wakefield gettin' it done

daytime tv shows are absolutely terrible, considering the typical audience, i am sure this is on purpose...but i think these clowns announcing the sox game for espn today actually managed to dumb it down even more. this is probably the worst broadcasting team i've ever heard. does anyone know what a trademark deal is? because that's term one guy used to describe the rumored sheffield-for-cameron deal

wakefield pitched a nice game and the sox bats had some life too. back-to-back home runs by mirabelli and k-rocka's bf bellhorn put the sox at a 3 run advantage in the 6th. turns out that would be all and also enough to avoid the sweep.

starting the 8th inning, to my surprise, was mantei and not wakefield who was still doing just fine. mantei started out by throwing 6 balls nowhere near the plate. he recovered to get through the inning with no damage. still seems a curious move to me.

timlin closed the game but nearly pulled a foulke when, with two outs, cleveland got a couple hits and runners on the corners before the final out. this style of "closing" a game is not much fun and definitely getting old.

next up is toronto who is playing .500 ball and must be swept. no excuses. halladay or not.