Still, a playoff berth will make me really happy, regardless of what happens in the playoffs.

I’ll be at the Thursday Twins/Sox game.

with 7 (?) to play is huge. Not saying it’s a lock, but they would literally have to blow it.
They’re certainly capable of doing so, but so what? They make the playoffs or they don’t.
Of course I’m into every pitch of every remaining game, but considering our best projections before this marathon started, who, besides the aSSHole can complain?
Note to the former Cheat: if he’s negative enough to reference in a game recap, why is he still allowed to pollute the site?

Subjectively speaking, I think Cabrera’s comments make sense as the offense has looked rather ‘lethargic’ (again — completely subjective) the past week or two. But lethargic usually means not scoring runs and as such I’m not sure that a statement like his holds much water going forward. They’re slumping a bit, and it doesn’t help that the offense’s best player is out, but even without Q the Sox still have an average-ish (maybe a tad below) offense.

So yeah… get one in the POS dome. That’s pretty reasonable.

BTW, it was nice to see dominant Jenks return — good fastball, good curve and that nice little cutter/slider. His performance was very encouraging.

I understand that the organization has been through a lot and this is a big step in the right direction, but they’re still in a tight race for the division. Certainly grabbing a spot in the playoffs is nothing to scoff at. It seemed like it was a bit over the top.

http://vegaswatch.net/2008/09/evaluating-april-mlb-predictions-2008.html

In fact, I doubt a collective psyche exists, but I stopped playing baseball in little league so maybe I just don’t understand.

In any case I’d much rather have the Sox hitters going over tape of Baker/Blackburn/Slowey than reading self-help books. 7 games to go in the season isn’t the time for introspection in my worthless opinion.

Can’t we get a recap or something to reflect the fact that we just won a huge game in a pennant race?! Headlining grumbling from the previous loss over the more recent win?To paraphrase Tdogg you guys need some Prozac!

The ’05 Sox went 2 months (from late July to late September) without winning a game in which they trailed by 2 runs.

Which I complained about loudly that season.

because he expects to lose at the Twinkiedome and now this? Definitely doesn’t seem like they expect to win every night out there.

Jeter speaks!

The Sox came within a Teahen’s eyelash of tying Saturday’s game in the ninth and setting themselves up for a sweep. For me, though, that highlighted their live-by-the-homer-die-by-anything-less mindset this season.

Perhaps Wise’s first-inning baserunning yesterday provides a glint of a new dimension for this year’s team, as aberrational as it was, certainly since about May. A reminder of what teams like Minnesota and Tampa Bay have been doing to the Sox this year.

The team has come back several times in home games. They simply are not a good road team. This whole year its been the same roller coaster, and I cannot understand why anyone thinks after 140+ games and weakened by injuries they will somehow begin to play better on the road. When they set out on this trip I felt like 4-6 was likely, attainable and would be enough. That is still the case.