Sooo… where to begin.
Can you believe after the first game against the Indians, I was worried we’d roll over the Tribe too easily and it wouldn’t be exciting?
I have a bet going on with a Rox fan at work — winner of the series buys dinner for the desk we work on, while wearing the other team’s gear.
Out of Ortiz, Youk and Lowell, who is the odd man out when the Sox play in Denver? (Someone has to sit because there’s no DH). Ortiz is batting .387 with 3 HR in the postseason; Lowell, .333 with 1 (and 11 RBI), and Youk, .425 with 4 homers and 9 RBI. If Youkilis keeps up this hot streak I think you have to play him and bench Lowell, as good as he’s been.
It was great to be able to end those 1918 chants once and for all in 2004. But there are still these very popular T-shirts in Yankee stadium that say how “any idiot can win a World Series,” comparing the 26 rings of the Yankees to the six of the Red Sox, and how it won’t be another 86 years before the Yankees win another series. It would be nice to force people to dispose of those shirts. Very. Nice. Indeed.
I think they bench Youk, given Lowell’s gold glove at 3rd. They move Ellsbury up to hit 2nd in front of Ortiz. More importantly, who starts game 4? Lester or Beckett on 3 days rest?
Beckett going on three days rest also presumably means Schilling would pitch game 5 on three days rest. Not. Going. To. Happen.