What is it about Fenway Park that makes everything seem all right. The Red Sox as expected by me, snapped their 6 game skid, and more importantly FINALLY picked up a game in the standings to take sole possession of the Wild Card, and clawing their way within 5.5 games of the Division crown. As stated yesterday, this race is not over. It's like the Yankees whom we'll call Vintage Muhammad Ali, the Red Sox whom we'll call George Foreman (Circa The Rumble in the Jungle), and the Rays named Evander Holyfield prior to the "de-earing" by Mike Tyson. In short we're a bunch of heavyweights housing the snot out of eachother. Buckle up AL East this one's going 12 rounds.
Before getting into the game, I need to gripe about some of the fans around New England. I've been listening pretty regularly to WEEI lately (mostly for comedic purposes.) It seems that the only people that know who they are talking about on that show are Michael Holley and Dale Arnold. But when people are calling up saying that Terry Francona needs to be fired, or we should just Eat a contract of Ortiz's stature they should probably be shot. People should untie their nooses and get back into the swing of things because it ain't over till it's over baby.
Francona, once again, made the right move by demoting J Bay to 7th in the lineup. No, he isn't a #7 in the lineup kind of guy but he needed a wakeup call. He's been positively wretched and he responded brilliantly. Hitting a homerun and just missing another one. If not for Josh Beckett, Jacoby Ellsbury would be my Sox MVP this year. Although had a little rough patch early in the season he's over .300 for the year, plays gold glove defense, and is 2nd in the league in stolen bases.
I do have one bone to pick with you BOTN readers. When you ask a question to someone do you expect an answer? If not than disregard this paragraph. If you like 98.8% of American's like a response when speaking to someone not named Hellen Keller you should probably leave the answer to the questions in the comment section. So I will break it down a little further. If you see this symbol ? at the end of a sentence, you should instantly think, "oh, shit he's asking me a question I should answer him." Great.
So here are some questions.
Do you think the AL EAST Race is over?
Are the Red Sox good enough to make the playoffs?
If the AL East is betrothed to the Yankees, can they still win the Wild Card?
Let's see what you got BOTNers.
Ryan
no way is the race in the east over!! way to much baseball left. surely the wild card will come out of the east right? Can the rangers young guns holland, hunter, feliz, hold up in meaningful games?? If so they might have a shot at the wild card but the rangers seem to wear down every year.
ReplyDeleteGreat question! The Wildcard is 100% coming out of the East. Your Rangers need to win the West. Holland is a special player and I knew that before his gem the other night. If they can figure out a way to beat the Angels in their head to head matchups going forward I still stand by my prediction that the Rangers will win the West.
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