A view of the Boston Red Sox from Singapore, 12 time zones and half the world away.
Monday, June 23, 2008
The Celtics
Ack, I don't know what happened to my previous Celtics posts. But what an amazing run. And Game 6 was a clinic in defense. I can't find the games on iTunes (unlike last year's World Series), so it looks like I'll have to find some way to get the DVD sent over to these shores.
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Ack, I don't know what happened to my previous Celtics posts. But what an amazing run. And Game 6 was a clinic in defense. I can't find the games on iTunes (unlike last year's World Series), so it looks like I'll have to find some way to get the DVD sent over to these shores.
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Jon Lester Beats Cancer, Royals
What a game, and what a story. To think it all started with what in retrospect was a lucky car crash. The no-hitter was one of those 'true' no-hitters - KC looked overmatched, and Lester looked like he could throw any one of his pitches anywhere he wanted, in any count.
Four no-hitters in the 2000s. What a run Varitek has caught. And here's to the youth movement. Congrats to Lester.
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What a game, and what a story. To think it all started with what in retrospect was a lucky car crash. The no-hitter was one of those 'true' no-hitters - KC looked overmatched, and Lester looked like he could throw any one of his pitches anywhere he wanted, in any count.
Four no-hitters in the 2000s. What a run Varitek has caught. And here's to the youth movement. Congrats to Lester.
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008
A-Rod Passing Out
Meanwhile, I thought this quote from Cynthia Rodriguez, on A-Rod passing out when his first child was born, was funny:
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Meanwhile, I thought this quote from Cynthia Rodriguez, on A-Rod passing out when his first child was born, was funny:
“As tough and big as he seems, he is real wimpy around doctors or any type of medical situation,” Cynthia Rodriguez said. “I don’t know why I thought the birth of our child would be different.”Tough and big? Um, there's a reason A-Rod gets referred to as "Slappy".
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Knuckling Down
That was the best Wakefield start I've seen for a while. Nice for the team to get the shutout on a day that Paps and Okajima weren't available in all likelihood.
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That was the best Wakefield start I've seen for a while. Nice for the team to get the shutout on a day that Paps and Okajima weren't available in all likelihood.
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Saturday, May 03, 2008
On creative baseball usage, and Owings
The Wall Street Journal (of all papers) explores creative usage in baseball this season - I had noted the game in which Girardi elected not to start Ian Kennedy in case of rain, but missed Chris Resop playing both pitcher and LF in the same game, which sounded like a great move, even if it didn't pan out in this instance.
Now that Micah Owings has a 1.044 career OPS - only around the same level as, oh, Babe Ruth and Ted Williams - it will be really interesting to see what happens in interleague if he's scheduled to pitch. Do they choose to DH for another player? And in his regular NL games, does he stay at the bottom of the lineup?
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The Wall Street Journal (of all papers) explores creative usage in baseball this season - I had noted the game in which Girardi elected not to start Ian Kennedy in case of rain, but missed Chris Resop playing both pitcher and LF in the same game, which sounded like a great move, even if it didn't pan out in this instance.
Now that Micah Owings has a 1.044 career OPS - only around the same level as, oh, Babe Ruth and Ted Williams - it will be really interesting to see what happens in interleague if he's scheduled to pitch. Do they choose to DH for another player? And in his regular NL games, does he stay at the bottom of the lineup?
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Slump Busting
Finally, crooked numbers for the Sox; finally, runs. That Moss homer to straightaway centre was beautiful (I love those homers to dead center). One of my favourite moments in the game, though, was Buchholz's 3 straight Ks to get himself out of that 2-on, no-out jam. That curveball was making some of the Rays hitters look silly.
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Finally, crooked numbers for the Sox; finally, runs. That Moss homer to straightaway centre was beautiful (I love those homers to dead center). One of my favourite moments in the game, though, was Buchholz's 3 straight Ks to get himself out of that 2-on, no-out jam. That curveball was making some of the Rays hitters look silly.
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Friday, May 02, 2008
Pitch Perfect
I'm loving the starting pitching, but not loving the offense. 5 great starts: Masterson, Beckett, Lester, Dice-K, and Wakefield, and yet the only wins in that span belong to a certain J. Papelbon. Um, the older J. Papelbon, that is. I'm wondering what the Fenway park factor looks like this season - surely it'll look depressed by a woeful offense and masterful starting pitching?
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I'm loving the starting pitching, but not loving the offense. 5 great starts: Masterson, Beckett, Lester, Dice-K, and Wakefield, and yet the only wins in that span belong to a certain J. Papelbon. Um, the older J. Papelbon, that is. I'm wondering what the Fenway park factor looks like this season - surely it'll look depressed by a woeful offense and masterful starting pitching?
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Ways to Make Jays Pay
What a great win today, following a frustrating series of losses. For once a great pitching performance from a Sox starter wasn't wasted. Amazing work from Lester... sorry, Doc Halladay.
Meanwhile, is it just schadenfreude that makes one happy that the NY Daily News seems to be alleging that Clemens is an ephebophile? Sure, I can't say the Daily News is a paragon of great reporting (when I was in New York in 2001, I met a guy who was a stringer for them, and his job was to camp outside Gracie Mansion trying to see what he could find out about Rudy Giuliani). But still. All that, and I got to actually use the word "ephebophile" in a sentence.
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What a great win today, following a frustrating series of losses. For once a great pitching performance from a Sox starter wasn't wasted. Amazing work from Lester... sorry, Doc Halladay.
Meanwhile, is it just schadenfreude that makes one happy that the NY Daily News seems to be alleging that Clemens is an ephebophile? Sure, I can't say the Daily News is a paragon of great reporting (when I was in New York in 2001, I met a guy who was a stringer for them, and his job was to camp outside Gracie Mansion trying to see what he could find out about Rudy Giuliani). But still. All that, and I got to actually use the word "ephebophile" in a sentence.
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008
We're No Angels: Sox Hammer Halos
We're No Angels featured a great director (Neil Jordan), two of the greatest actors around (De Niro and Penn) plus some of the best supporting actors (John C. Reilly, Wallace Shawn), and a great screenwriter (David Mamet). And it still fell flat on its face.
Which is to say, sometimes you don't need to have all your parts being great. Sometimes you look on paper and go, hmm, Beckett's out and Pauley's pitching in his place. The bullpen doesn't have MDC available. Light-hittin' Kevin Cash is the starting catcher. Ortiz is still hitting below the Mendoza line.
And yet... what a game. Ellsbury with 2 homers and scoring from 1st on a hit to left field. Lord that man is fast fast fast. (I suppose since I was referencing random films, I could've gone with this one.) Backup catcher (!) Pedroia is exactly what you don't expect from a guy his size: power and not that much speed. Between his hit today and his hits into the triangle against the Rangers, how can you not like him? Except that as a fellow 5"7' man, it makes me sad because I no longer have the "I was the wrong height to play baseball" thing to go by.
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We're No Angels featured a great director (Neil Jordan), two of the greatest actors around (De Niro and Penn) plus some of the best supporting actors (John C. Reilly, Wallace Shawn), and a great screenwriter (David Mamet). And it still fell flat on its face.
Which is to say, sometimes you don't need to have all your parts being great. Sometimes you look on paper and go, hmm, Beckett's out and Pauley's pitching in his place. The bullpen doesn't have MDC available. Light-hittin' Kevin Cash is the starting catcher. Ortiz is still hitting below the Mendoza line.
And yet... what a game. Ellsbury with 2 homers and scoring from 1st on a hit to left field. Lord that man is fast fast fast. (I suppose since I was referencing random films, I could've gone with this one.) Backup catcher (!) Pedroia is exactly what you don't expect from a guy his size: power and not that much speed. Between his hit today and his hits into the triangle against the Rangers, how can you not like him? Except that as a fellow 5"7' man, it makes me sad because I no longer have the "I was the wrong height to play baseball" thing to go by.
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