Good Laugher-Noon in the Bronx...

August 20, 2010
Looks as if Kevin Long is working on Curtis Granderson’s defense in centerfield, too. Grandy really was topnotch versus his old mates and if he can keep hitting, the lineup gets longer and better. He made a sick catch in the left-center gap – not only getting to the ball, but avoiding Gardner (who may have tipped it into Granderson’s outstretched glove even if the official scorer didn’t rule it a 7-8 put-out) – and the most amusing part was then watching all the guys in the Yanks pen running out to be able to see the replay on the big screen up over their heads.
And yeah, the Yanks were tied 2-2 in the 6th and Paul O’Neill and Kay start joking about their game perhaps not ending before the Sox and Rays’ games on this coast (give or take) and that’s when the Yanks decided to make it a laugher with a nine-run outburst…
I think I nearly feel sorry for Mike Lowell. He is obviously playing really hard whilst also being really hurt; he can barely jog to first. But you have to applaud him especially considering he’s playing for a team that has very clearly been trying to dump him ever since the Sox signed Beltre in the off-season. How desperate (before Youkilis was gone for the year) were the Red Sox to rid themselves of Lowell? There was talk of trading him to the Evil Empire and the Yanks and Sox haven’t made a trade in quite a number of years now. But seeing Beckett knocked out after 6 1/3 and taking the loss was nice. It’s stunning actually that Boston has been able to stick around despite their insanely injury plagued season (excuse me a moment as I dry my tears) but it’s time for them to be buried and the dirt thrown down…
Meanwhile, out in Oakland, Coco Crisp is lookin’ goooooood. He helped the A’s put away the Rays with his now very healthy legs (I’d bet good money that the Sox wish they still had him now, especially with Cameron done for the year (did he even play?)) and pulled back what would have been a long homerun to dead center at the Oakland Coliseum (and yes, I know it’s no longer named that).
That’s it. Go take a walk…