Regular Season Wrap

The FRS are fin­ish­ing out the the last of their 162 game reg­u­lar sea­son today. Ordi­nar­ily these last three games with the MFY would be very mean­ing­ful and have every Sox fan (and Yan­kee fans too) on the edge of their seats, this year it is dif­fer­ent. The Red Sox clinched a Wild Card Play­off spot sev­eral days ago and the Yan­kees are not going to the play­offs for the first time since 1993. I am sit­ting here lis­ten­ing to the broad­cast and most of the time I’m not sure who is bat­ting and who is in the field. Not because I’m not pay­ing atten­tion, but because both teams are play­ing the scrubs.

I started lis­ten­ing to this afternoon’s game, but quit for a bit because I had some­thing else to do, when I tried to recon­nect I couldn’t get back to the Boston web site. I couldn’t even get to MLB.com. I guess a lot of peo­ple took advan­tage of the daily or week­end pass for MLB TV and they over­loaded the servers.

When I first checked the Boston home page this morn­ing to see what they planned on doing about yesterday’s rain out, I noticed an advert to buy some Red Sox play­off gear. I’m not sure if you can read the hat, but it says “2008 Divi­sion Cham­pi­ons.” Some­one for­got to check their facts because that ship sailed on Fri­day when the FRS lost a squeaker to the Yan­kees 19–8. If you clicked on the link you got to see the gear the Sox really earned, the much cov­eted “Wild Card” or “I Kissed My Sis­ter” hat.