More Post Playoff Prognostications
Verbal Jazz has correctly predicted that the Red Sox would beat the A's last night and move on to the American League Championship Series against the New York Yankees (the personification of pure evil). We also correctly predicted, in hindsight, that the A's would be sore losers, as well as actual losers and that the Fox broadcast team would completely suck. Certainly Steve Lyons is not Tim McCarver bad, but, man, is Lyons a complete ignoramus: during a tense, late-inning at bat for Sox right fielder Trot Nixon, Lyons chose to comment on the Boston Marathon that Nixon's wife finished THREE YEARS AGO! Also, during the final Cubs/Braves game, Fox had so many gratuitous Kerry Wood wife shots (i.e. the praying spouse of the aforementioned Wood, a pitcher for the Cubs), that I was prompted to look for the gratuitous Kerry Wood Wife Shot during the Red Sox/A's game. Instead we were treated to a bunch of drunken lunkheads at a bar across the street from Fenway Park (the game was played in Oakland). My favorite drunken lunkhead moment came during a particularly tense moment for the Sox: the crowd at Jillian's (the bar) was subdued until they realized they were on TV! Then they perked right up.
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Verbal Jazz has correctly predicted that the Red Sox would beat the A's last night and move on to the American League Championship Series against the New York Yankees (the personification of pure evil). We also correctly predicted, in hindsight, that the A's would be sore losers, as well as actual losers and that the Fox broadcast team would completely suck. Certainly Steve Lyons is not Tim McCarver bad, but, man, is Lyons a complete ignoramus: during a tense, late-inning at bat for Sox right fielder Trot Nixon, Lyons chose to comment on the Boston Marathon that Nixon's wife finished THREE YEARS AGO! Also, during the final Cubs/Braves game, Fox had so many gratuitous Kerry Wood wife shots (i.e. the praying spouse of the aforementioned Wood, a pitcher for the Cubs), that I was prompted to look for the gratuitous Kerry Wood Wife Shot during the Red Sox/A's game. Instead we were treated to a bunch of drunken lunkheads at a bar across the street from Fenway Park (the game was played in Oakland). My favorite drunken lunkhead moment came during a particularly tense moment for the Sox: the crowd at Jillian's (the bar) was subdued until they realized they were on TV! Then they perked right up.
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