What? The Angels lost again?! No way. I don't believe you Mikey. My boys wouldn't do that to me...
I do have to nitpick the **** out of that home plate ump last night though. In my entire history of watching baseball, I've seen only one game (not even with the Dodgers or Angels) where I think the strike zone was called/not called so unfairly. I'd say at least 3 of the Sox first 4 runs came on hits by batters that had technically (by any other ump) already struck out. Pretty bad. Really bad, actually. OK, horrible.
But I still think the Halos can bounce back. They've always had that "never say die" attitude, so I'm not throwing in the towel quite yet. If they can just win Game 3 in Boston tomorrow, I think the stigma of "the curse" may start sneaking into the Sox players head's again, and may get them mentally off their game just a little. Plus, their two dominant pitchers will/should be out of action the next couple games, so we should have a much better shot against Bronson Arroyo and Tim Wakefield. That's assuming they don't get desparate and bump Schilling up to Game 4. Granted the formidable Sox lineup will still be there, but I think the Angels bats will at least be able to contend with them now.
Still not hoping for too much out of the Dodgers though, so any wins in the Card's series would just be icing on the cake of a surprisingly decent (if not overachieving) season. But who knows... I've seen stranger things happen. (Lakers/Pistons, anyone?
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Crushing blow to the Twinks last night though, as further evidenced by the posts above. Had victory snatched right outta your hands. Ugh. That one may really come back to haunt you.
Looks like Jim's Bravos might be heading for more postseason disaster as well. Got handled by Oswalt pretty well, though Hampton didn't do such a bad job himself. 2-1 going into the ninth...
