A little Red Sox tidbit - sorry in advance if you don't care. But I do.
Yesterday the Red Sox announced that they will pick up the 2007 option of pitcher Tim Wakefield.
I'm really glad he's coming back. I was afraid, since he's turning 41 next year, that he'd be a goner. It's nice that he'll be around a little more.
Fun fact: Wakefield has 137 wins for the Sox, behind only two guys - Cy Young and Roger Clemens. (Ever heard of them?)
Personally I think Wakefield was a key to the 2004 Red Sox World Series - in Game Three of the playoffs with the Yankees he came in to pitch three innings of relief, forgoing his start the next day. The Yankees won the game, 19-8, but his role in the game (the longest nine-inning postseason game ever played) was to save the relief pitchers for the next few games.
Which was handy, considering Game Four went twelve innings and Game Five (started just sixteen hours later) went fourteen innings, clocking in at almost six hours long.
What can I say? I'm a fan, and a happy one at that. Go Sox!
