Half a year

So I was going to post on what terrible, practically unwatchable baseball the Sox have been playing the last week or so, but that would ruin my day. Instead, I noticed that today marks the 6-month anniversary of the GYS Network, founded January 19. Not like that’s a big deal, at all, but it gives us a chance to go back to why we started this. The point wasn’t to be a blog (“because I hate the word ‘blog’”), but rather so the four of us could continue our emailed baseball conversations in a more ordered fashion. Nothing like trying to meet a deadline at work and finding your inbox fill up with 30 messages in which your friends (presumably with more time on their hands than you have that particular day) are debating if Carl Pavano is any good.

Moreover, with all posts archived, we’re stuck with all predictions we’ve made earlier on. Obviously we’ve all made some good ones, and we’ve all been very good about reminding each other of those (some more than others, *cough cough*), but the fun of course is in the ones we got wrong. Looking back on our posts, there are a lot of them. Someone said the Sox would win 100 games – they’d have to go 50-20 to do that now. But here are the best howlers I came across:

“I think this acquisition of Blaine Neal might be bigger than we think.” X, March 25

“Surprisingly, Womack seems reasonably solid. Maybe 2B won't be the position the Yanks fill in late July.” Yours truly, April 11 [Technically, I was right. Womack was replaced at 2B in early May.]

“Better pitcher? RJ. Durability? Schilling.” GrieveRules, January 27