Red Sox vs. Toronto Blue Jays
7:10 pm
Fenway Park – Boston, MA
SP: Josh Beckett Michael Bowden vs. Scott Richmond

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Gameday Open Thread: Blue Jays 9/28

There’s no denying it: getting swept by the Yankees in the waning moments of the 2009 season, and watching any glimmer of hope of an AL East victory drain away while the Evil Empire pops the corks off of champagne bottles in the other dugout is not fun. It is the very definition of ‘opposite of fun’. If ‘opposite of fun’ had an entry in the dictionary, this would be the picture beside it:

Of course, that picture would also be beside ‘disturbing imagery that cannot be unseen’.

Having to endure a pinstriped celebration is just a fact of life. For now. But another fact of life is this: TWO. Two is the magic number left for the Red Sox to claim a playoff spot of their own. A spot that could be claimed anytime in the next seven days… but that might be claimed as early as tonight, if fortune and fate align. And if anybody can gallop up and hogtie fortune while wrestling fate into submission, it’s Josh Beckett.

So let them have their fun down in the Bronx – it stings, but it ain’t the death knell for Boston by any stretch of the imagination. As the great philosopher Jason Varitek once said:

I don’t really give a shit about what they’ve done. I’m worried about what we’re doing.

Indeed, good sir. Indeed.

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