1. Finally, a series with some drama worth watching! This series has given us our first game 7, and there is really nothing better in baseball playoffs than game seven.
2. ABC Tampa, ABC. Always Be Closing. Seven outs, seven run lead. You never want to let the defending champ get up off the mat and have a few more rounds. Now the Rays face a Jon Lester in game 7 with something to prove.
3. Boston fans - please turn in your reputation for being hard core baseball fans. Any respect I had for Boston fans went out the window in game 5. And not for the reason you think. Sure 10,000 people left when the Sox were down 7-0 in the 7th. But what really got to me - Boston fans were booing Jason Varitek and David Ortiz. Really Boston?!? Look, there are certain people that should NEVER hear boos at their home stadium. For Boston - anyone who was on the 2004 team AND the 2007 team should be immune to home boos. I don't care if Varitek he hit 0.220 and didn't throw out a single runner all year. He is your Captain. And the Ortiz booing is just embarrassing. Here is your most clutch hitter in the playoffs the past 5 years. He is the face of your franchise. He is having a bad ALCS and the entire stadium turns on him. Wow. I guess when you win 2 WS in 3 years you get a bit spoiled.
Look Boston - if you want to boo Jason Bay, Pedroia, or Ellsbury - go ahead. At Wrigley they can boo whomever they like because no one on that field has broken the 100 year curse. They can boo A-rod at the stadium. But no way can you ever boo the following people in Fenway - Dave Roberts, Terry Francona, Curt Schilling, Josh Beckett, David Ortiz, Manny, Varitek, etc.
4. This pro-longed ALCS is going to be bad for Philly. It really hurt Colorado last year and Detroit the year before. Cole Hamels has that much more pressure to throw a gem in game 1 - because his teammates may be a bit flat.
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