Believe it or not, I haven’t been in a cave since the trading deadline. I, like every other red-blooded member of Red Sox Nation, was frantically clicking refresh on ESPN.com trying to figure out if the Sox would pick up a batter, a frontline pitcher, or both. And more importantly, how many of the Sox prospects would have adjust on a new ballclub for this to happen.

Theo pulled off a good one, trading The Big Masty and two other prospects to Cleveland for Victor Martinez. I’m sad to see Masty leave us, he seemed like a good kid and has a lot of potential with that crazy arm slot and sinking fastball. But how often do you get a switch hitting multiple-time all star catcher? Oh, I guess once a decade if you’re the Sox.

Martinez has a little ritual of giving each of the other 24 players a unique handshake before the every game, meaning that the Sox players are going to have to learn a new ritual. I don’t know if each player gets to choose his own handshake, but if they do, can mine be up-up-down-down-left-right-left-right-select-start? (If you’re not a child of the 80s, I’m sorry, that made zero sense to you.)

And the new ritual seems to be working. I know it’s just the Orioles, but right now the Sox should be ecstatic with any sweep, especially one on the road. The fact that Martinez went a paltry 5-6 in the last game, should only add to our confidence that they might be able to keep this up. Oh yeah, and some guy named Ortiz also had a pretty good first two games. Although with the way that Buchholz pitched on Sunday (almost blowing a 7-0 lead and only going 4+ innings), maybe the Sox should have traded him for Halladay, or Adrian Gonzalez, or Jared Washburn…or a color man better than Dave Roberts.