F!#cking Yankees...
You know what I can't stand? People who proclaim extremes.
"The Sox have the division locked up in June," they crowed.
"This is 1978 all over again. What's the score of the Bruins game?" they cried.
This has certainly been a season of ups and downs, but no matter how hard one tries it has been definitely more of the former and much less of the latter. Up until recently the team has been healthy. Kevin "Pincushion" Youkilis managed to avoid any serious time on the sideline until this weekend's series against New York, Manny's offense was replaced by Jacoby Ellsbury's defense... oh yea, and his offense, too. David Ortiz, despite battling leg and back pain since the start of the season, has managed to catapult his numbers from the below average to somewhere near their normal levels. The starting staff, despite Curt Schilling's tendency to hang just one, game-deciding bad pitch, Matsuzaka's uncanny ability to turn pitching magic into pitching mayhem in the span of one at-bat, and Tim Wakefield's balky back, has kept the Red Sox in first place in the AL East while the Yankees set the planet on fire and swept up the ashes with a thunderous attack since the All-Star Break.
Things could be worse.
All though the box scores and the standings don't reflect it (and although they count the most) the weekend series against the Bombers was really a good showing. The offense came to life in the first two games, and the starters were better than expected against the best offense (in every category, mind you) in baseball this year. It sucks to see the lead buzzed down to 3 1/2 games with only one week to go, but given all the holes the Sox are trying to plug in the race to the finish, it really isn't all that bad.
If the lead gets to lower than where it stands now (and that's certainly likely given the remaining schedule for the Yanks), it's definitely going to be panic central here in Boston. But really, let's just focus on what's really important:
We're still in first place, and we want to make the playoffs come hell or high water.
"The Sox have the division locked up in June," they crowed.
"This is 1978 all over again. What's the score of the Bruins game?" they cried.
This has certainly been a season of ups and downs, but no matter how hard one tries it has been definitely more of the former and much less of the latter. Up until recently the team has been healthy. Kevin "Pincushion" Youkilis managed to avoid any serious time on the sideline until this weekend's series against New York, Manny's offense was replaced by Jacoby Ellsbury's defense... oh yea, and his offense, too. David Ortiz, despite battling leg and back pain since the start of the season, has managed to catapult his numbers from the below average to somewhere near their normal levels. The starting staff, despite Curt Schilling's tendency to hang just one, game-deciding bad pitch, Matsuzaka's uncanny ability to turn pitching magic into pitching mayhem in the span of one at-bat, and Tim Wakefield's balky back, has kept the Red Sox in first place in the AL East while the Yankees set the planet on fire and swept up the ashes with a thunderous attack since the All-Star Break.
Things could be worse.
All though the box scores and the standings don't reflect it (and although they count the most) the weekend series against the Bombers was really a good showing. The offense came to life in the first two games, and the starters were better than expected against the best offense (in every category, mind you) in baseball this year. It sucks to see the lead buzzed down to 3 1/2 games with only one week to go, but given all the holes the Sox are trying to plug in the race to the finish, it really isn't all that bad.
If the lead gets to lower than where it stands now (and that's certainly likely given the remaining schedule for the Yanks), it's definitely going to be panic central here in Boston. But really, let's just focus on what's really important:
We're still in first place, and we want to make the playoffs come hell or high water.
Labels: 2007 Season
Ryan Brodeur at 8:41 PM
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