Turns out Schilling's Titanic reference was more apt then originally mocked in this space. Jon Lester and pray for rain, rain, rain and rain? All closers are posers? Youk benched for Punto? Bobby V doing radio in NYC?
Ok, this Blog lived through the summer of 1998 with only the Yankees games available on radio from his home in Worcester MA and no TV. That team started off 0-3, and then gave this mad baseball loving Blog grey hair by winning 114 of their final 159 games and cruising to the 1998 World Series title. There were shouts of joy from that small Worcester abode for less than a week in April, then groans of agony again and again as Jeter, O'Neil and Co laid waste to the rest of the MLB.
Does this Red Sox team have a little 1998 Yanks in them? No way, but judging from the Yankees' performance against the Rays this past weekend they don't either. Here's one more useless prediction that the Yankees will finally get old this year. So whither the Red Sox of 2012?
Let's not forget that the road to the playoffs is the easiest its ever been. Traditionalist vs. new wave baseball argument aside, this is a very good thing for the Sox. A check of the playoff hopefuls: The AL West has the reloaded Angels and last year's AL Champion Rangers. The AL Central has the wiping the Red Sox all over the field Tigers and little else. There are 5 playoff spots available, giving 3 to the teams above and 1 to the young and vigorous Tampa Bay Rays still leaves 1 for the Sox and Yanks to fight over. And that's assuming the Rays can continue to look like the class of the division, which is no sure thing considering the youth in their starting pitching and depending on Farnsworth, Rodney and company in that bullpen. Yes, it's shocking, this Blog is predicting the waters will calm and the Sox will smoothly be sailing into playoff position by the end of May. The rotation and bullpen can't be that bad really, right? Right?
Until Next Time,
The SAHD
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