Sox End Season, But Not In Disgrace

No anger at the “other guys”. No throwing stuff at the TV or screaming at the manager or the umpires in my house last night.

Just quiet disappointment as we witnessed the end of the Red Sox 2008 campaign. If the scene had occurred in Game 5, all of the above tantrums would have been on the table. But they showed their courage in that game-and in the subsequent one. No one in Tampa in disparaging the Sox…they are breathing a sigh of relief.

With battered starting pitching, the loss of Mike Lowell, the sub-par performance of David Ortiz and Jacoby Ellsbury at the plate, you might argue that the ’08 Sox were overachievers to get within 2 runs of going to the World Series again. Had they won last night, I am certain they would have beaten the Phillies.

The fact is that the better team won—and I’ll be rooting for them against Philadelphia in the World Series….darn it!