Pesky and the Elf

It has kinda been a hectic day today. When will the misery of the Red Sox losing the ALCS ever stop? It's like a nightmare that just keeps popping up. I wake up in the middle of the night screaming "No Lester, not the cutter right over the plate!" Ok. Scratch that last part. Its gotten easier but its just sickening to think that my team came ONE WIN away from the World Series. At the start of the year, you tell me if we win ONE MORE GAME from the Tampa Bay Rays and then we're going to the WS? I would have said sign me up.

Well, of course the situation was different because the Rays had suuuuch a "good" story. Bleh. Don't talk to me about that. If you have the #1 overall pick every year for the past 10 years, then you should be good at some point. I'll give them props for the Matt Garza trade because nobody would have traded the AL ROY runner up for a former #1 overall pick that didn't do much until this year. Jason Bartlett isn't half as bad either.

So whats with the rant? The Elf. The one play that I will never forget as long as I live, is that in the 8th inning of Game 7, we had a runner on 1st with nobody out. Coco was up and I was praying that he would get on without making an out. I started literally praying. Stupid? Sure. When you have money on a team and when its YOUR team you do some pretty stupid stuff. Nonetheless, Coco singled in between 1st and 2nd. I was going nuts. By the way, the score at the time was 3-1. Lester had given up the homer in the previous half inning. So lets go back to the Elf. 1st and 2nd nobody out. Dan Wheeler in the game, and if you remember we owned his ass. In GM 5, he was my hero. Fastball after fastball after fastball. All the Elf had to do was move the runners over for Papi, to get a base hit and score TWO runs. Wheeler throws him a fastball practically down the plate and the Elf misses is by about a centimeter. This was a very overlooked play in the game. If Pedroia gets BARELY on top of it, we are scoring both of the runs and possibly have a 4-3 lead.

This was crushing. After that play, I knew we were going down. It crushed me, the probable AL MVP had missed a ball that was supposed to be sent 400 FT. A part of me died, I'm sure of it.

Thats all for tonight- Oh and by the way:

Quote of the Day:

"We'll load up in the offseason and take the crown next year"- David "Big Papi" Ortiz


Oh and F*@k Longoria.