Sawx!

Boy is my face red! 7-4 prediction? What was I thinking?? Hey- I stand by what I said and I don’t claim to be an “expert”. Anyways, what a great game that was last night! Everybody in the Boston market was wondering how his or her beloved Red Sox would do without Manny Ramirez in the lineup.

Well forget about Ramirez- he’s off celebrating the new trademarked slogan, “Mannywood” out in LA. Massachusetts is now, and has always been, the “Bay State”.

"Years Later...Jason Bay realizes how embarssing this picture truly is...nice feet though!"

The Canadian outfielder that had spent his entire career with the dismal Pittsburgh franchise prior to being traded to Boston this year, started out his post-season resume by striking out twice in two at-bats. Then in the fifth, Bay put the Red Sox up with a two-run homer, his first ever homerun in post season play. For those of you keeping track of the post season home run count: Manny-1 Jason Bay-1. So far so good, right?

Jacoby Ellsbury who was batting something like .400 last post season picked up right where he left off by hitting a triple, and a double last night. He also had one stolen base to his credit. Seen to the left here, Jacoby is pushing a giant tire with a quiet look of constipation on his face. I do my best to post the best pictures possible!!!

The Red Sox won last night by beating Anaheim at their own game: good pitching and small ball. Anaheim fans were headed for the exits before the end of the ninth inning. A sure sign that they’ve seen this type of effort from their hometown team in the playoffs before.

Sports media outlets, even in this area were picking the Angels to win this series. Now with the Sox one game up I think opinions change. The thing of it is, the Angels won a majority of their games this season in the weakest division of the American League. I think the Sox would win 100 games if they played against Texas, Seattle and Oakland a bunch of times during the regular season!

And how about that Jon Lester? Tired my ass! Who said he was tired? Friggin’ guy pitched seven strong innings only allowing one run! Who else could say that? Not John Lackey that’s for sure. Like I said- the Sox were just getting to know Lackey during the season, trying to see what his pitches looked like. Below, here's what Lester and manager Terry Francona would look like if they'd starred in "The Matrix" movies.

"It's Funny!!"

The Angels just do not have a line-up that scares me. Chone Figgins? 0-5 and he looked bad in each of those five at-bats. I am not saying that he went 0-5 but took some good cuts, and had some good swings that just didn’t end up as hits- I’m saying he looked dominated! Garrett Anderson is a shadow of his old self, and guess what? He has been a shadow of his old self each and every time the Red Sox sweep his Angels ball club. Vlad is always scary, but he’s playing hurt. He may be more hurt than Mikey Lowell. Mark Tiexeria is their biggest threat in that lineup, hands down. If you miss against him, he’ll make you pay. So just do what they do to David Ortiz now- and miss! After Tiexeria they got Torii Hunter, who is great- but don’t get me wrong I’m probably more afraid of a guy like Jason Giambi. After Hunter who do the Angels have? Guys who may or may not be good….in the future? Howie Kendrick, Kendry Morales, Mike Napoli, Aybar, whoever else they have toward the bottom of that order are all guys who look like they will be great, they’re just not so right now. You know how I can tell they’re not great right now? Jon Lest struck out the side pretty much effortlessly in the sixth inning last night- just after Jason Bay hit the two run homer to put the Sox on top.

Sorry Angels fans. I think you’re going home yet again. Next year pray that you don’t face the Red Sox. Eventually you’ll start psyching yourselves out!

This weekend I’m excited to see Ed Harris’ latest film, a western titled “Appaloosa”. It’s strange; I was having a conversation with friends the other night about classic westerns versus recent westerns. I’m not a huge classic western fan. Show me John Wayne and I’ll show you my body leaving the room. The man bores me. I like Clint Eastwood, the Man with No Name series, and I like “The Wild Bunch” for what it is, but that might be about it. (Except 4 for Texas, the Rat Pack movie featuring more voice-overs than a feature-length cartoon…) But every time a new western comes out- I’m batty for it. I love “Tombstone” it’s one of my top ten all time favorite films. I loved “Open Range” and just saw it on the History channel recently and remembered again that I liked it. I love the updated “3:10 to Yuma” with Russel Crowe and Christian Bale. So this movie intrigues me. Ed Harris is an intriguing actor. I haven’t really loved anything with Viggo since he played Aaragorn in the Lord of the Rings series, but I heard he was okay in “Hidalgo” and that was sort of a western, right? I’m excited!!!

I’m flipping out today because I just found out that Ryan Adams is coming out with a new album on October 26th. Um- he’s only my favorite artist of all time!!! Let’s put it this way though---I’ve been so poor lately that I haven’t even bought the new Coldplay CD yet! And when did that come out? June?? (Seriously I can’t remember). “Cardinology” is in stores the 26th and to buy it, maybe I won’t eat for a week. I think people have fasted for less in the past.