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Sox Countdown | What We’ve Been Up To In My Absence

Lets get down to business, Top 3 get photos. I’ve been out for awhile and I figure theres a lot to talk about, so heres my way of saying. I’M BACK, HUZZAH.

HERE WE GO

5) Rocco Baldelli knows whats up
This man knows whats up… He’s athletic, hence his awesome diving catch vs the Indians. He can go deep with the long ball, hence his solo shot during the game with Tampa. He can hit for contact and get runs in, hence the RBI double that took the lead against the Indians. QUITE good. He’s a great cover for when J.D. Drew’s glass skeleton breaks again. He also is, by far, one of the better choices to give Jacoby Ellsbury some rest. When Jacoby is feeling it, he can play, but when he’s not Baldelli can step in and kick some butt. 
Majorly. Word.
4) Senor Lugo, where have you been until now?
He’s back kiddies. Julio Lugo. The REAL Julio Lugo, not that twerp who showed up at the beginning of the month coming off the DL and batting like he’d never seen a baseball before. This Julio Lugo is actually holding on to the ball instead of dropping it during a play and he is hitting the baseball! Dear lordy, I don’t see where this was a few series ago. Well, keep it up buddyboy.
3) Masterful Masterson
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Our boy might be back in the pen next week as Daisuke seems to be heading home soon. Masterson, we’re proud of you. You did better than most bullpen guys could coming up to fill some HUGE shoes. Thanks. We hope to see you back in your most dominant place. Completely destroying everything that moves between the 7th and 8th innings. Maybe someday, you’ll be back in the rotation, but to be quite frank, you’re way too awesome in the pen. Everywhere you are, you are awesome. Also, thank you for signing my baseball at spring training, that was cool.
2) Papelbon 5000
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Before I go into this, lets talk about why I titled this Papelbon 5000. I work at a school, and I tend to talk about baseball a LOT. One of the kids, after hearing about Papelbon so much, as he is my favorite Red Sox player, and I have his jersey (and wear it quite often), decided he’d assign a nickname. He now only mentions him as Papelbon 5000. 
ANYWAY…
Man, Papelbon is crazy. Look at that face. He’s gonna take someone down. Yes, he did take someone down when we played Tampa. He may have gotten two guys on base, but then it happened. The moment of truth. I don’t know, maybe a light turned on, maybe a spark flicked up, a flash of brilliance maybe. The old Papelbon re-emerged. Three STRAIGHT Strikeouts. Thats what’s up. The next outing he had was solid, albeit not quite as amazing. 
The biggest thing I noticed was, Papelbon was getting the high strike again. The rising fastball that made hitters swing came back. That was the ball the made Papelbon the dominant closer he was in the past, and seeing it come back made my day. 
Welcome back, Cinco Ocho
1) J-Bay, All The Way

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This man is a terminator. The terminator. If you are a pitcher. I would not pitch this man a fastball. He will send it VERY far away. You will not see that fastball again. The order of closers has a hit out on this man. He is dangerous, he is mysterious. 
He is… Jason Bay.
J-Bay has become the new definition of clutch. He’s hitting home runs where there should be no runs. He creates comebacks on his own. 
Also, now that Manny is out of the picture with that lovely 50 game suspension, the Red Sox have officially won. 
“Red Sox won what?” you ask. 
We have won the trade. Red Sox Nation is now reaping the better end of the trade. Jason Bay has not only outperformed Manny this year in his time with the sox, causing some miraculous wins and hitting homers like its nothing, but he’s not suspended for 50 games. 
I have two words: Epic Win.
Until I get my act together,
-Mike

Wake Up and Smell The Coffee

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Wakefield! I didn’t know you were capible of being this awesome!
7 IP
1 Hit
4 BB
5 Ks

This is the third start that Wakefield has completely annihilated the other team. Cleveland is a damn good team to annihilate. Cliff Lee pitched absolutely masterfully, and Wakefield 1-Up’d the Cy Young winner with his own absolutely amazing performance.

Jacoby Ellsbury again showed that he is, in fact, a web gem production machine catching one catch while running full speed (and I’m entirely surprised he didn’t keep going straight into the wall) and another diving on a bloop into shallow center. Props to you crazy *******.

The game breaker came in the form of Jason Bay yet again! After that insane home run off Mariano Rivera, i didn’t think he could pull that off twice. Boy was i wrong
9th inning.
2 On, 1 Out
Kerry Wood, shut down closer, pitching for the tribe…
BAM. 3 run homer.

Papelbon proceded to come out and put the game in the bag.
I have to say i’m a tiny bit freaked out at the startling lack of movement coming from his fastball.
Papelbon’s fastball used to rise, and Papelbon not only changed his armslot, but not has a straight fastball rather than a rising fastball.
In a completely opposing light of hope: Papelbon has not been striking out many batters… until today when he got 2 Ks.
I won’t worry too much about the cinco ocho.
Just take it from the shirt his teammates wear (but strangely enough i cannot find):
“Cinco ocho: He don’t know how he do. He just do.”

Thinks Japanese history is a bit too difficult,
-Mike

Introduction I

What am i writing for?
I love my baseball.
More specifically. I love the Red Sox
I was raised in California, my Dad hails from Boston.

In my house, Red Sox was the team the ruled the house. Red Sox was the religion. My dad made sure i was watching when the Sox won it all in 2004, and it made his year. From that point on, my dad proceeded to collect the autograph of every memeber of that team down to the coaches, the GM, the owner, and of course Tito. Now my dad’s shelf is filled with a huge line of baseballs. Someday, they’ll be passed to me.

Currently, I’m a sophmore in college. Unfortunately my resident baseball team is NL, and sadly i never see my beloved Red Sox.
I live in Colorado, and in 2007, some higher power decided he loved me. In 2007, the heavens sent the Red Sox to Colorado.
My dad, being the insane obsessed fan he is, flew down to colorado and bought tickets for two games.
I was then given a choice:
Game 3
or
Game 4

Being the smart child, I chose Game 4… I felt a sweep coming and i wanted to see it end.
Boy was I right.
Game 4, I watched the sweep occur, I watched Jonathan Papelbon close the game, and I watched him Riverdance on the field. This was the moment I found my favorite player.
Up until this point, I loved the team but I hadn’t had that particular push to find a favorite, but Papelbon’s enthusiasm, drive, and absolute bat **** behavior gave me a damn good reason to like him.

ANNNNNYway…
I’m here to write about the Sox. Sox are my life, which is bad news for my grades, and I feel with this type of thought process, I should be writing things down.

Living on MLB.tv right now,
-Mike

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