Briefly

* There’s talk of Mike Timlin joining the team this weekend in New York. He’s also ‘able” to come off the disabled list today and is in Boston getting his knee checked out. He’ll pitch during at LEAST one more game in Pawtucket before the weekend.   The end of the Chris Smith era could be upon us.

* Manny issued yet another quote about the incident with traveling secretary Jack McCormick being “over”. Let’s see, Manny, Tito, McCormick and the rest of the team says it’s over and has been handled internally yet the likes of CHB want Manny’s flogging aired on ESPN. Yeah, there’s no media bias in the coverage of anything Manny-related. None at all. Wonder what would have happened if this interaction happened between McCormick and, say, Sean Casey? Actually, if it had happened between McCormick and Casey, we probably would have never heard about it. I don’t like Manny mixing it up with folks, but I’m confident that the team has dealt with it and don’t really feel the need to get all the bloody details.

* ARod and Madonna – way too icky for me to even discuss. (But Manny owes ARod a fruit basket for taking the bullet and getting the national media attention off him!)

* PawSox came back in the ninth (with two outs!) to win yet another game last night. While their fire burns, the BoSox struggle. Go figure.

*  Tim Wakefield looked good again last night in spite of the loss.  If I can take anything positive away from the game, I’m going with that.

*  All Star voting ends tonight.  In all honesty, I haven’t voted once yet.  Guess I might be up late tonight getting some votes in.

It’s a long season and the Sox are in a slump.  It’s way too early for me to start losing sleep after a few bad games.  As a matter of fact, I fell fast asleep not too long after the game was over.  🙂

Hmm…this wasn’t that brief was it?