The End Is Near

Shank asks the question which has been fairly obvious for a while.

Is this the end for for Dustin Pedroia?

Original column spotted at 10:45 PM - any further questions about Shank not having an editor?

NEW YORK — Are we nearing the end for Dustin Pedroia?

No one takes any pleasure in this prospect (except perhaps for Shank - ed). But there was a sense of doom and gloom when Pedroia was taken out of the lineup after flying to right field in the top of the second inning Wednesday night at Yankee Stadium.

This was the first game Pedroia started in the field since Friday at Fenway against the Orioles. His left knee has not come around the way the Sox hoped.

I love Pedroia as a player, and even more as a person who would take absolutely no shit from Shank.