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Wake me up when it's over.
Published 10/26/2007 by ck at The Nationals Enquirer
How many days 'till Spring Training? Just a few more nights (hopefully) of getting screamed at by Eric Byrnes in the Fox pregame show... ...

World Series Game 2: Red Sox Pick Off Rockies for 2-0 Series Lead
Published 10/26/2007 at FanIQ Blog
... the Rockies have had the Red Sox feeling pressure for roughly 20 seconds. Maybe it didn't decided the game, but when Matt Holliday singled off of Jonathan Papelbon in the 8th to bring up Todd Helton I liked Colorado's chances. Then it ended ... quickly. See above.   Matt Holliday looked as silly as a few Virginia Tech defenders on the Matt Ryan's last touchdown pass, stumbling and watching the game leave their hands.   Do you credit Curt Schilling (who shockingly hasn't wrote about it yet) for a masterful ...

Jonathan Papelbon: Now Available in Fully-Poseable Puppet Form
Published 10/26/2007 by Red at Surviving Grady
... After Wednesday's routing, Game Two was a welcome return to the pacing, stomping, holy-crap-we're-leaving-too-many-guys-on-base kinda games I love, packed with all sorts of drama. You had Curt Schilling, who looked remarkable weathered in that first inning but then strapped on some extra awesome for the homestretch, holding the Rockies to one run and four hits over five and 1/3 innings. Then the combination of Okajima -- who looked absolutely untouchable -- and Papelbon, who blanked the Rockies the rest of the way. In fact, the way things were going, you kinda got the ...

All-Encompassing Play of the Night
Published 10/26/2007 by SF at YFSF
... Gordon Edes deconstructs the Sox' pickoff of Matt Holliday in his game story this morning, and it's a fantastic piece of sports journalism.  Edes digs into the background scouting that led to Jonathan Papelbon's dramatic eighth inning outfoxing of the Rockies' MVP candidate.  The article shows just how little we fans know about what goes on in the manager's and coaches' offices, about how much work, mostly unseen, goes into every single game, into understanding the idiosyncracies of any given team's opponents. It even exposes a little tactical self-awareness on the ...

The lion in autumn
Published 10/26/2007 by Mike Miliard at Sox Blog
... and our state economy can reap the benefits once 38 Studios finally gets off the ground.) At the very least, it’s good to know that some guys will still be around next year, whatever ends up happening this month. Like Terry Francona, whose bullpen management was impeccable last night, and who by now has established his bona fides as the best playoff manager in a long, long time. Like the shadow warrior, Hideki Okajima, whose astonishingly dominant two-and-a-third innings made it look so easy. ...

Advance Scouting Picked Off Matt Holliday
Published 10/26/2007 by Pat Lackey at FanHouse
Filed under: Boston, Denver, Red Sox, Rockies, AL East, NL West, MLB PlayoffsThink about Jonathan Papelbon's pickoff of Matt Holliday last night. A guy with zero career pickoffs managed to get a power hitting outfield, who was absolutely intending to steal second on that very pitch. Papelbon simply said he got a sign from the dugout and threw over. But much more goes into than that. From today's Boston Globe:"If you were advancing us, you would have said the same thing, that Pap is 1.8 ...