4/17-4/19 Red Sox @ Angels Series Thread

Gonna be a tough series. Would be thrilled to see the Sox take 2 of 3. I imagine Betts will be back tonight which is good.

Sucks for me because I can rarely make it past 11 pm on a weeknight.

Somebody gets to sleep in.

Looking forward to seeing him pitch.....and seeing our guys take him to the woodshed !!  Normally asleep by that time, but I will take some early rest and set the alarm to make sure I see some of it.

Mike Trout has a .410 wOBA while sporting a .244 BABIP!!!
Good grace!

When we're young naps are a punishment.
For some time now naps are a vacation.
When the Sox are on the Worst Coast, long naps are mandatory.

I saw both games he started and frankly, if he pitches like in his 2nd outing it's gonna be really really hard to manufacture runs against him: I've never seen a pitcher capable of hitting his catcher mitt with a 98-100 mph heat with such consistency all game long and that splitter! Oh my god! absolute filth!
You hope he hangs a slider to JDM with runner on base or work his pitch count 'cause their BP is not very good.
I'm not gonna stress about that game and try to watch it from a baseball fan perspective not a Red Sox fan...if that makes sens.
He's an extraordinary talent and it'll be fun to watch.

I'm in Florida with my Mom and have been watching on my phone. I got panicked when I got a message beginning "you have used all your T-Mobile monthly high-speed data ..." It took me a second to notice that it continued " ... and will begin using the 20441MB available in your Data Stash."

I just checked the message to write this, and noticed that this happened last August when I was also down here, at which point I started using 14304MB. I'm growing the stash faster than I can use it! So I think I'm cool here.

On this trip I've turned out the lights at 3:25, 3:26, 4:25, 3:06, and 3:36 AM (*), so I think I'm cool that way, too. I may print out a scorecard and do every pitch, although that has to be easier on a 65" screen than a 5".


* My CPAP machine records that automatically. But, yeah, I've got a spreadsheet. I average 5:15 +/- 1:25 of sleep at night and need 6:30 a day in the long run, so the first thing I do when I wake up is try to figure out whether I'll need to go back to bed in about two or three hours (**), and/or take a nap, and when that might happen.

**The clock in your brain that controls your sleep is actually two clocks, one for the evening and one for the morning. They can drift apart to allow us to go to bed at sundown and wake up at sunrise, so when we were hunter-gatherers, during the winter we'd go to bed early, wake up in the middle of the night and talk about our dreams and/or partake in basic entertainment, then go back to sleep for a few more hours. During the summer the two clocks are pushed together, and since the invention of artificial light that's been a year-round condition for almost everybody. My clocks have the evolutionary winter separation full-time.

And typing that up I came up with an idea for fixing it. Thank you, Ohtani-san!

Yeah their lineup entering the year was potentially stacked. The Ohtani move got the headlines, but the Upton and Cozart signings and Kinsler trade were quietly very good. The question was the pitching. It's kind of crazy - they've already used NINE different starters. Part of it is keeping Ohtani going every 7th day or so. Part of it is losing JC Ramirez to Tommy John and Matt Shoemaker to a forearm strain.

By the way, Noe freaking Ramirez has 13 k's in 7 1/3 innings for them. He's also walked 6, so it's not like he's been great, but still, that's a lot of punchouts for him.

I would like this 10 times if I could. I hope Ohtani gets lit up tonight and throws a no hitter against the Yankees. Sorry, not sorry. Ohtani is great for baseball, but if he thinks I'm rooting for him against the Sox, then he has another thing coming to him.

I understand that.

I gotta say though, for a player to be both pitching and hitting is really something.  I am not one prone to hyperbole (95% of th time) but if he can sustain this level of success in both disciplines, well, he could end up being the best player ever.  Nobody has done this before (even Ruth), but with level of competition...Sheesh.

I am good until 12:30 or 1 most nights - up at 7:30.  Tired tonight though - spent most of the last two days selling tomato plants out of my driveway!