Sarah and I will be live-blogging today’s Sox-Phils tilt. Game time is 1:35 p.m. EST. It’s Beckett vs. Happ, and somehow, ESPN’s Accuscore projection says the Phils are favored. I guess you can’t argue with science.
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Hi there, team. Sarah here. Coley and I had intended to essentially g-chat and just post updates from our sure-to-be-witty, trash-talking chat, but we forgot about the MLB.tv delay. So, we’re taking it inning by inning. Should be interesting.

Top First – Sarah:
Sarah: UGH LUGO LEADING OFF
Coley: Lugo had four hits yesterday
Sarah: I know there’s a downside there somewhere – we just don’t know what it is yet
Coley: If the Phils win this game it’s going to be a miracle. Beckett is on a roll right now, and JA Happ, like Bastardo, is due to get figured out.
Sarah: Lugo strikes out, then spends 5 min talking to umpire. Typical
Coley: The game has started already? Shit. I am on a delay – Happ just delivered the first pitch
me: Well, this should make it interesting. You’re about to see something exciting involving jacoby ellsbury!
(Jacoby bunts his way on to first, then acrobatically leaps out of the way of Ryan Howard to avoid a tangle.)
(A few minutes pass)
(Jacoby steals second, Howard’s throw gets past Jimmy Rollins, Jacoby to third.)
Sarah: hahahahahahhahaha. Wait til you see what’s about to happen!
Coley: I hate this stupid delay.
(But, of course, it all comes to nothing as Jacoby is stranded on third, and Bay on first, when Mike Lowell flies out. Oh well.)
Coley: jayson werth’s sunglasses are terrible. baseball eyewear in general is bad
Sarah: new category? Unfortunate Baseball Eyewear?

Bot First – Sarah:
I miss the first two outs while updating this post. Also, I’m currently living with my parents (ONLY BRIEFLY! I AM NOT A BLOGGER WHO LIVES IN HER PARENTS’ BASEMENT! SHUT UP, MURRAY. Of course I wouldn’t live in the stupid basement. I live in my old bedroom.) which means that they keep interrupting me as I attempt to liveblog. Suddenly out of nowhere I watch as Beckett fields a slow roller by firing an apparent 96-mph fastball at Kevin Youkilis, who has to do some sort of aerial somersault to stop it from going into the outfield. Now there are runners at the corners I have no idea what is going on. This liveblog is going to suck.
(Phillies grab a run. Somehow.)
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The forcast is for rain, but I’ll be at my computer starting at 5 p.m., live-blogging either Game 3 or whatever crappy reruns Fox shows while we wait for the skies to clear.

5:00: The tarp is on the field. Joe Buck says “It is pouring and the wind is whipping around.” Great.

5:01: Fox puts the weather map on the screen. Buck says the good news is the rain is supposed to clear eventually. Some old guy says there’s every reason to believe the field will be dry in half an hour. I’m sold. Read the rest of this entry »

The Apple Store Genius Bar saved my Mac today, and to celebrate I’m live-blogging the Phillies-Dodgers game. It’s Kendrick v. Lowe. It’s ESPN2. It’s baseball in August, and I’m stoked.

10:13: I just got to the Trident Bar and Grill, and I missed the first two batters.

10:14: Chutley hits a double to left. The scouts are speculating that Utley has been playing hurt, and that accounts for his recent lack of power. You certainly don’t hear Chase’s name in the MVP talk as much as you used to.

10:15: Ryan Howard ground out weakly to first, ending the inning. That’s out of character for Howard. Usually he’d strikeout in that situation.

10:19: Matt Kemp leads off the bottom of the first with a shot to center, but Shane “The Flying Hawaiian” Vicotorino jumps up and graps it. He really didn’t need to jump. And his smile tells you he knows it.

10:22: Now there are two down and Manny comes to the plate. They just flashed Ned Coletti on the screen. I’d never seen him before. He looks like Dennis Farina from Law and Order, minus the tan.

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