Terry Francona lost his gig as replace Tim McCarver as Joe Buck's partner for the first two games of the American League Championship Series. MLB teams may face stiff competition for Francona's services as he already has a managerial offer in his back pocket. The Laconia (N.H.) Muskrats of the New England Collegiate Baseball League offered him a $6,000 contract to manage the club in 2012.
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On the way to Tropicana Field, Terry Francona announced his starting rotation for the ALCS! And it's...a continuation of the rotation from the first round. That was anticlimactic. Daisuke will start Game One in St. Petersburg, Beckett Game Two, and Lester and Wakefield will take the first two games in Boston. Tito says he has equal confidence in all three of his big guns (even after Beckett's stinkeroo last week), and says the order doesn't matter as long as they all potentially get to start twice. The man knows what he's doing.
As good as their starters have been all week, the Red Sox are not a team built to rely on their pitching. In the American League, their starters are (for the most part) good enough to keep them in the game, and let this vaunted offense do its vauntable thing and score bushels of runs.
- The Bobcats are to the Celtics what the Giants were to the Patriots: confident, strong, capable of making a game of it (although we'd like to think that we won't see Jason Richardson celebrating a championship for at least another couple of years). The Celts barely beat the 'Cats in November, lost (embarrassingly) in January, and were challenged up until the end on Friday night, when Boston won, 108-100, at TD Banknorth Garden.
We keep hoping a couple of tickets will drop like magic from the sky, but we've pretty much resigned ourselves to several more long nights with Joe Buck and Tim McCarver and several more mornings when coffee is all that stands between us and oblivion. Or you could sell everything you own and do what one guy did: pay $21,766 for two seats behind home plate, as the Globe reported this morning. The article also...
So Sheriff Beckett stared down the Cleveland gang last night. Once again, when the Red Sox needed Josh to be at his absolute best, he pretty much was. Sure, he gave up one more hit than he did in his Game One dazzler, but he only gave up one run - on a double play ball. Other than that, he struck out 11 Indians and gave 44,588 Clevelanders something to do with their towels beside...
As Northeast-centric as we are, we kind of assumed that the other LDS ended the way it did because the Yankees had porous starting pitching, a weak bullpen, an aging core, and a superstar still yet to prove himself in October ("Yankees suck", in the parlance of our times). But maybe Cleveland really is that good.
It was a tense time at Fenway Saturday. Curt Schilling looked human (or worse). The Sox were suffering from a chronic case of "hitting the ball right at Miguel Tejada". Losing two in a row to the Orioles looked like a distinct possibility.
As if the loss last night didn't hurt enough, (Bostonist has been kicked in the nether-regions and had better experiences) today we are blessed with the opportunity to watch the Sox/Yankees game on Fox, with Joe Buck and Tim McCarver as our announcers. As a tribute to how absolutely excrutiatingly awful Tim McCarver is, Bostonist will be live-blogging the game, thanks to our little black magic box - tivo, documenting the verbal diarrhea our good pal McCarver is blessing us with.
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