Chief Wahoo's broom

I'm not even really sure where to begin on this one. This series against Cleveland was most definitely one they should have won. Nobody in Cleveland even cares about baseball right now (see my Bulls blog later for why...). Saturday's game was empty at the beginning, but because of a special promotion from the across the street neighbor, "The Q", anyone at the Bulls/Cavs game could being their ticket stub and pay $5 get into the remainder of the game over at the Jake (or Progressive field or the not as-much-of-a-mistake by the lake or whatever they call it now...). So their attendance pretty much tripled with drunk Cavs fans that were like "oh man yeah we should go to the Indians game, bro!! I heard Lebron is gonna play second base!!"

Anyway, there were just alot of things wrong with the Sox this weekend. The offense is still the main issue. I feel like i'm repeating myself alot but I just don't know why the offense is always so bad at the beginning of the year. Andruw Jones, who was showing signs of life in his bat, kind of quieted down, but I still think he should be in every day. The Indians really don't have any outstanding pitching (well, not anymore) so we shouldn't be limited with the offense. Hopefully this homestand coming up will get them back on track, and maybe the first off day of the year today will help them out too.

The pitching hasn't made me too mad for the most part, but Gavin's performance yesterday was just terrible. I came into the season being so psyched about the starting pitching, and I know Gavin can be much much better than he was in that game yesterday. He just didn't have any sort of command at all it seemed like. Hopefully he'll straighten that out before he starts again on Friday against the M's, who I also thought were going to come out with an awesome start, but are under .500 (and the A's are in 1st so far? that's messed up). So if Gavin has the stuff that I know and love, he should be fine next time out.

Freddy is skipping his start because we have the off day anyway, and I think that might be a good idea after his last time out being a little rough. Plus, Buehrle has been known to pitch well against the Rays. ^_~ I hope the boys can forget about getting swept and just focus on sweeping the Rays. The Rays themselves are the opposite and have completed a sweep themselves against the Red Sawks in an unusually early game this morning (10am central time, just as I was waking up they had it on MLB network). All I know is, this should make for a good series. I just hope the Sox come out on the better end of it.