Out there Again

This doesn't have to do with me being bored. Honest.

Frankly, I figured this would be fun, and the immediate cause for me signing up for this was me stumbling across the old blog I had when I was abroad in Sweden. I enjoyed looking back on the entries I wrote nearly three years ago, and while my life now isn't really as interesting as it was then, what the hell.

I'm also avoiding watching the Red Sox game, as they've had their asses handed to them by the Rays for two straight games and are on the verge of elimination. More on that later I suppose, as I'm figuring sports and movies will play a rather large part in how I find filler for this space. There's also the Presidential election coming up, so that's something, too.

Ah, hell, let's get the Red Sox out of the way...

Reasons the Red Sox are pissing me off:

1. David Ortiz couldn't hit a beach ball if I placed it on a tee for him, and gave him the world's biggest bat. The man needs to try and NOT pull the ball for once, or bunt into the shift. Pena did it, so man up and do what's best for the team. GET ON BASE!

2. The Body-Snatcher Pod People made off with Josh Beckett before the Postseason, and they're halfway home with him in a stasis tube by now. Oh, and his replacement tore his upper fat muscle (or oblique).

3. Jon Lester needs to remember that he's awesome.

4. The idiot fans who are clamoring that the Red Sox would be in the World Series if they'd kept Manny. Shut. Up. The Red Sox, as CHB pointed out (did I just agree with CHB?), wouldn't even *be* here if they hadn't traded Manny. He would have quit on the fans and his teammates, packed it in with two injured knees and brusied ovaries, and that would have been that. Fact. Remember 2006? Remember how that sucked? Moving on...

5. Jason Varitek is an old, creaky shell of his former self. Look, I appreciate the contributions of the Captain, but when you can't hit a lick anymore, still try to switch hit for some reason, and then get pissy when you're pinch-hit for (after taking strike 3 right down the middle in Game 3...c'mon Tek, you gotta swing at that ball), then we're done. So long, and thanks for all the fish.

Reasons I shouldn't be as mad at the Red Sox:

1. I mean, really? 2004 should shut everyone up. I know I'm not being original here, but wasn't the whole point of that to become a regular fan base with a regular baseball team, like Simmons said? So, can we all just calm down and begin panicking about the Patriots?

2. 2007 does a pretty good job of dulling the pain, too. Funny how that works.

3. Wasn't it an entertaining, if odd, season? I mean, they did a much better job of defending their title this time 'round, and the last time they won back-to-back Series was 1915. (History dork side note: Not only was the 1915 Series against the Phillies, it was the second straight Boston-Philadelphia World Series. The 1914 Boston Miracle Braves swept the Philly Athletics the year before) Playoffs were entertaining, if at least up until ALCS Game 2...

4. No. More. Manny. And while I like Jason Bay and his Canuck tenacity a lot, I like the $20 million we're *not* paying Manny a whole lot more. Cha-Ching!

5. We still have a good core of Dustin "Where the hell am I generating all this power from" Pedroia, Youkilis' Grizzly Adams beard, Jed Lowrie's Bill Mueller/Mark Bellhorn combination, Jon Lester-as-the-new-Andy-Pettitte, and ownership that seems to know what it's doing. Yes, the Rays are really good and REALLY young, but whatever. Should be an interesting couple of seasons.

I don't want to overuse the countdown motif, but I've got a thing or two to say about the other Boston teams as well. My passioned defense of the Boston Bruins is upcoming, as well as my best attempt to figure out what the hell happened to the Patriots. Celtics? I'm the biggest Celtics Pink Hat ever, but I could give it a go.

So, yeah. Got a lot on my mind, and a lot to say. If you don't agree or don't know me disregard...this won't be an informative blog that way. Just a way for me to do some typing and blow off some steam. See how I feel better about the Sox being down 2-0 in Game 5?

Grrrr...Goddamn Rays. Did anyone in Tampa even *know* about this team 6 weeks ago? Seriously, Montreal could support a baseball team better. Yeah, that's right. I went there.