Sell, Mortimer - Sell!

Shank's not buying the recent hot streak the Red Sox are on:

The Red Sox are the hottest team in baseball, but they still should be sellers at the deadline

The Boston Red Sox, the hottest team in baseball, open a West Coast trip in San Francisco against the Giants Friday night.

Baseball boss Chaim Bloom plans to be back in Boston from now through Tuesday’s trade deadline (when the team will be in Seattle), and he’s in a pretty odd position.

What do you think? Should the Sox be buyers or sellers? Are they contenders or is the recent success fool’s gold?

Beats the heck out of me. I’ve been ready to bury these guys since the first sunflower seed was spit in Fort Myers, but they’ve won 15 of 20 and just swept the best team in baseball, recovering from a 3-0 deficit in the sixth inning Wednesday in a nationally televised 5-3 win over the estimable Braves.

Shank's been buyring this team for a lot longer than that. For years he's complained about ownership's lack of interest in winning and focusing on the bottom line, so if ownership does decide to become sellers at the deadline, it'll be Shank leading the charge against them. That trick never gets old!