A Boston Massacre: Red Sox 12, Phillies 2

We’re cooked. And we’ll be deep fried and probably close to 10 games away from the division lead when interleague concludes. There’s always next year.

Vaya con Dios Phillies… Thanks for three very good seasons, two of which were amazing beyond my understanding. It has been a phenominal ride, but four trips to the playoffs in as many years was too much to ask. I do not understand why you are performing in this awful way, but it is time to stand in the cold darkness that is the night of an ass whooping, and declare your playoff aspirations dead— you are behind, and with the schedule in front of you, only a miracle would prevent it from getting worse. So I am putting your season out of it’s misery. I will still watch, as I am too much a phan not to… But I expect nothing from you— not runs, and certainly not winning— I do not know where your rudder got lost, but it is gone… And it is time I owned up to that fact and watched you as I watched you before the last 3 years… They were a fairy tale— but now it is midnight, and you have turned into a pumpkin

…to call the season a lost cause just yet. We haven’t even reached the All-Star Break yet. But dammit, SOMETHING needs to be done with this team!!!

It isnt fair really though, the mets get to go to baltimore and we have to face boston in boston? It just does not seem right. I don’t know if moyer was tipping his pitches, but the red sox were certainly hitting everything he had to offer, even the stuff off the plate. I don’t blame manuel for pulling the guys, werth’s 2 for 2 start was encouraging though, and howard does have a nine game hitting streak. I can’t give up on this team yet. There is no reason this core is done. It just does not make sense. They are not very old, most of them, and the team did not change much from last year. I refuse to believe it until the team is officially out of the playoff picture.

At least we all kinda saw this one coming, huh?

During this wretched stretch, I’ve stopped agonizing about being too cheap to pay for cable so that I can see more of this team. Now I just agonize over the team. Hope it at least becomes a bit more bearable…

I owe all of you an apology. That wasn’t the real Jamie Moyer out there last night. That was actually my grandfather in a Jamie Moyer suit. It was a bet that any old guy can pitch as well as Moyer, but we forgot to account for the fact that Gramps has two artificial knees, a hearing aid, and he’s been dead for ten years.

Yeah…we are going to let him do it again in Boston again, except this time he will be impersonating Tim Wakefield.

what

I want to see how the team reacts to the butt whipping of last night. After watching another feeble start to a game (man on second with one out, zero runs) maybe Moyer decided to give the team a wakeup call by showing them what it’s like to actually hit the ball and score runs. Jamie Moyer certainly knows the Red Sox and Fenway. Giving up 9 hits and a walk to 13 batters is virtually impossible unless you’re trying to get hit! You can’t tell me that the same guy who finished off the Padres in under 100 pitches can’t get more than three outs with 60 pitches in Boston. (Or maybe it was Jamie’s grandfather out there.)
One other thing about giving up on the season. Today is the anniversary of the start of the worst three-week stretch of the 2009 season, the 4-14 period that had many questioning whether the team had a chance of any success in the postseason IF they made it that far. In retrospect it may not have seemed as bad at the end of that time as it is today because the team stayed in first place the entire time. But by July 2nd the Marlins were tied with the Phillies, and the Mets and Braves were 1.0 and 2.0 games behind. It was too early then to write the team off and it’s too early now to say it’s over for 2010. There’s lots of baseball to be played.

Hey at least were not the Marniers

Need the god damn L.E.M – R. Losing Emergency Manuel Resuscitation