Who will be the sox 3rd starter in postseason?

This question has been bothering losertown since the trade deadline. Lackey? Bedard? Wake? Ted Williams head? Obviously Jon Lester and Texas tough guy Josh Beckett will be dominate, but that third game against Texas has all the question marks. In my opinion we should star... wait, what's that god? The Sox didn't make the playoffs? Well that makes the Red Sox biggest summer question easier to answer.

Your Boston Red Sox failed to make the postseason again, but unlike bj, i'm placing the blame elsebury... i mean elsewhere.

Theo? What Kind of tricks was he supposed to pull? This was almost unanimously (somehow spelled that right) the best team on paper in march. At the Deadline for trades, they had a 99.8% chance of reaching the postseason. Two questions bring us back to July 31st. Who was available to get, and who did we have to trade? We are talking about a team that couldn't pull Chris Crapuano from the mets with their farm system. Yes, the same guy who's 2007 Brewers once lost 22 straight games he started in. I'm not saying its an mlb record but because this blog is a half ass commitment on my part, i'm not looking it up.

tito? Guy lost the team. I'm not saying he should be fired, I just hope he's on the wrong side of the new seth rogan movie 50/50.

That may have been harsh. You don't fire tito. But when you pull Lackey from a start next season and he stares you down, dropkick him.

Speaking of which, Lackey. BJ is claiming he had the worst ERA in baseball this season. In a dark room somewhere sits Brian Matusz who actually set the MLB record for reals for the worst ERA. 59 Earned runs in 49 2/3 innings. I know you didn't graduate from a prestigious college like Eastern Michigan BJ, but that ERA is 10.69, just beating out Roy Halladays prior record of 10.64. Bet you didn't know Doc had the previous record did you? Look it up.

Carl, good to see you... drop that ball in the 9th. Call me soft but im a sucker for guys who hit triples and steal bases. Wait. Crawford had his lowest amount of triples and steals since his rookie season? Well that's cause he was hurt all year. he did miss 20% of the season. And he has only had 1 gold glove so let's not try to compare him to griffey whose glove is actually the gold glove now.

I blame the fans. I blame Lackey's wife. I blame Neil Diamond. I blame Dustin Diamond. I blame everyone who thought this team had a chance three months. Unlike anybody in Boston, that's when I knew the season ended.

July 24th. Wakefield pitched 6 1/3 innings, 7 earned, and got win 199. Fast forward to september 13th, 9 starts later, the red sox finally get him his 200th win. That isn't real pressure and the red sox folded for 2 months. Start after start they blew leads, didn't hit, choked away games, (any of this sound familiar?). The comparison between games Wakefield started and the month of september are mirror mirror. Am i surprised the Red Sox are at home today? Yeah, but i'm not losing sleep over it because this wasn't a team. This was a bunch of scared little girls. A team full of guys waiting for someone else to step up. Hoping the ball is hit to someone else. Hoping someone else does all the work. This team had no leader. No one ever called anyone out. We burned Manny to the ground but won't say a word to Crawford or Lackey? I'd rather have my left fielder beat his wife than hit .250 while making 142 million dollars.

So there it is. There is no real scapegoat here. This team simply didn't have when it takes to win. I'll end with a bible passage. The bruins once blew a 3 games to none lead in the playoffs and came back the very next season and won everything...

goodbye