Since the season started, I’ve been establishing my place on the “Julio Lugo is going to hit” bandwagon. It’s pretty empty right now, but you need to claim your seat early. It’s like showing up early for football on Sunday to claim your seat at the bar. I’ve got the prime position. Of course, it does get a little lonely sometimes. And it’s a little (ok, really, really) sad when you get all excited that hey, Julio beat out the throw and didn’t hit into a double play! But in the end, you stick by your guns, and have faith in the first starting shortstop to play for the Sox two seasons in a row since Nomar. I figure, Theo et al. felt strongly enough about Julio to keep him around when they don’t seem to like keeping a shortstop for more than a year, so I’ll have faith in him. Besides, he wears a turtleneck like none other.

So there are lots of good things to say about tonight’s game, but I’m not going to talk about them. I was out during the game and saw the score in the bar window that the Sox were up 4-0 at some early point, so when I got home, I wasn’t real stressed about it and paid more attention to preparing for Passover, not finishing watching the game on the fake TiVo until almost midnight PST. It’s actually a really nice way to watch a game – confident that things will go well, but not knowing ahead of time what happens.

One thing I will give the Yankees – their TV announcers, at least the color guys (David Cone and John Flaherty, I think), are smart and teach you about the game. They’re exactly what everyone hopes for and rarely gets in a former player doing broadcasting. I mean, Remy’s great, and he’s our guy, but when he goes off and spends an inning pimping Rem-Dawgs or his scorecards, it gets a little embarrassing. It’s certainly a refreshing change from being forced to listen to the Yankee radio announcers on XM – Suzyn Waldman is putting the cause of women in broadcasting back 20 years.