Being made to look bad by Ted Lilly and Jamie Moyer is one thing. The Sox having traditional lefty issues and all that. But righty Joel Pineiro? Ick. As usual, the Sox had a pitcher on the ropes and couldn’t close the deal. Manny with a slow start to the season. You know how after all the drama of the offseason it was like a new Manny came into spring training? More buff than ever, with a good attitude? Well, screw that. I want spacey, “Manny Being Manny”, loveshittingmoonshotslikeafatkidlovescakes Manny back.
Tim Wakefield, unfortunately, seems to be master of the innings-eating complete game loss. At least my sense of schadenfreude was fulfilled this morning by seeing the Twins come back against Mariano Rivera.
Meanwhile, Gonzalez, Stern, and Cora at the 9-1-2 in the order? Hell, Wakefield was drafted as a position player - why not let him bat at this rate?