Interleague play is upon us and it begins in Philadelphia against the Phillies. This is perfect timing because playing the Rays and Yankees is so easy that the Red Sox need more good teams to compete with.
Things were going so well for the Red Sox. A three-game winning streak that included a two-game sweep of Minnesota at least made us feel better about our underacheiving club. Thank Jon Lester for Thursday's 6-2 win. Lester, who reportedly owns the best winning percentage (.719) ever for a pitcher with at least 100 starts, completed the game after allowing six hits and striking out nine. Kevin Youkilis powered the offense with four RBI.
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Hey. If Daisuke Matsuzaka can be the shakiest, scariest 18-3 pitcher in baseball history, why can't the Patriots be the craziest, weakest 5-2 team in football? Maybe being the worst 12-4 team ever is a realistic goal. And why not?
Someone in the Red Sox front office deserves a bonus today. Someone must have found a loophole in American League rules that permitted Josh Beckett to pitch ping-pong balls at the Angels while John Lackey was forced to throw regulation-sized baseballs. He had to be throwing ping-pong balls. What other explanation could there be that the Angels, a good hitting team and champions of the West, were reduced to flailing around like overmatched patsies? After...
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