Roach-Sox

Gone are the days when the Red Sox were anything but clutch. We were so used to seeing the Red Sox choke away all their talents and opportunities in the most crucial late season or post-season games year after year. The weight of 86 years of the curse always came crashing on the Sox and their fans at the worst times and they always lost when it mattered the most. The fans then wallowed in their sorrow and wore that curse proudly like it was some sort of a badge of honor. They blamed everybody else for their team's ineptitude and they got to a point where they didn't expect or even want to win. The pressure of the whole situation was too much for the players and the coaches much like it still is for the Cubs with their curse.

Then 2004 happened. As always, they fell to 0-3 against the hated Yankees, but a bunch of players who called themselves "idiots" somehow found a way to stay lose, play well and win the series 4-3. Then they went on to eliminate the curse and win the World Series for the first time in forever. Now you can even kill a roach, but you just cannot beat these guys in an elimination game. They are 9-0 in elimination games lately and thats just amazing. They won 4-2 today behind Josh Beckett to force a game 7. But I still can't believe they won game 5 at Boston after trailing 0-7 in the 7-Th inning. They better lose game 7 tomorrow. Otherwise I am not sure if I can handle the realities of this new World thats been going on for 5 years now. Plus I wanna see MLB and Fox deal with a Philly-TB World Series.

In the campus today, no major upsets except for the 9-Th ranked BYU losing to TCU. Texas beat Missouri easily and USC beat WSU 69-0. Texas now moves on to the next challenge and USC probably has no more challenges left. The best play of the entire day was a ref tackling the South Carolina QB in the LSU game. The QB was running straight into the ref and may be he wanted to protect himself or something, but he clearly lowered his shoulder and leveled the poor QB. May be the ref had some money in the game and was trying to pull a Donaghy on us. Who knows, but it was an awesome tackle.

Speaking of awesome, the Ozzie Guillen skit on Mad TV on Fox is a must-see. Pretty funny.