Baseball and The Sports Guy.

Has it really been almost 2 months since my last post? Huh...I'm gonna have to work on that. I need to figure out how to fit writing into my schedule. Between working too much, watching too much TV and my new found love of reading (which I will write about soon), I can't make myself sit in front of the computer for 10-15 minutes to write on here. Unlesss I am at work and bored, which as you can see, doesn't happen all that often.

Anyway, the 2006 baseball season has begun (as of Sunday), and I couldn't be more happy. I couldn't get into basketball and hockey this season, mainly because both the local teams weren't all that good. So, I'm very excited to be able to watch the Red Sox again, since they are the last team around here to win a Championship. They started their season off a high note yesterday with a nice win in Texas versus the Rangers. Ace Curt Schilling looks to be fully recovered from his injuries and pitched a great game. Unfortunately, the Yankees appear to have another Championship-caliber team as George Steinbrenner tries to buy another World Series.

Didn't see either game? That's OK, because ESPN's Bill "The Sports Guy" Simmons, who is one of the biggest Boston sports fans around kept a running diary of yesterday's action. Check it out: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/060404&lpos=spotlight&lid=tab1pos3. If you have never read any of his stuff, you're missing out. It's always a good read...and quite humorous. Here are a few excerpts:

11:19 -- As Orsillo tells us that Roger Clemens visited both clubhouses today, we see a live shot of Roger in the stands. "They introduced him between innings," Jerry adds. "He got a standing ovation from this crowd in Arlington." As well as two middle fingers from me. Don't forget those.

1:00 -- Good Golly. Manny just chased down a Michael Young bomb, hauled it in and crashed into the fence, followed by Schilling accidentally making an "I can't believe that nimwit just saved my ass" face ... quickly followed by Manny sitting down indian leg-style and eating three handfuls of paste. Okay, I made that last part up. But the rest happened.

1:49 -- Holy crap! Mike Lowell just ripped a homer to left field. So much for the "Six Feet Under" and Last Out Lowell" jokes ... well, at least for today. Plus, we were just treated to Benoit's "I can't believe I just gave up a homer to Mike Lowell" Face. We can't believe it, either, Joaquin. I need to rewind my TiVo to make sure that happened.

1:50 -- Yup, it happened.

8:21 -- The Yankees have an Aflac trivia question as well: "Which current Yankee player once played on Opening Day with enough artificially injected testerone running through his body to kill a medium-sized child?" I'm going to say Sheffield ... nah, I'll say Giambi.

8:52 -- Matsui singles home Sheffield to reach base for the fourth time. 12-1, Yankees. And we're not even out of the top of the fifth. On the bright side, that leads to Posada getting plunked in the back on an 0-2 pitch by Brad Hasley and doing wussy Jorge Posada things.
"Jorge's not happy," Singleton tells us. "He's staring the pitcher down right now."
(Yup, there's comedy, there's high comedy, there's transcendent comedy ... and then there's Jorge Posada trying to stare someone down.)


...and there's plenty more where that came from. Thank God baseball is back.