As Kim mentioned, it was freezing last night. Mostly it was the wind of the Sox constantly swinging and missing.

We have a new bizarro-world lineup:

Crisp, CF
Cora, 2B
Loretta, DH
Youkilis, LF
Lowell, 3B
Hinske, RF 
Lopez, C
C. Pena, 1B 
Cora, SS

When the lineup was first announced we had to check our watches. Nope, not April fools day.

The outfield in Oakland is atrocious. Not only can you still see the yard line markers, but there’s a hill where the football field ends. The softball field I play on is better maintained than that. Hinske made a great running catch in the first inning to rob Milton Bradley of a double. Too bad he couldn’t keep both feet in bounds, otherwise it would have been a touchdown.

I was impressed when the woman sitting behind us knew who Kason Gabbard was. I was equally unimpressed when she called the Foul Pole the “Out-of-Bounds Pole.”

People have reached a new low for chanting U-S-A-U-S-A when the highlights of the Little League World Series were shown on the Jumbotron. That’s almost like saying “my country’s Little League team can beat up your country’s Little League Team.”

I will hand it to the Oakland fans, playing Marco-Polo with Marco Scuatro each time Scutaro comes to the plate is very entertaining.

The rest of the night I’d rather forget. Hopefully Beckett will make the last Sox game I attend this season a good one. Because with no Papi (please, please be OK), and no Manny, the offense is certainly not going to be any help.