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California Dreaming

I’d be safe and warm... safe and secure, [largest mutual life insurance company’s name here]. Organ flourish. As the Red Sox may not make the playoffs they might as well take out as many teams as they can as they play out the rest of the season. Going into this

Right Said Jed

He’s too sexy for Pawtucket. Since his return to the majors on July 21 Jed Lowrie has had hits in four out of six games and enjoyed his first multi-extra base hit game of the season last night. His first-inning double wasn’t converted into a run but his seventh-inning two-bagger

Haren Scarin’

Were they so rushed to put up Dan Haren’s picture in Angels togs that they couldn’t find a hairbrush? With his unkempt hair he looks like a homeless man or a Nick Nolte mugshot. Haren fell behind in the second inning after surrendering a leadoff triple to Adrian Beltre and

The Time of the Decent Mariners

Every sub-500 team has that little morale-lifting series where they win or split a series against a powerhouse team. I suppose the injury-depleted Red Sox fill the role of the antagonist to the lovable underdog Mariners. The Seattle squad broke out of the shackles of disrepute and elevated themselves to

Simmering Southpaw

Jon Lester was hot in at least two senses of the word. The lefty carried a perfect game into the sixth inning, striking out 10 batters until that frame, and was literally unhittable. With one out Lester induced an easy fly ball off the bat of Jack Wilson to center,

Back to Beckett

“Humanity is a well with two buckets,” said Wylie, “one going down to be filled, the other coming up to be emptied.” Murphy by Samuel BeckettJosh Beckett continued his rehabilitation with a game against the Triple-AAA Seattle Mariners, lasting 5⅔ innings with a line of 5 hits, 1 earned run,

Dr. Strangeglove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Team

John Lackey denied the Mariners his essence, carrying a no-hitter into the eighth. Of all batters to break up the bid it had to be Josh Bard, the former Red Sox catcher who was part of the ill-fated 2006 squad. He was part of the Coco Crisp trade, another player

Green With Envy

If you’re a pitcher and a peripatetic AAAA player like Matt Watson jacks his first home run off you and a fringe player experiencing a season-long power outage such as Jack Cust launches his sixth dinger, chances are you’re not going to win. Clay Buchholz’s first start since returning off

Extra Innings Excruciation

If only I overestimated the extra time this game took when I activated my DVR. Usually 30 minutes is enough, but not for this particularly frustrating fiasco. My recording ended after Ramon Ramirez escaped the ninth, so I thankfully missed the game-winning hit by Kevin Kouzmanoff. Home plate umpire Bob

Sanshabontai [三者凡退]

Daisuke Matsuzaka had four sanshabontai, Japanese for 1-2-3 inning. The first two ideograms represents the concept of three people and the final two mean a baseball out. Oakland isn’t an offensive powerhouse by any means; the team is seventh in the American League in team batting average (.262), tenth in

str8edgeracer Tweets Triumphantly

Motoring to Motor City next. Will work on the novel on the way there--feeling inspired after winning the Beantown series. 1 day, 6 hours ago Cameron knocked a dinger off Neftali but the rookie blew away the rest of the batters. Unbelievable heat! 1 day, 6 hours ago Again with

Not So Easy Lee

Darnell McDonald devours left-handed pitching. The splits say it all: .288 versus .262 batting average, a less striking difference in on-base percentage (.333 compared to .328), but a huge gap in slugging (an impressive .507 compared to .361). So it was not too surprising for the platoon player to come

The Catcher Did Defy

Bengie Molina is the last baseball player one could imagine to join the very short list of players hitting for the cycle with the home run being a grand slam:Nap Lajoie, Philadelphia Athletics, second baseman, July 30, 1901 against the Cleveland IndiansBill Terry, New York Giants, first baseman, May 29,

If Man is Five

Then the devil is six, like the six runs in the first inning of the game. And he was in the details, details that home plate umpire Bruce Dreckman missed. Everyone but Dreckman, including Michael Young himself, thought that he struck out. He ran out a dropped foul tip but

Halfway Closed

Daisuke Matsuzaka pitched for six solid innings with five whiffs and had just his third outing without a base on balls. Terry Francona tried to stay with his starter for seven but he surrendered a two-run homer to Aaron Hill. The Red Sox skipper tapped Daniel Bard to pitch two

Major League Team Coverage

Odds of Winning
2009 World Series *

Team	Odds
New York Yankees	4-1
Boston Red Sox	13-2
Chicago Cubs	17-2
New York Mets	9-1
Los Angeles Angels	11-1
St-Louis Cardinals	18-1
Cleveland Indians	20-1
Los Angeles Dodgers	20-1
Chicago White Sox	32-1

* Odds of winning the World Series - as of Mar 4, 2009 (courtesy of bodoglife.com)

Odds of Winning
2008 World Series **

Team	Odds
Boston Red Sox	4-1
New York Mets	4-1
New York Yankees	6-1
Detroit Tigers	6-1
Chicago Cubs	7-1
Los Angeles Dodgers	20-1
Chicago White Sox	40-1
St-Louis Cardinals	75-1

** Odds of winning the 2008 World Series - as of Apr 1, 2008 (courtesy of sportsbook.com)

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