Who Got To Shank?

It's a legitimate question, isn't it?

Was the Red Sox’ doubleheader sweep more about their impending turnaround or the toothless Yankees?

Is this it?

Have the Red Sox finally returned to the “good times never seemed so good” days?

There were positive vibes all over the ballyard when the Sox pantsed the Yankees, 15-5, Friday. After Saturday’s rainout, I suspended my chronic skepticism and returned to Fenway for Sunday’s day-night doubleheader with the once-vaunted Bronx Bombers.

And the Red Sox won both, taking the day game, 6-2, then winning at night, 4-1 — both after falling behind in the first inning. These last-place Red Sox have come from behind in 23 of their 37 victories.

They have five straight wins after Monday night’s 9-3 rout of the Twins and have beaten the Yankees five out of six times. They are suddenly within a half-game of vaulting out of their American League East basement apartment. If George Steinbrenner were still alive, he’d have fired Aaron Boone for what the Sox did to the Yanks the last two weekends.

This is a marked turnaround from Shank's unrelenting criticisms from the previous months. I think it's a feint and I'm not buying it. What do you think his next Red Sox column's going to be about after a three game losing streak? Back to business as usual, that's what.