Good to see a real baseball game, even if many of the players weren’t the household names by the time the game was midway through and we were saddled with the Red Sox’ telecast. I’m not going to whine about the last part because, without volume, you didn’t miss anything except Boston chatter. I turned off the sound after Boston’s CEO said something, I think, about “good obstructed view” seats being available at Fenway. If I misheard, forgive me.

Four things I liked, even though everything is relative and not a guaranteed indicator of future returns: Perkins pitched a solid two innings and looked like a someone who should be in the rotation, rather than a suspect fifth; Delmon’s hustle from first to third on that hard single that smacked off Youkilis’ glove and into short right (even if there was some comedy when he scored on the Pridie sac fly; Buscher scorching the ball to right on both of his at-bats, and Ayala’s inning of relief.

I’m not going to go back and rerereanalyze the Santana deal but, from a distance, I really like the way Jed Lowrie carries himself at shortstop for the Red Sox.I can’t believe there’s competition between him and Julio Lugo for that position. I wonder if four years/$36 million (the deal Lugo somehow signed in 2007) has something to do with it. Makes Punto look like a bargain, huh?

Taking a few days mostly away from the keyboard. Joe and LaVelle will be writing and blogging, Jim Souhan is in Florida and there will be more Twins video on the web site. Enjoy.

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