Opening Day 2007
Finally arrived. Spring training started to feel like a bad date around midnight - either give me something to work with or call it over. But now, other than the Mets and Cardinals, spring training is over and the regular season is about to start.
So it's opening day, a great day for most Yankee fans because it signals the start of another promising year. For most Red Sox fans, it's a day they start drinking at 8AM and begin cursing their misfortune by 11, then stumble to a bar to watch the first day of the season. Other than 2005, it's usually a day that was preceded by 6 months of building anger and frustration.
Let me start with the Yanks.
I see the season ending with 100 victories and another division title.
Red Sox
Over confident in the beginning with great pitching, injuries hurt the rotation, middle relief falls apart, great hitting until it counts then cliff edge drop off in production, ending with a train wreck of a season in third place. Oh wait, that was last year, sorry.
I see the Sox winning 91 games and not making the playoffs.
By the way, have you been reading 38pitches, Curt Schilling's blog. I was fascinated at first but have grown really bored. I like to hear him describe every single pitch in spring training, but give me some good in-the-clubhouse sh*t, like words between two players or catching someone taking roids. Something.