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Growing Up With Wakefield posted on 07/03/2009

Ever since I was little, I remember going to Fenway Park and seeing Wakefield pitch.  About five or six years ago, I remember complaining to my friends in high school about how as much as we loved the guy, it felt like he was the pitcher we always saw on the mound.  I haven’t made it to Fenway yet this year, but when I do I personally can’t wait to see him pitch. 

I remember being in elementary schooll watching him warm up in the bullpen.  He was always my favorite to watch warm up because it was so cool to see his knuckleball move.  Sure it’s neat to see it on TV, but it’s awesome standing in the bleachers by the fence and seeing the knuckleball drop the way it does. 

Tonight Wakefield will be starting for the 383rd time in a Red Sox uniform, setting an all time Red Sox record.  He’ll be passing none other than the Rocket himself, Roger Clemens.   Although I never got to see Clemens pitch (except in a Yanks uniform), I know I’m not the only one who’s happy to see such a nice guy setting this record for the Sox.  Years from now, when Wake returns to Fenway Park after being retired for however many years, we’ll be giving him loud standing ovations.  He’s a great team player and a friendly person who is more than modest.  And I couldn’t ask for anything more than to see him pitching in the All Star Game next week.  Best of luck, Timmy, and congratulations.

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A College Student’s Perspective of Tuesday’s 11-10 Loss posted on 07/01/2009

I’ll tell you right now that it’s not better than viewing it as any other person. 

I’ll also tell you that even though it’s the summer, we still maintain some of the college atmosphere here in Salem.  A lot of us Salem Staters have off campus apartments so we get to see each other even when school is not in session. 

Personally I was looking forward to watching an entire game on Tuesday night, which is hard to do between multiple jobs and summer classes.  However, I got a text last night before the game started saying that there were going to be some cool people meeting up at Salem Beer Works that night.  I figured I’d go after the game.  So I sat in my room watching the Sox dominate the Os for the first 4 innings.  Thanks to some great offense and a much better start for Smoltz, things seemed to be going our way. 

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Lowell Goes on the DL – Dice-K Might Be There ‘til September posted on 06/30/2009

Last I updated, I mentioned Lowrie had to exit a rehab game early.  Fortunately for Lowrie, this wasn’t a setback.  However, yesterday word came out that Dice-K was going to be on the DL for longer than 15 days.  While we may have already known that, I don’t think any of us were expecting him to be on there for as long September 1st. 

According to Nick Cafardo of the Boston Globe, the Sox are looking as far as that for the Japanese pitcher to return.  Cafardo also mentioned that a source said Dice-K insisted that he did not need to the same strengthening program that the Red Sox pitchers were required to perform in the offseason.  There doesn’t seem to be much evidence of whether or not this is true, but I hope it’s not.  After all, RSN seems to be upset enough about Dice-K right now.  That sure won’t help plead his case.  Here’s the article written by Cafarado.  It’s mainly about Alex Cora (and also an interview with Julian Tavarez) but gives tidbits of information after.  One of these tidbits is where I got the info on Dice-K:

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NESN.com Reports Jed Lowrie Exits Rehab Game With Soreness posted on 06/29/2009

I was just looking up news trying to find out if anyone knew how Lowrie was doing and this is what I found out.  Apparently Lowrie had to leave in the fifth inning due to soreness in his knee.   This scared me a bit until I remembered that Lowrie is on the DL for a wrist injury – not a knee injury.  What happened was on Tuesday Lowrie was hit by a pitch in the knee.  It seems as if the eager shortstop might have been pushing a little too hard on the knee, which forced him to leave the game early.  Poor guy.  Hope he gets better soon.  I’m sure he was more than frustrated after leaving the game, but at least the soreness has nothing to do with his wrist. 

In the same article I learned that Jonathan Van Every will be out for the remainder of the Paw Sox season after injuring his left knee as well (that’s ironic).  As much as I feel bad for Lowrie, I feel more bad for Van Every right now.  This guy is 29 years old and still has yet to play more than seven games in the big leagues.  Any injury that keeps you off the field for a year is frustrating, but when you’re fighting to make it to the big leagues and you have to stop because of an injury – well that’s more frustrating.  I’m sure Lowrie feels his frustration, however, seeing as Lowrie has yet to play a full season in the big leagues himself.  It just sucks that Van Every has to be even more patient than he’s already been. 

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Take a Look at the Standings posted on 06/27/2009

I already knew that the Red Sox were in first, and that the Yanks were in second.  I also knew that whenever I looked at the standings, Toronto was not far behind New York.  What I didn’t know was that Tampa Bay is currently only a game behind Toronto. 

Everyone once in a while I hear a player say on TV that their division is the toughest in baseball.  I never really know who to believe because it seems to change every year.  Right now in 2009, I’m picking AL East as the toughest division in baseball.  Take a look:

AL East                  W           L              Games behind

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