As if a trip to the Far east weren't punishment enough, Boston had to play an exhibition game in a Coliseum with Little League dimensions in front of an MLB-record crowd in Los Angeles yesterday.
Does Bud Selig have pictures of Theo, Tom Werner, Larry Lucchino and John Henry in a foursome with Eliot Spitzer's mistress or what?
Whatever the reason it seems that MLB is doing everything in its power to prevent the Sox from successfully defending their championship. I mean has anyone ever heard of a defending champ opening the next season with two regular season games in Japan, then coming back to the states to play three spring training games 3000 miles away from home, followed by two more regular games against the team it played in Japan, followed by a trip to Toronto for a three game series, all before stepping foot on home soil?
Save the thinking cap, the answer is no.
On the heels of that travishamockery that was the goodwill trip to the land of the rising sun to play regular season games comes this preseason spectacle. Over 155,000 fans packed the LA Coliseum to witness a glorified softball game between the Sox and Dodgers in honor of the team's 50th anniversary of bolting New York for LA.
With the distance down the left field line a mere 201 feet and a 60-ft high net atop the stands, the field looked more like an MTV Rock & Jock set than an actual major league game. Safe to say this one took the word 'exhibition' to a whole notha level.
The Sox would end up winning this dog & pony show, in which there were 5 homers hit, 4 to the Williamsport Porch, but that really doesn't matter. What matters is MLB is treating this team like its very own personal teacup chihuahua, wanting to prance it around and show it off to anyone and everyone who wants to fawn over it, or comment how disgusting it looks up close.
When you throw in the fact that half the team has bad backs, Dice K looks about as stable as a wind sock, and the team is going to rely on young players at key positions, all this nonsense adds up to make it look like a near impossible mission for Boston to become the first team to repeat as champs since the 1999-2000 Stankees.
But if they should happen to survive this early season circus and weather the storm, hang around near the top of the division until mid season and shake off all the early season adversity to win another title, well then this team would go down as possibly the greatest Sox squad of all time.
Or at the very least of all time zones.
Does Bud Selig have pictures of Theo, Tom Werner, Larry Lucchino and John Henry in a foursome with Eliot Spitzer's mistress or what?
Whatever the reason it seems that MLB is doing everything in its power to prevent the Sox from successfully defending their championship. I mean has anyone ever heard of a defending champ opening the next season with two regular season games in Japan, then coming back to the states to play three spring training games 3000 miles away from home, followed by two more regular games against the team it played in Japan, followed by a trip to Toronto for a three game series, all before stepping foot on home soil?
Save the thinking cap, the answer is no.
On the heels of that travishamockery that was the goodwill trip to the land of the rising sun to play regular season games comes this preseason spectacle. Over 155,000 fans packed the LA Coliseum to witness a glorified softball game between the Sox and Dodgers in honor of the team's 50th anniversary of bolting New York for LA.
With the distance down the left field line a mere 201 feet and a 60-ft high net atop the stands, the field looked more like an MTV Rock & Jock set than an actual major league game. Safe to say this one took the word 'exhibition' to a whole notha level.
The Sox would end up winning this dog & pony show, in which there were 5 homers hit, 4 to the Williamsport Porch, but that really doesn't matter. What matters is MLB is treating this team like its very own personal teacup chihuahua, wanting to prance it around and show it off to anyone and everyone who wants to fawn over it, or comment how disgusting it looks up close.
When you throw in the fact that half the team has bad backs, Dice K looks about as stable as a wind sock, and the team is going to rely on young players at key positions, all this nonsense adds up to make it look like a near impossible mission for Boston to become the first team to repeat as champs since the 1999-2000 Stankees.
But if they should happen to survive this early season circus and weather the storm, hang around near the top of the division until mid season and shake off all the early season adversity to win another title, well then this team would go down as possibly the greatest Sox squad of all time.
Or at the very least of all time zones.
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