bring on the rays

listened to last night's game and was counting down outs. was convinced that papelbon should've pitched the 8th and then masterson the 9th. the 8th, with the heart of that angels order, was obviously the more important inning. guzzling tea w/ a sore throat sitting on my bed so tense during that inning. when lowrie hit the single, i yelled out "yes", even though i have a sore throat and probably couldn't have made that noise 24 hours earlier. it brought me back to being a kid, listening to the radio under the covers, hoping for late-inning heroics in '88 and '90 against the a's, which back then, never came. of '86, '04, '07, and this year, this is the best angel team we've beaten, and if it'd gone back to california, we would've lost.

i truly believe that whoever wins the alcs will win the world series. those rays are a likeable bunch, with heart, fire, punch, and resolve. this is going to be a battle and i predict it goes a full 7 games.

i've been group emailing with a few sox fans, all mutual friends of a friend of mine. my friend just wrote, cc'ing all of us, "Me, I love the conversation going here between a bunch of Sox fans from disparate parts of my life who otherwise (mostly) have no idea who each other actually are... "

exactly.