October 24, 2004
Arf.
Posted by pete at October 24, 2004 11:23 PMWe feel your pain, Genius...
That starting pitching will come back and bite you on the ass every time.
Of the two losses to the Red Sox this weekend, I think Saturday's was worse. Coming back from being down 7-2 and tieing the game back up was great, but only made the eventual fade at the end that much more disappointing.
I don't buy "The Curse" that much, but damned if the BoSox weren't doing their best to Buckner their way out of a W last night. To bad the Cards lost, because I can only imagine the self-flagellation that'd be going on in Beantown right now had those errors cost them the game. It'd be pretty funny, actually.
Not much laughing going on in St. Louis now, unfortunately.
Oh, and is anyone else sick of the goddamned celebrity watch at Fenway? We all know Stephen King is a Red Sox fan, as he's been bitching about them for decades. And I had to sit through Ben Affleck's godawful Christmas movie last week, I don't need him sliming up my TV as well.
And Tom Hanks can bite me as well.
You think it sucks to be in Houston and a Cards fan, you should try it up here. I'm ready to stop talking to certain people who can't talk anything but baseball. And I don't mean the Yankees fans either.
That's because 99% of Yankee fans don't actually know baseball. They're just in it to be seen with a winning team.
Tim's right. This means nothing until the road team wins a game. The Cardinals have not lost at home all post-season, and Pedro has been pitching like Fred Garvin, Male Prostitute. There's a lot left to be played.
And yes, for us long-time Sox fans, it's beginning to get annoying that we are now a cause celebre. I mean, it's nice to be everyone's pet "be-seen" project right now, but the celebrity bandwagon is for the Lakers and Yankees. I'd feel better if we weren't attracting Hollywood flies right now, just like you would.
I think King and Affleck get a pass, but where the hell did Hanks come from?
Ah well - you don't have to deal with this nonsense when listening to the game on the radio.
And I had to sit through Ben Affleck's godawful Christmas movie last week, I don't need him sliming up my TV as well.
I'm working on a device that would, when Fox's cameras focus on Ben-and-Jen, blot out the Ben half of the couple and leave us only the visage of Ms. Garner. Not only ease our pain, but leave us with a little eye-candy as well. Unfortunately, I've not had an opportunity to work the bugs out of it before the Sox got in and Ben-and-Jen started sliming up the screen....
Playoff series are never interesting until the road team wins a game. The Red Sox merely did what they had to do -- hold onto the homefield. No blood drawn.
Game three is a huge one; Pedro gives the Sox an advantage on the mound, but after that its a crapshoot. Looks like Schilling might be done (lets face it, he didn't have great stuff last night), which dramatically changes the feel for this series. There likly wont be any discernable difference between starting pitchers from games 4-7. At that point, it'll be about the bats and the bullpens.