Actually, if they must create rivals for the Sox, the Phillies will do very nicely instead of the Braves, thank you very much. Makes more sense too - the whole northeast city thing would be in play. Although having said that, it took this game for the Sox to have a .500 record against the Phillies in interleague - legacy of the Sox inability to play interleague, methinks.
Anyway, it sure sounded like Clement had a good game, jinking in and out of trouble, particularly in that 2 on, nobody out jam in the 4th. I say “sounded” because despite staying up late last night, I ended up having to listen to the game on Gameday Audio instead of watching it on MLB.tv, because MLB.tv for some reason can’t authenticate my computer as being in Singapore. Yes, I could’ve called for tech support, but I’m sick and tired of making long-distance calls to get a cookie that supposedly fixes the issue but either doesn’t or expires before the next blacked out game necessitating yet another phone call. Fox doesn’t even exist as a network here, and there’s no baseball going on TV, so I’m not sure why I’m being blacked out,.
Frankly, I’m staying up to watch the Sox in the wee hours of the morning, and I paid good money to do so, and it would be nice if I were allowed to without trying to find workarounds. The extent to which they protect Fox’s rights is ridiculous.