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June 22nd, 2005
07:51 pm - Have vs. Have-not
At 5:00 today, I started gushing with pride over our current league standing in softball. The green shirts are tied for 1st place with 2 other teams. 1st place! We received an email from one of the BSSC (Boston Ski and Sports Club, for those not in the know) coordinators with this information today. As I've said before, I can't take a lot of credit for this, as I tend to pop-up a lot and my chin gets more action than my glove. But I feel lucky, reader. I walked over to Kerry's cube to share the good news. She countered with more good news: The Yankees lost today with Pavano dealing (3-5). This, of course, led to a discussion about the respective disappointments of Carl and Randy. I explained that B.S. Memorial compares Carl and Matt occasionally. Reading it puts a little spring in your step, especially if you're having a bad day. Kerry then told me that she thought it might be equally as interesting to compare our our replacements of 2005 with the replaced of 2004. I thought this would make for a pretty cool exercise, so I offered to work it out. I will be passing the baton to Reb of course, to use her brilliant new statistical method so that we can compare results for the pitchers (Bases Per Batter). If you haven't seen this, reader, please visit her site. She's really going gangbusters with this and it's awesome.
STARTING PITCHING
Have
Clement (8W - 1L)
ERA: 3.48
Strike Outs: 78
Wells (6W - 4L)
ERA: 4.73
Strike Outs: 39
Lost
Martinez (7W - 2L)
ERA: 2.76
Strike Outs: 114
Lowe (5W - 8L)
ERA: 3.65
Strike Outs: 70
What we got:
W/L: 7-3
ERA: 4.11
SO: 59
What we gave up:
W/L: 6-5 (el stink-o bullpens are to blame here)
ERA: 3.21
SO: 92
OFFENSE
Have:
Renteria
Average: .266
HR: 5
RBI: 26
SB: 4
Millar
Average: .269
HR: 4
RBI: 29
SB: 0
Payton (Important to note: AB=115)
Average: .270
HR: 5
RBI: 20
SB: 0
Lost:
Cabrera
Average: .249
HR: 4
RBI: 20
SB: 5
Mientkiewicz
Average: .217
HR: 8
RBI: 22
SB: 0
Roberts (Important to note: AB=191)
Average: .288
HR: 4
RBI: 24
SB: 13 (WOW!)
What we got:
Average: .268
HR: 5
RBI: 25
SB: 1.3
What we gave up:
Average: .251
HR: 5.3
RBI: 22
SB: 9.6
Interesting results. I'll compare defense tomorrow.
And on a light note, Mo just emailed me the following (as reported in Newsweek):
"We've got a war going on - I have family in that war - yet we're talking about steroids...If everybody in the world got on steroids, we'll still lose more kids to a war than we will from steroids." Chicago White Sox outfielder Carl Everett, on congressional steroid hearings. He also disputed the existence of dinosaurs and said that "if a fan comes onto the field, we're gonna beat him down."
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11:51 pm - Where's the Dust Pan?
KC and I watched most of the game from O'Neil's, an Irish Pub here in Shalom. Since sweeping starts with a broom and brooms are big here, I'm thinking of using Samantha as the official symbol of Red Sox sweeps:
Clutch hitting was in effect. (I'm 33 years old and I still get confused between effect and affect.) And our pitching (and managing, thanks, Terry) was really great this evening. I loved the ole "one batter and you're beat" ballsy move executed by our skipper tonight. I'm speaking of Myers, who was less than pleased to leave the mound. Stolen bases. Good base running. Everything just sort of came together. I think the biggest thanks of all ought to be extended to fatty Wickman who helped us come out on top. Sweaty. Nervous. Off his game. It's fun to watch those kind late innings, even when you are chewing on bloody stumps.
1 game from 1st place. Striking distance, to be sure. We face Lieber in Philly next. It's all about revenge this year. I hope we smoke him.
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