Tossing batting practice…While wondering what kind of 40 time is needed for the guy is in charge of the challenge flag for Marvin Lewis.

I don’t know how to explain it, but the Patriots are so good now I don’t really even cheer when they make a great play, I just cackle like an evil super villain. I have to say I kind of like it too, especially if non-Pats fans are in the room.

I hate the 16-0 talk by the media because you know they’re just trying to jinx us, but it is really fun to imagine what if….
I know that we desperately want home field advantage, but chew on this, our offense is probably more suited to be playing January football in warm or climate controlled weather, especially since by then Laurence Maroney will probably be in a wheelchair.

Explain to me why it’s imperative your ace has to start game 1? With the Sox choosing the eight day series, and their decision to pitch Dice-K in Fenway wouldn’t it have made more sense for him to go game one, and Beckett game two?
I’d rather have Beckett lined up to pitch the decisive fifth game, or possibly the opener of the LCS. The prospect of Dice-K pitching with our season on the line makes me nervous.
I know he has a reputation as a big time big game pitcher, and I hope that’s true, but the fact is we already have two guys on the staff with the reputation who have earned it on this side of the International Date Line.


It was nice to see the obligatory Orlando Cabrera story in the Globe that includes the “shrouded in mystery” reason he left. It’s aggravating that the media continues to bring it up, and then choose to go no further.
I have no problem with keeping it a secret, but don’t bring it up, either mention Cabrera and his wonderful efforts in the ’04 season, and take the organization to task.
It’s taunting journalism, “I know something you don’t know.” And to me its crap, because 98 percent of the region doesn’t know the story, so it just fuels the fire.
Cabrera, as near as I can tell never says anything beyond, “they didn’t make me an offer.” He never questions it, it’s as if he knows why, and is happy to have had the experience, and is happy to be able to move on with his good name in tact.
(Vulgarity alert)…Sometimes I just wish someone would piss on Cafardo, and simply state, “now that’s yellow journalism.”

There is nothing quite like reading a woe is us sports column from the San Diego papers. I haven’t laughed that hard, well probably since Moss’ TD Monday night, but still.
They couldn’t sell out Petco in their final homestand with a playoff berth on the line, they live in friggin paradise, so yeah, forgive me for enjoying their tribulations just a little bit more than most other places.

I love the story that is the Rockies, but their whole Jesus loving schtick just isn’t for me. Baseball is religion, not Baseball and religion.
In the name of the Father (Ted) the Son (Yaz) and Holy Ghost (Papi)
Amen
That final call in the playoff game was almost as if McClellan was processing the fact that if the Rockies lose, they’ll be blamed for the non-home run (which by the way hit that woman’s wheel chair I believe) and decided screw it, he’s safe.

I will be riding the Cubs and Phillies bandwagon through the NL playoffs, those two cities both deserve one more excruciating heart break.
Though a throwback World Series could be in order with D-Backs/Yankees.

Any chance the Indians take a game in their series? I say no. Yanks in two.

As for the rest, I’m a pessimist and always will be so I say Angels in 5 I just don’t see the Sox getting enough offense, and they can’t create it like the Angels do with their running game.
D-Backs in 4, Webb pitches twice, and Zambrano isn’t poised enough, but I hope I’m wrong.
Phillies in 5…that’s an American League offense, and its really fun to watch Philly fans anguish in torture, on a pitch by pitch basis.