Can the Red Sox follow suit?

10 random thoughts while the Magic wake up from their nap...

1. Can the Red Sox do what the B's and C's have done already this year? Can they crush our hopes to complete dust, bicker and lose key players to injury, go into the last third of the season with zero hope...only to sucker us back in with good play, vault into the postseason and pick up their play as the calender turns and each game is life or death? A terrific article by Chris Gasper in today's Boston Globe sums up the Red Sox perfectly and one point cannot be emphasized enough - bad teams do not do what the Red Sox did to the Yankees last night. (Although, I know good teams also don't put their left fielder up Jeter's asshole and protest a game because a pitcher got injured. You're a big, wet, stinky pussy Girardi. Change your jersey number to 69 for all the cock you suck).

2. Dice-K statistics (bad innings vs. good innings - and for those of you who don't know what a "bad inning" is, equate it to a Sullnino fart on a 6 hour car ride from Ithaca to Boston...ok, bad example...)
Good innings - 19 IP, 4 ER
Bad innings - 2 2/3 IP, 15 ER.

Is the Dice-K era still salvageable? Granted, his one good start was against a free-swinging Toronto team, but if he can cut out the one bad inning...maybe...possibly...

On second thought...naaaaah.

3. Really Mike Lowell? You had to pick right now to say you're thinking about asking for your release from the club? Of course this comes out now. If the Red Sox were on the same pace as Tampa and Lowell had zero at-bats, none of this would be issue. Of course, its not an issue now. Papi and Beltre are crushing it, no way Lowell > Youk, so it looks like Lowell's the odd man out. Thanks Mike, for '07, you're truly a stand-up guy, but if only you had taken 4 years and $50 mil from the Phillies...

4. Vince Carter is a pussy.

5. Sorry, that was wrong. Let me rephrase that.

Vince Carter is a giant, enormous, humongous, Greg Oden penis-sized pussy. He makes European soccer players look tough.

6. The Bruins....ahhh forget it.

7. I can't believe this hasn't been mentioned in this blog yet, so let me be the first:

If you graduated from, attend, attended, are affiliated with, a fan of or have any remote connection to Boston College - you're a bitch, you have no spine, your sports team are garbage and the general aura around Chestnut Hill is equivalent to the city of Cleveland, Ohio. SuperFan...more like SuperFraud.

8. I, for one, am going to miss Shawn Springs because, unfortunately, it means Jon Wilhite gets more playing time. And that dude couldn't cover a bed with sheets, let alone cover an NFL receiver. What are Brandon Marshall, Santonio Holmes and Lee Evans going to do to him? Egads...

9. Vince Carter is still a pussy.

10. The ten spot will be reserved weekly for the PGA Tour because, well, if you don't like golf, to quote Samuel Jackson, "YES THEY DESERVE TO DIE, AND I HOPE THEY BURN IN HELL." The tour stops this week at Lord Byron's tournament, where Rory Sabbatini (winner of biggest A-hole on Tour award 6 years running) looks to defend his title. Great blog on the scoring conditions at TPC Four Seasons, courtesy of Justin Ray at ESPN.com (http://espn.go.com/golf/blog/_/name/golf/id/5200629/will-nelson-winner-go-way-low). Picking a winner in golf is like throwing Papi a fastball - sometimes he'll crush it, sometimes...yeeesh. So away we go...

The Darkhorse - Tiger. Just kidding, his neck's probably still sore from muff-diving. So we'll go with Webb Simpson, a small, gutsy player who kills it off the tee and has a fairly decent short game. If he can make a few putts this week, watch out.

The Favorite - Hunter Mahan. With a win already this year and playing in front of his pseudo hometown, Mahan should be plenty amped to perform at the Byron and take home the title.

The Pick - Kenny Perry. Played fairly well at the Players and with the Ryder Cup looming, needs to string together some strong finishes to make a push. That, and that's who the dart hit when I threw it at the board.

P.S. - Those white ponchos they give out at the Fens make the fans looks like KKK members, I think I just saw the grand wizard sitting in the front row. Maybe Carl Everett should come back to town...