Baseball
If, by some stroke of luck, the Red Sox end up winning the division, Sunday’s dramatic, come from behind victory will be one of those landmark games that end up on the year-end wrap-up show. Scoring six runs in the bottom of the ninth? After being shut out on 3 hits for 8 and 1/3 innings? How unlikely was that victory? And what does it say about this team’s resiliency?
Winning games like that is what good teams do. This year’s Red Sox outfit could end up being a very good team.
Of course, there’s a long way to go, so I don’t want to let myself get too out of control here, but it’s still fun to point out these sort of things. If the game ends up being significant I can point to this post and say- “see, I’m a genius.”
Cycling
The Giro has been fun so far. The Team Time Trial is always a blast and the two sprints have gone basically according to plan with both McEwen and Alessandro Petacchi taking stages. It’ll be interesting to see who’s the last man standing in the Maglia Ciclamino jersey at the end of the month.
Can’t wait for Wednesday’s stage as it will start to tell the tale of who’s on form amongst the GC contenders. I’m especially interested to see how fit Popo is. The Giro was on his schedule from the start apparently, but not as the team leader, so it’s going to be interesting to see how he responds. He’s looked good all year- riding very aggressively in Milan San Remo and taking a great stage win in Paris Nice, but it’s one thing looking good in the spring and quite another looking good for the length of a grand tour. I’ll be pulling for him to podium as I like his style.
I’ll also be crossing fingers and toes that George Hincapie comes away with a stage win. That would be the best possible result for me, as a fan, from the whole race. I’d be completely stoked.
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