beckham is the goods, foreal.

sox vs yankees: section 544 row 4 seat 15 on a perfect sunday afternoon in the northern part of the southside of chicago. the yankees fans represented as they always do whenever their team is in chicago, and despite rocking my evil empire shirt that i bought outside of yankee stadium last september (when i caught david price's MLB debut and i also think jeter set the mark for most hits or RBI or something by a yankee) i decided that it's time to grab one of those moderately overpriced beckham jerseyshirts, as from everything i've seen this dude is the truth.
yesterday's game did nothing but bolster my claims there. in his first at bat he works the count to 3-2 after starting 1-2 and manages to turn on a high and outside pitch and rifle it down the first base line for a leadoff double. in the next at bat, whilst the diamondvision is boasting a stat akin to something like bacon is hitting .569 10/19 with RISP with less than 2 outs, and he proceeds to go 11/20 by pulling one down the leftfield line for what was a long RBI single. in his third at bat he drove one right smack dab in the middle of the right-center gap for his second double of the game, and indeed, his teammates were willing to bring home the bacon as he scored his 2nd run of the game. after that he struck out on a really nice called third strike by i believe bruney.
unfortunately, mariano rivera did clown him in the B9 clutch cargo siutation where there was a runner or two on and 1 out and he was jammed on a pitcher's pitch for an easy infield out. c'est la vie, eh?!@
on a cool note, i ended up sitting next to a semi/longtime WSCR 670AM intern, johnny doingthings, who works for the new dan mcneil show and occasionally does live remote work with the valhalla palace of sports talk radio, the boers and bernstein show. terry boers is the crusty old disdain-spewing caustic ascerbic and occasionally inhospitable sports guy taht more often than not is dead on with his analysis, let alone his masterful double entendres that give you insight into the kind of stories you'd want to hear from someone like him, only they can't really be said on the radio so you gotta tune into the 2nd level of conversation to pick up on it.
example: even the intern wouldn't verify this, but from listing to b&b i picked up the story through their entendres: the whole urlacher/cutler thing, if i'm not mistaken, resulted from cutler getting with an ex/urlacher hosebag and in-or-around an OTA urlacher got in cutler's face and 4 teammates had to hold him back. so he runs into bobby wade in vegas and no doubt mentions "cutler's a pussy" which if you know brian urlacher, rock-headed manchild for the ages, that's so totally his MO. the bears camp is on some deny deny deny nothing happened blah blah blah and most of the media outlets in the city want good favor with the bears, especially in this our season of seasons where we don't have to put on CBS at 3pm to watch the AFC for *real* football, nope, we've got actually-quarterbacked football in chicago.
but yeah, taht's just what it is.