Sweep Them

It appears that it wouldn’t take much to sweep the Yankees, regardless of whether or not it’s the final Sox/Yanks series of the year. I’m sure that the baseball gods were looking at the schedule and Fox television was drooling over the idea of taking the Saturday games as the “must-win battle of the century”!

For the Yankees, it’s just a three-game series that leads to a golf vacation and some possible arm surgery for Mariano Rivera.

IF the Red Sox can do it and IF the Rays fall prey to the “it doesn’t matter because we’re headed to the playoffs” routine, we’ll see a very pumped, in-your-face attitude by the Sox as they head home to meet either the Twins or the “other” Sox.

I assume, however, that we’ll be seeing our first Red Sox playoff game this year in the land of LA. Just a few short miles from where Manny dumped his bags and started to play real baseball for the first time this year.

The forecast calls for a ton of rain right through the weekend which will either put a real strain on the team as they try to wrap up the week and prepare for the ALDS, or will call for the regulars to sit and rest during some part of a double-header while the Rays clinch the division.

Either way, let’s see a sweep. It’d be a nice end to a hard season.