Red Sox vs. Yankees. Celtics vs. Cavaliers in game 3 of a 1-1 series. Bruins vs. Flyers in possible series sweep.
There are so many story lines for this Friday night in Boston Sports.
Red Sox: You just swept the Angels. The Angels have problems of their own, being staked to a 4-0 lead after the ist inning thanks to the Dice-man's proclivity to gamble on his pitches. I understand that the Japanese strike-zone is different than MLB...but Dice-dude, you've been here 3 years now. I know you can speak English. You have to at least understand it, or else what exactly is V-mart and his own heavy accent conveying to you when he goes to chat on the mound after you walk 3 straight? What does John Farrell say while the umpire walks all the way out to the mound to break the conversation up. That's always a great way to get on the Ump's good side. Throw a ton of balls, and then make the Ump actually walk the 60'6" to the pitchers mound. In any event, the Sox offense again came up huge. The Angels certainly helped, but at this point we'll take whatever help we can get. On a 4 game win-streak, Bring on the Yankees!
Celtics: You have the momentum. Keep it. Don't come out flat. Don't wait for the crowd to get you going. Get the crowd going and you'll get yourselves further into the play-offs. The Cav's think they have the experience and the talent to finally get Lebron a ring. If Lebron is at 80%, and the rest of his team can't pick up any of that other 20%, do they really deserve to advance? Celtic basketball is better than Cavalier basketball. Enough said.
Bruins: Sweep the Flyers. Rest your weary, heal your wounded, and mourn your injured losses. Let the Penguins beat up on the Habs, or vice versa.
So now I'm going to play a new game. Predictions:
Sox- Win against the Yanks because Beckett doesn't care about his 6.31 ERA any more than he cares about Hughes ERA being 1.44. Beckett hates the Yankees. Its ingrained in him after he faced them in the World Series with the Marlins. Since he faces them at least 3 times out of the 18 game regular season schedule since joining the Sox, and then usually at least twice more when the two teams meet in the post-season. If any game is going to give Beckett his fiery emoitons back, it'll be this one. I just hope he starts with at least 1 strike-out in the the 1st inning. We're finally abouve .500, both on the season(15-14), and at Fenway Park(9-8). Yeah, its hard to believe that the Sox are only 1 game above .500 at Home. I'm going to go with 6-4, Sox.
Celtics- Win against the Cavs because Garnett wants to prove his foot injury wasn't a big deal after all, and that this is what the C's look like with Garnett actually playing in this years play-offs.Lebron's elbow is going to hurt even more when he sees a thousand white towels fly up every time he tries to make a free-throw. Ainge doesn't know it, but he's just started a new Garden tradition. Celtics are all about traditions, especially winning ones. 96-89, Celts.
Bruins- ...I don't really know enough about hockey to know how the B's will respond to loosing K-cant spell Kreckji's name? ...yeah. I'll be honest, the last time I really paid attention to the Bruins, Adam Oates and Ray Bourque were on the team. Let's go with Bruin's convincingly so there might at least be some decent fights, and a riot in Philly. 4-2, Bruins.
So there we have it. Somewhere, on a practice squad, the Patiots will be beating themselves, which is the only way they ever really lose.
Boston Sports Rule.
