Monday, April 14, 2008

Don't be sad...

cuz two out of three ain't bad. This is what you want, two out of three in a home series. There were even some good signs in the Red Sox lone loss. The pitches were there for Buchholz. The key is when he's able to throw that nasty curve for strikes. That was the first time the Yanks saw him so that makes a difference, but it was an encouraging outing nevertheless.

This is not going to be the Red Sox offense to which we've grown accustomed. Even last season, there was really only one power bat in the line up that produced regularly, and that was Papi. The Sox have now built a team that is more about consistency, guile, defense, and speed. Although he's been playing extremely well, don't expect 40 home runs from Manny this season. No one knows how the rest of Ortiz's year is going to pan out either. But all of that is OK, because top to bottom the Sox have a line up of scrappy hitters who will be a nuisance to their opponents. Not only that, but opponents have to account for their speed on the bases as well, which is something that teams had not had to do before. If they could only do something about that bullpen. Timlin!!!

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