When you're cruising down the road in the fast lane and you lazily sail past a few hard driving cars and are feeling pretty pleased with yourself and then accidentally change down from fourth to first instead of third thus making your engine leap out of your bonnet in a rather ugly mess, it tends to throw you off your stride in much the same way [Friday and Sunday's Sox-Yankees baseball games did].

I know I'm on a Douglas Adam's kick but leave me alone - he & W.P. Kinsella are the two authors of fiction who really speak to me ... Well, maybe Salman Rushdie too ... but thats not really the point.  The point is, we cannot put away the Yankees and while I'm probably going to regret this, I'd like to see the Yankees in the playoffs, against us in the ALCS, so we can show the world (again), "Ha, see, we didn't just let Baltimore do our dirty work for us!  We can beat the Yankees the way we did in April and May!  Now, leave my girlfriend alone!"  Anyway, the magic number is 9 (still) & our division lead is 4 1/2.  Oh and one bright spot:


(Reuters Photo)

And, hey, it could be worse - we could be the Mets right now.

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