Monday, October 25, 2004

Red Sox Up 2-0 in WS

The Red Sox go to St. Louis Tuesday, Wednesday and if needed, Thursday, to try and clinch the World Series Title. It's been an exciting couple of nights, and the Boston boys even took a break from sending me into fits of anxiety approaching cardiac arrest like they did for four games in the ALCS. Curt Schilling has been awesome. You couldn't ask anything more from him, and we may not be able too since he's probably finished. Like all true Red Sox fans are, I'm worried yet hopeful. As always, here's The Sports Guy, Bill Simmons:
Curt Schilling was working on a four-hitter with the aid of painkillers, sutures, staples, rubber bands, Crazy Glue and everything else you can imagine ... only his defense had been betraying him all game. His pitch count was swelling towards the 90's. The pain in his bum ankle actually brought him to his knees at one point. And the weather was so cold at Fenway, people were practically clotheslining the hot chocolate guy. This wasn't a playoff game; it was an endurance contest. For everyone.
Read the whole article here.