I’ll keep this short and sweet. Yes, if it wasn’t for Eric Gagne, the Red Sox probably would have swept all three games against the Orioles rather than lose two of three. Yes, the Yankees are playing video game baseball right now and may win no matter what we do. But somebody please, please explain to Terry Francona that it’s okay to bring on your closer in a tie game on the road? Kyle freakin’ Snyder instead of Jonathan Papelbon? That’s just insane.
Bill James actually works for the Red Sox. Can’t he sit down with Theo and Terry and explain elementary bullpen usage? Please? He’s already on the payroll — use him!
Sorry, I had to get that off my chest. This is the hardest time to live in Connecticut. I really like living here, despite my mildly deprecating comments about it (“I married a local girl, so now I’m stuck,” and such things), but there are Yankee fans everywhere. And there are Red Sox fans everywhere. To paraphrase Jeffrey Pelt in The Hunt for Red October, “it would be well to consider that having your [fans] and ours in such proximity is inherently dangerous — wars have started that way!”
If we both make the playoffs again … blech. If the Sox miss the playoffs … no, I’m not even going to go there yet.
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