One Down - Three To Go | Vipee1's Blog

Gotta keep it brief today.

I had to laugh when I flipped on the info on the TV and they had the game blocked off between 8:00 to 11:00. One, the game didn't start until after 8:30. Two, I think the average of the Sox post-season games averages about 7 1/2 to 8 hours.

Suggestion to Fox/TBS and MLB - Start the games at 7:30. You're looking for the primetime ratings from 8 to 11 (for the East Coast anyway) and the games are hardly ever over in less than 3 hours. If you start at 7:30, the kids get to see a fair portion of the game AND you get your ratings numbers. It seems like a no-brainer to me, but I'm not a greedy TV executive looking for every last ratings point.

From the very first pitch in the mist of Fenway (a setting reminiscient to Game 2 of the 2004 Series - The Bloody Sock Game), the Sox looked dominant. The best big game pitcher of the decade comes out and strikes out the side and Lil' Dustin Pedroia opens up the Sox side with a blast. Even before the fireworks in the fifth inning, you knew it was over with Beckett on the mound and a five run lead.

So game one is in the books and with Big Schill going today and the seemingly unbeatable Beckett at least one more time, it's hard to see the Sox not winning this series.

One pre-game note: I couldn't help laughing when Sox PA announcer Carl Beane was introducing John Williams and he called him "the epitome of our culture". Who the hell wrote that? I love the guy and he's created some great backdrops to some of the most heralded movies of our generation, but the epitome of our culture? Did they really have to blow smoke that far up JW???

Finally, it was nice to see the ever reclusive Yaz making a rare appearance.

I'm out.