Punchdrunk Sox fans wake up; look for aspirin

Beth: Suck-a-thon.

The Couch Potato draws up the 12 steps for Red Sox Anonymous, including:

... 3) Made a decision to turn our interests to the care of Big Papi, because we understand that the Sox season home run record may be the only thing to look forward to for the rest of the way. ...

Amy accepts all the blame:

... I lost, for a day, my warn out and bedraggled Red Sox hat. Yes, the hat that I bought after game 2 of the 2003 Oakland series because they needed a change in luck. And their luck changed (with the exception of 1 Aaron Boone homerun). I wore that hat nearly every day during 2004 and look what happened. Yesterday, when I went to find it, it was missing. ...

Soxaholix: Hey, you know, it ain't so bad. I mean we beat the Yankees once.

Cranky says another thing that really sucked was listening to Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd babble for ten minutes:

... I guess it's for the Jimmy Fund thing, but he's not even talking about that. He's talking nonsense. There should be no politicians in the broadcast booth. Ever! Can't you just shut up let us watch the fucking game? Great, now Trump is on. ...

Ed Prisby wonders if the problem is that Sox management has gotten too cheap:

... Say what you want about Steinbrenner, but he was right when he said that he'll spend that extra little bit for the fans, and the Sox won't. Like it or not, that spending on Johnny Damon and Bobby Abreau is looking like it will be the difference between the Yankees playing in October, and the Sox playing in October. ...