Twice As Nice................

 Did you ever see the Naked Movie, the first one, where Lt. Frank Drebin had to dress upas an umpire to foil a plot to kill the queen of england.  Well last nights game was about like that, only no where near as funny.  It seemed that Joba Justin the Hut and the home plate umpire had some type of deal going on how balls and strikes would be called.  It became almost comical how bad the strike zone was last night for the Red Sox hitters.  It seemed the same courtesy was not given to the winning pitcher Josh Beckett.

 Never mind Justin Chamberlain and his umpire inflated strike out totals, how bout them Red Sox sweeping the Yanks in the house that the tax payers built.  The Sox put it to the Yanks every way they had too.  The end result was the Yankees dropping thier 5th straight game to the Red Sox.  Overall the Sox have beaten the Yanks 8 of the last 11 times they have suited up, but whose counting.......

  Josh Beckett was still not back to his old self, however he was gritty, and got the job done.  He had only one bad inning, where he gave up a three homer to turn-coat Johnny Damon, but other than that the Yanks could not get to Beckett.  For the game, Beckett did allow 10 hits and three earned runs, he also fanned five and walked one.  Whatever hype thier was to Joba the Hut's performance, Beckett was the winning pitcher, and Joba was the loser, end of story, and Beckett did not need an enhanced strike zone to get the job done.

  The Sox hitters had just enough offense to outlast Justin and the Yanks last night, just enough I mean...until the Yanks bullpen arrived.  The difference in this series and the last one, has been the play of both pens.  This time around in the Bronx, the Sox bullpen pitched five innings and allowed only 1 run, the Yanks pen pitched 8 innings and were tagged for six runs, the basic difference in the score was the bullpens.

  It's funny, because in April, before the Yankees had thrown thier first pitch, or hit thier first hit, I predicted thier pen was going to be dog ****.  I also predicted that Marky mark was going to be hitting somewhere around .200...I was a little off, he is hitting .198.  Either way the end result is fun headlines in Gotham City.  The Yanks have been done in again by thier most hated rival.