Reporting on the Red Sox these days is starting to feel like reporting the weather (80s, humid, thunderstorms, and anyway, what happened to "if you don't like the weather in New England, wait five minutes"? Three months of continued 40 and windy, five nice days, and now two months of continued hot and sticky. I'm Andy Rooney, and this is 60 Minutes.)

Again, there was a lack of timely hitting. Again, a decent outing by a Sox starter was sullied by a few mistakes. And again, we don't know who in the bullpen we can trust. So that's fun. And everyone who rooted for the Yankees last week because they were playing Tampa Bay, hope you're happy.

Tim Wakefield was good. He gave up back-to-back homers in the second, and a run on two doubles in the eighth, leaving the game tied 3-3. Terry Francona sent out Manny Delcarmen to face Casey Kotchmann, a lefty, making everyone wonder exactly what Hideki Okajima will need to do to ever work again when the score isn't 11-2. Kotchmann delivered the game-winning hit.

Even Dan Shaughnessy's patented sky-is-falling column makes sense this morning. At least the next stop is Seattle, home of the craptastic Mariners. We might salvage one out of three.

The Celtics are bringing back Tony Allen and Eddie House, sayeth the Herald. Good, sayeth us; we like the idea of defending a title with as much of the same cast as realistically possible.

The Revolution's road trip is going better than the Sox'. After famously subduing the nude interloper on their cross-country flight, they survived playing on what seemed more like a parking lot than a soccer field, tying Chivas USA 1-1 (Shalrie Joseph scored the Revs' goal). They'll host Atlante in the SuperLiga semifinals next week.