Signing A Different Tune

This was written a few days ago, after the Sox won their third consecutive game against the Yankees:

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Until this weekend, beating the best teams was the one thing the 2018 Red Sox had not done consistently. The Yankees came to Boston with the second-best record in baseball.

Not anymore. The Sox have scraped the Yankees off the soles of their cleats without much effort.

This will certainly make a dent in Shank's ability to shit on the Red Sox, which of course means he'll simply turn his attention to the New England Patriots instead and do the same thing, like bring up Malcom Butler a few hundred times in the next six months.

But wait - what's this, at the end of the column?

The East is won. Since the expansion era (1961), these Sox are only the fifth team to win at least 78 of their first 112 games (1969 Orioles, 1998 Yankees, 2001 Mariners, 2017 Dodgers).

But don’t get too cocky, Sox fans. Of those five juggernauts, only the 1998 Yankees went on to win the World Series.

That's the Shank we know and 'love' - writing about the silver lining and still finding a dark cloud!