April 23, 2007

How Sweep It Is!!!



The Red Sox have turned the tables and swept "The Evil Empire" at Fenway. The final game of the series ended Home Run Derby style as a total of six home runs were launched. Five of them for the Red Sox and one for the Yankees. In the Bottom of the 3rd Inning with the Sox down 3-0, Manny, J.D. Drew, Mike Lowell, and 'Tek went yard in a back-to-back-to-back-to-back off Yankees rookie pitcher Chase Wright and the Sox led 4-3! Dice - K Pitched well and it was a great team victory for the Sox. Top 9th, Papelbon pwns the Yankees for his 6th save in 6 chances and second of the series. He still has his sharp 0.00 ERA while his Yankees counterpart Mariano Rivera is 1-2 with a 8.44 ERA, 0 saves and 2 blown saves. The Sox sit comfortably atop the AL East with a 1.5 game lead on the Orioles and a whopping 4 game lead on the Yanks. I know its only April and the Sox are due for their June-July slump again this year, but it is a great confidence booster for this team.

Few Things I Hated From ESPN this weekend:
~Jon Miller is the worst announcer in the world, at times i wish he would have shut-up. Joe Morgan states an interesting stat when someone is batting and next time that guys bats Miller repeats what Morgan has stated but he makes it sound like he did the research.
~Jon Miller kept on confusing Hideki Okajima and Dice-K.
~Jon Miller is a Tool.
~SportsCenter after Friday's game says lets go to Boston to think what our announcers say, they play the same segment that was played after the game. At least they would state that this is what the announcers had to say.
~Baseball Tonight had a segment on Dice-K that was taken before the game started and Peter Gammons was talking about Dice-K and how he'd react to the Yankees. It was on Baseball Tonight After the Game.
~A-Rod does this, A-Rod does that. Do they care about anything else. I know that guy is a big deal but don't they realize that he'll eventually become the A-Rod we all know, batting .000 in the postseason and collapsing statistically by the end of the year?
~Many More but I bet anyone i can announce a baseball game better than Jon Miller of ESPN Sunday Night Baseball.

Up Coming, Maybe today or tomorrow my Western Conference Preview. I'm too lazy to do it now.

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