Danny Ainge liked what he saw from the guys in green in Thursday's 112-107 beating of the Heat. He told the Herald that the Celtics mood might be even more important. He said:
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How great is this? Two meaningless games with the Yankees on the same day! Wow. After about three hours of rain delay, the Sox moved Friday's game to Saturday for a doubleheader. The games are at 4:10 p.m. and 9:05 p.m. Friday's ticket is good for the second game.
You'd be crazy not to at least think about it a little tiny bit. Sixteen games left. Six games behind a team that they play six more times. It's not likely that the Red Sox will climb the hill, but after finishing off Seattle...why not dream a little longer?
Is September going to turn into one long Monty Python skit for the Red Sox? Is it going to be one long month of the fans/media/Rays/Yankees trying to claim they're dead, only to be met at every turn with "it's just a flesh wound" or "we're getting better"? Well, we love Monty Python, so bring it on.
You can be forgiven if you turned off after an inning or two. Jon Lester, the Sox' most reliable pitcher, had come down with We're-Doomed-itis and was in a 5-2 hole to the Orioles. You may have changed channels. It's OK.
The weather was more Seattle-in-November than Boston-in-August. The fans that actually slogged down to Fenway looked, on TV, pretty dejected. And by the end, Red Sox were getting ejected. It was a weird long day at the ballpark. And it ended with a split.
The Red Sox did a little bit of everything in Wednesday's 7-5 victory over the Angels. Home runs, timely pitching, and help from the LAA powered Boston to a 9th straight win this season over the Angels.
Bostonist is like any other Bostonian. We a virulent case of Shaqthrax. The big guy is here with his retro/hip bowtie and his legendary linguistic stylings. Dude can talk. (We hope he really is after a post-basketball career in broadcasting and can replace Gary Tanguay or Steve Burton.)
It's a good thing Adrian Beltre's stepped up in a big way to become one of the most exciting things about the Red Sox this season. It would have been easy for him to have become dubbed the Outfield Killer, a guy we sent off to the All-Star game with the hope that maybe he'd take out a few members of our rival teams.
It's true that the annual Home Run Derby showdown has a history of zapping the energy of the sluggers who step up to dazzle the crowds. And if you look at the stats, it's easy to subscribe to the theory that there's something that looks at its most basic level an awful lot like a curse that befalls baseball's Derby dudes.
What are the chances that the Red Sox just realized people actually would be watching last night so they gave us a performance worth watching? Or, maybe we simply needed to see a team from Los Angeles lose because of, well, you saw it Thursday. Perhaps it was Manny Ramirez finally coming to see us.
It really makes no difference to us because Friday's 10-6 (it wasn't that close) rout gave us a lot to discuss, like...
If there's anything positive the Red Sox can take away from yesterday's game (spoiler: there's not), it's that they didn't get no-hit on an afternoon that seemed made for it. Of course, their first hit was nullified when Adrian Beltre tried to stretch a wall-ball into a double. It was that kind of a day.
That was Tim Thomas' one-word summary of the Bruins game last night, where the hometown team grabbed another quick lead, but found out that the Black Hawks are miles above Ottawa in intensity and ability, which spelled bad news for Tim and the boys.
There's much that can - can, has and will - be said today by proponents and opponents alike when it comes to Boston's newest corner infielder, Adrian Beltre. What it all really comes down to, however, is the fact that the names and faces that will make up your 2010 Boston Red Sox roster sure are different than the team fans saw walk off the field in shock when their reason ended abruptly back in October.
Say "goodbye" to the Idiot with the beard, the flowing locks of hair, the speed, the ridiculous lead-off numbers, and - yes - the throwing arm of an arthritic grandmother. Dan Roche of WBZ4 news was the first to report it, with Newsday in NY picking it up and spreading word to the Yankee faithful. Bostonist was on the way home from a late showing of King Kong at the Fenway theater when we turned on the radio and very quickly learned what in the hell was going on - phone lines were on fire among local talk radio stations, sports-related or not. It's pretty amazing that after all this time, after the Red Sox nation lavished praise on our center fielder, thinking all the while that we had Jesus Christ roaming around out there, it was actually Judas.
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