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AHAHAHA OMG BASEBALL. There is much joy to be had.
First, though, I want to get a bit of negativity out of the way by formally renouncing any love I had remaining for Ivan "Pudge" Rodriguez. Because check this shit out:
"It's frustrating, very frustrating," Rodriguez said. "I'm not used to playing like this. I don't like to play like this. I've been here two years and I don't see any changes. It's hard to be on a ballclub like that, because I'm not used to that. I love to win. I love to be in the playoffs. I would love to see my teammates the same way, but I don't know. I don't have their minds. I can talk to you from my heart. I'm a winner. I'm not a loser. [...] I hate losing games. I'm not a loser. It's hard for me to be on a team losing every day. That's not me. That's not the type of player that I am. I love winning."
Wooooow. Way to shit all over your organization and your teammates - and thus, incidentally, the fans - in one little interview. Well, fuck you too, Pudge, and I hope we trade you to the Rockies for a duffel bag half-full of used baseballs, and don't let the door hit your perfect ass on the way out of town.
Okay. With that out of the way, YAY BASEBALL.
Red Sox/Yankees! I had a blast watching this game, not just because of the whole thing where we won a lot, but because I finally hit on the idea of ditching the morons at FOX in favor of Joe and Jerry on WEEI, and that is the best way to watch a FOX broadcast: mute it and listen to the radio broadcast.
As for the game itself, almost more important to me than wrecking the Yankees - and it was certainly fun to watch their defense take its turn at sucking - was watching Schilling. That has been a very scary thing to do all year, but today he absolutely shone, taking a no hitter into the fourth and a one hitter into the seventh, and giving up exactly two runs over eight innings. He looked like Curt today, and that's something we desperately need, and I hope this is a sign that he's coming back to form. Final score: 9-2. Heh.
Tigers! OMG WON A GAME AND IT WAS AMAZING. That kills the losing streak at nine, gets Fernando Rodney his first save in like a hundred years, and maybe perks our boys up a little bit. We had a 2-0 lead and then coughed it up in the fourth to give the Royals a 3-2 lead. The we tied it up in the fifth thanks to Carlos Peña sending Shelty home. Then, in the eighth, we took the lead again, and guess who? Peña with a homer, that's who. So, Peña gets a cookie, plus extra cookies for being the first member of the offense to do anything useful for like a week. Our pitching also gets cookies for not doing what they did last night, and Rodney gets an extra cookie for not blowing it like I'll admit I expected him to.
Astros! With the winning after a couple days of kind of not! Andy Pettitte put in some serious work tonight; he started and was involved in scoring two runs. And, if I've counted correctly from the play by play (the game just ended so the recap isn't up yet), he gave up three runs on four hits, a walk, and four K's in six and two-thirds innings. This is much encouraging after Clemens last night, because, oh yeah, Roger Clemens is not our entire rotation, we have other awesome guys too. Final score 7-5, so also way to go Astros offense!
All this pitching and offense goodness from my teams and the Indians also won to gain a game and a half lead over the Yankees in the wild card race. And I do hate the Indians, but, you know, anyone but the Yankees. Man, baseball life is good tonight.
First, though, I want to get a bit of negativity out of the way by formally renouncing any love I had remaining for Ivan "Pudge" Rodriguez. Because check this shit out:
"It's frustrating, very frustrating," Rodriguez said. "I'm not used to playing like this. I don't like to play like this. I've been here two years and I don't see any changes. It's hard to be on a ballclub like that, because I'm not used to that. I love to win. I love to be in the playoffs. I would love to see my teammates the same way, but I don't know. I don't have their minds. I can talk to you from my heart. I'm a winner. I'm not a loser. [...] I hate losing games. I'm not a loser. It's hard for me to be on a team losing every day. That's not me. That's not the type of player that I am. I love winning."
Wooooow. Way to shit all over your organization and your teammates - and thus, incidentally, the fans - in one little interview. Well, fuck you too, Pudge, and I hope we trade you to the Rockies for a duffel bag half-full of used baseballs, and don't let the door hit your perfect ass on the way out of town.
Okay. With that out of the way, YAY BASEBALL.
Red Sox/Yankees! I had a blast watching this game, not just because of the whole thing where we won a lot, but because I finally hit on the idea of ditching the morons at FOX in favor of Joe and Jerry on WEEI, and that is the best way to watch a FOX broadcast: mute it and listen to the radio broadcast.
As for the game itself, almost more important to me than wrecking the Yankees - and it was certainly fun to watch their defense take its turn at sucking - was watching Schilling. That has been a very scary thing to do all year, but today he absolutely shone, taking a no hitter into the fourth and a one hitter into the seventh, and giving up exactly two runs over eight innings. He looked like Curt today, and that's something we desperately need, and I hope this is a sign that he's coming back to form. Final score: 9-2. Heh.
Tigers! OMG WON A GAME AND IT WAS AMAZING. That kills the losing streak at nine, gets Fernando Rodney his first save in like a hundred years, and maybe perks our boys up a little bit. We had a 2-0 lead and then coughed it up in the fourth to give the Royals a 3-2 lead. The we tied it up in the fifth thanks to Carlos Peña sending Shelty home. Then, in the eighth, we took the lead again, and guess who? Peña with a homer, that's who. So, Peña gets a cookie, plus extra cookies for being the first member of the offense to do anything useful for like a week. Our pitching also gets cookies for not doing what they did last night, and Rodney gets an extra cookie for not blowing it like I'll admit I expected him to.
Astros! With the winning after a couple days of kind of not! Andy Pettitte put in some serious work tonight; he started and was involved in scoring two runs. And, if I've counted correctly from the play by play (the game just ended so the recap isn't up yet), he gave up three runs on four hits, a walk, and four K's in six and two-thirds innings. This is much encouraging after Clemens last night, because, oh yeah, Roger Clemens is not our entire rotation, we have other awesome guys too. Final score 7-5, so also way to go Astros offense!
All this pitching and offense goodness from my teams and the Indians also won to gain a game and a half lead over the Yankees in the wild card race. And I do hate the Indians, but, you know, anyone but the Yankees. Man, baseball life is good tonight.
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And as for the Pudge thing, I think I'm more annoyed with the timing than with him or him saying what he said. We suck right now, and then he comes out and says all this and it's kind of like piling it on. I don't really think he's saying that he's better than Detroit or his teammates or whatever. Everywhere he's been, he's won, and this is very frustrating. Hell it's frustrating for me too. Oh well. Hopefully this is all resolved and we can look forward to 2006.
I, would however, trade him for a Diet Coke right now.