The Return of Sawx Tawx
Man the Sox got absolutely rocked by the A’s today in Oakland. Destroyed. Obliterated. The same A’s who limped into this series having dropped 3 straight to the MFYs and fallen into last place in the AL West managed to take 2 of 3 from the suddenly woeful Sox and corpulent Sox starter David Wells who, in his first (premature?) start off the DL gave up 9 hits and 7 runs in an inning and third.
No word on whether Boomer’s god-awful performance was an attempt to get a little beer tossed his way or not, but whatever the reason, Wells looked pretty fuggin’ pathetic out there, giving up a towering dinger to sub-.200 hitting Eric Chavez, a monster double to centerfield by Scooter Hatteberg-- who ended up with 4 hits in the game (why can’t WE get guys like that?). Boomer ended up striking out none and watching his ERA bloat to a Cla Meridith-ian 6.75.
The Sox now limp home after a 2-4 west coast road trip to face the first-place Atlanta Braves who will send three all-star hurlers—Mike Hampton, Tim Hudson and John Smoltz—to the hill to face the Sox’ mediocre-at-best pitching staff.
All that said, you won’t see me DirtDoggin’ it, coming down too hard on some of the underperforming members of the Sox. Yes, I hold by my preseason assertion that the Sox would have been better served to keep Orlando Cabrera at shortstop for $6-7 million a year instead of overpaying $40m for 4 years of Edgar Renteria. Yes, I think that Yook the OBP machine should be playing more and one-hit-wonder Mark Bellhorn less. But I can’t knock many of the decisions made by management in the offseason or early this season, including the pitching additions besides Wells (Matt Clement has been as advertised and Wade Miller has shown that he’s obviously still got some juice in the tank). The contract extensions to Papi, Tekkie and Trotsky especially have proven to be strokes of genius, with all three producing at extraordinary rates thus far.
The upshot of all this, in case you were wondering, is that, after a self-imposed if not necessarily purposeful hiatus since last October, you’re gonna be hearing a lot more from me on Red Sox related subjects in the future. So if it’s Sox Talk you want, then you know where to come: Dirt Dogs, Soxaholix, then HERE…then the Globe or the Herald or the ProJo or one of those other hack-tastic “legitimate media sources”.
Go Sox!
(Coming up tomorrow: my Spoiler-ific review of SWE3:RotS!!! OMG! LOL! FU!)
No word on whether Boomer’s god-awful performance was an attempt to get a little beer tossed his way or not, but whatever the reason, Wells looked pretty fuggin’ pathetic out there, giving up a towering dinger to sub-.200 hitting Eric Chavez, a monster double to centerfield by Scooter Hatteberg-- who ended up with 4 hits in the game (why can’t WE get guys like that?). Boomer ended up striking out none and watching his ERA bloat to a Cla Meridith-ian 6.75.
The Sox now limp home after a 2-4 west coast road trip to face the first-place Atlanta Braves who will send three all-star hurlers—Mike Hampton, Tim Hudson and John Smoltz—to the hill to face the Sox’ mediocre-at-best pitching staff.
All that said, you won’t see me DirtDoggin’ it, coming down too hard on some of the underperforming members of the Sox. Yes, I hold by my preseason assertion that the Sox would have been better served to keep Orlando Cabrera at shortstop for $6-7 million a year instead of overpaying $40m for 4 years of Edgar Renteria. Yes, I think that Yook the OBP machine should be playing more and one-hit-wonder Mark Bellhorn less. But I can’t knock many of the decisions made by management in the offseason or early this season, including the pitching additions besides Wells (Matt Clement has been as advertised and Wade Miller has shown that he’s obviously still got some juice in the tank). The contract extensions to Papi, Tekkie and Trotsky especially have proven to be strokes of genius, with all three producing at extraordinary rates thus far.
The upshot of all this, in case you were wondering, is that, after a self-imposed if not necessarily purposeful hiatus since last October, you’re gonna be hearing a lot more from me on Red Sox related subjects in the future. So if it’s Sox Talk you want, then you know where to come: Dirt Dogs, Soxaholix, then HERE…then the Globe or the Herald or the ProJo or one of those other hack-tastic “legitimate media sources”.
Go Sox!
(Coming up tomorrow: my Spoiler-ific review of SWE3:RotS!!! OMG! LOL! FU!)
posted by bd @ 5/18/2005 05:16:00 PM
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