Photo lifted from Yahoo! Sports
Crappy loss tonight. Not a huge deal, but still annoying. Sox are still in a great position to win the division. I’d much prefer Josh Beckett and Mike Lowell have bad games the last week of the season than the first week of the playoffs.
It’s odd, but I find my mind wandering all this week. Making it really difficult to focus on the games. There’s a lot going on in my life and I’m sure that’s part of it, but this seems to happen every year at this time. As much as I love baseball, I end up winding down the last week of the season. I’m absolutely looking forward to the playoffs, but I want them to get here NOW. Which is probably why I won’t lose any sleep over the Sox losing a game off their division lead. What happens, happens. And when Monday comes, the Sox will still be in the playoffs.
A headline on Yankees.com = "After celebrating, starters rest". Now, the Yanks won the game tonight so the starters resting affected nothing for them, but how interesting is the headline? It’s still fascinating to me that, suddenly, the Wild Card is good enough for the Yankees and their fans. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a big fan of the Wild Card. Some of my favorite teams have won the World Series coming in on it 🙂 – I only wish I had saved all the nasty emails I received from Yankees fans over the last few years, berating me and all of the Red Sox fans for being happy ‘coasting’ into the playoffs on the Wild Card. How the "mighty" have fallen.
I mean, come on, Joe Torre CRIED on Wednesday when the Yankees clinched a division spot. He cried. Apparently, he and Captain Fistpump and the rest of the Yankees forgot what it was like to get into the playoffs since a whole year has passed from the last time they were there.
I was totally remiss, this morning, in not mentioning what September 27th is…Johnny Pesky’s birthday!
88 years old and still showing up at the ballpark! Happy Birthday, Johnny!
Worry not, Sox fans, three games left and the magic number is two…I like our chances with those numbers.
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