Web Gems! Where was Dustin?!

Anybody else watch the late edition of ESPN's Baseball Tonight? Mikey Lowell made the Web Gems, but where was Jason Bay and Dustin Pedroia? Bay made a great diving catch. After watching Pedroia make about a bazillion diving catches tonight, I was almost certain that the entire Web Gems would be nothing but Pedroia. Am I the only one who noticed this?

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Baseball Tonight

I mean right now, ESPN's Baseball Tonight. Five games were washed out on a short schedule day to begin with, leaving only 4 games to report on in a full hour time slot. Since the Sox had the most impressive win of the day, the Sox got the most coverage. Besides extensive coverage of the game, there is more reporting on the Sox-Yankees rivalry, including a spot on the woe's of Wang. Also upcoming is a spot on the 70th anniversary of The Splinter's first hit. So if you see this in the few minutes after I post it, turn on your tube! And if you Tivo'd it, make a point to watch it.

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The Uncertainty Begins

One of the hardest things about being a baseball fan in the off-season is the lack of a schedule. From April-October you know there will be at least 5 Red Sox games a week (except for the All-Star break when you watch Manny and Big Papi.) You know who's pitching each game, you can get live updates on your fantasy team stats, and Baseball Tonight will wrap up the day for you. Now that the Winter Meetings are over we enter a time of uncertainty. We don't know when the next Sox deal will come, when all single game tickets will go on sale, nor when Manny will be Manny again. Everything fell into place at the beginning of the off-season so there is no need for a frenzy of activity but we Sox fans want more. Boston played as far into the post-season as you can go and they begin next season in first game for all of MLB but it is still a long time before pitchers and catchers report. That's why the potential for the Santana deal was so cool. Sox vs. Yankees again...deadlines...a new Steinbrenner to hate. The off-season will still have plenty of excitement; we just don't know when its going to come.

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