Monday, April 30, 2007

Jon Lester Update

This is something I am excited about! After one more start for Pawtucket (Tuesday I think), it looks like Jon Lester will be returning to the Red Sox rotation. In his minor league stint this season, Lester has looked dominant, and more importantly, HEALTHY. I have to say, I am looking forward to his addition to the rotation, which has already looked so good this year. Also, Tazarez can bolster and already strong Sox pen! Doesn't this Rotation Look good to you?

Curt Schilling
Josh Beckett
Daisuke Matsuzaka
Tim Wakefield
Jon Lester

A nice combination of youth and experience!

GO SOX!

TomC

Over The Weekend, Sox Take 2 of 3 From Yanks!

(Ortiz Got One!)(Celebration!)(ALEX CORA hit another home run! Yep. That's right. ALEX CORA!)(Coco Got Plunked.)(Julio Lugo Got Plunked Too.)(Manny Hit A Bomb Of His Own.)(Okajima Is Practically Unhittable.)
Real Life got in the way this weekend, and prevented me from blogging about the first two games of the Yanks-Sox series at Yankee Stadium this weekend. Good thing I am not a real Red Sox blog, because I would be a sucky one! Daisuke Matsuzaka got the win on Friday, as the Sox won on Friday. On Saturday, Tim Wakefield and Co. pitched valiantly but fell to the Yanks, 3-1.

On Sunday, two of the usual suspects (Manny Ramirez, David Ortiz) and one surprising cohort (Alex Cora), all homered to power the Sox past the Yanks to a series win, 7-4. The Sox are now 5-1 against New York to this point this season, and have the best record in the Major Leagues. Cora added a triple to his HR on this big day, Hideki Okajima (1H, 4K) pitched two stifling innings of relief, and Jonathan Papelbon nailed down the game for his 8th save of the season. He is yet to give up a run.

The Sox start a home series with Oakland on Tuesday with Joe Blanton squaring off against Curt Schilling.

GO SOX!

TomC

Denise Richards

Denise Lee Richards (born February 17, 1971) is an American actress and former fashion model. She came to fame in the late 1990s, after a string of films that highlighted her sex appeal, including Wild Things and The World Is Not Enough. Richards is also known for her marriage to (and divorce from) actor Charlie Sheen.

Before she was an actress, Richards was a fashion model. Richards spent the majority of the 1990s appearing in lower-budget films, television movies, and guest starring in episodes of several television shows. Her first starring role in a wide theatrical release was Starship Troopers in 1997, which was followed by her role in the moderately successful cult film Wild Things in 1998. Richards was subsequently cast as Dr. Christmas Jones in the James Bond film The World Is Not Enough (1999), which had a high box office gross and contributed to Richards' renown. In addition to her film work, Richards has made regular appearances in the situation comedies Spin City, Two and a Half Men, Friends and Seinfeld. She also starred in the short-lived UPN series Sex, Love & Secrets in 2005. Throughout the early 2000s, Richards appeared in several film roles which both parodied and utilized her image as a sex symbol, including Valentine, Undercover Brother and Scary Movie 3. In December of 2004, she posed in a nude pictorial for Playboy magazine. Richards also posed naked for the July 2006 issue of Jane magazine to raise money for the Clothes Off Our Back Foundation. In 1999 she ranked 9 in Maxim's 50 Sexiest Women and in 2001 she was voted 2nd in FHM's USA 100 Sexiest Women, 5th in FHM 100 Sexiest Women and 19 in AskMen.com 50 Most Beautiful Women.

TomC