With only 3 games left to the season the Red Sox are somehow still leading the race for the AL Wild Card by 1 game. However, I am currently watching Josh Beckett load the bases in the 5th, while refreshing the score of the Rays/Yankees game and seeing Tampa Bay up by 2. The month of September has really done a number on everyone involved. Suddenly, Terry Francona is on the hot seat; Theo Epstein is no longer the boy genius; Adrian Gonzalez, Dustin Pedroia & Jacoby Ellsbury have stopped garnering heavy MVP consideration; and Boston fans are being mocked in the media. Bill Plaschke of the LA Times wrote a great piece on how the rest of the country is viewing this epic collapse.
I'm with Curt Schilling on this one. I don't want to see the Sox in the playoffs. Why extend this doomed season any longer? Finish with an embarrassing flourish of ineptitude and make some wholesale changes in the offseason.
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