Red Sox 2013

I'm going to list the games I attended in 2013, to go along with my scorebook.  Yep I'm a baseball geek.

• Mon. April 8, 2013 -  Opening Day at Fenway - 3 run HR by Daniel Nava to power the Sox to a 3-1 win over Baltimore.   WP Clay Buchholz
• Sun. May 26 - 4 run 9th inning rally, walk off win topped off by a Jacoby Ellsbury double.
• Sun. June 9 - Sox beat up the Angels 10-5
• Sat. July 20 5-2 loss to the Yankees with game time temps 95 degrees... sweltering! 
• Sun. Sept. 1  - Sox hold on to beat the White Sox 7-6

Nice August win for the PawSox

A short 2 hour 19 minute walk off win 2-1 for the PawSox over Scranton last night at McCoy Stadium.  The PawSox remain in first place in their quest to defend the Governor's Cup.  Ryan Lavarnway's SF knocks in Jackie Bradley Jr. to tie up the game, then Mark Hamilton singles to win it.  A great night of AAA baseball, plus I was able to see the last two innings with a friend and his kids.

Bradley had 3 of Pawtucket's 4 hits  

Pet Peeve

Parking... why must someone park like this?   Really?   You have a tiny car but you can't remain in the lines??

MLB 2013 prediction time

It's getting close to the start of the 2013 season, so I'll put up my predictions 

AL East  Toronto
AL Central    Detroit
ALWest Los Angeles
Wild Cards  Tampa, Oakland

NL East Washington
NL Central Cinncinati
NL West SF
Wild Cards Atlanta, St Louis

This season seems like it can go many ways, depending on players bounce back years.   Check back in the fall to see the results

March...

What a great month... baseball spring training, hockey, basketball, March Madness, NCAA hockey.

Meanwhile our friend Alfred Aceves is already involved in a brawl at the WBC and possible one of the top quotes of 2013.    And he wasn't even pitching, nor the instigator.  

Team Canada first base coach Larry Walker took it upon himself to restrain Aceves.

“I had ahold of him, and I thought I saw Satan in his eyes,” Walker told reporters

It's been awhile since I've posted.    First  I'm glad to see some action down in Florida, spring training.  

It's been quite a month so far, a blizzard hit us here in Rhode Island, the Ravens won the Super Bowl, the Celtics are losing guys day by day but somehow winning, and of course spring training with the Curt Schilling PED comments.   And now the Papelbon comments .. "Former Red Sox closer Jonathan Papelbon says he was giving injections of the drug Toradol, which is an anti-inflammatory drug with serious side effects."  It's beginning to sound like the Sox medical staff has some explaining to do.

Finally there are the sour grapes comments by Carl Crawford and Adrian Gonzalez on the "toxic atmosphere" around the Sox.   Seems to be the big trade with the Dodgers to dump Carl, Gonzalez and Beckett seems to have cleaned up that toxicity.

Super Bowl

As you can see, my picks have been pretty bad.   For the Super Bowl, I'll take the 49ers.
I'm going more with my heart than my head, since I don't want to see another Ray Lewis celebration.