"Hi, I'm Doug. Would you like to see my property?"

Hey everyone. This is former Red Sox catcher, Tim Wakefield personal assistant and World Series champion Doug Mirabelli. He would like to sell you a home as part of the Coldwell Banker team, fresh from spring training. For Realtors.

I'm not bagging on the guy, because as everyone knows when you retire, you can get a legitimate job or become John Kruk or John Salley. It's just sort of weird when a player leaves the game and turns to a job your uncool uncle does or used to do. He looks about as comfortable as an unarmed and pantsless Zack Efron in a Turkish bathhouse doesn't he?

Yet another loss on the Pac coast tonight. It's nice to see people who hate Boston and who have an axe to grind get frothy at the mouth while they are in the cellar with 95 percent still left on the year. It's sort of an odd dichotomy, I want to see Boston fade from from heads of frat boys with cargo shorts and flip flops who wear pink polo shirts on ladies night. But I also want them to win another World Series. Life is pain, brother.

I never thought I would be caught dead putting this on the record either, but part of me is glad to see Beckett get suspended for trying to give Bobby Abreu a labotomy on Sunday. Good thing he's still not pitching in the National League, or he probably wouldn't be pulling shit like this.

The other part of me thinks you're fucking retarded for thinking if Beckett wanted to nail Bobby he missed his mellon because his location was a little off.

Brutality

Basically what is the Red Sox schedule in the first two months of the season. Nothing is going to come easy, and by the looks of the last few games they're going to need to get better. Fast.

Just a quick note, heartfelt pregame for the Halo's late Nick Adenhart. Classy. Surprised MLB.TV played it since they usually cut out while there is a break in the action.

West Coast road trips have been a killer for AL East teams for awhile. Boston has two stretches in the next two months. The Sox will play no one but division contenders and pre-season favorites until their trip to Detroit June 1st. Well, maybe not so much with Baltimore coming to town in a week.

I'm just disappointed in the pitching thus far, sans Beckett who was on fire and almost pitching in another galaxy Tuesday. Dice-K looks like his control is still a major issue. Wakefield looks another year older. I'm sure it will come around, it always does. It just sucks to start out this way and be 1-3 in the middle of a Pacific Coast swing.

For now I'll take my mind off by watching the Nationals trying to get back into the game against the Braves. Mike Gonzalez just had a grounder bounce off his glove and Washington tied it up in the top of the ninth. Good God, I'm glad it's April.

Not like they drew it up...

Well, the opener with the Rays opened with a bang and landed with a limp thud. While watching Dice-K toss more meat than a butcher on a Saturday morning, it was hard to contain my discontent while I was in class. Did I say that out loud? Of course I didn't watch baseball in class...how is that even possible? McKay doesn't even have air conditioning, let alone cable.

The Rays took a 4-1 lead into the bottom of the sixth when Boston remembered they were in the middle of an actual game. Watching them sleepwalk through the first two-thirds of the game was about all I could stand. It felt like we were picking up right where we left off last year, being out hustled and even outhit by the young bucks from Florida.

The middle of the lineup woke up with Jason Bay driving in Kevin Youkilis on a shot to dead center on a Manny double. For those of you that don't know, a Manny double is a triple, or a play that 99% of all major league hitters should get to third on, while Manny would have "hustled" for a stand up double. I don't hate Manny, if it weren't for him this team wouldn't have rings. It's just something fans have done with a half joking, half sick sort of sense of humor. Anyway...

The Sox made it interesting in the bottom of the ninth with Jason Varitek blasting a dinger to right field, but were unable to muster up enough to pull into a tie or even pull out some late inning heroics.

Boston takes their 1-2 record to L.A. to play an Angles team reeling from the tragic loss of 22-year-old pitcher Nick Adenhart. It's always sad to see someone who has their life stolen from them with everything still yet to come. Truly a sad day for the Angles, baseball, and well, pretty much everyone.