Speed kills

It is well known that excessive speed kills. It kills in people in traffic, and last night it killed the Halos too.

Jacoby "Roadrunner" Ellsbury got on base 5 times, stole 2 bases and clearly rattled Lackey everytime he got on. Not to forget his incredible speed to catch up to Teixera's bloop hit into shallow CF. Think JD would have caught up to that one if the Sox had agreed to that 4 year deal?

I think not.

Also, in this case a lack of speed from a previous speed demon killed a Halos rally when Youk's heads up play got Vlad out trying to go 1st to 3rd - Halos normal mantra.

So now the Red Sox are 10-0 against in the post season against Scioscia's men, and 1-0 in 2008 with Dice-K and Beckett to follow. If only TBS would even remotely consider the timeslot of these games...

Still, in the interest of full disclosure - I did not watch the game live. I caught the replay this morning, going out of my way not to find out the score.

At least game two is on Friday...