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April 4th, 2005 by Bryan Allain | Filed under sports.If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
a few notes from last night’s loss to the Yankers:
1. I really hope Renteria gets off to a good start in Boston. All of us are a little skeptical of the move to let O-Cab go after his clutch hitting and unreal defense helped us win a title. I do feel that Edgar’s bat will put up some decent numbers this year (.282, 22 HRs, 77 RBI) but he’s going o have to earn his way into our hearts. shoudlnt be tough though.
2. Despite a shaky outing last night, i think Wells will work out alright for the Sox. Especially as the #2 behind Schill.
3. I was glad that ESPN talked so much about Dave Robert’s steal from Game 4 of the ALCS last year. Clearly it was the turning point of the series. It deserves all the pub it got. I also found it interesting that Roberts was a protege of Maury Wills. good stuff…
4. I’m trying to hate “Fever Pitch” because all good Red Sox fans are supposed to, but honestly I am indifferent to it. Its probably not a good movie, and will probably bomb at the box office (replace Fallon with Adam Sandler though, and it would probably kill). I’ll see it, and enjoy it, and remain a little perturbed that those two bozos were on the field 10 minutes after the Red Sox fulfilled the dreams of thousands of actual red sox fans. But I’ll move on. 10 years from now i won’t remember fever pitch and neither will you. But the memories of the Yankees choke job and the St. Louis sweep will be as sweet as buttermilk. (and i’ve never had buttermilk)
5. games against the yankees have lost some of their oomph for me, i’ll admit it. when you are the perennial second fiddle, you look for every sign of hope you can find. every win over the yanks felt like validation, every loss was another dagger. But now that we are defending champs it really is different. Last night’s loss was just one game out of 162. The cackling yankees’ fans were just a bunch of jerks who havent celebrated a title in 5 years. Frankly, it feels good. We lost, i turned the TV off and i didnt say “oh well, maybe this isnt the year” or ” here we go again”. I just turned it off and went to bed. So thank you, 2004 Red Sox, for putting baseball games in their rightful place.
(let’s see if I’m still saying this in 6 months)
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1. Cabrera’s defense was largely an illusion. He was merely average with the glove, which is about the same as his full career. And clutch hitting? No, Theo got lucky that everyone got hot right after the trade.
2. I hope Wells does well; I picked him up over Clemens in my draft. [I think Raja will suck this year.]
4. You should have buttermilk, you Yankee!
5. The 2004 + 86 = 2090 sign was quite predictable, no?
Wells still seems a little shaky to me. I predicted on my blog that he wont win a game in Yankee Stadium because he can’t handle that pressure. Put him in Fenway or The Yards or The Dome and it’ll be a different story.
I was quite impressed with Clement though.
im not too worried about the sox, they will get it rolling eventually. im predicting that they will come in second, win the wildcar, and we’ll have another showdown against the yanks in the ALCS, wouldnt have it any other way. I am also predicting that geof morris will reply to every single blog that bryan writes for no apparent reason.
Yeah, well, I’m trying to keep Bryan interested in doing this, Jordan.
and i appreciate the encouragement.
and foeg, i realize that you sabr-heads don’t believe in clutch hitting, as in “that guy is a clutch hitter”. but all i was saying was that his hitting at the end of last year was clutch. whether you attribute that to an innate characterisic or dumb luck, is outside of the scope of my concern.
Well, to put it bluntly, he wasn’t a great hitter with the Sox. He wasn’t even a good one. In terms of league-normed and park-effected OPS, he was slightly below league average in his two months with the Sox. He only looked good because he stepped up his production from his awful start in Montreal.
Clutch hitting suffers from random sampling, man …
life is all about random sampling
O-Cab in the playoffs. he had some decent games, maybe not as good as i remembered.
game 1 vs Ana: 1-3
game 2 vs NYY: 1-3, drove in only BOS run in 8th
game 3 vs NYY: 3-4. 2 doubles, 2 RBIs
game 5 vs NYY: 2-6
game 6 vs NYY: 2-4
game 7 vs NYY: 1-2, RBI
game 1 vs STL: 1-4, RBI
game 2 vs STL: 1-4, 2 RBI
game 3 vs STL: 2-4, 2B
Ahhh, but any true ability, Bryan, implies non-randomness. Otherwise, you’re as much admitting that he was “clutch” last year but could not be “clutch” this year.
Hey, winning in the postseason takes a lot of talent, but it takes a fair amount of luck, too.