Tough
loss. Even through the TV, you could feel
the energy waning. As is their wont, the bats let
Wakefield down. (Credit where credit’s due to that other
Japanese guy.) And Timlin didn’t help things, even if he did, like, save
his own life.
But,
somehow, it was all easier to stomach after this past weekend.
That
doesn’t mean I don’t wanna win tonight.
Hopefully Crazy
Julian can hold his own against Doc Halladay again. Stranger
things have happened.
And speaking of JT, please talk amongst yourselves: is Daisuke amused, bemused, or annoyed by his new
buddy?
In other
news, I don’t think I could like
Hideki Okajima more right now.
A Sox executive
said this weekend that another club had offered Okajima more money; Okajima
confirmed that last night but said through interpreter Sachi
Sekiguchi that
it wasn't an issue.
"The Red
Sox were the first team to offer me a contract," Okajima said. "I
always pictured myself in Boston.
No matter what someone else offered, I was going to pitch in Boston."
Awesome. Glad to have you, Shadow Warrior.
RIP, David Halberstam
He
will be missed. I haven’t read his Bill
Belichick bio, nor, I’m embarrassed to admit, do I own his account of the 1949
pennant race, which I’ve heard could only be better if the Red Sox had won.
But, The Teammates, his smallish, intimate portrait
of the lifelong close friendship between Ted Williams, Bobby Doerr, Dom
DiMaggio, and Johnny Pesky is a must-read for any Red Sox fan, especially as
great men like these enter their twilight.
Pesky remembers
Halberstam here.
An excerpt from the book here.
And here,
from my round-up four years ago of several new Red Sox books, is my review.