Around The Horn- Sweep Edition.....

 Okay so the silver lining to yesterdays beat down in Yankee Stadium was the way Clay Buchholtz pitched...very effective...he only yielded two runs to a line-up that feast on bad pitching....(see John Smoltz and Billy Traber).....Buchy's whip was unimpressive...but he got the outs when he needed to...."IF" he can continue to pitch like that ....the Sox have a chance....even if Buchy had given up one run...it would have been one too many yesterday.....

 If your looking for Lester to be a stopper tonight....don't...he is no big game pitcher...and he has never picked the Sox up after a tough loss or any losing streaks....if this guy had won just one of his ALCS starts last year the Sox would have repeated as world series champs......

 This guy should have signed that extension when he had the chance.....Bay has come up real small this summer...and his r.b.i and home run total have stayed frozen in time.....Bay is at best a complimentary player...no more no less....maybe the Yanks ...who will be in need of an outfielder will over pay....Bay....

 The enigma that is Jd Drew....a guy known for getting on base...has more strikeouts..87...than hits 79...pathetic....and his grotesque batting average of .244 is another reason the Sox offense looks like that of the Nationals....Drew has failed at everything he has done in a Sox uniform....we thought Lugo's bloated contract was bad...33 million is a bargin compared to the 70 mill Drew got......two years and counting till it expires...... 

Big Papi big fad has certainly crushed the Sox offense this summer as well...I mean has he really ever got out of his slump....he batting avg peaked at .230....that means .770 of the time this guy makes an out in the middle of the Sox line up....

As promised....even though the Sox have lost six in a row...(I'm couting tonights game as a loss) they will be in no worse than a tie for the wild-card...with 52 games left to play...."IF" they can regroup....and learn how to pitch and hit again...they will make it to October.....