Boston Massacre II
The Sox, obviously, have been just awful all weekend. Dreadful. The press has been quick to pick up on the 'Boston Massacre' tip -- the 4-game series against the Yankees at Fenway in 1978 when the Empire outscored the Sox 42-9.
What no one in the press has mentioned yet is that the same '78 Sox team won something like 17 of their last 18 to force the one-game playoff. (Yeah yeah, the Bucky Dent game, whatever).
How much of the skid is Varitek's absence?
<i>How about Bobby Abreu, whom the Yankees picked up for chump change (in terms of what they had to give up)? As Gordon Edes and Nick Cafardo pointed out in yesterday’s Globe, Abreu would have cost the Sox $27.7 million for a season and a third. That’s a lot of cake. Instead, they got Eric Hinske for a little less than a season and a third at a cost of just over $4 million. Last year, Abreu had 17 win shares; Hinske had 12. And if twenty million dollars can only get you a net gain of five win shares, you’re not spending your money wisely. (A quick aside: the Sox haven’t made a decision to forego high-priced free-agents; to the contrary, they’ve decided that in order to cough up the money for truly valuable free-agents — those in their late 20’s as opposed to their late 30’s — they need to spend their money wisely.) </i>
Later this year?
Next year?
Within the decade?
It will never happen again?
I expect Boston to win, as it would be in real life, the Javs always seem to do better than the Jav nots.
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The season isn't over...
I might have started thinking about how I should have seen some Independent league baseball this summer, or how cheap Bruins tickets are, or how much pot Paul Pierce smokes, or how the NCAA football's National Champion ambiguity is actually a good thing...
Things I won't let go before the Sox are 9 games out:
-Next is a 3 game series in Seatle (2-1 right?)
-Varitek will probably play 20 of these last 35 games.
-Who else in the American League has a starter and legit back up for BOTH 2nd and SS, all of which run the bases well? (Can the Sox keep Dustin on the roster?)
-My Nizzle will hit 58 homers = 12 in 35 games.
-Sox starting pitching, when Wakedawg comes back.
-Papplebon.
-The 9 game home stretch Sept 1-10 against Tor, Chi, and KC.
I guess I'm on board until Sept 17th...
That lifeboat is still pretty, roomy, eh?
I'm looking forward to going to a non-sellout Red Sox game next year.
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HOWEVER: I wont be quiet about the pain I currently feel.
I'll stay in the boat with swimtrunks and scubagear I guess...
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