Monday, June 13, 2005
THE SKY IS FALLING
The Sox take it on the chin in the Midwest setting off the old Cold War bomb alarms throughout the many Boston sports media outlets. As much as some would enjoy the picture of EEI and the studio of the Gary Tangway Show turning into rubble, it ain’t happenin’. The world is not ending after the Sox lose two series in a row away from Fenway Park, playing without the DH, and against two possible playoff teams. We need to have reasonable expectations. Very few clubs win every series over 162 games; not many teams win over 108 games.
The Sox are coming off a tough stretch – MFY, O’s, LA of A and CA, Cards, and Cubs. Although it is early, all of them are contending for the postseason and three out of the five series were on the road. Going .500 over this time period is okay.
Fortunately, the schedule gets softer with home games against the struggling Reds, a poor Pirates club on paper, and a home and away versus the Indians, who are experiencing growing pains that even Alan Thicke would have difficultly dealing with. The only tough opponent is the Phillies at another one of the new retro-mini-me parks.
Given the adversaries, the Sox should win, at least nine out of the next fifth-teen. The Old Town Team has to do it now because they then move onto face the Jays, Rangers and O’s before the Break, and more importantly, prior to reinforcements - the real Schilling and others - take the field for the second half playoff push.
The Sox take it on the chin in the Midwest setting off the old Cold War bomb alarms throughout the many Boston sports media outlets. As much as some would enjoy the picture of EEI and the studio of the Gary Tangway Show turning into rubble, it ain’t happenin’. The world is not ending after the Sox lose two series in a row away from Fenway Park, playing without the DH, and against two possible playoff teams. We need to have reasonable expectations. Very few clubs win every series over 162 games; not many teams win over 108 games.
The Sox are coming off a tough stretch – MFY, O’s, LA of A and CA, Cards, and Cubs. Although it is early, all of them are contending for the postseason and three out of the five series were on the road. Going .500 over this time period is okay.
Fortunately, the schedule gets softer with home games against the struggling Reds, a poor Pirates club on paper, and a home and away versus the Indians, who are experiencing growing pains that even Alan Thicke would have difficultly dealing with. The only tough opponent is the Phillies at another one of the new retro-mini-me parks.
Given the adversaries, the Sox should win, at least nine out of the next fifth-teen. The Old Town Team has to do it now because they then move onto face the Jays, Rangers and O’s before the Break, and more importantly, prior to reinforcements - the real Schilling and others - take the field for the second half playoff push.
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