The Sox took the day off yesterday, heading for Canada and hoping to pay the Blue Jays back for the whupping that Toronto put on them at Fenway last week. Paul Byrd, a victim of the Jays during that series, gets the start tonight against Shaun Marcum.
The Blue Jays did the world a favor last night by clobbering the Yankees 14-3, and Hank Steinbrenner isn't disappointing anyone who's been patiently waiting for the first major blowup. "No team I've ever seen in baseball has been decimated like this. It would kill any team." OK, Hank. As for teams that are still contending, the Twins beat AnaheimOrWhatever to move into a wild-card tie with the Red Sox. So thanks, Angels, for providing a boost to the Rays and Twins this week. Maybe there's more than one October after all.
The Patriots are ready for the Eagles tonight. Well, ready in the sense that nobody knows if Brady's going to play, and the whole team is being kind of cagey as to how hard they're actually going to try. Wes Welker is trying to distance himself from saying over the summer that Asante Samuel went to Philly because he chose "money over championships". He says it was a joke, and everyone should have realized that.
The IOC says they haven't seen any proof that the medal-winning Chinese gymnasts are underage. Which makes sense, since if we were on the IOC we'd rather be permitted to leave Beijing when the Olympics were over than spend the next four years in a labor camp.
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