The 2008 season started with the Red Sox as champs. They were beaten by the A's, who were beaten back by Boston, who were then swept by Toronto, who lost to Oakland, who lost to Cleveland, and so on, until we reached our current champion.
The Heavyweight of the Year is the team that wins the most title bouts at the end of the season.
2008 Title Bout Records:
| Mets | 23 | 17 |
| Athletics | 13 | 13 |
| Red Sox | 11 | 7 |
| Cubs | 9 | 1 |
| Padres | 8 | 6 |
| Rockies | 7 | 14 |
| Angels | 6 | 4 |
| Indians | 6 | 11 |
| Brewers | 5 | 0 |
| Cardinals | 5 | 5 |
| Reds | 5 | 5 |
| Dodgers | 5 | 7 |
| Marlins | 4 | 3 |
| Rangers | 4 | 6 |
| Blue Jays | 3 | 3 |
| Nationals | 3 | 5 |
| Mariners | 2 | 1 |
| Yankees | 2 | 3 |
| Phillies | 2 | 5 |
| Tigers | 1 | 2 |
| Giants | 0 | 3 |
| Orioles | 0 | 3 |
2006 Heavyweight of the Year:
Oakland Athletics
2005 Heavyweight of the Year:
Oakland Athletics
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2008 Stats
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The A's only managed three hits and no walks last night (or even last night) against Daisuke Matsuzaka & Co. Unlike the opener in Japan, Dice-K was on his game, throwing strikes with multiple pitches. When a team relies on the walk as much as the A's do, you can go a long way toward beating them simply by throwing the ball over the plate. Throw strikes with some zip on it, and the A's are putty in your hands. Except for a lone Jack Cust home run, the A's were simply overpowered last night, despite another good pitching effort by Joe Blanton.
Hopefully, it will be the Red Sox' turn to be overpowered this afternoon when Rich Harden takes to the mound. Will Travis Buck ever get a hit? I'd be concerned about that, but then I saw that David Ortiz is hitless this year, too. Can that possibly last another day? If the A's can escape a four-game series with Boston without being hurt by Big Papi, they should consider themselves very fortunate.
Boston
Pedroia 2b
Youkilis 1b
Ortiz dh
Ramirez lf
Lowell 3b
Drew rf
Varitek c
Crisp cf
Cora ss
Lester p
Oakland
Ellis 2b
Barton 1b
Sweeney dh
Cust lf
Brown rf
Crosby ss
Suzuki c
Hannahan 3b
Denorfia cf
Harden p
Barton in the the hole is interesting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQmK1CnwOUI
We should do the same thing with Ray Fosse.
Please just keep Ortiz quiet for one more day.
Ken are you watching the game? Is he getting squeezed?
* Music is not lovely at all.
and phew!!!
now if only we could generate a bit of offense.
We should be hammering Lester.
But the lack of ads is disturbing. I've seen half a dozen "gamer" travesties for the Giants.
Yes indeedy, Zito is a gamer.
16 Don't forget "All Out. All Season."
Never was an ad campaign truer than that one.
So now I'm calling back to cancel my subscription.
Embree in makes me really, really nervous though.
With the lack of offense or even hits it's been a fairly high stress game.
Embree, maybe you shouldn't challenge the hitters quite so much.
Actually I knew our offense would have trouble scoring runs, I'm just a little surprised we're having this much trouble.
If Abreu can run into a wall, anything's possible.
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