Survival of the Fittest: It's a hell of a match up.

Friday, October 11, 2013

It's a hell of a match up.

During the regular season, the Tigers & the Red Sox faced each other seven times and the Tigers won four of those games. Three of the four losses to the Red Sox came at home during a slump they were going through in June.

Of those seven games, four were in Detroit and the Red Sox lost three of them. Three were played in Boston and the Red Sox lost one of them.

In the away games, the Red Sox scored a total of 21 runs and the Tigers scored a total of 27 runs.

In the home games, the Red Sox scored a total of 22 runs and the Tigers scored a total of 8 runs.

Over all seven games, the Red Sox scored a total of 43 runs and the Tigers scored a total of 35 runs.

What does all that mean? Nothing. It means nothing at all. It's just a bunch of meaningless numbers.

No matter how you look at it and how you analyze the history of the two teams, no one can predict what is going to happen on any given day. No one can say who is going to step on home plate more than the other guy.

All anyone can say is it's going to be a hell of a match up. These are two good teams and they will both play their hearts out to win this series.

And I will enjoy watching every moment of it that I can manage to stay awake for.

On the other hand, I feel bad for Billy Beane and his Oakland Athletics.

As the general manager of the team, as well as the subject of the movie "Money Ball", Beane has built a winning franchise out of nothing. The Athletics are a small market team, competing for fans and revenue, with the San Francisco Giants and, as such, they don't have a lot of money. They can't afford to pay exorbitant salaries to their players.

What they do have is a guy with a plan and some mad skillz at identifying and acquiring some of the best players in the major league. As a matter of fact, five of the current Athletics used to be Red Sox players - Jed Lowrie, Brandon Moss, Bartolo Colon, Josh Reddick and Coco Crisp all played for the Red Sox in the recent past.

If you have never seen the movie "Money Ball", watch it. It's not an action-adventure or a romantic-comedy and if you don't care about baseball, you'll find it boring as hell. But if you love the game, you'll enjoy the movie.

And for you ladies out there, Brad Pitt plays the part of Billy Beane

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