2. Red Sox, how do you feel about being beaten by a performance enhancing drug (PED) user?
Monday, October 8, 1956, , Yankee Stadium I, game 5 World Series
Attendance: 64,519, Time of Game: 2:06
Yankees 2, Brooklyn Dodgers 0
Winning pitcher Don Larsen threw 9 innings, 97 pitches, 7 SO and did not allow a base runner. Losing pitcher Sal Maglie threw all 8 innings for Brooklyn allowing 5 hits, 2 runs, 2 BB, 5 SO. Mickey Mantle hit a solo home run in the 4th with two out and Hank Bauer singled home a run in the 6th.
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Saturday, October 12, 2013, 4:00pm, Busch Stadium III
Attendance: 46,872, Time of Game: 2:40
Cardinals 1, Dodgers 0
Winning pitcher Michael Wacha went 6.66 innings, throwing 112 pitches; 1 BB, 8 SO. Four relief pitchers followed and St. Louis threw 145 pitches. Losing pitcher Clayton Kershaw went 6 innings: 72 pitches, 1 BB, 5 SO. Two relivers followed. LA threw 102 pitches. Jon Jay hit a sacrifice fly in the 5th.
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Saturday, October 12, 2013, 8:00pm, Fenway Park
Attendance: 38,210, Time of Game: 3:56
Tigers 1, Red Sox 0
Jhonny Peralta was 3 for 4, including 2 doubles and an RBI single in the 6th. More on him below.
Daniel Nava got Boston's only hit, a one out 9th inning single. Winning pitcher Anibal Sanchez started for Detroit and went 6 innings: 116 pitches, 6 BB, 12 SO. Four more relief pitchers. Detroit threw 164 pitches. Losing pitcher Jon Lester went 6.33: 1BB, 4 SO, 109 pitches. Three more Boston pitchers and a total of 158 pitches.
164+158=322 pitches
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322 pitches ans almost FOUR hours for a 1-0 game in which one team gets only one hit. Who the heck finds either of yesterday's games entertaining?
Monday, August 5, 2013 Weasels on parade: Pedroia, Scherzer, Longoria, maybe more.
Dustin Pedroia, Max Scherzer, Evan Longoria all ran their mouths immediately about the suspensions of fellow players for using steroids etc.
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Saturday, August 17, 2013 Cheaters, Weasels, Whiners.
Alex Rodriguez may be at least two of the three. The whiner tag may not be appropriate if A-Rod's paranoia has some validity...
The (New York Times) writer describes complaints by Red Sox players plus a former Phillie about Rodriguez...
My interpretation of The Times would have all the current Red Sox added to the list of weasels, including those named specifically: John Lackey, Jonny Gomes, Jon Lester.
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Monday, August 19, 2013 Coward Ryan Dempster should be suspended 211 games for deliberately hitting Alex Rodriguez.
Ryan Dempster is a coward and thug. Apparently like some other Red Sox players he has chosen to view the Alex Rodriguez situation as a personal affront. With obvious malice and premeditated planning Dempster deliberately threw pitches at Rodriguez multiple times in his first plate appearance in last night's Yankee game in Boston. Dempster just missed the knees of Rodriguez on the first pitch and finally drilled Rodriguez in the ribs on the fourth pitch, all of which were at or near Rodriguez. To his credit Rodriguez merely took his base rather than his revenge. Ironically, Rodriguez was the one who showed class. Ryan Dempster should have been arrested. Ryan Dempster was not even ejected by the umpires. Had Rodriguez retaliated as he seemed entitled to do by charging after Demptster, Rodriguez would surely have been suspended...
To their disgrace nearly all the Red Sox fans in Fenway Park cheered this vigilante act. A pitcher deliberately hitting a batter is much worse than a batter using steroids. And these Boston hypocrites ignore the fact that the best player on the two Boston championship teams this milenium was Manny Ramirez, the only Hall of Fame caliber player to serve suspensions for using banned performance enhancing drugs (PED). Not to mention David Ortiz who is still a member of the Red Sox. All of Boston should be ashamed. Last night a representative sample of its population became the ugly mob. I've long thought that the two baseball teams combined, including coaches, had more black people than were in the stands for a typical baseball game at Fenway Park. Check for yourself the next time you watch a game there on TV. When the Red Sox took the field last night the closest player to a person of color was Shane Victorino. That must have been comforting to the most parochial narrow minded fans among the 28 cities that have MBL teams.
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Jhonny Peralta and Alex Rodriguez were both suspended. Peralta copped a plea for 50 games along with 11 others in the absence of support from their players association. Rodriguez faced a baseball death sentence because he is 38 years old. His suspension would have prevented him from playing in 2013 and 2014. In June 2015 Rodriguez will be 40 years old. Rodriguez appealed and that is what seemed to have outraged some, especially both players and fans in Boston, which is what makes me wonder about their feelings toward Peralta, especially after he drove in the only run yesterday.
Peralta served his time and to some that settles the matter. But how do we know if Peralta is still using or if his performance is still enhanced from the drugs? We do not, just like we don't now about any of those who played in yesterday's games.
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