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Sunday Baseball: Red Sox On The Brink

By Big Tent Democrat, Section Blog Related
Posted on Sun Oct 11, 2009 at 10:04:19 AM EST
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So the Red Sox' season is in the hands of Clay Buchholz? So it seems. But the reality is the Sox hitting is what has them in trouble now. More likely their season is in Angels' pitcher Scott Kazmir's hands.

The Yankees go for the series win tonight in the Metrodome. Andy Pettitte is a steady hand. Carl Pavano was a disaster as a Yankee but has pitched well for the Twins. Go Yankees!

The most intriguing matchup will be in Denver tonight - Major League Baseball and TV vs the elements. It's going to be freezing tonight. the game should have been scheduled for the daytime.

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    Red Sox' season is in the hands of Clay Buchholz's (none / 0) (#1)
    by oculus on Sun Oct 11, 2009 at 10:14:50 AM EST
    fastball, according Buchholtz in the link.  Interesting the Angels' starter, pitching for the Rays, got them past the Red Sox just last year. Meanwhile Jason Bay thinks it would help if the Sox got Buchholtz a few runs.  Prescient.

    Buchholz certainly takes his time (none / 0) (#4)
    by oculus on Sun Oct 11, 2009 at 11:24:09 AM EST
    between pitches.  Yawn.

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    Bu-Bye Sox . . . (none / 0) (#8)
    by nycstray on Sun Oct 11, 2009 at 04:47:33 PM EST


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    Tigers' fan here - baseball season is over (none / 0) (#2)
    by jbindc on Sun Oct 11, 2009 at 10:26:51 AM EST
    So, more politics.  Apparently, Dems aren't the only  ones interested in trying to mount primary challenges to big names in the party.  The Tea-Party people are too. (No, I'm not using the juvenile, Rachel Maddow-spewing term "teabagging"):

    While the energy of the anti-tax and anti-big government Tea Party movement may yet haunt Democrats in 2010, the first order of business appears to be remaking the Republican Party.

    Whether it's the loose confederation of Washington-oriented groups that have played an organizational role or the state-level activists who are channeling grass roots anger into action back home, Tea Party forces are confronting the Republican establishment by backing insurgent conservatives and generating their own candidates--even if it means taking on GOP incumbents.

    "We will be a headache for anyone who believes the Constitution of the United States...isn't to be protected," said Dick Armey, chairman of the anti-tax and limited government advocacy group FreedomWorks, which helped plan and promote the Tea Parties, town hall protests and the September `Taxpayer March' in Washington. "If you can't take it seriously, we will look for places of other employment for you."

    "We're not a partisan organization, and I think many Republicans are disappointed we are not," added Armey, a former GOP congressman.

    In Florida, where the national party has signaled its preference for centrist Gov. Charlie Crist in the GOP Senate primary, tea party activists are lining up behind former state House Speaker Marco Rubio in reaction to Crist's public backing for President Barack Obama's stimulus package.

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    Tea Party activists are also lining up behind challengers to GOP establishment-backed Senate candidates in Colorado and Connecticut. In California, former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina--like Crist another National Republican Senatorial Committee-favored Senate contender--is the target of Tea Party animus in her primary against conservative state Assemblyman Chuck DeVore.

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    Tea party organizers say their resistance to Republican Party-backed primary candidates has much to do with what they perceive as the GOP's stubborn insistence on embracing candidates who don't abide by a small government, anti-tax conservative philosophy.
    Mets fans around the globe will (none / 0) (#3)
    by scribe on Sun Oct 11, 2009 at 10:39:19 AM EST
    turn their eyes to the TV as the Sawx fold to the Angels tonight and murmur, repeatedly:  "Victor Zambrano, Victor Zambrano" as Kazmir deals one strike after another.

    Yankee fans, OTOH, are expecting Andy to have his cap pulled low, and his playoff-intensity game face on.

    I agree (none / 0) (#5)
    by rdandrea on Sun Oct 11, 2009 at 01:50:15 PM EST
    It's going to be freezing tonight. the game should have been scheduled for the daytime.

    But the Broncos play today.  Small city, many of the same ticketholders.  Not to mention the traffic (ugh.)  And we rabid fans want to watch every minute of both games.

    Monday's game, if necessary (and it WILL be necessary) is also at the mercy of TV.  Three possible start times depending on the results of the other games.  That stinks.

    Half-heartedly rooting for the Yanks. (none / 0) (#6)
    by Lysis on Sun Oct 11, 2009 at 02:07:00 PM EST
    Though whole-heartedly for the Dodgers. My heart went with Joe Torre across the country. I'm a loyal man!

    I'm totally (none / 0) (#7)
    by Zorba on Sun Oct 11, 2009 at 03:27:11 PM EST
    disconnected now from the play-offs,  because of the completely lackluster performance of my beloved St. Louis Cardinals (hellooooo, Carpenter and Wainwright- what the heck happened to you both?????).  You all are welcome to root for whomever you want.  :-(

    Wainwright (none / 0) (#9)
    by Steve M on Sun Oct 11, 2009 at 05:15:09 PM EST
    pitched a phenomenal game, if I'm not mistaken!

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    I'm with ya on that (none / 0) (#10)
    by Maryb2004 on Sun Oct 11, 2009 at 05:17:57 PM EST
    I was there last night and it was a miserable experience.  :(

    But Wainwright is not to be blamed for game 2.  He pitched a great game.  

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    Yes, (none / 0) (#11)
    by Zorba on Sun Oct 11, 2009 at 05:53:37 PM EST
    Adam did a much better job than Chris Carpenter did, but he didn't get a lot of help from his batters. sigh  The Dodgers just outplayed the Cards.  Game three just totally sucked.

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    Yeah (none / 0) (#13)
    by Maryb2004 on Sun Oct 11, 2009 at 06:54:44 PM EST
    It really did suck.  All the games sucked - beginning with the first inning of game one when Holliday stood there with the bases loaded and never swung the bat.

    But yesterday was miserable. I've never been to a Cardinal playoff game where the crowd was as depressed as they were yesterday.   And I sat through the 1st game of the 2000 NLDS where Ankiel imploded :)

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    Go Yankees? (none / 0) (#12)
    by jazzcattg1 on Sun Oct 11, 2009 at 06:33:42 PM EST
    I suppose when a so called liberal as Armando defends WalMart and the Yankees we all know where the cards lie.

    Red Sox fans show their class (none / 0) (#14)
    by NYShooter on Mon Oct 12, 2009 at 10:23:06 AM EST
    "Red Sox Nation was not as forgiving with closer Jonathan Papelbon, who hadn't given up a postseason run before blowing a two-run ninth-inning lead Sunday. When Papelbon walked off the mound, he was showered with boos."

    No... (none / 0) (#15)
    by MileHi Hawkeye on Mon Oct 12, 2009 at 03:13:54 PM EST
    the game should have been scheduled for the daytime.

    Saturday's game should not have been called-off in the first place.  Bad call by the soft, scared East Coast MLB front office.

    In the second place, you don't schedule a baseball game when there is a Bronco game going on.  It's just not done.  

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