Matsuzaka Madness!

4 - 1 Sox. 7 innings and 10 strike outs. A pretty good debut, yes?

I've very little insight or knowledge of professional sports, baseball inclusive, but, like most people, this will not stop me from offering up observations and passing them off as intelligent. To wit: I will say that this looks like it could be a good thing for the Sox. What really impressed me, though, aside from the pitching part, was Dice-K's fielding. Three times (by my count) his fielding was key to an out (or double play, as in the first) and he was right on the money. He even had to duck under a line drive once, exhibiting cat-like reflexes. Cool.

For some reason I always hold my breath when the pitcher has to field a ground ball or something. Perhaps I shouldn't, but I do. With Matsuzaka, I'll probably be a little less tense, though.

So, by my estimation, Beckett and Dice-K are winners, and Schilling is 50/50. I'm very interesteed in Wakefield tonight, since he is ostensibly 100% healthy now. If he's on, then we just have to keep Tavarez from getting into a brawl every other pitch and we'll be all good. Sox all the way in '07. Called it.

Drumming Woes Part II

Tendonitis? Me? Man alive! This is killing me. A few weekends ago I was extraordinarily blessed in being able to play drums for a missions conference held at my church. It amounted to 4 straight days of fairly regular playing, and as a result, my right writst got tweaked, and I haven't played since.

I've been wearing a brace to bed, and taking it easy, but there's still some pain there. Tendonitis anyone? Probably. Well, I managed to avoid it for 32 years, but in my old age, it was bound to happen.

It makes me wonder how guys like Cassey Brohard are able to do it. These drums corps guys play with sticks like baseball bats for hours and hours on end. How do their tendons not snap in half? More importantly, why can't I get tendons like that?

Anyway. Sorry the last two posts have been laments about drumming. I promise the next one will be something cool. Like, about my favorite Atari games or something. That'd be cool. Or a top ten list of words that almost rhyme with "silver." Dig it.