Schilling (8-5, 4.11) vs. Wang (15-6, 3.95)
Stankee Stadium 105
Can it get any worse?
As Mel on Flight of the Concords would say, "you bet your ass it can!"
After entering this series on an Amy Winehouse-like high Boston has come crashing back to earth with the force of a two-ton truck, all courtesy of the hated archrival Evil Empire and a couple of former Bosox.
Manny Ramirez is hurt (oblique) and may miss 10 days, Dice-K and Beckett both wilted under the glare of the Stadium lights , J.D. Drew is the poster child for the Nation's ire, and Boston, after rolling the White Sox like a drum the series before this, hasn't even held a lead in this one and once again can't come up with the big hit when needed (except for Tek & Youk.)
Other than that everything's fine.
Today the Sox send their still-rehabbing former ace Curt Schilling to the mound to try and save face, and time was you would bet the crib on him pulling out a victory in a game like this.
That time was...about three years ago.
Now the 40something with the tired shoulder will be opposed by New York's young, livley ace-in-training, Chien Ming Wang, whose 15 victories this year has quietly got him to second in the league and makes him the most reliable Stankee starter in a stable full of stars.
I know the situation is different (i.e. Boston owns a large enough lead that a Stankee sweep is not so scary) from a year ago, but the fact that New York would still trail Boston by a sizeable margin even if they win today is small consolation to Red Sox fans.
Not when your pride is getting stomped on and your swagger is getting thrown in the gutter and your elation is getting drowned in a sea of "here come the Yankee" chants.
So with a rag tag lineup (Youk batting 4th? Cora in for Lugo?) and a ton of wounded pride, Boston will send its one-time savior to the mound in an attempt to squash the Empire uprising and set the Nation at ease that this team is not going to repeat 1978, 2006, et al.
You might want to turn your eyes away if you've got a weak stomach.
8.30.2007
Sox @ Stanks GM3
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What a F**ken embarrassment! Swept in NY. We break all kinds of records in Chicago while NY suffers their most embarrassing record breaking road loss and this Boston team can't capitalize on this!
I have serious doubts about this team winning a WS this year.
Manny's out, JD sucks! and our top 3 pitching staff in NY this week should be shot!
The only good news is that Baltimore's Eric Bedard will miss his start in Boston on Saturday.
Pretty pathetic that this is the best news of the day.
If they don't come home and go 9-0 you can kiss the whole season good bye, because guess what: The Yankees are for real and they're not going away!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And when they come to Boston in 2 weeks. They better F**cken sweep them back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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