Hey, is it okay to do a preview of the upcoming Red Sox season if it is already underway?
Absolutely! After all, they still have three exhibition games to play with the Dodgers in Los Angeles.
After starting the season in Tokyo with a two-game split with Oakland, the Sox will wrap up this weekend's pretend games then head up the coast to finish the 4-game set with the Athletics. From there, it is off to Toronto. This is already one well-traveled team and it is the first week of the season.
I really would like to say I think the Sox will repeat as World Series Champions but I don't think it is going to happen. I think their downfall will be an area that was initially deemed one of their strengths: starting pitching.
Only Josh Beckett and Tim Wakefield will prove effective over the course of 162 games. Daisuke Matsuzaka, Jon Lester and Clay Buchholz will all struggle.
Fans tend to forget - or at least overlook - the fact that the three are in either their first or second full season in the Major Leagues. Baseball, at this level, is not that easy.
Sure, the Sox will hit, even though there will be the occasional shutdown as was the case against Rich Harden and the A's in Tokyo. But it is pitching and defense that wins championships, just ask the Yankees who owned virtually every offensive category in 2007 and had nothing but angst to show for it.
Nonetheless, it should be an exciting season. That will never change as long as the current Front Office stays in place.
Pavel Demitra tied the game on a tip-in with 4:42 left and scored the only goal of the shootout to lift the Vancouver Canucks to a 3-2 win Saturday that sent the reeling Boston Bruins to their 10th straight loss.
As if a 10 game losing streak isn't enough. The Bruins are uncertain when they'll have Johnny Boychuk back. He was struck in the face with a puck in the first period of the Bruins' 3-2 shootout loss to Vancouver and taken to a local hospital.
TORONTO (AP) - Luca Caputi had to share the spotlight during his big homecoming after Nikolai Kulemin stole the show with an overtime goal.
Kulemin scored 4:11 into overtime to give the Toronto Maple Leafs a 4-3 victory over the Boston Bruins on Tuesday night.
BOSTON (AP) - Boston Bruins center Marc Savard has been diagnosed with a grade two concussion after being leveled by a blindside hit by Pittsburgh's Matt Cooke in Sunday's game.
General manager Peter Chiarelli said Monday that team doctor Peter Asnis and a concussion specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital evaluated and diagnosed Savard.
PITTSBURGH (AP) - The Boston Bruins left Pittsburgh with a loss and a whole lot of anger after losing one of their best players to what they felt was a cheap-shot hit.
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