If someone put a gun to my head and said: “Pick one pitcher to start a game for you, and if the team wins, you live — if the team loses, you die,” you can bet all the juice in Giambi’s locker that I am taking Josh Beckett.
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What can you say about Beckett? He is undoubtably the premiere pitcher in baseball right now. Hands down. He pitches big games like he was born to do it. He is clutch, he is steady, and he is absolutely ridiculous. BTW, not since 1933 has a starting pitcher in the World Series struck out the first three batters in the series. Other records from the game last night? Most extra base hits in a World Series game (Red Sox with 10), most runs scored in a series game by the 5th inning, and most runs scored total in Game 1 of a World Series (13).
PS: for everyone who was at the Kinsale last night, Andy and I had a great time. I encourage every Sox fan in NYC to check the place out. Sara, Larry, Stu, Leith, Robbie, Chuck –we wouldn’t want to watch the games anywhere else!
PPS: I love a good turncoat. Say hello to the ultimate politician (and closet “American League” fan): Rudy Giuliani!
When asked about who he was pulling for in the World Series, Mr. Yankees himself, Rudy Giuliani said that he was going for the Red Sox (surprise, he was in Boston!). I tell you, Yankee fans can’t jump ship fast enough! Yankee fans who remain are in shock.
Seriously, can you imagine Matt Damon running for office and saying that he is rooting for the Yankees in the World Series (if they ever make it again — remember this is hypothetical) just because he is in New York at the time? No freakin’ way.
On to game 2! May the blessings of the bloody sock make it another bloodbath! Or, more realistically: Go Sox.
Oh, and I remembered to post videos of the Sox celebrating, and more importantly, the now world-famous Papelbon dance sequences. Check out the page “Paps is Lord of the Dance” in my pages list on the top right of the blog under “Welcome to Red Sox Nation.”
October 26, 2007 at 1:16 am
That is what they put on the cover of a tabloid, I mean newspaper.?
and no one seems to remember this but Rudy said he always roots for the AL team in 2004. Some people need lives
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October 26, 2007 at 6:00 pm
“you can bet all the juice in Giambi’s locker”
LMAO!!!!!
October 26, 2007 at 6:01 pm
“no one seems to remember this but Rudy said he always roots for the AL team in 2004.”
Umm, he also said he’d “probably” be a Red Sox fan if it would guarantee him the presidency. He’s a politician beofe he’a anything else.
October 26, 2007 at 8:23 pm
It’s great that you guys are taking in the games at Kinsale – and, by the way, you’re right …. Becket is regoddamndickuuulussssleeefanfuckntastic.