Soxwoman Speaks

"That's an interesting night," Tito said after the game. That's like saying Dick Cheney is kind of a jerk.

"I can say I never have been in a game like that," Ron Washington added. No, Ron, most of us haven't, considering the 36 runs scored last night tied the single-game American League record set on June 29, 1950, when the Red Sox beat the Athletics, 22-14.

"But it was definitely a good game for us to pull out in the end and huge for us to get that win," Youk said afterwards. Pull out in the end? Pull it out in the end????? Dude, you guys spotted your pitchers ten runs in the first!! How should you have to "pull out" something like that????

Amazing. Not pretty, for sure. In fact, a lot of it (cough *pitching* cough) was downright hideous, but then you have to remember that these are the same Texas Rangers who hung 30 runs on the Orioles last year. So, yeah, they can hit. But they can't pitch for crap, although were they in the National League east, they'd be tied for first right now (until the Manny-charged Dodgers knocked them out, that is-just as soon as they get over themselves about Manny's hair. You can take the manager out of New York, but you can't take New York out of the manager). As for the Sox bullpen, well, I'm just going to go with the assumption that it was a pity meltdown for Charlie Zink. That way, at least I won't have nightmares...

Can a game be both a high and low point? Like Remy said, it wasn't a masterpiece, but definitely one of the most entertaining games of the season.

In other news, Sox picked up Paul "HGH" Byrd yesterday, effectively inoculating themselves against any charges that they are interested in fielding a team of guys who play the game right. Fascinating to me that you can't keep around a high performer who is childish and throws tantrums, but a mediocre guy who gets thousands of dollars worth of PEDs from a discredited dentist in a bogus anti-aging clinic who then tries to sell that it was legitimate medical treatment is apparently ok with them. Maybe they heard he's got some bootleg Traci Lords flicks he's willing to share (only watched while waiting for Netflix to send the next episode of "Left Behind," of course).

Oh, well. I cheer for the laundry. Let's go, Paul!!!!!!!!!