"You can't run away from trouble. There ain't no place that far. "

Life was better on Wednesday morning when we could eat our flapjacks and delude ourselves with the idea that the Red Sox really do have quality young relief pitchers stashed away in the bullpen and that Terry Francona just refused to use them in pressure situations.

After last night's 8-1 loss, we now know that "the young guys," Jermaine Van Buren (9.64 ERA) and Manny Delcarmen (5.25 ERA), aren't any better than "the old guys."

Today we'll just have to chug our morning coffee and wage bets on which faction of the Sox bullpen will give up a grand slam tonight.

Theo help.

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Any sentence containing the words "bat boy" and the phrase "open-field tackle" has to be worth posting about. Here is some comic relief from Dave Campbell's AP article:

"A couple of customers interrupted the top of the eighth inning, running all over the field before their capture. One of the men managed to high-five Hunter and sprint around the bases. After a headfirst slide into home, the (Red Sox) bat boy slammed him to the turf with a perfect open-field tackle and pinned him down until security arrived. "As soon as the guy rounded third, there weren't any guards around, so I thought I'd hit him," said Nate Reese, 25, who received plenty of praise afterward in both clubhouses."

Update: Deadspin actually just posted this amazing video of the tackle:


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Title quote by Uncle Remus
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