Loud until the final sound

Brad Penny, tonight’s starting pitcher, and George Kottaras, last night’s only Sox player with more than one hit. Photo taken by Kelly O’Connor/sittingstill.net in April 2009 and used with permission.

It’s just so very nice to wake up and think “Hey, if the Sox don’t beat the Yankees today I’m really okay with that!”.

I want the sweep. I’m hungry for the sweep. I want Joe Girardi and Company to leave Fenway with their heads hanging and giant tears of inadequacy rolling down their faces. I want the two-game lead in the East. I want a lot but I’ll be satisfied with the series win.

Regardless of what I try to convince myself of during any given Red Sox/Yankees series, the hype that the media and fans stir up does start to get to me. The anxiety kicked in last night (although it didn’t Tuesday!) and the adrenaline rush after the win left me hyped up for a long while after (only to crash from the exhaustion about two hours after the game ended – these games kill me).

(Neil Everett on Sports Center just called Mike Lowell’s home run off of Wang “Wang, dang doodle”. Oh man.)

Any game where the Yankees go back to back off of one of the better guys in the bullpen and the Sox still win…this qualifies as a good game.

Everyone in the Sox lineup ended up on base last night. All but Papi with hits (Papi walked twice). Meanwhile, the great Alex Rodriguez struck out twice and is 0-7 in this series. The Captain of the Yankees? 0-5 last night and 0-8 in the series. Hell, even Johnny Damon is 1-9 (the “1” being one of the back to back homers last night). Both Burnett on Tuesday and Wang last night went 2.2 innings. I said it yesterday and I’ll say it again: One of these teams showed up to play…and win…and the other didn’t.

The Sox are 7-0 against the Yankees this season. Before you tell me it really doesn’t matter, remember 2005. Remember the Yankees celebrating on the Fenway mound because winning the season series gave them the crown in the AL East even though the Sox had the exact w/l record as the Yanks. Three more wins against the Yankees and the season series is won. I want this as well.

Kudos to Tim Wakefield. Many Yankees fans pointed out to me his losing record against the Yankees and even though he wasn’t technically “on” he certainly pitched well enough to win! Also, a shout-out to everyone who reminded me that “This isn’t the Yankees team the Red Sox saw in April”. Thank you for pointing out that, even with A*Rod back, they still have trouble beating the Red Sox.

Thanks to everyone who stopped by (and commented or lurked) the live blog last night. We’ve watched some good games via live blog and I appreciate the company!

Tonight at 7:10 we throw Brad Penny while the Yanks bring out CC Sabathia. I have an oddly calm feeling about this game. It’s a nice, stress-free feeling. It would be fabulous to see Penny pitch like Cy Young against this Yankee team and I’d love to see Sabathia pitch like it’s the playoffs. I’ll be satisfied with an exciting game, though.

Aw, who am I kidding?

Win, Brad. Just win. (And some runs would be nice too, fellas!) <– 3 for 3?

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