Time to talk some post season baseball and the great early round matchups. As much as I would love to say the Red Sox are the team to beat this year I am going to go with the Indians. They scare me to death. Carmona and Sabathia are filthy and they have an entire team of professional hitters. They have 6 guys that can hit the ball out of the ball park led by Travis Haffner who could hit 5 in a series if he gets hot. Glad the Yankees got that draw.
But lets move on to more important series. I love it when the Sox play the Angels. Dave Henderson off Donnie Moore, 1986. I was 8 and I almost jumped as high as Hendu did after he hit that go ahead bomb. The sweep in 2004. Good memories.
The Matchup--Red Sox vs Angels
The Sox have the superior team on paper. Dangerous hitting up and down the lineup. Beckett, Dice-K, Schilling, Papelbon. An overpriced Right Fielder who can make 38,000 friends if he decides to turn it on in October. Not to mention that Manny is back and David Ortiz is David Ortiz. The bullpen is key...Its nice to be able to throw Beckett 6 strong and then rely on the best bullpen in the game today...Delcarmen, Okajima, and Paps.
The Angels have the wheels and Vlad Guerrero, who is the best hitter in this Series. They have one chance to get a game and that is with Kelvin Escobar going against Dice-K. Escobar has the nastiest stuff on the Angels outside of F-Rod. Dice K might be a little tired because he throws from the time he wakes up until the time he goes to bed and post season baseball here isn't quite like playing against Tom Selleck in Mr. Baseball.
John Lackey is their ace and goes in game one, but he is going against Beckett and we all know how clutch he is in post season (Yankees).
Give me Curt Schilling in the post season until he is 50.
The Outcome--Sox in 4
The cool air of October, a Red Sox lead, Fenway Park...and Neil Diamond.
Neil Diamond [mp3] Sweet Caroline
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