Pretty ironic that the Red Sox season had bookend starts and finishes; opened the season with three strait frustrating losses to start the season when the bats were asleep and three strait frustrating losses to end the season when the bats were asleep.
I don't ever in my life recall seeing a team go from red hot to a dumpster fire offensively, they were putting up historic post season numbers, their numbers to end the season were historic too, as in historically bad.
How does a team 1-9 tear the cover off the ball and then 1-9 look like dogshit in the blink of an eye?
Someone needs to explain to me how two tomato cans like Valdez who was leaking more oil off the side of his face in game 4 than the Exxon Valdez and Jose Greco Garcia with his salsa dance moves and his arms glowing with something on them end up looking like Koufax and Drysdale. He's got pretty good dance moves for a guy who had to opt out of game two with a knee injury; whatever the team doctor gave him for that, sign me up.
A commentator last night mentioned they made "adjustments".............right, sure they did, it was "adjustments" that turned two tomato cans from pieces of charcoal to diamonds.
It was a fun ride, I predicted they'd finish 4th in the division, they finished second, knocked off the Yankees and the 100 Win Tampa Bay Devil Rays and took the Astros and their "adjustments" to six games, they were up 2-1 and it was right there for the taking.
Too bad, these chances don't come along very often.
It is what it is.
And I have no doubt the Dodgers, who now have to do another bullpen game as Scherzer's arm fell off, will pull this series out of their collective *****, but hey, when you have a 350 million dollar payroll, miracles happen.
IF that happens and the Braves are out, then for the second year in a row, I'm done with baseball.
Imagine subjecting myself to that WS matchup and having to listen to the announcers drone on about how the RS traded Mookie Betts to the Dodgers and he's about to win back to back WS titles, 2020* and 2021, or how the Astros came back from the dead thanks to the efforts of Exxon Valdez and Jose Greco and even though they are historic cheaters, they are about to win yet another World Series.
Where's that meteor strike me and Al talked about.
Call me a sore loser; I think it was one of the greatest winners of all time Vince Lombardi who said, "Show me someone who's a good loser and I'll show you a loser."
As my Dad always told me, always go out on a high note; so how's that for you Sammy?............:wink2:
And thanks for pulling for my Red Sox, it's hard to win when the other team makes "adjustments."
