You know dern well I'd rather have the Red Sox win the East. I was rooting for them all last year.
It's not that I hate the Yankees. It's that I hate Steinbrenner's approach to baseball: buying a pennant. There's nothing more satisfying to me to see the smaller payroll beat the bigger one.
Yep... David vs Goliath.
Well, we're not dead, yet-- just on life support.
Oh, and I kept Travis Lee out, too. Gomes and Lee BOTH went 2-4 with 2 RBI and 2 R.
Oh, well. The guy I'm facing will probably lose every pitching category, except maybe total Ks, and that's not a given. He's had collecting stats for him, so far this week: Kazmir (6.92 ERA), Timlin (810.00 ERA), Buehrle (6.00 ERA-- Thanks, Tribe!), Liriano (14.73 ERA)-- with a save from Wickman. Can you say, "ouch?" It might be enough for it to be impossible to come back from.
I have Báez (4.50 ERA, 2 saves), Wakefield (5.00 ERA), Oswalt (4.50 ERA, 1 win). Not great, but acceptable.
I have Mulder, Carpenter, Contreras and Brandon McCarthy left. He has Lowry, D-Train, Zambrano and Loaiza. I think we break even for the most part with the remaining starts.