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The Sox face Morrow and Romero, both of which get absolutely crushed by the Sox. If the Sox lose either of those games, it will be a 12-10 affair.

Couple of things - - In April, we started out 2-10. Right now, we're on a 3-9 streak. After our 2-10 start, we had a home series against Toronto. We swept that series, and went on an 8-1 streak. - The Yankees are 3.5 games ahead of us. For the Rays to catch us, they will have to pick up 3.5 games while playing 11 of their remaining 17 games against BOS and NYY. 8 of those 11 games are away. We split our games with the Rays, or even take 3/4 against them at home, and all we need to do is take care of business against BAL (7 games left against them), and we will either catch the Yankees, or build on our lead over the Rays. - Beckett looks like he's going to throw against the Rays next weekend, so we will have Beckett and Lester going against the Rays. That should be good for a split. If our offense can pick it up, it could much better than that. - It wouldn't surprise me in the least for Adrian Gonzalez to put this team on his back over the next couple of weeks. He was robbed of a chance at the post season last year, and it wouldn't surprise me at all if he wills this team to finish strong. - Is it really possible for this pitching to continue to throw at this horrid level? It's got to normalize at some point.

Wow. Just wow. Just absolutely pathetic.

Like I said. A bunt would have been better. Pedroia is all sorts of bad right now.

the way Pedey has been going, a bunt here may be smart.

why the hell is varitek still playing

It's still going to be tough for them, but I definitely did not expect to be swept this weekend.

We needed a shut out from Lester today. Instead he's allowed 3 runs in 2/3 of an inning. Shields has absolutely owned this team this year. I don't see us scoring 4 or more this game. 3.5 game lead after being up by 9 just 2 weeks ago? Uh. Get this f***ing team together, Francona. It's time to f***ing manage.

I cannot fathom this. This team is actually going to collapse and actually may miss the post season. How can a team this talented play this terribly??

Jed Lowrie: One-for-September

are you kidding me ortiz? are you kidding me??

it's so painful to watch madden manage the bullpen.

COME THE HELL ON!!!! WIN THIS GAME!!!!!!!!

YES BABY YES!!!!!!

I can't watch this horseshit anymore. Do they even f***ing care?? They are trying to cruise, and they very well may get overtaken before this is over. It's really just pathetic.

Perfect thread title. Just f***ing win. I don't care if it's a 1-0 game, a 10-0 game, or a 15-14 game. Just win.

You honestly are the biggest over reactor on this entire board. And it's not even close. And I overreact big time.

FWIW, in 2000, Yanks lost 15 of their last 18, their 8-game lead cut to 2 1/2...and went on to run the table in the postseason.

A Gonzo bomb makes this a new game.

Well when you run out a rotation of Lester - Lackey - Wakefield - Miller - Weiland, you just gotta pray that the Rays lose.

Well this is f***ing pathetic.

I was not alive in 1978, but I have all the confidence in the world that the Sox are going to the playoffs. Let's put it this way, if they somehow miss the post season this year, I will be utterly shocked beyond belief. If they make the post season, I wouldn't even blink. And that's how we should all be. We've been through these bad spurts before, We went through a rough patch in the beginning of August, where we were 4-5 in 9 games. We had just dropped game 1 to the Yankees at home, and had Lackey vs CC coming up. The team kicked it into gear, and we won 5 of the following 6 games, and it was lead by Lackey throwing a great game against CC. I have no doubt in my mind that this team is capable of doing the same thing, and look at this series as a "going for the kill" series.

And another thing that I somehow missed. Are people forgetting that we're 2.5 games out of the East? Check this out: The Rays E# is 14. Any combined Red Sox wins/Rays losses totaling 14 eliminates them from the PS. Here's the beautiful part of this. The Rays have 6 games left against the Yankees. If they are going to make a move on the Red Sox, they've got to go something like 4-2 or 5-1 against the Yankees. Guess what door that opens up? Oh, the AL East.