I’m not sure there’s enough going on in Boston right now. What a great time to live here!
Yesterday we had a slew of winners: the Red Sox (12-1), Bruins (4-2), Celtics (118-115), Americans in the marathon (3rd place!) and the Craig’s List killer (he was educated at a fine institution).

I’ll be extremely bored tonight. It’s misting out, but not raining hard enough at the moment to cancel the Red Sox game, so hopefully they’ll be able to get that in. If the game is canceled tonight, I may have to work on my final papers for school. I also have an intramural broomball game tonight at 11 PM, but I’m sick with pneumonia so barring a miraculous recovery, I doubt I’ll be able to play significantly in that.

Back to sports.

How ’bout Jason Varitek?! He has more home runs so far this season than he had hits last year. Thank G-d Theo finally decided that we did indeed need a catcher.

Yesterday showed a pretty poor pitching decision on the part of the Orioles. In the 7th inning, they brought in Rodhames Liz to pitch when down 6-1. Liz has an ERA now of 67.50, and coming into the game yesterday, it was 36.00. (NOT 3.60 or 0.36). At the time, the Orioles were down, 6-1, but that does not mean the game is out of reach. They had two chances after that where they could have made a game out of it. Liz, however, ran the game completely out of control, giving up six runs in 1/3 of an inning.

I can understand bringing in your supplementary relievers when losing, the ones that are on the team for games such as yesterday, but the Orioles also had Matt Albers waiting in the wings. Albers came in for Liz once Liz made it quite obvious that the Orioles might find themselves on a a lopsided, Yankees-Cleveland type score. His ERA is a relatively stellar 5.87.

I don’t understand bringing in Liz before Albers. That’s bad coaching right there. The Sox had their way with the Orioles this weekend, but yesterday’s game was not completely out of control. It wasn’t the bottom of the eighth. The Os were only 5 runs down. If they had just brought in Albers to begin with, there could have been a whole different story. The Sox bullpen was a bit worn down since Masterson only went 5 innings, so it’s plausible that the Os could have come back. Once you give up 6 runs in one inning late in the game, however, the rest of the team basically gives up and gets out of there as quickly as possible, especially on a get-away day. The Orioles effectively threw in the towel as soon as Liz trotted in from the bullpen.

It’s April and I’ll take the win. While I’m thrilled that the Sox are showing signs of good, consistent baseball, this is all still against the Orioles. The boys play the Twins tonight (if the rain does not get worse), so hopefully they can keep this recent win streak going.

In basketball, Ray Allen decided to have the second half of his life last night, propelling the Celtics to a 118-115 win over Chicago that ties their series up at 1 game apiece. I was watching the Bruins last night, so I only saw the very end of the Cs game. I hope Danny Ainge wasn’t watching either, what with his recent heart attack and all.

As for the Bs – man, I love hockey. Last night was a must-win for the Habs, and they couldn’t pull out a W. I doubt they’ll be able to win this series, but after the Sox in ’04, anything is possible.

The Bruins did fine without Lucic breaking sticks over players’ heads last night. The Habs took a lead in the first on a goal from the fake Chris Higgins (this is the real one), but the Bruins were able to pull out goals from Kessel, Ryder and Thornton as well as an empty-netter to push the Habs to the edge of the cliff of elimination. Game 4 is on Wednesday and NESN is being kind enough to allow the Bruins to play on regular NESN while pushing the Sox to NESN plus.

Ethiopian Deriba Merga won the Boston Marathon with an amazing time of 2:08, and Salina Kosgei from Kenya took the women’s title with a 2:32:16 finish, one second ahead of second place’s Dire Tune. I can’t remember the last time I saw a finish so close. My best friend’s mother finished at 4:27, a fantastic time considering that she stopped multiple times to chat with people alongside the course. Go Amy – congrats! Hopefully Mark will run it next year.

In other news, the Americans defeated those Redcoat Brits for the 234th time yesterday at the Battle of Lexington and Concord. You’re welcome, rest of the country. No taxation without representation!

Today is another holiday here in Boston – FREE ICED COFFEE DAY! This year, the coffee is actually 50 cents, but I’ll shell out the change to help Dunkin Donuts in a recession. It’s a dollar cheaper than usual!

So I’ve been in journalism class for almost an hour now. I guess I should start taking notes. We’re talking about CREEP today which is featured in one of my favorite movies, All the President’s Men.

Follow the money, everyone.