Whose opening was worse? Charlie Sheen or the Red Sox?

There wasn't a lot of "Winning" going on with either one. In fact both flopped pretty dramatically.

I would argue that the Red Sox had a worse opening. Because with Charlie, what exactly could you possibly have expected the show to be?

He wasn't going to sing. Or dance. And clearly no writers were on tour to feed him lines. (Although it is safe to say Sheen had a LOT of lines before the show.)

So if you went to the show, you were expecting to see Charlie Sheen act like a deranged lunatic. And it sounds like he delivered.

Meanwhile the Red Sox were capable of something. They could have pitched. They could have hit. They could have kept a FEW balls in the yard.

Let me put it this way, nobody was picking Sheen's show to win a Tony Award, but a lot of people thought this Sox team was ready for a parade in November.

So I guess the one with Tiger blood indeed won again.
(How could his Tigers uniform not say "Tiger Blood" on it? That could have made the whole show work!)

My friend, the brilliant Christian Finnegan, Tweeted it best regarding the Sheen refunds.

"DECREE: Anyone wanting a Charlie Sheen refund must first make a public speech explaining his rationale for purchasing the ticket."

The REAL winners?
The writers of Two and a Half Men. They can say "It's not so easy, is it Mr. Warlock?"

Let's hope the Red Sox can start being more Hot Shots, Wall Street, Major League Charlie Sheen rather than "being an expensive and humiliating public disaster" Charlie Sheen.

Enjoy the face of Yankee fandom

WINNING!

Suddenly Ben Affleck isn't looking like such a bad spokesman for Red Sox nation.

Lisa Swan has aired her opinion on Subway Squawkers...
But I have a different take.

I would love to have Charlie Sheen as a guest on my podcast. And I will just talk baseball. No questions about drugs, porn stars, Two and a Half Men, rants whatever.

Just talking baseball.

I wonder if that will happen.

The Red Sox = Bud Fox

There's a great moment in Wall Street when Hal Holbrook takes Charlie Sheen aside right before Sheen is going to be arrested.

He says to Charlie...

Man looks into the Abyss, and there's nothin' staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character, and that's what keeps him out of the Abyss.

That's what the Red Sox are facing right now.

Not insider trading charges... that moment where they need to look into the abyss and find their character.

Do they fold or do they make a charge into the playoffs?

Yeah I know, I've seen them win the World Series twice this decade.

But I am greedy... and as Wall Street told us... greed is good!