I started writing this as a baseball article but quickly began getting into other situations on April 16, 2007. As you can imagine this writers head is clouded with doubt and sorrow for everyone involved in the shooting that took place at Virginia Tech.

Sox win!
Beckett takes care of business for the Red Sox in a delayed but finally played game starting at noon. Beckett is now 3-0 and is on his way to becoming the heir to the thrown atop the Boston pitching staff. I didn’t totally believe Manager Terry Francona when he said that Wily Mo Pena would back-up all three outfield spots but he did it today though I didn’t see the game in person, in the stat line, Pena was credited with an Outfield Assist throwing out Howie Kendrick at 2nd base. Okajima had another inning in relief striking out two and cruising this year with a 1.59 ERA on only nine pitches thrown today. David Ortiz is getting the stroke as he knocked his fourth homer in the 4th inning with two outs.

Virginia Tech in the news for all the wrong reasons
The great feeling of having the tribute to Jackie Robinson on the 15th has quickly subsided as we have been struck back to real life and situations beyond our control. Virginia Tech has been has made history for all the wrong reasons as it is now in the record books as the biggest Mass Shooting at a University in US history. The early numbers are thirty-plus have been killed with numerous students injured, a truly sad day, which shows a growing trend of violent outbursts that sting many lives and don’t seem to want to stop any time soon.

At times like these I feel like things little or otherwise don’t matter as much and you just feel grateful that you have your family and friends by your side. But then time passes on and you fall in the same rut and need an event like this you bring you together again. I am guessing or blaming this on human nature but we do need to sit up and realize what is causing these outbursts by a select few that affects so many lives. It definitely boils down to the way people treat one another and continue to and will keep on as selfishness leads to just not being able to pay attention to the little things and cherish everything people offer to one another the good, bad and ugly. Because these people were innocent little children once too, no one is born evil, to do evil things.

Get your own MLBlogs!
I am compelled to tell everyone about some new opportunities for you to get your stuff read by a lot of readers on a reputable site. MLB has decided to launch, PS already launched but for those who don’t know famed actress Alyssa Milano is even taking part, writing about her beloved Dodgers. She has found and heard from the haters out there and this girl is responding and I feel she will be sticking it out as a blogger at MLB. You have to pay a small fee monthly but the exposure is worth it to have your words read by a monster amount of baseball fans. I thought about it but I fancy myself more of a writer than a fan blogger so I will be keeping my position at SoxNest.

Word out of the Big Apple
Fans of baseball are slightly embarrassed, while non-baseball people can’t get enough of the sing along time. What am I talking about; well the New York Mets have decided to use the song “Sweet Caroline” in the eighth inning of every game. In which I say for shame Mets brass as that song is undoubtedly a staple of Red Sox Nation not to mention it is featured prominently in the Red Sox associated movie Fever Pitch where it is used as a musical number throughout the stands. A truly great song that every Sox fan belts proudly at every chance I am sure.

Sox @ Jays
No weather issues for the next upcoming series at the retractable Rogers Centre. Daisuke Matsuzaka faces Gustavo Chacin. They are both the number three guys on their respective staff’s and have a lot to prove this upcoming year though Dice-k has a mountain of pressure compared to Chacin’s mole hill. I am looking forward to this series as I will be seeing every game. As should everyone else as east is king.