Whenever I go to Fenway I always get an Italian sausage from one of the outside vendors. My last visit was in 2005. I bought 3 of them for me and the family. The guy laughed and said I still owed him a dollar but not to worry about it. Pricy but tasty.
I can ignore every f***ing one of them. I'd rather follow a game on Gameday and the Talksox game thread than listen to any of these guys analyze the s*** out of what I can already see right in front of me. Eckersley is one of the very few who has anything worthwhile to say.
What they really should do is put the winning catch in the Pats game and Ortiz's home run side by side. That could make it a collectors item for Boston sports fans.
But in baseball, defence = pitching + fielding, or runs allowed. The Tigers did allow fewer runs than we did this year, but we scored more and had a bigger differential.
I'll take Red Sox in 6 as well, and I'm not super confident either. It's rare that I am confident in a sports prediction, unless it's an obvious blowout.
I think the one guy I'm most worried about is VMart. He has been swinging the bat very well since the ASB. He is a dangerous hitter when he's going good like this.