The Home-Boys....

The 2008 edition of the Boston Red Sox are a group of guys that love some home cooking.  The Red Sox this  season are 21 up and 5 down, by far the best home record in baseball, to go along with thier overall best record in baseball.  The Sox on the road are another story all together, where they are a worse than mediocre 10-14.  Of course we know by now that the Red Sox have logged by far more frequent flyers this season than anyone in baseball.

  So once again, for the third time this year, the Sox head west to face Oakland and Seattle, where they have been known to beaten up pretty badly.  I am suprised that no one is talking about how brutal the Red Sox road schedule is.  Throw out the trip to Japan, and the Sox still play seven more games out west than that of thier Yankee counterparts.  I asked this question last year, and I was told that the schedule would have less games for the Sox out west next year, and more for the Yanks.  I guess someone forgot to tell the MLB schedule maker that.  It all adds up, and an advantage is an advantage, and going out west less than someone in your division is a huge advantage.  We all know that MLB and Bud Selig do everything they can do to give the Yankees every opportunity to make the playoffs, but this is ridiculous beyond words.  It may sound like whining for no reason, since the Sox are the defending World Series champs, and they Yankees are  the 10 time defending payroll and paper champ, but everything adds up.  Especially if you factor in that a good road team only plays at a pace just around .500 or so.

  Oh well, the Sox will just keep on keeping on. Tonights journey lands them in Oakland for the second time before Memorial day.  The Sox will have Tim Wakefield on the mound tonight, and he and the Sox will face the oft-injured ace of the A's Rich Harden.  Lets hope the bats and the knuckle ball are dancing for the Sox tonight.