*official 2007 red sox thread*

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Edit: Okay, now I'm just being a smart ass. But I won't apologize for being concerned with looking at things objectively and realizing that we are no longer the favorites to win it all.

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I don't think anybody ever thought it was going to be a cakewalk. But the problem is your objective realization is based on so many near-random factors and events.

Like I just have a feeling you wouldn't be quite so dire if the foul ball Jeter hit on the pitch before his 3-run homer (which would stay in play in almost every other stadium) hadn't found the first row of the seats, or if Papi's bloop fell to center fell in for a walkoff. Or maybe if the Sox had held that 5 run lead in the 8th, which they're going to do 98% of the time. Or maybe if Youks hadn't been called for running out of the base path. Or if Gagne had gotten a couple borderline calls or Drew hadn't missed that ball by 8 inches last night. And so on.
But the good news. We've just about reached that time of year when at long last, these arbitrary things finally really do contain the significance that so many of you guys have been assigning them all season.

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Posting all that stuff in bold is so ridiculous. So there were a million little things that went against us in those particular situations but what about all the other situations where we won games that we shouldn't have when the little things went our way. All that stuff balances out in the long run so it's really not fair to mention the bad luck while ignoring the good.

What I'm going by right now is that the Yankees have shored up their glaring weakness in the bullpen while the Red Sox supposed strength in the bullpen has disappeared with the collapse of Okajima. Plus our once very strong starting pitching is also looking shaky.

We know we can't match up with their hitters so if we can't out pitch them we have problems.

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Yes, in the LONG RUN, that [censored] balances out. But 6 games ain't the long run. And its not like ALL those things had to go your way, if ANY of those things went your way, it would be a different situation. There really is just a ridiculous amount of luck involved in a baseball game.