Soxwoman Speaks

I'm talking about the NBA refs here, and you all know what I mean. The Greatest Coach Who Ever Lived (insert eye rolling emoticon here) rattles his sabers a little bit, and all of a sudden the Lakers get thirty-four free throws to Boston's twenty-two? Please! What a bunch of pansies. Oooo, we can't have one team upset with us during the playoffs! We must even the score on the Lakers' home court! Morons.

But even with the refs working against them, and Pierce in foul trouble, the Celtics kept coming back and made it a game all the way through. With 36 points, the whiny Bryant was practically the whole show for the Lakers (see Dave's blog for Curt Schilling's courtside take on Bryant's behavior in Game 2). Lamar Odom and Gasol? No-shows. Ray Allen tried mightily to make up for the loss of Pierce, and a better game from Garnett and this game would have been in the bag. Oh, well. Game 4 Thursday.

Oh, and for all the people whining that the Patriots should "give back" the first Lombardi trophy because of unsubstantiated rumors...are you all willing to say that the Lakers should now give back the '02 O'Brien? Hmmmm? Let's not be hypocrites here, folks. Sen. Specter, I'd expect you to pursue this with the same zeal with which you went after Spygate...except you won't because neither Comcast nor the '76ers have anything to do with this...yet.

The Red Sox played a terrible game yesterday-at least, their pitchers did. What a freaking buzzkill, after the back-to-back jacks to go ahead. Remy's excuse-making notwithstanding, Josh Beckett simply needs to find a way to put it together more consistently (note to Tito: when he's been bad, Josh has been more than "a tick off") and Hideki Okajima should never be allowed to pitch to the Orioles again. I mean, c'mon guys! The Orioles are eleventh in the league with a .255 BA, but they're slapping the Sox around like they're Murderer's Row. On the bright side, I did enjoy Eddie Murray's visit to the booth. But this morning I remain supremely irritated at the Sox for letting that one get away, and at Josh Beckett for not yet really getting his act together.

Well, the best part of baseball is that you get to do it all over again the next night. Bartolo Colon tries to bounce back from a rough outing against Garrett Olson at 7:05pm. Go Sox.