Sorry if you're bored by all the baseball posts lately, but it really is the greatest sport on the planet (possibly tied with cricket, but that's another story for another day) & we only have a few precious days remaining before the off season.
If you've been keeping an eye on things at all you know that tonight was another devastating loss for my Red Sox. :( But! It's not over til it's over. Surely it's a giant uphill battle, but we've been in this situation & worse before. 2004, down 3 games to none to the Yankees & made history coming back to win 4 in a row, no one had ever done that before & they were some of the tightest, closest, most heart-stopping games any fan of baseball may ever see. 2007, took game 1 against the Indians and then lost 3 in a row, exactly like our current situation, but we came back with some big wins.
Things aren't great, we'd have to pick up 3 games in a row again with questionable pitching. I think Matsuzaka & Lester can handle it--I'm assuming yesterday's game was a huge fluke for Lester & he won't let it happen again. Beckett's a wild card (who thought I'd be saying that?), but hopefully Matsuzaka can close it down on Thursday & we'll have a full rested bullpen to bail out Beckett if needed. And of course our offense has to get in the games.
It's certainly not over yet, though & if being a Red Sox fan has taught me anything it's that anything & everything is possible. Don't give up because you never know when you're gonna see a little or a lot of October magic. There are larger metaphors for the rest of life, but I'll let you draw your own.
If you've been keeping an eye on things at all you know that tonight was another devastating loss for my Red Sox. :( But! It's not over til it's over. Surely it's a giant uphill battle, but we've been in this situation & worse before. 2004, down 3 games to none to the Yankees & made history coming back to win 4 in a row, no one had ever done that before & they were some of the tightest, closest, most heart-stopping games any fan of baseball may ever see. 2007, took game 1 against the Indians and then lost 3 in a row, exactly like our current situation, but we came back with some big wins.
Things aren't great, we'd have to pick up 3 games in a row again with questionable pitching. I think Matsuzaka & Lester can handle it--I'm assuming yesterday's game was a huge fluke for Lester & he won't let it happen again. Beckett's a wild card (who thought I'd be saying that?), but hopefully Matsuzaka can close it down on Thursday & we'll have a full rested bullpen to bail out Beckett if needed. And of course our offense has to get in the games.
It's certainly not over yet, though & if being a Red Sox fan has taught me anything it's that anything & everything is possible. Don't give up because you never know when you're gonna see a little or a lot of October magic. There are larger metaphors for the rest of life, but I'll let you draw your own.
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