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"Red Sox fans: at least we aren’t the team who hasn’t won since 1908"

Spoken like a true Red Sox fan. But you are the team that blew a 9-game lead in 23 days.

I've been "blessed" with having to work with a guy that grew up in Boston. He is a total ass when they (the Red Sox and the Patriots) win and he's even worse when they lose. He was strutting around a couple of weeks ago knowing... just totally confident that the Red Sox were going to the playoffs again. Afterall, 7 of their last 10 games were against "the worst team in baseball".

And all I have been hearing for the past two weeks is "I can't believe "we" can't beat the worst team in baseball..." Guess what? The Red Sox have been beating the worst team in baseball for the past month. Themselves. It was an epic choke job. One for the record books. The best thing Red Sox fans can do is to realize it and get over it. It happens.

Oh, and by the way.... The Orioles playing the spoiler role? I called it last week. ;-)

And now, my co-worker can focus all his passion on his "greatest football team ever"! Um, that is "the greatest football team ever" to uh, blow a 21-point lead...

(LOL!, It hasn't been a good week for him... he's a little grumpy.)

Of course Red Sox fans (even me), perhaps like fans in other cities, change their speech patterns depending on the outcome.

“We won!” OR
—
“Did the Sox win?”
“No, THEY lost...”

I was more realistic about the Sox chances. Even when they were called the best team ever, even when they had a hot streak in the middle of the summer, I figured they might make the first round and lose, or perhaps fall just short of the playoffs. Possibly even not come close. 2004 and 2007 were a bit surprising to many but there are many other years where a World Series victory was foreseen but they didn’t come close ultimately.

Even looking at the schedule and saying the last 7 of 10 games were against “worst team in baseball”, I knew it wasn’t a given. The Sox seemed to wake up a bit at the end
but a team with its backs against the wall—Tampa Bay—
showed “you gotta have heart” and ultimately won. Even
if in some ways they were playing vs. Scranton-Wilkes-Barre.
Maddon is a real character and there seems to be youth—
and desire—on the Rays.

I got over it...and I have seen spoiler situations before.
Sometimes the Red Sox have played spoilers themselves.

Same with Pats indeed, as many had predicted a 19 win
season when all is said and done, and everyone’s on the bandwagon from the diehard fans to the gossip gals at the Boston Herald who obsess over Brady’s hairdo and how cute his toddler son is.

Rick Pitino on sports talk radio (locally): “the fellowship of the miserable”. Right now Boston has 2 FM sports talk
stations (93.7 and 98.5) and in this case FM means Fellowship (of the) Miserable...

"I can't believe "we" can't beat the worst team in baseball..."

The Twins? The Mariners?

And now, my co-worker can focus all his passion on his "greatest football team ever"!

The one the Bills hung out to dry last weekend? ROTFLMAO!!

45 ESPN "experts" picked the Red Sox to get to the World Series this year. What happened, 'experts'? Now the political experts are picking Milt Romney to win it all in 2012. Uh, oh...