Bunnies all around

A newly mobile Trent wishes you a Happy Easter. And continued West Coast winning streaks for the Red Sox and Phillies.

Among the goodies in Trent's basket today was a two-pack of Phillies shirts. Now he's all ready for his first game (no, it probably won't be this season).

Hopping along

Tomorrow, Trent will have his first visit from the Easter Bunny.

Earlier this week, we had a bunny nesting in the yard for the first time this year. Ironically, we noticed him on the day the Phillies called up SoxandPhils favorite Mike Zagurski.

I'm not automatically inclined to fill the hole. I may because it is a safety hazard, and I don't particularly enjoy picking up baby bunnies after a cat gets into their nest. But for the moment, I'm inclined to let Momma Bunny use our yard.

I know, I'm a complete mush since Trent.

Nobody sleeps if nobody hits

The Red Sox and Phillies are playing late games on the West Coast this week. For no reason, I teased Christine last night that Trent wanted to be woken up if Josh Beckett were pitching a no-hitter.

Sure enough, when I flipped on MLB Network to check the score, they did a live cut-in to Anaheim where a story was brewing - Josh Beckett had a no-hitter into the 6th inning. He immediately gave up a little bloop infield hit.

But, no worries, the network quickly switched to San Diego, where Roy Oswalt was working on his own no-hitter. I didn't bother to watch. It was late. I was tired.

Besides, as I told Christine, who was worried about staying up herself, he had thrown nearly 80 pitches and there was no way he would pitch a no-no.

"But there could be a combined no-hitter," she countered.

There wasn't. Oswalt gave up a hit in the 5th and combined with three relievers on the 3-0 shutout. Beckett, who may actually be back this year, gave up two runs in eight innings, but had to settle for a no-decision in the Red Sox 4-2 11-inning win.

Thoughts from the week

Today, for only the third time this season, both our teams won on the same day. Yay!

I haven't been avoiding posting because the Red Sox started out in a slump. I've been avoiding this blog because our adorable baby boy gets all my time, attention and interest.

But I noticed that yesterday a former SoxandPhils battery, Randy Wolf and George Kottaras, now on the Brewers, dismantled Roy Halladay and the Phillies.

Also, in team Red Sox news, Trent officially joined our charitable efforts on Sunday with our annual charity walk. He did well, except that he skipped his morning bottle right before we left for the walk. He realized he had done so about three-quarters of the way in, and we weren't prepared with a backup bottle. We're still learning, too.

Sox are mush

The Red Sox are two games out, with 160 to play.

Since they came back from a three-game deficit with four to play in 2004, I don't get too worked up.

Still, I needed something to talk about with Trent as he ate his oats this morning.

"So, what are we going to do about the Red Sox?" I asked him.

He just grunted back. {His grunts are, unfortunately, reminiscent of the grunts that Tim Allen would do on Home Improvement.}

I guess a 10-month-old who has never seen either of his teams win a World Series has a little bit less patience in these matters.

Clay Buchholz will start a winning streak today.

Opening Day

We didn't watch much baseball yesterday, but it's an Opening Day we'll never forget.

We had a very nice day in court wrapping up the procedural parts of Trent's adoption, and we had the Phillies on in the background as we celebrated with his grandparents. Everyone left before the 9th inning, and I had a feeling Trent had a rally in him on his special day. He did, helping the Phillies score three runs in the bottom of the 9th to beat the Astros 5-4.

I thought he was working his magic for the Red Sox when they tied the game in the 8th, but Daniel Bard imploded for four runs in the bottom of the inning, and Trent had nothing left to spur a SoxandPhils Opening Day sweep on his Adoption Day. Rangers 9, Red Sox 5.