Making it to the "Big Show" (no, I'm not referring to Glen Ordway and the other not my WEEIdols) would be a dream come true for many aspiring Little Leaguers, including myself.  But like most of you, the readers, I'm just here.  I'll never strike out A-Rod and I'll never blast one of Rivera's 94mph cutters out of the park.   But that's okay, I've come to grips with the fact that making it to the big leagues (and Staying) is about as difficult as attending one of The Steve Miller Band's come back tour concerts.  It takes a lot of patience, can be very frustrating, and you know you can do a better job than them if you could just fight your way onto the stage.

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Last night was one of those nights when there just wasn't much on TV. The Boston Red Sox didn't have any spring training games to yawn through. The Celtics had the night off. And the Bruins flat out took the night off.  Just when I thought it looked like the Bruins might have found their identity, they went back to skating on thin ice.  They lowly Maple Leafs drowned the B's 8-2. The Big, Really Bad Bruins seem to be back to their old habits, losing.  But luckily for me, I could care less.  I won a whopping $20 bucks in a poker game.

 A group of 6 of us play Texas Holdem on Thursday nights. Holdem's a good game and according to Mike McDermott, it’s considered to be the Cadillac of poker.  None of us are

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Six days and not counting.  This might be the first time in 20 years or so that I haven't been checking days off my calendar on route to opening day.  In fact, until right now, 2pm on Wednesday (we'll call it a long lunch break) I haven't even watched more than an inning  of a Boston Red Sox spring training game.  What's wrong with me? Am I sick? Has two World Series Titles in four years spoiled me?  Is it because the Big Schill got hurt and I'll miss seeing his lack of spring training stomach?  Or could it be because Coco Crisp just scooped up a ground ball to his right and when trying to throw it in to second, the ball went about 10 feet straight into the ground? (You know opposing Scouts just dropped their offer of a 50th round pick to 100th round pick for Coco straight up).  The answer is no, no, no and no. The truth of the matter is, for the time being anyway, my usual Fenway fever has been sidetracked by the Gang Green.

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If your going to wait nearly 5 months for opening day, and have to get up at 6am to watch Dice K turn into Nuke LaLoosh, you better win the game. Well, thanks to the Manny/Moss combo, the Boston Red sox eked out a 6-5 win over the Oakland Athletics. 

Considering that Dice K was the Japanese version of The Wild Thing (5 walks and a hit batter in 5 innings) he managed to pitch a decent game by numbers, only allowing two hits, two runs and struck out six. But after getting the first batter of the game Travis Buck to ground out to second, Matsuzaka reverted to his 2007 inconsistencies.   

After falling behind in the count, the pesky Mark Ellis took a grooved fastball over the left field fence to make it 1-0. Then Dice K walked Barton, hit Cust, and walked Brown to load the bases.  I'm thinking, c'mon multi million dollar Matsuzaka, you're in your home park with your home fans, with a year under your black belt, against an Oakland team that has maybe one guy who could be a bench player on the Sox.  Throw a freakin' strike, it's legal in both countries.

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