Kyle Snyder - September 2008 Courtesy of Baseball Heavy - Just Because!
I can’t sleep. It’s just after 2am EST and I’m wide awake. Which lends itself to my digging deeper through boston.com and other sites to see what’s going on.
I usually check out “What they were thinking”, the weekly photo by Stan Grossfeld with a description of what the subject of each photo was thinking (pretty straight-forward, huh?). Somehow I missed this one. If I’m not mistaken, this guy was sitting near Tru at the game. And his taking his shirt off and trying to get the crowd into it is great – I love that stuff. But reading this quote, I actually scoffed out loud:
Me and my buddies were trying to get something going. We tried to start the Wave, tried to get them to exert some energy.
Doing the wave isn’t getting something going. It isn’t getting the crowd to exert positive energy for their team. It’s, in my opinion, proof that people aren’t paying attention to the damn game. So don’t be judging me for being quiet at a stress-filled game, when your solution is to do the freaking wave, pallie.
More current is this piece on Derek Lowe. I have mixed feelings about bringing Lowe back to Boston. First off, aside from his amazing post-season in 2004, he didn’t exactly have the season of his career IN 2004. And he’s been pitching in the National League for four seasons now. I’m not exactly brimming with confidence that he’s going to be what the team needs. And he can say what he wants about his personal life being less crazy now, but I have it on good authority that in saying so, he’s stretching the truth a bit. I loved DLowe when he was here, but there really WAS too much off the field shit and some of it DID affect his pitching. I know you can never have too much pitching (and I truly believe that), but I don’t know that I want the Sox giving Lowe what he’s undoubtedly looking for – especially when it means we cross our fingers all year long. I’m a big believer in once you’ve broken up with someone, you don’t go back. I hope, in this case, the Sox are too. (And I reserve the right to change my mind in regard to other ex-Sox!)
Still haven’t read or heard any news on Kyle Snyder. But I have to laugh because I received two separate emails this weekend from people who thought I should check out Kyle’s myspace page. Even funnier was that each email had a different page linked. Now, I suppose there is a remote possibility that one of these two pages is Kyle’s, but I really, truly, doubt it. Nice try, folks. I will never understand people creating MySpace or Facebook pages pretending to be a famous person.
Football is just NOT filling the sports void right now. Hell, I’m even looking forward to the WBC this time around!
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