Thorasic Thursday

I used the title "Thorasic (sic) Thursday" due to the fact that my arms are getting tired from being stuck in the air while cheering for the Patriots and Red Sox this week. So bare with me; typing is difficult today.
The week began with the Red Sox going back and forth with their new Minor League affiliate (San Diego Padres) over a deal for a hitter who can even hit homeruns in that big ballpark in downtown San Diego. I think he will pepper the wall with his swing and will benefit with extra base hits to his power spots of right-center and center. Adrian Gonzalez made the Red Sox even more dangerous than they were with Adrian Beltre in the lineup. I know Beltre's numbers were good last year but I think Gonzalez will duplicate those every year. So Sunday was back and forth until the deal was done. That gave us a break until the Monday night Armageddon that was coming with the New York Jets.
All I will say about the Patriots win Monday night is WOW!!!!.
This morning I woke up to the news that the Red Sox signed Carl Crawford to a seven year deal. WOW!!!. The only problem I can see with this deal is that now the Sox may be too-left handed. Is that possible in Boston? The Red Sox of my youth were known as the country club team for big, slow right handed hitting white guys who today would make for a good DH. Now the Sox have two of the best base stealers in the game in Crawford and Ellsbury. Two of the most hard-nosed players in the game in Pedroia and Youkilis, great hitters in Gonzalez and Ortiz as well as a hell of a defensive team in the field. School is still out on the catching staff and bullpen but the starting pitching can be matched against anybody. If the Yankees don't get Cliff Lee the argument could be made that the new "Evil Empire" is rising.
Arms up everybody!!!!!
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P.S. I also need to make an NFL pick for tonight. I have to selct between two teams headed in the wrong direction. Indianapolis and Tennessee have been through quite a year so far. Manning has no reliable weapons, his arm is sore and the Colts defense stinks but they seem to be world's ahead of the Titans whose quarterback quit, his replacement is old and slow and Randy Moss has been an invisible waste. I guess I'll take the Colts and give the 3.5 points, what the heck. That doesn't mean I have to watch it.