No doubt much of the weight of the Sox inability to produce or perform on the mound falls on Francona. He has proven himself to be one of the best player's managers not to lose complete control of his team by year 2 but for some reason its not working, or it wasn't. I think today's game against the Jays when considered against yesterdays represents the awakening. They finally are scoring, Jed Lowrie is leading hitting statistics, Daisuke is starting to pitch well, and Crawford got a hit... A HIT!
These two games bode well for the future if we can continue to split series at the very least or even build off from these three games we'll be back to .500 before anyone forgets about the beginning of the season. Overall I think this team will start to look like '04 when they were 0-3 facing elimination and everyone said it couldn't be done... it happened and this year is a good chance for something similar to happen again.
CELTICS
This close win with so much emotion is exactly what this team needed to start the playoffs. This is an emotional team that thrives on pressure situations and big moments to find their stride. With half the team filing for social security within the next 3 years they needed a team of younger versions of themselves to come in a challenge their authority. And then there is Jermaine O'neal, yeah him, he showed up with the talent he used to have and put up a good stat line which is a necessity in Shaq's absence. I believe this is the first time we've seen this team truly click since we sent Perk into exile (Oklahoma is about as close to exile as you can get... Texas)Just kidding.
We got quality minutes from everyone that played in the second half and came back to battle back and forth with an emerging titan in New York. Like Doc said when that final shot went up I think we all thought it was over, but it wasn't. Billups is out for Game 2 so they just lost Mr. Big Shot in a pivotal game. We're going to finish this series in 5 at most and Spike Lee can suck it.
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