Dear Kathryn Tappen

Generally speaking, I like you.  It pleases me when you anchor Sports Desk instead of Hazel Mae.  So I’ll be nice.

bkhair.jpgIt isn’t KEELty, it’s KELty.  Bobby Kielty pronounces his name KELTY.  You know how I know this?  Your own Tina Cervasio interviewed him last weekend and asked him outright:  "How do you pronounce your last name?" .  You know what he said?  Well, obviously, you don’t know what he said because you spent the entire half hour of Sports Desk (which I’ve been watching on the loop NESN shows it since 6am) pronouncing it KEELty.

Dude scores a run and goes 3-5 with 4 RBI, the least you could do is pronounce his name correctly.   Maybe you should watch the network you work for a little more, Kathryn.  At the very least, the NESN broadcasters might want to get together and discuss such things.  Thanks in advance, RSC.

Enough crankiness.  Kielty wasn’t alone yesterday.  Interestingly, though, out of the 11 different players the Red Sox ended up sending to the plate yesterday, only six of them had hits.  But every one of THOSE players (Pedroia, Crisp, Ortiz, Lowell and Youkilis, along with Kielty) all had multiple hits in the game, leading the team to a 14-2 win over the White Sox.   35 runs in 3 games.  This is the way to keep the division lead!

Most impressive to me was Mr. Tim Wakefield.  I mean DAMN.  7 innings, 3 hits, no runs, 3 walks and 6 strike outs.  How sweet is that?  Wake joins Joshua Patrick in leading the league with 16 wins. Let’s hear it for the ‘old guy’!  🙂

Totally random stat Kathryn Tappen shares with us:  He and Cy Young are the only pitchers in Red Sox history over 40 to have 16 wins in a season.  Congratulations Tim!

Today is one of those days when I hate that the game starts at 2pm.  I want baseball now.  I want the Red Sox to keep rolling. 

Many will attest that I’ve been saying for a while all I really want is for these three upcoming games in the Bronx to not really mean anything.   Don’t get me wrong, I want the Sox to beat the Yankees in all three games, but I want the hyperbole that always surrounds these games gone.  If the Red Sox can win today and the Tigers pull out a win, even if the Yanks win tomorrow (Yanks play Detroit tomorrow, Sox have an off day), going into the Bronx with a 7 game lead (hell, even a 6 game lead) to play three makes me very happy. (Realizing that with a Yankees loss today, a Red Sox win today and a Yankees loss tomorrow, the lead going into the Bronx could be 8.  I also realize it could be 5, but I’m a ‘half-full’ type gal!)

Even if the Yankees win two, which I don’t see happening but who knows, against the Sox, they only gain a game, and they’d knock no wind out of the Sox.   Heck, the way the Red Sox have handled the other Sox this weekend, they’ve already set themselves up to not have to look at the Yankees series as anything but ‘just another series’ they want to win.  Winning today will just be the cherry on our sundae!

It’s a nice feeling, eh?    

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