No long faces these days
The Red Sox sweep the Tigers and are playing their best baseball of the season. The Soxaholix are cautiously optimistic …
Bill:
A six game win streak. 4 and ½ in back of the Spanks. I'm so happy I've gone alexic … I can't even read my own fucking thought bubbles.
Doug:
I'm so fucking happy that I could put on a fucked up outfit consisting of a red kilt, green beret, black shiny shoes, for instance, and run after an Olympics marathoner and then just pummel his skinny, blood pissing sorry excuse for living just for the fuck of it, you know? [Laughs]
Bill:
Can you believe the only thing separating the Sox and the motherfucking Yankees are the goddamn teabaggers from Baltimore?
Doug:
No shit. It's the Curse of the Mazzili all the way, just as we said back in early June.
Bill:
Schilling says we are coming into the "biggest nine games of the year." Anaheim and Texas at home, Oakland on the Left Coast.
Doug:
Perfect timing. These Red Sox are on fucking fie-ah … six straight wins, 12 of last 13 games and 18 of last 22, improving their record to a season-high 23 games over .500 …
Bill:
Hey, remember all the stat head numbers geeks saying the Sox weren't going to be much because everyone had so called career years last season?
Doug:
Fuck yeah. It was statistical anomaly this and normal distribution that …
Bill:
Well, where's the pocket protector set on this shit? "David Ortiz, Varitek and Kevin Millar all are having better seasons, and since he had his knee scoped, Bill Mueller has been the same player as 2003."
Doug:
Ah, no need for long faces, stats dudes. We all make mistakes.
Stat heads and more specifically BP's PECOTA have anticipated this version of the Sox all year.
Just sayin'...
Posted by: Sully | 2004.08.30 at 08:50 AM
Good point. I shouldn't lump all the stat heads together, though it makes for better fun if I do. (Facts just get in the way. :)
Posted by: h.b. | 2004.08.30 at 09:06 AM
Stats? I got a stat. This team kicks ass. Bring on Lackey and the Angels.
Posted by: JB | 2004.08.30 at 09:50 AM