NBA/Red Sox Thoughts

I thought the Western Conference Finals may have lasted 7 games but there was no surprise that the Spurs took out the Jazz. Don't think Utah will slip back into obscurity however. The comments by Carlos Boozer after the Game 5 loss -- saying you can't win a championship when guys already have vacation plans on their minds -- tell me that the Jazz will be a team that will be heard from in the West in the immediate future. Boozer, Deron Williams, Andrei Kirilenko and Mehmut Okur form a solid nucleus and Jerry Sloan is a Hall of Fame coach. Sloan's intense attitude has obviously rubbed off on Boozer whose frustrations with losing to the Spurs are proof that he wasn't happy just to make it to a conference final and that he has bigger aspirations as a player... I'm still trying to convive myself. Yi Jianlian. Yi Jianlian. Yi Jianlian... When will Steve Buckley come out with his playoff pitching rotation? Beckett, Schilling, Matsuzaka, Wakefield/Lester if you ask me... Watching Clay Buchholz pitch for Double-A Portland on Memorial Day (great work on the part of NESN for the broadcast) was a glimpse into the very bright future of the Red Sox pitching staff. In the not so distant future a rotation of Beckett, Matsuzaka, Lester, Buccholz and Michael Bowden will terrorize the American League...