More like these games please

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This is the stuffed parrot that the bullpen guys keep in the bullpen, er, on the "Black Pearl"!  Special thanks to Dori for taking the picture and sharing it with me (and all of us!!)!

Yesterday was HUGE

I don’t care who you are or what team you root for.  You know that the Red Sox pulling off the sweep of the double-header while the Yankees lost in extra innings means a lot for this team.

On Thursday night my father was lamenting the postponing of the first Sox/Sox game and worrying that others on Friday would be postponed as well.  He was commenting how the ‘luck’ was, once again, falling to the Yankees and away from the Red Sox.  Then the strangest thing happened on Friday.  The sun came out in Chicago and the rain started to fall in Detroit.  Things look a lot different now, eh?

My favorite part of winning the double-header was that it wasn’t JUST the pitching being great or ONLY the bats waking up, it was both.  In BOTH games, the pitchers did their job and the hitters did their job.  Hell, the defense was even pretty great.  I was quite excited to see the entire team come together and contribute, playing like they knew they had to play!

It’s a sunny and HOT day in Boston.  I’m  hoping it is as equally sunny (but a little less hot) in Chicago and that Wake gets HIS sixteenth win today! 

Incidentally, yesterday’s appearance marked my man Mike Timlin’s 998th Major League appearance.  Not too long ago many online who consider themselves baseball ‘experts’ (you all know who you are) wrote this guy off as being selfish for wanting to attain the 1000 game goal at the ‘expense’ of the team.  He’s now, again, a very important part of the ‘best bullpen in the league’.  Way to go, Mike! 

For Joshua Patrick! 

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