Coming into the 2009 season, what were the odds of this combination being true at the end of May…Closer Pap giving up more home runs in 2 days than DH Pap has hit all year, acclaimed Sox starters with an ERA well over 5, Sox shortstops collectively leading the league in errors…and the Sox in first freaking place!!! Who’d a thunk it?
Watching Penny yesterday reminded me of when I coached a team in a Saturday morning beer-drinking softball league, and had to tell a prospective reserve outfielder who was about 10 pounds thinner than Brad, “We’ll take you on if you can lose about 15 pounds. We don’t care much about how we look, but there has to be some limits…besides, we don’t have any pants that big.”
To get DH Pap to just relax: instead of checking his woeful stats before he comes to bat, he should have at hand at all times a little piece of memo paper showing his net worth compared to that of the average debt-ridden, unemployed, insomniac member of Sox Nation, and take that to the plate with him, and glance at it between pitches…if that doesn’t give him a ‘What…me worry?’ upbeat, loosey-goosey attitude, then all is lost.
I thought Closer Pap’s gopher ball Sunday wasn’t a bad pitch, 97MPH at the top of the strike zone, a blistering high strike that should generally be almost impossible to catch up to…but the pitch to Mauer (.444A; .914S; 1.444OPS) yesterday was ‘right in the proverbial wheelhouse.’ The Sox definitely cannot afford two (2!) Bad Paps! Constant Focus and Command, young fella!
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