RSS 2.0I imagine that my enthusiasm for the comings-and-goings of our local teams hereabouts is not entirely shared by my readership, and that's understandable. You have to be here, and if here, invested as thoroughly as I am in the standings, the competition, the prospects for post-season play, and the like.
Yesterday was a step forward on several fronts:
Ex-Red Sox pitcher Roger Clemens, now playing for the always-to-be-detested team in the Bronx, gave up eight big runs in the second inning of their game yesterday afternoon, and was, I am informed by eye-witness accounts, booed off the mound after less than two innings of work.
Yes, this Roger Clemens, from a story in Sports Illustrated:
I won't read too much into the story his wife, Debbie, told about how when she was preggers and taking BP from her husband, she sprayed a line drive off his leg and on the next pitch he beaned her. In his defense, her belly was hanging over the plate.
That his team came back with eight runs of their own in the bottom half of the same inning, a rarity to be sure, mattered little in the end, because they ended up losing the game, 13-9.
Check.
The Red Sox, in the meantime, were beating their opponent in Fenway Park, 7-4, with Tim Wakefield on the mound. Wakefield was also celebrating his 41st birthday, a milestone to which he attributed nothing in particular in his post-game interviews. Except that when he was asked how old he felt, he answered . . . 40.
Check.
Baseball humor.
Oh, and The New England Revolution, our Major League Soccer representative, won 2-0 in Foxboro, thus strengthening their hold on first place in their division, playing in the stadium - The Razor - in which the Patriots will be playing, and no doubt living up to our high expectations of them, soon enough.
All in all, a very good day and night indeed . . .
In our world of sports.
Now then, doesn't that make your day?
It does mine.