Down 0-2 -- ARGHH!

We watched the game in it's entirety last night. We even had Brooklyn playing the role of lil' cheerleader: "Go Rockies!!; Come On, Come On."

We cheered when Taveras (or Travers as I call him) got on base albeit because of getting hit. We cheered when Matt Holliday singled sending Taveras to third thanks to Lowell's mishap with the ball. We cheered when Todd Helton got a RBI sending Taveras home. 1-0, top of the first inning! We cheered as young Ubaldo looked real good and settled from the get-go. We cheered when he struck out arrogant Big Poppy.

We were real happy, feeling pretty confident. Then it happened, Ubaldo started to walk batters. Uh oh! We can't just help them out by putting them on. When Mike Lowell drew a one-out walk, taking third on J.D. Drew’s single to right, and scored on a Jason Varitek fly ball to center all in the fourth, we started to get worried. We started coaching young Ubaldo trying to get him to settle down and just get out of the inning. Done. In the fifth, he looked good again, 2 outs right away, then walked Big Poppy with Manny Ramirez up to bat. A single sending Big Poppy to second and soon home with Lowell's double to left.

Great. Now we're in real trouble, 1-2 bottom of the fifth inning. Not good! Especially since we can't seem to get our offense started lately, and we're leaving lead-off batters stranded. We got excited as Holliday got a hit off Jonathan Papelbon in the top of the eighth with two outs. But, oh how we cringed when Holliday got picked off first base with Helton up to bat, ending the inning.

And, seriously Spilborghs, stopping resting the freakin' bat on your shoulder and swing it, or we're gonna bench ya!

So we are down 0-2 in the Series, but we are coming back home for three games. Let's see how those arrogant, stuffy Sox do in our thin air. Hmph!