Posted in Red Sox on Oct 18th, 2007 No Comments »
While the game is eight hours away, it is raining (lightly).
Weather reports are three more hours of rain before most of it goes away. There will be some overcast clouds, but there will be only a 10 percent chance of rain throughout the game.
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There is a rather humorous story related to tonight’s national anthem.
It will be performed by country music up-and-comer Danielle Peck, who hails from Coshocton, Ohio and whose family are big Indians fans.
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Posted in Red Sox on Oct 18th, 2007 4 Comments »
Before I get into some of the scenery a little more than eight hours before tonight’s first pitch, I’ll give you my thoughts on what will happen in Game 5:
I believe the Indians will win. I believe it will be a very close game tonight. I believe the Sox will play better than they did the first two games. But this is a big home field advantage playing this game in Cleveland.
I didn’t realize how … continued »
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Posted in Red Sox on Oct 17th, 2007 6 Comments »
This probably will not surprise you:
The Red Sox are tight. The Cleveland Indians are not.
Several Red Sox were given the day off (David Ortiz, Dice-K, Julio Lugo and Coco Crisp to name a few of the biggies) and few others were not in a talking mood, especially J.D. Drew, who was nowhere to be found after eating lunch as the media entered the clubhouse.
The shock of the day was Manny Ramirez. He not only spoke … continued »
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Posted in Red Sox on Oct 16th, 2007 No Comments »
It wasn’t the sight that 100 or so media members wanted to see, but the Red Sox clubhouse was near empty for the 30-minute interval set aside for media access before tonight’s game.
During the playoffs, there is no media access in the clubhouse before a game. But that rule was lifted because everything, especially batting practice, was moved indoors.
There was one problem. Only three players, Mike Timlin, Bobby Kielty and Manny Delcarmen, were available … continued »
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Posted in Red Sox on Oct 16th, 2007 No Comments »
Here is Terry Francona’s response to the question about if he considered replacing Tim Wakefield with Josh Beckett for tonight’s game:
“I can’t believe somebody asked me that,” said Francona. “Yeah, I think what we considered was trying to put our ballclub in the best position to win the series, and there’s a lot of different reasons why we feel like that. Some of it concerns Josh, some of it concerns the guys behind him … … continued »
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Posted in Red Sox on Oct 16th, 2007 No Comments »
I arrived here about an hour ago, at 4:30 p.m., and the early story is the weather. It has been overcast the entire day. A few sportswriters made the 60-mile trek to Canton, Ohio, to the Pro Football Hall of Fame (more on that later). It was dry the entire trip until we got back here to downtown Cleveland around 3:30 p.m.
The infield is covered and batting practice for both teams was moved inside.
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