2 x Tuesday

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With the Red Sox - Jays game rained out last night, there was no choice but to watch YES Network coverage of the Yankees and Orioles.

I did my best to root for the Orioles (I even wore my orange shirt), but I have come to the grim realization that the Orioles are not going to win again this season. They have totally quit. They would have a better chance of winning if they just "shutdown" their entire roster and recruited people off the street in Baltimore.

It gets worse. Chris Snow reports that according to the Yankees, the Sox are already toast:

The Yankees, in a letter issued on or before Sept. 19, notified suite holders of 2005 postseason ticket information. The memo's opening line?

''The New York Yankees are entering the post season for the eleventh consecutive year."

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Bob Hohler of the Boston Globe reports today in his article, Painful Season Eats at Schilling, that an anonymous teammate "citing the lack of public backlash against Schilling for a subpar season" was quoted as saying: "When he comes into the game, people cheer him like he's the Pope? You think they'd let Pedro get away with this? Why does he get a free pass?"

There are two things that I want to say about this. First, this is really bad timing for an article like this to come out. I hope that it will just get swept under the rug for now even though I know that there is not much chance of that. Second, by process of elimination, the anonymous speaker had to be Keith Foulke.

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On an unrelated note, the NHL season starts in just over a week and apparently Bruins' cult hero, P.J. Stock, won't be dropping the gloves this season. Instead, he is "auditioning to be a studio sidekick for OLN's upcoming NHL broadcasts."