Bosox Blowout

You need to do things to win games. Take Jay Gibbons for example. He hit the ball where Schilling pitched it yesterday. Not one other player saw the need to take Schilling's first pitch offering on the outside corner to the opposite field. Tejada, Mora, and Payton saw first pitch strikes there with regularity and never once punched the ball in that direction. I know it's easy for me to second-guess from my perch on the couch, but you can't simply play catch-up with Boston and hope their bats will go to sleep. If I can see enough from the television to have an opinion then what are the coaches doing? You need to step up to the plate and do things to win games, change your routine, alter your approach. Wade Boggs turned the Yankees into a winner because he acted like a hitting coach. He taught them patience and they won championships. It was Torre and Stottlemeyer as well but Wade provided the example for Bernie and Jeter. Where is the leadership? Yesterday, we had the Big Curt on the ropes and didn't cash in. Another thing that defies my sensiblity. We are not a good defensive team and yet we have the best fielding percentage in baseball. I've seen errors this year that I have not witnessed in the last fifteen: botched double play exchanges, hockey goalie deflections at first, dropped balls, etc. One of the goals of this blog is to attract players the caliber of the Big Curt to witness the ongoing pain we experience as Oriole fans and hope they take an interest in our plight and come to Baltimore. This post is dedicated to Queenie Swift and Carolyn Bartoli, two great mothers and grandmothers who have passed on, and who loved the Orioles like their own children.