Sean B. Fitzgerald It doesn’t go something like this, it goes exactly like this.

New England was eerily quiet this evening (I’m guessing)

You can't put too much stock in a May loss to a non-divisional opponent. But this one had to sting. David Ortiz goes 0 for 7 with 3 strikeouts and leaving 12 (!) men on base in a 5-4 loss to the Angels in twelve innings. Jeff Mathis drove in the winning run in the bottom of the twelve. And in case you're keeping score at home, Big Papi is batting a robust .208 for the season with no homeruns. Lets not forget that .618 OPS. Should I go through some of the players who have a higher OPS than that this year? You're right, I should. Freddie Sanchez, Kosuke Fukudome, Mike Napoli, Orlando Hudson, Jason Kubel, Jesus Flores, Russell Branyan, Kurt Suzuki, Marco Scutaro, and many, many more.

Look. We all know that this series was going to go seven games. Since their inception, the Celtics have been in about 1000 game sevens. But if Boston plays anything like they did tonight on Sunday, there won't be an opportunity for them to play another one. It was fun to watch them struggle and play dumb basketball for once. For forty-eight minutes they took bad shots, made bad passes and let Dwight Howard own the boards. Yet they kept it close. Keep your fingers crossed for a Magic win on Sunday. I've had it up to here (Hand at chin), with this impromptu Celtics run. It's very inconvenient. I liked it a lot better when they were tanking games down the stretch so they would have a better lottery pick.

"When exiting the bandwagon, please stand clear of the doors." Anyway, unlike yesterday's game seven, this one (as well as the Red Wings/Ducks one) was riveting. I was riveted. Versus was nice enough to put Sports Soup on hold and play the overtime period of Bruins and Hurricanes. Mike Iseman must have been pissed.