Red Sox Nation: The Sky Isn't Falling... Yet

David Ortiz is struggling against the fastball. Lowell isn't coming back. Mark Kotsay's bat is soft. Jason Bay can't do it all by himself. Jon Lester was flat in Game three. Josh Beckett still looks injured. Manny isn't in the middle of the lineup. Varitek, where did your bat go? The element of fear has gripped Red Sox Nation. The Sox, down 2-1 against the best team record-wise in the AL East, and there seems to be more questions than answers to whether this team will survive before Saturday. Sports radio has been run amok by doomsayers. The end of the Red Sox world has been conversed and reprinted across the internet. Stockpiles of canned soup, ammunition, and Mo Vaughn bobblehead dolls are being depleted from warehouses all over the northeastern United States. And, as trauma surfaces from the recent memories of Aaron Boone, Saku Koivu, and David Tyree, the negativity of the Nation will overwhelm every die-hard fan, making it hard to fathom that the Red Sox might make it out of this series ... (link)