The day we've been waiting for all this long winter finally arrived! And I'm having a hard time figuring out which aspect of today's events was the most bizarre. Waking up at 5 am to watch the pre-game show? How about the "opening ceremonies" featuring young Japanese girls dancing across the field in traditional costumes? How about the gigantic flower bouquets presented to each manager at home plate? All of those were fairly odd, certainly, and I assume won't be duplicated any time soon.
In spite of the unusual beginning to baseball season, it was good to see that there also were a lot of similarities to last year's championship season:
- Matsuzaka threw entrirely too many pitches causing me to yell at the car radio by the second inning
- the bullpen pitched very well, except for a minor blip from Paps
- the rookies all played their hearts out, especially Brandon Moss, the happiest man on earth
- Manny was...well, Manny
- Best of all...the Sox won the game in an exciting, come-from-behind, extra-innings game!
So. We're undefeated. It's spring. All is right with the world.
*Picture by Barry Chin, courtesy of Boston.com.
2 comments:
Hey! We used the same picture!
Tex? Is that you?
And what Tex said.
I do not heard DirecTV.
And Lestah followed suit as well: way way way too many hits given up. =/
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