Division race over? Seems that way

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Scheduling Demons Angels
Published 8/26/2007 by SF at YFSF
... LoHud calls the divison race over, and in the process elicits a question from this SF: want some cheese with that whine, Pete?  Schedule idiosyncracies happen for all teams, and while I understand the frustration with this week's arrangement, every team has something to complain about.  Earlier this year the Sox went to the West Coast for a seven game trip, flying cross-country after a Sunday night affair (remember that A-Rod homer?), played the A's the next night (and three more), went to Arizona for a weekend series, then flew back to Boston for a short six game homestand, then spent another nine games in Atlanta and the West Coast immediately thereafter.  That's two west coast trips sandwiching a compact homestand, a ridiculous scheduling job.  Surely that's a worse fate than having a Monday night game before a Tuesday night game while your opponent gets a day off, ...

Baseball Today: Monday, August 27
Published 8/27/2007 by Art Martone (amartone@projo.com) at Projo Sox Blog
... AGREED: Well, maybe not with the Boston-is-the-best-team-in-the-A.L. sentiment -- he may, but he hasn't written it -- but the Journal-News' Peter Abraham also thinks the division race is probably over. ...