8:49 Oh, Chone, Chone.  You do know your name is spelled wrong, right?  Really.  In what universe does a silent “e” at the end give something other than a long vowel?  Perhaps a universe where you do not ground out uneventfully on the second pitch you see.

8:52 Full-count walk gives the first baserunner of the game to the Angels.  Abreu walks.  V,-Mart, who has caught every Sox starter at least twice this year, is going to prove invaluable offensively and probably defensively as well, but if I were a batter, I’d be relieved it isn’t Tek behind me.  (Meanwhile, if you add together the two catchers’ caught stealing percentages in terms of batters they throw out, you get…almost 20%. Oy.)

8:54 Hunter’s fly ball to short left gives two down.

8:56 Vlad Guerrero just took a pitch.  In other news, Satan’s feeling a chill…

8:58 Mike Lowell’s knees are shot…and HE DOESN’T CARE.  Nice play ends the half.