Sunday, May 20, 2007

What am I watching?

The Patriots seemed surprisingly upbeat in the clubhouse Sunday morning considering the gut-wrenching fashion in which they lost Saturday night. After overcoming three three-run deficits to force extra innings, the Patriots surrendered eight runs in the 10th.
Anyone expecting an emotional hangover would have been disappointed to see the players act as if it never happened before the game, and then again during the game.
The Patriots scored two in the first, one in the third and three in the fifth to jump out to a 6-0 lead on the Ducks.
THE MOST INTEREST PLAY? Patriots catcher Travis Anderson barreling over Ducks catcher Jamie Pogue on a play at the plate. Anderson would have been out, but he jarred the ball loose. Good, clean play. HOWEVER, Anderson is the Patriots catcher and the Ducks are a hard-nosed team. Stay tuned for possible retaliation either on a play at the plate or the next time Anderson comes to bat.

UPDATE: Nothing matriculated from the incident. Like I said originally, it was a clean, baseball play. I spoke to Travis after the game and he said the same. Just making a play. If you know Travis -- which most of you don't -- he's a very intense guy. He seems to be an old-school, hard-nosed player and there is nothing wrong with that. Every team needs 1 or 2.
Don't forget Ducks pitchers hit three Patriots on Tuesday and the Patriots did not respond. I think this all shows that after all the battles between these two teams and managers, there is nothing but respect here.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Travis loses 20 toughness points for his middle name being "Elmer."

Anonymous said...

Of course they were upbeat Sunday. In Baseball they have to forget last night and move on. The season is 126 games. You must not have played above little league. by the way Dunkin' Dounuts can lift the spirit.

- a little birdie

Anonymous said...

Your blog is pretty good Ryan, keep it up. I wanna see something about Slider, though. And how you wanted him to be called Lyle. :)

Anonymous said...

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Anonymous said...

The begging for visitors continues, only more obviously. The begging and pleading is shameful.

-- a bigger birdie.

Anonymous said...

oh the hostility