Hey Kansas City... good job tonight.

All around great effort tonight by KC.

The pitching staff let up 8 fewer runs than the night before and the offense scored twice as many runs as their previous game.

Granted, they lost the other night 19-1 and tonight it was merely 11-2.

So they've been outscored 30-3 over the first 2 games.

They are at least getting better each game, and I am a glass half full kind of guy.

The Red Sox held up THEIR end of the bargain!

The Red Sox had an uneventful win... just as I asked them to.
They didn't let up a base runner for the last three innings and it was never in doubt.

And frankly I was listening to the Red Sox game more than I was the Celtics game on my drive home.

Yeeeeesh.

A friend of mine (A Knicks fan) wrote to me and said "Isn't this what you want? Game 7, Lakers vs. Celtics?"

I said "NO! I wanted Game 4, Celtics sweeping the Suns!"

Ah well.

Buchholz is showing he is throwing like an ace and it is Lester's turn to regain his stuff.

And maybe the Celtics can regain some of THEIR magic.
Today was neither a teeth grinder nor a dodged bullet. I guess if you are going to lose... LOSE!

Let's look at the positive things about today's game, Blue Jays

For 7 of the 8 innings you pitched today against the Yankees, you kept them scoreless.

You held the mighty Yankees to 2 hits and no runs in 7 out of 8 innings. Seriously, I tip my cap to you for 7/8 of your pitching today.

That's a darn good ratio of good innings to bad innings.

Now that one inning that they DID score was problematic.
9 hits, 3 walks, a hit by pitch, a wild pitch and ELEVEN EARNED RUNS is not a good inning.
That could have had some improvements and is something to try to avoid in the future.

But the majority of the game today... GOOD JOB!

(Yikes.)

What was so hard about that?

Tonight was just what this Red Sox fan ordered.

A nice blowout win. Good pitching. Good hitting. Even a turn back the clock home run from Mike Lowell.

I feel bad for Jamie Moyer, whose Hall of Fame candidacy is looking less and less insane, but a nice old fashioned ass whuppin from the Sox made for a very calm drive home tonight.

And a nice performance by John Lackey against a contender didn't hurt either.

Win one of the next two... win the series... and make it easy like tonight.