Dan Johnson

I called it! His season batting line entering that AB: 108/178/157.   Hey, quality beats quantity…

Should the Rays win, I’m sure a lot of BoSox fans will complain about the parade of stiffs that Girardi ran out to the mound in game 162.   My position is that you can never complain about not getting help from other teams — Giradri’s job is to maximize his team’s chances of winning the World Series within the rules period.   Even leaving aside the whole “blowing a 10 game lead in a month” thing I don’t think there’s any basis for complaint.

…and we have a micro-choke to complete the macro-choke for the Braves.   At least the wildcard will go to a market than can actually sell out playoff games.

…OK, Crawford not making the play and then launching a throw that made Bonds ’92 look like Clemente was the way that had to end.   That signing was like sending yourself Anthrax.

…and both chokes completed.   Wish there could have been at least one playoff, but best regular season day in memory.

…Red Sox correspondent about 30 seconds after the game ended, but before Crawford’s throw got to the general vicinity of home plate:  “Luzinski would have had that.”

…I’m not helping, but it should also be noted that Crawford and Papelbon have plenty of co-goats. The Sox had plenty of chances to put that away.