The Red Sox manage to split the series with the whatever they are now called Angels (who has the time to look that shit up?) and hold a 4 game lead in the Division …
Steve:
Shows you how much fans and the media know about what's really going on behind the scenes with the Red Sox, as it was just last Wednesday, the 17th, we were told "moving [Schilling] back into the Red Sox' starting rotation isn't an option."
Bill:
No kidding. I was shocked as the next guy on the news of his return to the rotation starting on Thursday in K.C.
Steve:
Funny thing is, as shocking as it was when we first heard they were going to use Schilling out of the pen as the closer, this sudden back to the starting rotation announcement is more so.
Bill:
Can't say I'm unhappy to see this little experiment come to an end … Despite the 16-5 record of Sox wins in games Schilling closed, I nevah had any sense of comfit, nevah a lights out feeling.
Steve:
Even the dominant Herculean Schilling of last season would often take an inning or two to settle in, giving up a couple of runs in the 1st or 2nd, so in relief it was like the 1st inning every night.
Bill:
I hope Foulke and his good doctors, be they of the knee fixing variety or, as I suspect (without a shred of evidence, of course), the head shrinking variety, have things back on track … too much more of this "no lead is safe" shit from the bullpen and I'll start to look like Mick Jagger.
Steve:
You know, with Dinardo having quiet success at Triple-A, Papelbon going to the bullpen, and Craig Hansen inching his way up, this bullpen has the potential to make a marked turnaround
Bill:
Considering last yeah at this time the Sox were five and a half back of the AL East lead, I feel pregnant with possibility.
Steve:
I'm ready to board the Spacebus and blast into the October sky.
