Wednesday 5/8/24
Mike Trout has one double after twenty-nine games.
The Red Sox have gotten about the best starting pitching they've ever had through this juncture of the season, and they're two games over .500. That's demoralizing. The fielding doesn't help. Early signs, though, suggest that Craig Breslow knows what he's doing with pitchers.
3 wins for a pitcher is good for fifth in the American League right now.
I think people are writing off the Denver Nuggets too readily and quickly. Just about everyone has them not just in the grave, but buried, the earth tamped down, the shovel back in the sexton's shed. I'm not so sure.
Watching the Cavs-Magic game the other day, it was like the Cavs were almost done, but they weren't actually almost done. It just felt like they were. But then they went up and were unchallenged for a good chunk of time, so they had more than enough time to eradicate prospective done-ness, if you will, and walk away with the victory comfortably. There is a life lesson here: You have more time than you likely think.
Give me a single player to start an NHL team with and I'm taking Cale Makar. I'd rather have him on my team than any player in hockey.
Everyone wants to see Edmonton v. Colorado for the conference final, right?
I've been critical of this player, but Jeremy Swayman has it going on right now. He's been dynamite. Can't play much better than he has through seven games.
I'm curious to see what Bruins team we get tonight in Game 2 against Florida. They got their win on the road. Now do they put it to the opponent or do they back off?
I think it's bizarre when one series is in the second round and another is in the first simultaneously. It's like when people rewind with a game on television and you leave the space-time continuum. Or that's how I look at it. I don't like that.
Consider this Edmonton Oilers-Chicago Blackhawks game from 1983, which was Game 1 of the Campbell Conference Finals. Meanwhile, back east, the Buffalo Sabres and the Boston Bruins were going at it in Game 7 of the round before, with cut aways at times during this broadcast to the events transpiring at Boston Garden.