Miscellaneous Thoughts

Some miscellaneous thoughts while I wait for the coffee to brew...

Last night the guys on Baseball Tonight really lit into Nomar Garciaparra for being in Boston but not being part of the team (in uniform and in the dugout) during the rehab of his achilles injury. Every single guy (led by Peter Gammons) was all over Nomar about this. Garciaparra is a sacred cow in Boston but I think this may open the floodgates of criticism (and deservedly so).... Derek Jeter is no longer the Bizarro Dimaggio (unless he starts another streak - he is 0 for his last 3 at bats) but his place has quickly been taken by Jose Cruz Jr. who is 0 for his last 33 at bats. The Devil Rays team record for at bats without a hit is 34 (held by Greg Vaughn). Last night Cruz walked in his last at bat to stave off the record... You know how in the morning sometimes you wake up just at the end of a dream? Well this morning I awoke from a dream that had me having dinner and drinks at this real fancy Bavarian (I don't know if that is significant) restaurant. I was having Mai Tai's with a bunch of media types and among them was Ted Koppel. We fell into a discussion about the Red Sox and Koppel suddenly stood up. He started talking about how Mark Bellhorn should roll his wrists when he hit so that he wouldn't be such an easy out batting in the number 8 spot right before the pitcher. Another of the media types pointed out to Koppel that the pitchers don't hit in the American League because of the DH. Koppel looked real dejected and put down his drink and walked away. In my dream - Ted Koppel had the world's smallest hands (again - not sure if that is significant)... Before the game last night at Fenway - Doc Rivers, the new Celtics head coach, got to throw out the first pitch. Rivers threw the equivalent of a really weak wild pitch (way outside and bounced three feet before the plate)...