The Bones

Este looking like the este of 2003

dead center field too

MO f***ING OLIVO!!!

rowand singles to right

c'mon konerko keep it going

nice first inning for este

i hope este doesn't come out cold after that long inning

what an AB come on Carlos

this is great

Frank looks determined this year. He's had some good ABs so far.

I believe Schoenweis is starting Thursday so the sox don't have two lefties in a row. Garland will pitch Friday, Buehrle on Saturday on a regular 4 days rest, and Wright moved back to Sunday for his first start of the year.

exactly, we're only one game into the season and we're already watching the scoreboard. what if, and i'm not saying it's likely, the tigers or indians become the royals of 2004? let's wait a month at least to see how things start shaping out before we start scoreboard watching.

showers throughout the day in kc, but they could let up for a couple hours. weather

2-2 2 RBI 1 R

With all of the official threads that have been starting up here's my contribution. I've thought long and hard about yesterday's game and I realized we have a lot to be optimistic about. I can find something positive about nearly everyone wearing a Sox uniform on Monday. 1.) Mark Buehrle pitched 6 2/3 strong innings. This is something we'll need as our pitching staff is our #1 question mark. Mark came out and was just dominant at times. Hopefully, this will rub off on our other starters. 2.) Cliff Politte came out and showed us what he had. He pitched great to end the 7th and get through the 8th only giving up one hit and striking out 2 with his high 90s heat. We also found out that he can only go an inning or two at the most. Once Ozzie figures out where, when, and how to use his relievers we will feel much more comfortable in the later innings. Even Koch came in and got a K. Granted he gave up a double to Santiago but he pitched well and showed control. 3.) Our bats showed up scoring 7 runs. And not all of them were from home runs either. Also, almost everyone got in on the action. The only 2 batters to not get either an RBI or a run scored were Willie and Crede. This will probably lead Ozzie to start Uribe against lefties. 4.) Paul Konerko. That's all I have to say about that. 5.) Defense was terrific and I think overlooked. First game of the season you might see some jitters but the defense was solid all around, minus Buehrle's error. I doubt he'll try that again. Willie was turning the double plays like a veteran and everyone did their part to limit the amount of scoring opportunities for the Royals. So, Damaso Marte blew it. Do you really expect that to be a common thing this year. Damaso was probably the surest thing we had out of the pen last year and I'm sure he'll come around. Would you have rather had a game that we were down from start to finish like last year and showed no fight whatsoever and nothing went our way, which would have been easier to swallow at the end of the day? Or would you rather have a game where the Sox showed what they are made of 8 innings but the pitching of 1 or 2 guys lost it in the end? Sure, this was a game we should have one. But, you can't should have done anything because it's in the past. I'm looking forward to another exciting 161 games this year starting Wednesday.

done to both my sig and avatar. that was really easy.

a little early don't ya think?

The sox will destroy KC on wednesday. Darrell May will get rocked once again and Esteban will be back to his Cy Loaiza form. Leave your brooms at home kc cause we're gonna get down and dirty in 2 days.

Our first Koch sighting of the year.

always gotta make it interesting, these sox

2 gone

Paulie with the sb

97 mph for the k