Boston Red Sox - Running on empty

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The Power of Positive Thinking
Published 9/20/2007 by Red at Surviving Grady
... will show up before the Sox' offense does. But really, what's the point? I spent far too many nights in 2004 rolling my eyeballs across the carpet, only to find a pot of Kapler and Leskanic at the end of the rainbow. So I'm just going to embrace the fact that barring sneaky Russian missile attack, alien invasion, or the return of Andy Kaufman, The Red Sox are going to make the playoffs. Yes, we're going to have October baseball in Boston, easing us through the sudden chill in the air and the constant rejections from local college chicks. They'll be stringing red, white and blue bunting along the Fenway baselines. One of more of the Aerosmith guys will be dusted off for National Anthem duty. There'll be four o'clock starts and bad excuses to get out of work and "special playoff sections" in the local papers and guys selling "2007 AL East Champions" T-shirts on every street corner. There'll ...

Red Sox News & Notes - 9/20
Published 9/20/2007 by Ian at SOX & Dawgs
... Running on empty [Boston Globe] ...

Baseball Today: Thursday, September 20
Published 9/20/2007 by Art Martone (amartone@projo.com) at Projo Sox Blog
... And maybe they wouldn't be if, as the Globe's Gordon Edes notes, the Yankees weren't involved. ...

Epoch of belief, epoch of incredulity
Published 9/20/2007 by Hart Bracken at The Soxaholix
... I'm so friggin angry right now that if I was in a ...

Tidbits - September 20
Published 9/20/2007 by jweiler at The Starting Five
... But, and this may be belaboring the obvious, comparisons to 1978 are silly. First, the Sox have been playing like a team that s known for weeks that they re in the playoffs. Dice-K s start was moved back several days, specifically to set up their playoff rotation. Manny s being treated in a highly pre-cautionary manner. Okajima s being shut down during what would have to be considered a pivotal week in the season, if the Red Sox actually thought it were pivotal. Which they don t. Yes, winning the division is nice and having home field advantage is better than not. But, the Red Sox well know that a World Series can be won from the wild card position - it s happened four times in the past ten seasons. The last truly great divisional race was the NL West in 1993 (the last pre-wild card season) when a great Atlanta team won 104 games and the Bonds-led Giants won 103 games, and we re never going to see the likes of that again. Second, momentum in baseball means - not a whole lot. ...