RED SOX BEATING UP ON THE CRAP OF THE AL

Apologies for the lack of updates. I've been moving into a new apartment at school and the internet is come and go. The majority of my time is spent asleep or at the casino trying to make some $$$ playing poker.

I've been in my own little world out there in central New York with occasional internet acces, no cable, and no papers. I didn't even know that we got Remlinger and Youkilis was called up.

Looking at the schedule back in April, this part of the schedule looked pretty juicy. Our pitching has been less than perfect, considerably less. But the bats have been able to win the game for the most part. The Sox have won 12 of their last 14. They can sweep Texas tonight and go into the White Sox series over the weekend with some momentum. This series will be a big test for Chicago. They split with us a few weeks ago in Chicago and I think they are ripe to fall in Fenway.

After the White Sox, we go to Detroit for 3 then a big series with the Angles in Anaheim. Then its a nice stretch with 3 more against the Tigers, 3 with the Royals, 4 with Tampa, and then 3 with the struggling Orioles.

The AL East has become what many fans said it would eventually be despite the near dominance of Baltimore and the lackluster starts of Boston and New York. It will come down to the Yankees and Red Sox. At the moment, the Red Sox have a 4.5 game lead over the Yanks but there are 6 games (3 in each ballpark) remaining between the teams. These games may very well determine the division, particularly the 3 games to end the season for both teams in Fenway. You know Major League Baseball didn't randomly create the schedule when the Red Sox and Yankees start the season AND end the season. It is very important that we go into those series with a lead of about 5 games. It would be very good if we can win 4 of those games. Right now we look like we can beat anyone, but we haven't won a series against a really good team since we swept Philly back in June. The lack of good pitching is somewhat frightening.