2 weeks already?
Stephen King and Stewart O’Nan chronicled in their book “Faithful” , the Red Sox simply do not play well on the West Coast. Ever. Well…. A quick look at Baseball-reference.com show that’s not entirely the case. Since ’99, going into this season, the Sox have a road record against the A’s and the Halos of 40…and 40. As in .500. Ironically King and O’Nan wrote that the Sox never win on the West Coast in 2005. Which was in fact the first year since 99 that the Red Sox didn’t have an overall winning record in California. From 2000 through 2004, had a 24-15 record in CA, but since then only a 12-21 record. Why is this? Still, the opening 3-6 record in 2009 shouldn’t be the cause of too much concern....
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I’m a music nut. There’s no other way to describe it. After getting my first radio and cassette player (remember those?!?) at an early age, my life has been surrounded by music. More or less every significant event or time period in my life can be connected to certain songs, albums or artists. Junior High? My metal phase, mainly Iron Maiden (The Power Slave and Somewhere in Time albums) and Van Halen. Albums on heavy rotation were 1984, 5150 and the aforementioned IM records. High School? My guitar was my life in junior high and early high school and I listened more to guitarists than bands, so Eddie Van Halen, Clapton and Steve Lukather featured frequently. I moved after my first year in high school and making new friends expanded my musical genres,...
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