Get Your Kicks Now Yankees

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This is not enjoyable.

I swear, I could do without the drama. I might still have one or two of my fingernails in tact if the Sox had clinched their playoff berth sometime last week.

The clinch could have come on a game ending popup off the bat of Blue Jays outfielder, Frank Catalanotto. Corks would have been popped off champagne bottles in the Red Sox clubhouse and Big Papi could have paraded around Fenway on a horse a la 1986.

Then there would have been a few days of meaningless games. Manny probably could have taken a day (or two!) off and we'd all engage in a bit of friendly debate about the starting rotation for the division series. We could have skipped the Saturday Fox National broadcast and instead spent an afternoon with an Ascot picnic basket in the park.

The "drama", the scoreboard watching, the numbers games may be pure entertainment (although a challenge mathematically) for the Joe Bucks and Tim McCarvers of the world, but for Boston Red Sox fans, this is excruciating stuff.

Yankees clinch eighth straight AL East title. Red Sox must win the last game of the season. Clinched at least a tie for the Wild Card. Pass me that antacid, will you?

If the Sox can pull off a win today and carry that momentum into the ALDS, we'll wrap the season up in a nice little bow and say that it was worth all of the nail biting. I'm not sure if my delicate constitution can handle a one game playoff for the Wild Card.

C'mon Curt. Put an end to this today. Go Sox!