First of all, let us get it perfectly straight that I am not now--nor have I ever been or likely to become--a Sawx fan. But, somehow deep down, I just KNEW this one was coming. In fact, I could never quite figure out why they traded Mirabelli away before the season in the first place. Varitek can't catch Wakefield, and Bard has certainly proven that he can't either with any degree of consistency.
I'm sure that this will help at least a little bit with some of the problems that they Sawx have had on days when Wakefield pitches, and cut down on some of the runs scored by their opponents. Darn, we don't want that to happen, now do we? (Could it be that being in the NL in a pitcher's park will have ruined Doug for coming back to a notorious hitter's park???).
I am a 50 something health care professional transplanted to Seattle from SoCal in 2001 (and, before you ask, no, I don't want to go back). My tastes in sports are pretty eclectic, but in order of preference, I guess they would be baseball, hockey, basketball, football--col lege and pro/men and women alike. Teams I "HATE": USC (I went to UCLA); University of Michigan (born and raised in Columbus OH to a large family of OSU alumni/alumna e), and--probably most of all--the d***ed Yankees. I have worked in a variety of capacities at the MLB, NBA and NFL venues here in Seattle and at UW (hey, what true sports fan could pass up the possibility of getting paid to do something you would have done anyway (and had to pay for it)?)
