Question

Even with the masterful pitching of King Felix, the Sox have scored 39 runs in their last 5 games. Are they out of their offensive slump, our does the Angels pitching just suck?

It's On!

Wow...I never would have thought that this morning there would be a game played in Boston today. Yet, it is underway and the Sox are crushing. 6-1.

Nice job by the offense in the first...aided by a horrible throwaway by LAA of A.

Best of the week Part Deux

Did you really expect me to be so foolish as to actually take my weekly gig seriously?! I didn't think so.

I liked the Lugo photo because it actually looks like he slapped Cabrera and it was a perfect analogy to what the Sox did this weekend.

There were only a couple other key images worthy of note from the week. As this is a biased blog, I make no apology for my focus on the Sox. The Sox started the week with a bang. The team hit a slight bump at the weekly hump when they ran head on into an exceptional pitching performance that went the wrong way. However, those Red Stockings responded with, dare I say, an unexpected performance from Curt and a reemergence of the offense that was helped by a hot-hand in Hinske. This should provide enough to at least kindle the fire under the boo-birds who are likely to focus their cacophany Coco's way.

Still, this image of Lugo is priceless and speaking as a Sox fan it is certainly nice to see him on base. This kid has speed! He showed that he can consistently score from second even on line drive singles. This fact should work out well for him this year.

notes: By the way, it's good to see that Bronson is still sporting the rock-star look. I hope this is not a trend!

Things that make you say, "huh"?

Toriiii Hunter (whom I generally like) and C.C. Sabathia (whom Dino generally loves, at least on draft day) both think Sunday's Jackie Robinson tribute is "watered down." Take it away Toriiiii:

This is supposed to be an honor, and just a handful of guys wearing the number. Now you've got entire teams doing it. I think we're killing the meaning.

Really, what the hell is he talking about? Does this make sense to anyone? He's pissed off that other people besides him (and a select few) get to wear number 42? In order to honor someone who deserves to be honored by everyone? God I hate it when reporters don't ask for followup when the people they're interviewing say something stupid.

(...Also, I like that Mariano Rivera is listed as one of the players who "will be wearing no. 42 on Sunday.")

(...Whoops, someone beat me to it.)

Continuing on our theme of lame, very short blog posts...

After 7 innings, Felix Hernandez is throwing a NO-HITTER. He is NO-HITTING the Red Sox. The Red Sox have gotten NO HITS off Felix Hernandez. NOHITTERNOHITTERNOHITTER.

update (6:14 pm, 1 batter later): works every time...
...like here (in comments), also with King Felix...
...and here, with Weaver vs. Halladay...
...and here (in comments), with the Unit...

update 2: dammit, getting no hits but still getting the win would've been a hell of a lot nicer than that result. Yuck.

Hmmm... Delicious? No.. Dice-K-licious!

This is a bit odd. Brigham's is renaming their ice cream "reversed curse" to "Dice-Kream" I am not sure how that makes me feel. In fact, it makes me feel a bit gross. Some times RSN can go TOO far.

"There will be a lot of teams involved in deciding who goes to the playoffs this year."

One of the best Fire Joe Morgan articles ever, on one of the worst Joe Morgan chats ever. It's going to be a fun year over at ESPN.com.

Bestest of the week

Best of the week

(As of 5:46 PM this is my favorite image of the week in Baseball). Global warming meets Baseball? Yes, people global warming means more freak storms along with the melting! On the other side of things, Sexson's horsing around in the snow is a chilling reminder of the cool start to many of the leagues big sluggers and in the Red Sox case, an ace as well. Maybe my favorite image will change later this evening, but one thing is for sure, it's not Slappy et el feeling, "Foolish running around the bases like it was Little League." The psychological image of a child trapped in ARod is too torturious to contemplate. That being said, I am mildly cheered by the pending let down ARod will cause the fans the very first time he's cold again in the clutch.

Daisuke commercial

This is pretty cool.

And one other funny note. I was listening the Jim Rome show the other day and he had CHB as a guest. Rome asked him about the Schilling Blog article and CHB shrugged it off as just fun. But then said that when he was flying to KC a day or two after the article, he was seated on the plane in the seat right next to Shonda Schilling. Classic. And he said she was very classy and did not talk about it. Although I did get the sense she did not talk very much.

On another note, how long is it before CHB writes a book about the Gyroball? Or any book about Dice K?