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Called K here

Two terrible two strike pitches by RR. Just terrible.

How come there was no whining about the out call on the phantom tag by Hughes in the 8th inning for the 3rd out. He missed him by a foot.

That's what I'm hoping.

If Wakefield wins tonight, it will be difficult to keep him off the All Star roster. As always, I expect that he will get lit up.

I never said that it won't end. I assured you that it would. When it ends, I will have enjoyed every minute of it. It just can't end quickly enough for you. You yearn for those days 1996-2000. You also know that when it ends for the Sox that their is no guarantee that the yankees will reclaim top dog status. It could be the Mets. Wouldn't that be a kick in the balls.

In your prior bad stretches, you did not have to live with the Sox being the best organization in baseball. That's what makes this stretch worse. Don't worry. Some day that too will change. Hopefully, it will take 20-25 years.

'86 hurt bad. It hurts less as it goes further back in the rear view mirror. Almost all of the sting left as a result of the improbable unbelievable 2004 championship. I can watch the Buckner play today and feel no emotion at all. The big point that you are missing about 1986 vs. 2004, and it is a huge difference, is that we hung the 2004 choke around your neck. The Yankees had nothing to do with 1986. I couldn't name 5 guys on the '86 Yankee team that was home watching that series from their couches. The second point is that the Red Sox were big underdogs going into the '86 series. If they had won, it would have been a big upset. It's hard to choke away something when you are the underdog and the inferior team.

A lot of them had that false bravado saying that sooner or later the Sox were going to beat them. The following season when the Sox didn't repeat they called them One Year Wonders and they expected things to return to what they considered "normal." When the Sox won in 2007, it had finally sunk in that things had changed and that the Yankees had been and would be chasing the Sox for many years instead of it being the other way around. Their world shifted in 2004, but it didn't sink in until 2007. They are lost in this world. When you hurl an insult at a Yankee fan today, they don't even know how to respond. They have become timid and wimpy. I laugh at their transformation. When ARod opted out of his contract as the Sox were winning their second championship, Yankee fans lost it like I had never seen before. They were completely irrational. They were reeling from the fact that the reality of Red Sox superiority was finally setting in and they had to deal with a defection of their best player. Some people said that what ARod did detracted from the World Series. To me it was like icing on a very sweet cake. I thought the timing was perfect.

I'll post it again, because Gom never responded to it, because he knows it to be 100% accurate.

I am a NYer and I got an emotional lift from that.

It's just a slump, but he needs to be dropped from the clean up spot until he breaks out of it.

Maybe the initial emotional blow of losing to Arizona was worse, because it ended the championship run. The '04 series slowly slipped away in agonizing fashion. By the end, Yankee fans were in despair, but had accepted their fate. In the long run, the '04 loss was much more costly to Yankee fans, because Yankee invincibility with regard to the Red Sox was gone forever. Also, after the crushing emotions immediately following the 2001 loss, Yankee fans never had to see the DiamondBacks or their fans on a regular basis. The Red Sox and their fans are constantly around to remind the Yankee fans that the Red Sox have become the big bad boys that the Yankees used to be.

Nice bounce back from yesterday. Lots of late inning drama today. Bay hitting at .262 needs to be dropped from the 4th slot.

Time for Beckett to grab some bench?

Is it a spanking now?

Serenity now.

Beckett is getting spanked?

The FO won't have to worry much about the Yankees poaching Bay if he ends up hitting in the .260's.

Gom can throw out all the statistics he wants, but they don't matter in a head to head show down, because the Sox have the mental edge... big time. The Yankees haven't beat the Sox in 8 tries, and more than that, they don't think they can beat them. They have a big mental hurdle to jump before they can compete head to head with the Sox.

They forgot that they have to play 9 innings.

Terrible. Terrible. These guys will not get down about this game. They are pretty pissed. I'd expect them to come out and ass-rape the O's tomorrow night.

Bay is our last hope.