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Sunday, July 29, 2012

Baked Potato Time

Stick a fork in the 2012 Red Sox, says Shank; they're done.
NEW YORK — Please. Can we stop this nonsense about a phony wild card and “playoffs?”

You have a team with a $175 million payroll trotting out the likes of Daniel Nava and Pedro Ciriaco as designated hitters. It’s embarrassing and it does not deserve to be rewarded with excuse making and silly playoff dreams.

Red Sox fans are not stupid.

The Sox lost again Friday night, 10-3, in the Bronx. Since Sept. 1 the Sox are 56-71, yet still cling to the preposterous notion that they are part of baseball’s elite class. They make excuses about injuries and they try to keep you interested because they still have a chance at a one-game playoff and then . . . well, anything can happen, right?
All the negativity in this town sucks:
No. Curt Schilling, Pedro Martinez, Derek Lowe, and Johnny Damon are not walking through that door. You now have tin soldiers Adrian Gonzalez, Carl Crawford, and Jacoby Ellsbury.
The rest of the column is solid, not my usual descriptor for Shank's columns.

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