It’s beautiful when it all works

April 28, 2006

What a sweet thing last night’s game was to watch! It took 3 hours 27 minutes. I watched the whole thing, despite the impending doom of a 5:45 wake-up call. I couldn’t pull myself away from it. I was forced to keep my giddy self in check, because the Mrs. was under the weather and went to bed extremely early in hopes of getting some much-needed sleep. So I couldn’t scream with delight when Big Ben hit the big jack in the first.

Speaking of Big Ben, Anthony Castrovince wrote in this week’s mailbag that he continues to receive emails calling for Big Ben’s head. That is nonsense. It ain’t 2005 anymore. We all recall last year how fabulous our pitching was and how everyone in the lineup was beating the bejesus out of the baseball – except for Big Ben and Casey Blake. It’s time to forgive them. Blake is hitting .351 and Big Ben is hitting .407.  Even more telling is the fact that Big Ben’s OPS is 1.105 and Casey’s is 956. Assuming the rest of the lineup continues to hit like we know they are capable of, I’ll take any OPS over .800 for both of these guys.

Plastic Man looked a lot better, shaving a point off his ERA. We’ll see how he does on Tuesday in his next start against the Evil People.

Written by mlblogsjamesgedgar Posted in Dailies Tagged with Ballgames