Thursday, June 11, 2009

That's eight!

Eight straight versus the Yanks. The New Yorkers look helpless right now against the Sox. The biggest difference between the two teams is the bull pen. Girardi has few options getting to Rivera while the Sox have at least five reliable guys to hand the ball to Papelbon.

A couple of observations:
  • Penny threw very well tonight, as did CC.
  • Papi looks more comfortable.
  • Nick Green's play on Jeter's grounder in the 9th was huge. Lugo is sinking deeper and deeper.
  • The Sox seem far more athletic than the Yanks
  • The Rays seem far more athletic than the Sox
  • Teixiera is a very good player.
  • I admit it now -- Baldelli was a good signing
  • I'm not sure Girardi knows what he is doing all the time
  • Who is out of the rotation if Smoltz is pitching next week? Certainly not Beckett or Lester. Wakefield has been great this year. We have too many invested in Dice-K. Penny is starting throw well. Six man rotation?

1 comment:

Hapi for Papi said...

Wow, good to see you're back, where have you been? Nice little sweep but a LONG way to go. As a few so-called experts on WEEI have mentioned I think they should DL Dice-K. He mentioned after his last start that he's working on things right now that he normally would be working on during spring training. Well you know what Dice-K, we'll send you down to extended spring training so you can work on them. As for Papi, good to see him hit the opposite way with power. I just hope this isn't a mirage & stop taking curtain calls, it was nice for the first three....the fourth yah not so much. Act like you've been there before.