blame

how long do you suppose it will be before the Sox starting blaming it on the bats?


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and in honor of tonight's headache, i leave you with some excerpts from Surviving Grady:

what we are praying will be the case: "I will be counting on the lads to erase the sick taste of this 3-7 roadtrip by levying an embarassment of a beating upon your team. It must be a laugher, an absolute emasculation from start to finish."

why we are praying this will be the case: "Because that's the only thing that's gonna take away the hurt. The only thing that's gonna make me see some glimmers of hope where all I see are missed opportunities and ill-timed injuries and Julian Tavarez and chinks in a defense that was supposed to be iron-clad. The kind of defense that would let us get away with having a line-up stocked with dudes barely hitting their weight."

and last but not least, to The Traitor: "I know it's a business. And you took the best offer. And the Powers That Be on Yawkey Way didn't really want you, anyway. And it's admirable that you've taken out ads in the Boston Globe and Cat Fancy and the New England Edition of The Columbia House Record and Tape Club Newsletter in what we can clearly intepret as a lame attempt to dissuade the folks in the centerfield bleachers from raining Energizer 9-volts, urine and 8x10 glossies of Al Franken onto your noggin. But it's not gonna win you any points. Not with me. Not in that uniform. No one gets a free ride in the pinstripes, pally. That's just the way it is. Put the Pope in a Yankees cap, and I guarantee there'll be a couple dudes from Southie ready to roll his ass just for the heck of it. Remember Roger Clemens?...he showed up with the Yankees and we delivered a full-on roasting that cracked up his game and made his kids cry. So, dude, don't act like you just fell off the turnip truck. You know how sick and deep this rivalry is. The second you signed on the line that is dotted you knew you'd have to pay the piper. You knew you'd have to come back and face us....Just suck it up and take your beating."