Let me do a quick recap of the Red Sox season so far.
In April, the first month of baseball, the Red Sox were mowing down the opposition like the reigning World Series winners they were. They were beating up on Seattle, Tampa and Baltimore like they were last place teams. They spanked the Yankees and made them look like they just got back from a trip to Japan. They were flying higher than Brett Favre with a full bottle of vikes.
Then the season started and they played three months of 500 ball. They would win one, lose one. The team was not happy, the media was all over them, fans were a tad upset. I was feeling pretty good. The Yanks had a 10 game lead and the joy of April seemed months behind them.
August came and Johnny Damon let his hair down. They started beating up on Tampa, Detroit, Chicago, Toronto, all very good teams with winning records, and gained some ground on the Yanks. Joy and bliss behold, they closed the gap with the hated Yankees and were now only 2 games behind. Sweet mercy, they might take the division.
This continued for the first two weeks of September. There was hope again in Red Sox Nation. They WERE going to win the division, and get home field advantage in the playoffs, and WIN THE WORLD SERIES. After all, this team is not a bunch of misfits who do what they want, complain to the media about playing time, celebrate on the field and give more hugs than closing day at Little Princess Pre-School in Cambridge. No, this team was a bunch of professionals who were stoic after each win as if they were just doing their jobs. Winning was not a surprise, it was a given. Yes, this was the yank?sorry, the Red Sox.
Then things came to a screeching halt. The Sox lost two out of three, in very bad ways, to the Yanks. They lost to Baltimore and when they did win, it was by last minute heroics. Then Pedro pulled a Pedro, and did we expect anything less, when Terry left him in too long in the game (hmm, let me think, when did that happen before to Pedro, hmmm, nope, can?t remember), and the Sox lost the first of the final three games against the Yanks. Pedro kept his back to the team manager and did not even look at him when he handed over the ball and walked off the mound. Yes, this team is full of class.
Oh sure, they will pull it together. They will enter the post season on a high note I am sure. When they clinch the wild card spot I am sure they will celebrate like last year. Run around like a bunch of morons on prom night yelling ?I LOVE BEER?. Then, if a butterfly in China lands on the right flower, the Yanks and Sox will meet again in the post season and we can see who the true winners are.
NOTE: If you are a Red Sox fan, most of this blog was sarcasm. Just thought I?d spell it out for you because I don?t think they taught sarcasm in 6th grade, your final year of structured schooling.
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