Posted by Teddy Panos, Sun Staff
With all due respect to the Royals, Rangers, Mariners, Angels and Blue Jays, the first “real” game of the 2007 Red Sox season takes place tonight at Fenway Park.
The Evil Empire invades Beantown for a 3-game series which shapes up as a very important weekend for Boston’s Boys of Summer. Rest assured, the division won’t be decided over the next three days, but a tone might be set. The Yankees come to town beat up, especially in the starting rotation, while the Sox used a couple of rain days to perfectly set up their 3-aces…Shilling, Beckett and Dice-K for this series.
Can the Bronx Bombers survive losing 2-out-of-3 or even getting swept? Of course they can. They usually don’t make their move till August, anyway. Can the Red Sox survive a lost weekend? Mathematically, yes. Psychologically? Let’s just say the Yanks slapping around Schilling, Matsuzaka or the new and improved Beckett wouldn’t be a very good sign long-term. (P.S. Tell me you’re not at least getting some satisfaction out of watching A-Rod tear it up, knowing full well that just when those fraud Yankees fans start to love him, he’ll tell them where to stick it and walk at the end of the season!)
I agree with you patience preachers; it’s just three games, in April no less. But we all know any game against the Yankees is never just a game, is it?
Exactly why I turned to my brother after A-Rod's second homerun in the 1st game and said, "I hope A-Rod hits 3 homeruns but the Res Sox still win." SWEET!
Posted by T2 | April 21, 2007 3:39 PM
Posted on April 21, 2007 15:39
Teddy,
We have heard all the cliches we want. It's a marathon not a sprint, you can jump out of the gate fast but we'll always finish ahead of you... But truth be told the Sawx seem to be a team of underachievers with something to prove. The Yankees seam lost and in decline. Yeah they have Jeter and A-rod but after that they feally don't have that scary line up (with Godzilla and Posada) out of the lineup. Looks like they need help and Uncle Georgie Pocketbook will be looking for some playas...Hey good for A-fraud let him tear it up and put up MVP offensive numbers in APRIL, he's still an average third baseman in my eyes. He's as good as gone after the season is over. Especially after he bats .184 come playoff time when offensive numbers mean the most...
Posted by ROCKETMAN | April 21, 2007 9:34 PM
Posted on April 21, 2007 21:34