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...really!), in the third. Assessment of the drubbing? Well, by my lights, it wasn't much of a game, and I say that even while realizing that by Yankee lights a 9-2 blowout is a terrific way to open a season. But let's face it, the Sox played an April game. Wells looked like a 90-year-old fat guy with no evident desire to be pitching on a cold, raw night. Everyone in the lineup seemed to hit into a double-play or two. There was precious little spark in the World Champs, I felt...
...must, since this early-season ramble is about the Red Sox and, therefore, about baseball-and, therefore again, about steroids. Everything about baseball is about steroids right now. My take is: I'm very glad the secret is out, and I hope things change. I can't understand how Mark McGwire was able to look the Maris brothers in the eye back when he was hitting 70, never mind pose with them, smiling. But then, I didn't understand it at the time-knowing what everyone in the sporting press already knew (but couldn't print without proof). I thought...
...Steroids on the Sox? Maybe. I'm sure there are 'roids, or human growth hormone, or good old-fashioned bennies being taken (the latter two still not tested for, and the next refuge for baseball scoundrels who are today decycling on their steroids programs). I was talking to Bill Leiderman, the owner of Mickey Mantle's on Central Park South, during his midday radio show that's broadcast from the restaurant, and he told me all the guys-the players-who come in for a drink say that pills are still a huge part of the game. "They need their...
...Fisk and Luis and their legacies. I applaud the happy, wacky stars who lifted last year's team, and thus lifted us all. And if one of them tests positive I'll call him a crumbum and call for his ouster. But we'll still have our Red Sox...
...Back to the Stadium: Games Two and Three were pretty good-in fact, really fine for April. And they were the first evidence that the Sox and Yanks were ready to tango again, in most entertaining fashion, in '05. Has baseball ever had consecutive seasons of extended theater as these two have provided since April of 2003? I can't imagine it has. And if we've got six more months of that in prospect, well, God bless...