Exhausted

Right now, I know exactly how the Red Sox feel. I'm friggin exhausted and worn down! Check out the eerie similarities in straight out, non-stop action in our last weeks here.

Brent: 4 wild, action packed days in New Orleans for my bachelor party, a night of drinking, Red Sox loses, and dinner with Gillibean, Couz Dimples, Wooderson, the fiance, and a bunch of my work buddies, a trip to Camden Yaaads to see the O's bullpen blow another one, a furniture shopping trip to IKEA, and finally packing to move out due to my recent eviction. Toss a few work days that go from 7am - 5:30pm and you know why I'm exhausted.

Red Sox: 8 games, a rainout, 3 games in the Bronx, some interleague play versus our "rival" (pff..whatever).....and all of this went on during a 7 day span. Considering we came out of it 5-3, that ain't bad at all.

So it's pretty easy to understand why both the team and I have about zero energy right now.

Luckily, the Sox had last night off and look to turn the corner versus the Rangers in Arlington tonight. That's a good ball park for the Sox. It's a pure hitters ball park and all my met herbs out there (Yo! Yo! Shout out to all the weather weenies in the house, especially Gillibean's love slave Dick Albert!) know how well the ball travels down there in the steamy land of Shiner Bock, George Bushes, and Longhorns. As they say back home, "it goes wicked faaaaah". And this, combined with a well deserved day off, is exactly what the doctor ordered for the recent lack of clutch hits at the plate. Oh yeah and I guess it doesn't hurt when the Texas Rangers have a team ERA of 5.12 going into Friday's action. That is good for 29th in the league, with only the Tampa Bay "When do we drop Satan from our name?" Devil Rays being worse. As all the illegal Mexicans down there would say "Muy bien!"

With that said, here's a few predictions I have for the weekend:

• Youk's goatee will continue to grow exponentially over the next few days and by the end of the trip to Texas, Youk will look like a member of ZZ Top. Dr. Emmett Brown and I took a trip into the future and snapped this picture on the right of Youk in the airport on Sunday night on the team's way back to Boston
• With the lack of productivity from the Chicago White Sox (Ray's weekend opponent) and the Sox playing in Texas, our good friends from the Lonestar state might end up with the worst ERA in the league after this weekend. As the late great Brad Delp would belt out "It's more than a feeling".
• Manny is cocky right now after his diving/rolling/flailing catch in the outfield the other day. At least once this weekend, Manny's spandexian "doo-rag" will fall off as he attempts a similar play and ends up with a mouth full of grass and the ball rolling around in the corner behind him. Someone please tell him he's not Coco out there. Paying tribute to Manny's heroics in the outfield, Rem Dawg will show up in the booth at least once this weekend with his "doo-rag" on.
  
• Dustin Pedroia will not be allowed into the clubhouse at Arlington Stadium because security will mistake him for a 12 year old child looking to get the autograph of Big Papi. So look for some prime playing time for Alex Cora this weekend!

Ok well that's it from here. Thanks for all the letters, e-mails and phone calls of support that I received while I was on my little hiatus. You made me feel great and welcome. Oh wait....Gillibean is telling me I didn't get any. Ok well screw you all!

Have a great weekend!