Sox and the City
By Steve
Another anti-climatic ending to a pretty exciting playoff… well, AL playoff, at least.
The Red Sox/Rockies wasn’t much of a contest on paper, or on the field. The Sox, Indians, and Yankees were the three best teams in baseball, and I’d probably take odds on the injured Angels beating any NL team this year. The AL is just that much better right now.
I think I said, “Sox in 6″ to people that asked, but I really figured 5 at most. And I’m glad it finished today, since I was running out of excuses to leave work early to see the 5PM-start games.
Since no player really stood out above all others (other than Josh Beckett for his impossible post-season), Mike Lowell was a good choice for MVP since he managed to pick up big hits when it mattered. And he has an amazing goatee.
(Now the Sox have to decide whether to sign Lowell to a 3-4 year contract, which would be an easier decision without A-rod opting out and the Sox flush with cash. Yikes.)
So yeah, Schilling probably walks. Crisp gets traded so Ellsbury gets the CF job. Ortiz has successful knee surgery and comes back stronger (and possibly fatter). They toy with trading Manny. Again. (And that would definitely happen if they were somehow able to sign A-rod.)
As a sidenote, as good as A-rod is, is it worth tying him up for all of his decline years, despite the fact that an in-decline A-rod will likely be better than everyone else in the league? I know I wouldn’t be the one trying to figure out the value in a $30 million/year contract.
October 30th, 2007 at 11:13 pm
Wait, did the World Series happen or something? We gamer types don’t turn on the other CRTs to watch other people do physical things very often. Well, maybe that’s just me, but I don’t. Please don’t ostracize me.
October 31st, 2007 at 11:24 am
What a dull series. Every time the Rockies looked like they were in it, they fell apart. The sweep was such a shocking contrast to their improbable stretch run that I regret not seeing a single Rockies game in the race/post-season. Anyway, I hope that this ends all talk of the Red Sox curse, though it does neuter the narrative tug of Ken Burns baseball.
Re Rodriguez, if you can afford him, you should pursue him. Current rumors have him going to LA, but the season’s not even a week in the past yet.
November 1st, 2007 at 5:48 pm
Intentionally to go completely off topic, two un-ordered copies of Games for Windows just showed up in my mailbox a few minutes ago…?_?…
I remember reading something on Quarter to Three about somebody trying to get all of CGM’s back issues into an online archive and getting all the subscribers a free subscription to another magazine. Do you know anything about if this happened? It’s the only explanation I can come up with.