Red Sox don't get soaked

Well that wasn't so hard, was it?Clay Buchholz pitches 5 strong with a big rain delay smack dab in the middle of things and the Red Sox pull out a win. And a pretty easy one at that.It makes you wonder why they couldn't do that more often in the first month and a week.Either way, I'll take it.Dice-K tomorrow... let's get a few wins in a row.

Heavenly

The Angels were my pre season pick to win the AL Pennant.They seem like a damn good team.And yet they are 0-5 against the Red Sox this year.In Non Red Sox games they are 16-8.Go figure. This one turned into a laugher and I can't put it into the Dodged Bullet category... even with Weaver pitching a Buchholz looking shaky at times.The nice fat 6 run 7th took any doubt out of this one.Next is Lester

Feet made of Clay

OK, maybe I was getting greedy.But after getting such great pitching performances out of Beckett, Lester, Lackey and Dice-K, I was hoping out other All Star starter from last year would find his stuff.Alas, Clay Buchholz once again looked ordinary and against the Orioles no less!Get that ship right, Clay. I wasn't counting on Beckett nor Dice-K this season but I WAS counting on YOU!Let's update

I didn't want to win a game this weekend

I like starting a season in an 0-3 hole. It is more fun that way.Seriously, this was a pretty lousy display by my Red Sox, picked by so many to go all the way. It was home run derby off of both Jon Lester and Clay Buchholz and frankly that makes me nervous.I know it is against Texas and they are a good home run team. But what happened to "Good Pitching beats Good Hitting."The Sox have an off day

This is what I was afraid of with the Red Sox

At least there was no suspense in this game.Yeah, I know it is early. But one reason I wasn't swept up in the pre season hype was I felt like there were too many assumptions about the starting rotation. Lester and Buchholz were written in ink and the assumption was either Lackey, Beckett or Dice-K were going to be bouncing back.Well we had better HOPE so. John Lackey became John Lacking or John

How many Buchholzes are we going to get?

You get the feeling that Theo is messing with us Red Sox fans?We now have two Buchholzes for 2011... just in time for us to get confused during a game."Buchholz got hammered.""Which one?"And it gets muddled if the good Buchholz pitches poorly or the mediocre one pitches great.I hear Theo is working on bringing in another pitcher named Daisuke O'Malley.

I don't often quote Don Henley but...

... all I can say to Red Sox fans is "Don't look back, you can never look back."When I saw that Clay Buchholz was showing off his ace stuff and A. J. Burnett was proving that he shouldn't even be allowed to BUY a playoff ticket... I did what every single Red Sox fan on the planet Earth did:Lament what happened last night in the Bronx.3 outs away from the sweep... and tonight we'd be 3 GAMES BACK

Only one group of Sox are showing any life

It isn't looking good.Buchholz let's up 2 runs... and that's more than enough to beat the Sox.And oh yeah, the Yankees put Vazquez in the rotation, he STINKS and the Yankees STILL win.It's stuff like that that makes things like "a potential all time great comeback" less and less likely.At least Manny is acting contrite. That's nice... but that doesn't help the team NOW!It's time to update the

New Cy Young Contenders in the A.L.

After Saturday, it didn't seem like David Price, Jon Lester nor Cliff Lee were really that interested in winning the American League Cy Young Award.Well if the front runners don't wan to pull away from the pack... then the actual winner could emerge from a much bigger pool.Trevor Cahill has the lowest batting average against, is neck and neck with Cliff Lee for best WHIP and is third in ERA. His

Nothing wrong with winning...

The Red Sox shouldn't have gone into extra innings today... and once against a good Dice-K outing was spoiled by one bad inning.And the Red Sox gained no ground because despite another lousy outing by Javy Vazquez (there's NO WAY the Yankees can pitch him in a playoff game, can they?) and a subpar outing by David Price... the Yankees and Rays both won.In other words they needed extra inning