Baseball, Basketball and Football

In this blog I’m going to talk why the Red Sox are the best team in the MLB. First of all they have won more games than any other team in the MLB. Maybe they had lost more than the D-Backs, but it does not matter, they still dominate their division and the Al in games won. Last season they also were the team with most wins in the MLB with 96 wins at the end of the regular season, for me, that is complete power and dominance. They also were the team with less looses in the 2007 regular season with just 66 looses when other team were in the 70’s and 80’s. Red Sox have one of the best batters in the whole MLB. Manny Ramirez was the 2004 MVP and has 498 homeruns in his career, closing in 500. David Ortiz had a shaky start, but now leads the Red Sox in homeruns and RBI’s and is the fourth in the MLB with more RBI’s and the third in the AL. The 2007 MVP winner and also golden glove winner, Mike Lowell just came back from an injury, but had a hot start with the Red Sox with 5 homeruns and 15 RBI’s. Finally Kevin Youkilis, what can we say about him. There is nothing to say because his stats says it all. A .326 average, 9 homeruns and 34 RBI’s. He is a hitter that has every aspect of an all-star. Screw the curse of the Bambino, I think that curse never existed. What the Red Sox needed was a team that had the best of the best, and that is what they have right now. There batting is impeccable, and one of the best batting orders of the whole history of the MLB. There pitching is as good. The ace Josh Becket leads the Red Sox in strikeouts and is 12th in the MLB in strikeouts and 5th in the AL. He has a record of 5 wins and 3 looses. Dice-k Matsuzaka has a perfect record. 5 wins and no looses. He is 2nd in wins in the MLB and “numero uno” number one in the AL. Jonathan Papelbon, what can I say about this young pitcher. I think I can describe Jonathan in 4 words. “Future hall of famer”. Papelbon finish the 4th game of last year’s world series with a strikeout and now is 3rd in the MLB and AL in saves. When he gets in the game in the ninth inning, you can expect him to strikeout every single batter he will face. That has happened before and it had happened in this season also. Just flat out simple, the Boston Red Sox is the best team in the MLB and will be for many more years. They have the batters, the pitchers and the coach Terry Francona who lead the Red Sox to two World Series championships. I’m really sorry for your mother-in-law Mr. Francona, but know you have to think in sending this amazing Red Sox team to the World Series and getting yours and theirs 3rd World Series championship in 5 years. Go Boston Red Sox!!!!!!!!!! Wooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!

My blog is about American football but since the American football season is over, I’m going to talk about a little about the upcoming baseball season. The regular season was started at Tokyo when the powerful defending world champions the Boston Red Sox, which had an amazing 2007 season faced the Oakland Athletics, which did poorly on the last season by not even getting close to the play-offs, but doing real well in the spring training having finished second in the American league. The series ended with a tie with Boston having won in extra innings the first game and the Oakland A’s having totally beat the Boston 5 to 1. The big surprise was Brandon Moss who was in Boston’s minor league team, and in the first game of season scored a homerun. The other star that shined for Boston was the 2004 MVP winner, Manny Ramirez who made an amazing hit in the last inning that pushed two runs into home so that the Red Sox could go into extra innings and win the game. In the second game Manny Ramirez made a tremendous solo home run in the 4th inning, but was’nt enough to win the game. The Oakland team had also an incredible player named Emil Brown which made an incredible three-run homerun which determined the victory of Oakland A’s in the second game. The next game of the regular season is the opening game for the national league which is the Atlanta Braves against the Washington Nationals. After having finished third behind the powerfull Mets and the strong Phillies and not even getting close to the Wild Card, the Braves are trying to change and to win the National east division.  The key player for the Atlanta Braves would be Tom Glavine which came back after being with the New York Mets for five seasons. Tom Glavine knows what to do, but the question is, would he be able to do it. Also there are many expectations in the bullpen especially with the participation of Rafael Soriano which has everything a pitcher needs, but the experience a coach would have want. As always they rely on there two veterans which is the pitcher John Smoltz and Chipper Jones,but would that be enough to face the great and renewed Nationals? The answer is maybe, since the Nationals had focused on offense by bringing strong batters. After not having the best season of all, and after finishing in bad position at the division and in the Wild Card they hope, that with the new players, they have a better season. They brought in the Mets catcher Paul Lo Duca, that with the experience he has, he could boost the National’s spirit. Paul Lo Duca also shows great leadership which will help the Nationals in though times. Another great batter is the prospect from the Mets Lastings Milledge, which is a center fielder which would many responsability specially offensively. He wants to make a difference at the Nationals, as he said in an interview at spring training ” I got to get the job done and ah, you know they have high expectations on me, which I have high expectations for my self so um, you know I’m, I’m going to do everything I can do to get the job done and to ah, and to be ah, you know everything they, they want me to be.” They always will be counting on there experienced veterans like Dmitri Young and Aaron Boone which was brought from the Cleveland Indians. I will bring you more information about the beginning of the MLB regular season and also some other things about American football, like the transactions happening, in my upcoming blog. I hope you enjoyed this blog, and got well informed about the opening games in the MLB and please, comment on it because I will love to hear some opinions from you.