Good win by the Sox today, the first one in extra innings for the season. Although they didn’t make anything easy on themselves: falling behind by 3, almost blowing a bases-loaded no outs situation in the 10th and then Paps walking on a very tight rope letting to runners on in the bottom of the 10th before he ended it.

But the big news today has been the return of some guy whose almost eligible for an AARP card in the Bronx. Following that story, how’s this for a comparison:

6.0 IP, 6 H, 3 ER, 1 BB, 5 K (97 pitches, 61 strikes)
6.0 IP, 5 H, 3 ER, 2 BB, 7 K (108 pitches, 69 strikes)

The latter of these starts was against the 26-35 Pirates by the geriatric Roger Clemens while the former was against the 36-26 Arizona Diamondbacks from Julian Tavarez. And to think that Lester is right around the corner, we’ll be sending our version of Clemens to the bullpen soon. Of course, that’s minus the $28M price tag.