I think my wiener fell out” Bridgewater night, classic.
Ok hopefully this will salvage this post but Dice K makes his first start tomorrow at 2:10 in Kansas City, let’s just say I’m excited, ok excited isn’t really the right word I think this event needs more of a phrase, like “I’m fucking pumped” or however you say that in Japanese.
When you’re favorite team pays $51 million just to talk to a guy there are a couple of things that run through you’re head. That he must be incredible, that he’s going to be a bust and that you pray to God he is incredible. From what I’ve seen and read, he is going to be good. He’s going to be very good but held to insane standards. I really hope that he pitches well tomorrow, I’m thinking six innings, scatters a couple hits maybe gives up a run or two but the Sox win. Unfortunately the way people can be around here, if he pitches unreal people are going to go nuts and say he’s the next Pedro. On the other hand if he pitches poorly (I really don’t want that to happen) Red Sox fans might be borderline suicidal, especially if Beckett doesn’t pitch well tonight.
Way too many negative thoughts in that paragraph, we are moving on. Dice k’s debut has to be the most anticipated Red Sox debut in a long time, even though he’s technically a rookie Dice k is the most high profile free agent the Sox have signed since, Curt Schilling/Manny Ramirez. It’s been Dice k mania since the Sox signed him and even though he pitched in spring training tomorrow afternoon it counts, I really haven’t been this excited for a baseball game since the 2004 playoffs (2005 I was still in the ’04 haze).
I’ve been kicking around the idea of a live blog for the game, I’m sure I won’t be the only one but since I’m leaving work early and parking in front of the TV for the game I figure why not. I haven’t done a running diary since the Pats Super Bowl win over the Eagles but it’s pretty entertaining so why not make my live blog debut during Dice K’s MLB debut.
Stay tuned.
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