Schilling seems solid, and this whole “Timlin in the 8th, Papelbon in the 9th” thing is really growing on me. ‘Twas the Rangers game redux, except this time the baserunning errors came from the Sox. (He’s Crisp… but not that crisp, apparently.) It even had another solid defensive move from Manny. So all’s well that ends well. And with Jonathan R. Paplebon on the mound, I’m feeling confident about that ending-well thing. (Yeah, I’m a Sox fan… 2 solid games closing and I’m over the moon.)
Papelbon, as he forges in the smithy of his soul the uncreated conscience of his closer mentality, needs a nickname. Erik J. Heels has suggested “BumbleBee”, but unfortunately that tends to remind me of the Bumblebee Man on “the Simpsons”. “Little Papi” seems to be taken by W. M. Pena. “White Papi” would probably just be wrong. So… takers?