The Morning After: A Smart win

Need to start today’s TMA with an admission: I’m a huge Amy Smart fan. Huge.

If Amy Smart doesn’t make you excited, you should check your pulse.

That being said, how can last night’s win be called anything but smart? Dice-K tossed a solid, stingy game; one run through six, solo shot in the seventh. And with four runs backing him (thanks Youk) the Dice man was in fine shape.

Of course, nothing is easy in the zip code that also houses Pike’s Place fish market. And like the specimen kept on ice there, the Sox got a big clammy in the late innings. After entering in the eighth, new closer turned set-up man Eric Gagne submitted to back-to-back hits. That pulled the M’s to 4-3 with runners on second and third … and Gagne finally providing the sweat needed to make that disgusting hat of his authentic.

Amy’s a little bit like Dice-K: she’s might not the best actor on the screen … yet. But she’s got more potential than anyone in the area code.

That’s when the crazy Quebequois showed why the Sox are putting so much faith - and dinero - in his corner: when he hits his spot, Gagne is flat out nasty. He earned an easy chip out with a tapper back to the mound. Cue the Papelbon Fire Department and go ahead and tell Okie Dokie to take a nap, this one’s on his pen mates.

Yeah, this scene just makes you feel dirty, doesn’t it? You want to beat up Jason Statham, but you can’t get enough of it, either.

Still, that was an awful lot of melodrama, wasn’t it? That makes it a lot like Smart. In both cases, it’s a whole lot of fun to watch, because whether you’re getting lost in the Sox escaping with a win, or Smart’s entrancing smile, it’s always a good end to the night.

– Cameron Smith