So here's the setting: I'm out with the girlfriend at a bar, and we run into some acquaintances. Most of the people we met up with were fun, but there was one girl who was from boston. Now, i kind of have a checkered past with boston, from the 2007 ALCS, to Tom Brady's faggy michigan haircut, and so on... so there's that. This girl kind of struck me the wrong way from the beginning because we were at a bar, and she was ordering glasses of wine. I was thinking, 'We're at a bar girl, PBR is on special, get with it.' Then she started talking some crazy stuff, she had a weird accent, but it sounded like this, "Clam chowda, Jacoby Ellsbury is so good, everyone loves him, crab legs."
To which i went totally Dwight Schrute and said, "False, the boston front office thought he was a cocky asshole, and that's why then signed 37 year old Mike Cameron to play center field for them, and gave him $8 million per year, only to release him a year later."
She responded with something about seafood. It was kind of late in the night and I was speaking in caps lock for most of the conversation, but i think i got my point across. A few days later, my girlfriend said, "You were really mean to that girl the other night."
I responded, "She had it coming."
Now I told you that story to tell you this story: The Indians play the red sox this week. ESPN finds this important enough to put the first game on Monday Night Baseball. I haven't seen a game since we got rid of O-Cab and aquired Fuckdome, so I will watch the game with the TV muted so I don't have to listen to the broadcasters talk about how good boston is, and how Adrian Gonzalez is the obvious MVP so far because batting average and RBIs are the most important stats ever. Now, people that are enlightened, like myself, can find true value in other metrics. Let's take wins-above-replacement (WAR), a stat that combines a player's offensive and defensive contributions as compared to a replacement level player, who is average defensively, and below average offensively. According to WAR, Gonzalez is the third best player on the red sox, behind Ellsbury and Pedroia, and all trail the immortal Jose Bautista.
The Diamondbacks play the Giants this week, in San Francisco this week. It should be a good series, as Arizona recently closed the gap to two games behind the Giants. Great pitching meets the red hot Justin Upton.
Other Things That Are On My Mind:
I saw the movie "Kill the Irishman" the other day, and thought it was pretty good. The beginning of the movie reminded me very much of season 2 of "The Wire", which centers around of a bunch of blue collar dock workers, except it is set in 1970's Cleveland and is based on a true story.
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