Dan Shaughnessy Did Not Jinx the Sox

October 9, 2013

The Red Sox crazy-ass 7th inning stretch last night – walk, single, wild pitch, infield hit – pulled Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy’s chestnuts out of an open fire.

As the hardreading staff previously noted, Shaughnessy wrote off the Tampa Bay Rays after Game 2 of the ALDS. The Rays promptly won Game 3, and led Game 4 after six.

But then . . .

Division Series - Boston Red Sox v Tampa Bay Rays - Game Four

 

Jacoby Ellsbury scored the go-ahead run in the 7th inning of Game 4 of the ALDS.

Bring on the  . . . whoever.

And Shaughnessy lives to write another day.

Your lament goes here.

 

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Did Dan Shaughnessy Just Jinx the Sox?

October 6, 2013

It’s called a kahn aynhoreh, “the magical phrase uttered to ward off the evil eye” according to The Joys of Yiddish.

And Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy failed to say it in his front-page piece in today’s Sports section.

1005slider16-13070Is it really necessary to go to Tampa?

Do we really have to go to Tampa/St. Pete? Can’t we just forgo the formalities and let the Red Sox advance to the American League Championship Series on sheer style, dominance, karma, and duende?

The Duck Dynasty/ZZ Top/Fidel Castro Red Sox look unbeatable at this hour. They bested the fatigued Rays, 7-4, at Fenway Park again on Saturday night and will send 12-1 Clay Buchholz to the mound to finish the series Monday.

 

And it gets even worse at the end:

It makes you want to fast-forward to the Fall Classic. Do you want the Dodgers (Adrian Gonzalez, Carl Crawford), the Braves (who played here in Boston until the early 1950s), the Pirates (lost to the Red Sox in the first World Series in 1903) or the Cardinals (Series opponents in ’46, ’67 and ’04)?

That’s getting too far ahead. For sure.

But putting the Sox in the ALCS is not too far ahead.

Bring on the Tigers. Bring on the A’s.

This one is over.

 

Seriously, boychik? You’re actually saying that? First of all, if any town should appreciate the possibility of improbable comebacks, it’s Boston. Beyond that, even though there’s almost no way the Rays will come back, the accent is on almost. Shaughnessy should know that.

If the unthinkable now happens, you know who to blame.

 

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