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[smc]

What a game! The Red Sox -- a team the pundits said would have no offense this season (what with the shift to "run prevention") -- beat the Yankees 9-7, coming back from a 5-1 deficit!

[Talvenada]

Originally Posted by smc

What a game! The Red Sox -- a team the pundits said would have no offense this season (what with the shift to "run prevention") -- beat the Yankees 9-7, coming back from a 5-1 deficit!

SMC:

Somebody is too excited to get any sleep tonight?

Just a guess. Good game though. Congrats.


TAL

[shadows]

Originally Posted by smc

What a game! The Red Sox -- a team the pundits said would have no offense this season (what with the shift to "run prevention") -- beat the Yankees 9-7, coming back from a 5-1 deficit!

Cool! I was going to check the highlights of the game(it was 8-7 when I checked earlier) but I figured I would check this thread out first. Neither starter was very good, but the offense was alive and kicking!

Good start to the season.

[smc]

Originally Posted by shadows

Cool! I was going to check the highlights of the game(it was 8-7 when I checked earlier) but I figured I would check this thread out first. Neither starter was very good, but the offense was alive and kicking!

Good start to the season.

Actually, Beckett was great in the 1-2-3 top of the 1st inning, getting three outs on 7 pitches. But his curveball wasn't working at all, which was weird given how effective it was in his last spring training start.

Sabathia was tremendous until the 5th inning.

The highlight for me was Pedroia hitting a 2-run homer. Pedey rules!

Off to sleep now.

Hey Jen, if you come on and read this, is there anything you want to correct about earlier posts?

[ila]

Originally Posted by smc

What a game! The Red Sox -- a team the pundits said would have no offense this season (what with the shift to "run prevention") -- beat the Yankees 9-7, coming back from a 5-1 deficit!

The local newspaper ran a story about the game. I don't know what the editors were thinking though. The picture that ran with the story showed two Yankees doing a fist bump. I would think that they would have run a picture of a home team player for a season opener. Perhaps the staff at the paper should be given a geography lesson on where Fenway Park is.

[smc]

Originally Posted by ila

The local newspaper ran a story about the game. I don't know what the editors were thinking though. The picture that ran with the story showed two Yankees doing a fist bump. I would think that they would have run a picture of a home team player for a season opener. Perhaps the staff at the paper should be given a geography lesson on where Fenway Park is.

I think you should cut the editors some slack, since there is a reasonable chance that they have sold their souls to the Steinbrenner Devil like so many other people around the country who focus only on the Yankees.

[ila]

Originally Posted by smc

I think you should cut the editors some slack, since there is a reasonable chance that they have sold their souls to the Steinbrenner Devil like so many other people around the country who focus only on the Yankees.

Yeah, they probably caught some of that excess cash that Steinbrenner was throwing around.

[Talvenada]

Originally Posted by ila

Yeah, they probably caught some of that excess cash that Steinbrenner was throwing around.

ILA:

It might have been because it was the only game for that day.

TAL

[ila]

Originally Posted by Talvenada

ILA:

It might have been because it was the only game for that day.

TAL

You missed what I was saying. I know it was the only game for that day. It was also the first game of the regular season. My point was that the newspaper could have at least run a picture of the home team on the first game. It also should have been a picture of the game action. Two players bumping fists doesn't seem like an appropriate picture for the story.