Sox Stink, On the Brink
I guess Tim Wakefield didn’t really pitch that bad last night. If he hadn’t tipped that one ball back to the mound, Pedroia would have turned the double play and the Sox would have been out of the 5th giving up only 1 run instead of 7. Just a little bad luck. It’s like when my human is eating a handful of Goldfish crackers and he drops one and it happens to bounce under the stove, robbing me of delicious cheese crunchiness in my mouth. Inches away from feasting. Someday I will move that stove and feast on the treasures beneath.
Anyway, my fellow Texan Josh Beckett will definitely get it done in Game 5 since he is clutch and Cowboys always beat Indians. After that, I don’t know. I say we pitch Beckett on 1 day rest in Game 6 and then probably go with Beckett on 0 days rest in Game 7. Makes sense to me. Either that or we pick up Kevin Millar, have him get his hands all greased up in a bucket of chicken wings, and put him out on the mound. Then we take out Crisp and put in Mike Timlin in center with a shotgun and he can shoot down anything that looks like it’s going to be a homer like he shoots skeet. Extreme situations always call for extreme amounts of chicken wings.
Pupi out,
Big Pupi
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Hi Pupi –
Yes, the double play would have been nice. A case of trying too hard on the part of Wake. And if Youk had caught that foul ball, the Indians probably would only have 2 runs instead of 7. Considering that they did not score after the 5th, we may even have won the game.
Here’s hoping Josh will help me lay off the catnip tonight – Cowboy up!
Emmet
Hi Big P -
I just want to thank you for keeping your blog going – it is a lot more enjoyable than what is going on at another Sox blog (infiltrated by Tribe fans). Humans seem to be acting more like animals than we do. Everything here is smart and respectful, which this cat can really appreciate.
I’m sorry you don’t have more animals contributing – are we going into hibernation season? I wish they’d all wake up (as long as they keep their poo to themselves)
I’ll try to lay off the catnip in preparation for tomorrow night –
Emmet “Pudge” (who knew how to celebrate a home run when it was worth celebrating)
Hi Big Pupi,Emmet, and all the lurkers out there,
Yes, I guess it’s time to get back down to earth. After sweeping the A’s and taking ALCS Game 1 by a 10-3 score, lots of us thought this whole postseason was going to be a romp through the daisies. I was worried about that attitude.
And yes, with a little better luck in Game 4, we would have done much better. And I agree with Emmet that Manny should learn to tell when it’s time to celebrate, and when it’s not.
I’m still hopeful that our guys can come through. I’ve heard stories from my human about the ALCS in 1986, long before either of you or I were born. The Red Sox were down in the ALCS three games to one to the Angels, and we were trailing by three runs in the top of the ninth. It was a long story, but thanks to Dave Henderson, we pulled that game out, and won the next two back at Fenway to make it to the World Series.
And in the 2004 ALCS, the Red Sox came back from a three-games-to-none deficit to beat the Yankees and move on to the World Series. My human had to tell me about that one, too. I was in my cage at the animal shelter at the time, and we didn’t have TVs in our cages. I met my human in December that year, and was all moved into our apartment before the year ended.
I’m going to stay up for the whole game tonight – I have all winter to sleep if we don’t pull it out.
Eleanor