It was another one of "those" nights for me in sports last night. The Cleveland Indians fell to the Boston Red Sox 6-3 and the Carolina Hurricanes lost to the Winnipeg Jets 4-3 in OT.

The Sox started the scoring in the 2nd when Mike Napoli tripled and then Daniel Nava singled to right. In the bottom half of the inning, Cleveland's Mark Reynold's hit a ground rule double on fan interference from a grounder to left. Eager Tribe fans reached over the wall to grab the ball as it neared the bleachers near the left field wall on the 3rd base line. The ump called fan interference and gave Renolds the double. He went to 3rd on a sac fly to right by ryan Rayburn and scored on a grounder Mike Avilles hit to 3rd, but was thrown out at first. Cord Phelps grounded to shourt and was thrown out at first to end the inning 1-1. The Sox added 2 more and the Tribe scored again and it was 3-2 going into the 7th. The Red Sox put up 3 runs in the top of the inning when Elsbury singled to right, the Tribe made a pitching change, Victorino makes it to fist on a throwing error by Cord Phelps, and Dustin Pedroia flew out to right sending Ellbury to 3rd. Mike Napoli singled to right (again) scoring Ellsbury and sending Shane Victorino to 3rd. Nava flew out to center scoring Victorino and sending Napoli to 2nd. Mike Carp came in to pinch hit for Jonny Gomes,  and hit a liner to right scoring napoli from second and getting to 2nd on the throw. Jarod Saltialamacchia struck out to end the Sox run. The score was 6-2 Boston.  The Sox changed pitchers in the 8th and Drew Stubbs drew a walk from Andrew Miller. Michael Brantley singled to left sending Stubbs to 2nd. Asdrubal Cabrerra grounded to 3rd, Stubbs was out on the force with Cabrerra at 1st and Brantley on 2nd. Carlos Santana doubled to right scoring Brantley and putting cabrerra on 3rd. Nick Swisher struck out to end the inning and the Tribe's comeback. Final score 6-3.

At the same time I was watching the Indians game on my computer, I was watching the Hurricanes play the Jets in Winnipeg. The Jets started the scoring with Zach Bogosian's 1st period tip in at 12:13 with assists from Bryan Little and Andrew Ladd. In the second, Paul Postma's wrister got by Peters at 8:27 with assists from Blake Wheeler and Zach Bogosian. The Canes answered at 10:38 in the 2nd on a Tuomo Ruutu wrister with assist from Justin Faulk  and Tim Gleason. The teams went into the locker room with the score 2-1 Winnipeg. The Jets started the 3rd period with a goal from Blake Wheeler, lighting the lamp at 8:40 with assists from Bryan Little and Andrew Ladd sending the score to 3-1. The Canes stormed back on goals by Tuomo Ruutu at 12:22 with assists going to Marc-Andre' Bergeron and Jordan Staal. The Canes pulled Justin Peters and with a 6th skater on the ice Alexander Semin scored at 18:48 with assists from Jiri Tlusty and Jordan Staal to tie the game at 3.  But at 1:23 in the OT period, Dustin Byfuglien scored on a wrister from Andrew Ladd and Blake Wheeler. The Canes garnered 1 point, but with the loss and the NY Rangers winning, the play-offs are out of the picture for Carolina.

The NFL released the schedules yesterday. Many experts are saying the Panthers have the toughest schedule. We get 2 prime time games, a Thursday in Tampa Bay and a Monday Night game at home against the New England Patriots. I hate the New England Patriots. We open the season at home (first time since 2009) with the Seahawks then shuffle off to Buffalo to face the Bills. The final game of the season will be in Atlanta. I hate the Atlanta Falcons. It looks like a tough schedule but if the Panthers can avoid injuries and finish games, we could very well b e 10-6.