It’s time to introduce you all to my baby. During the 2007 season, I compiled a fairly extensive spreadsheet tracking the Sox and Yankees on a game by game basis, including games up and back, magic number, Pythagorean Win expectancy, runs scored and allowed, etc. There are charts. There are pretty colors […]

Knock yourself out.

Here, I’ll even start it for you: “I told _ __.”

Looking back now, we can say this:

Aside from one highly unusual bullpen meltdown, we have flat out dominated the Yankees this series so far.

And by the way, for anyone keeping track, here are the things that were unofficially won tonight:

Dustin Pedroia’s Gold Glove
Josh Beckett’s Cy Young

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First, the realism. Everyone expected that this would be the definite loss this weekend; Matsuzaka coming off two very rough starts, up against Pettitte who has been lights out in the second half. It was okay; one win in this series does all but guarantee the division, two puts it away completely. […]

It’s not often I a) pile on the manager, or b) make micro-issue posts, but here you go:

WHAT IN THE NAME OF ALL THAT IS HOLY WAS OKAJIMA DOING IN THIS GAME? FURTHERMORE, WHY WAS PAPELBON THE ONLY ONE WARMING BEHIND HIM?

Seriously, this was a 7-2 game. There is NO NEED for Okajima, and every […]

Yankees Sweep BOS - 89-61, 2.5 GA, 12 remaining NYY - 86-63, 2.5 GB, 13 remaining If BOS goes 6-6 in last 12 games, NYY needs to go 9-4 to win division (tiebreaker at 95-67, with Yankees holding 11-7 advantage)

Yankees Win 2 BOS - 90-60, 4.5 GA, 12 remaining NYY - 85-64, 4.5 GB, 13 remaining If BOS goes 6-6 in […]

Even if the following things happen:

The Red Sox play .500 ball in all 16 remaining non-Yankee games
The Yankees play to their Pythagorean (.591, which they’ve been doing for the last 30 games) in all 17 of their remaining non-Sox games
AND they sweep us [...]

I actually took a Summer Friday today, so I can watch Buchholz’s debut on NESN. I’ll be liveblogging each of his innings right after they happen.

Top 1st Clay came out of the gate nervous, missing with four straight fastballs to walk Figgins, then opening the AB against Cabera with a slider that missed high and […]

Curt Schilling is set to come off the DL this weekend, which gives the Sox a dilemma: where does his roster spot come from? The only real option is to shed a pitcher - obviously that’s not going to be any of our current starters, which leaves the pen. I think we can […]

I’m not going to run down any rumors here, for a few reasons. First, when was the last time a Sox rumor was correct? I have trouble thinking about a single trade in the last few years that was telegraphed more than a few hours before it went down (outside, obviously, of the […]