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July 19, 2007

Red Sox Aware Of The Yankees

From the Boston Globe -

"This Red Sox-Yankees thing is something that consumes this whole city," said third baseman Mike Lowell, whose fifth-inning error greased Julian Tavarez's breakdown, the Royals scoring four times to match the four runs the Sox had scored in the fourth to take a 4-2 lead.

"And we're actually fortunate. I mean, we play .500 baseball for over a month and we're up seven games? We've got to be lucky. We could be down seven games. We're almost dodging a bullet. I don't think anyone expected us to be up seven games at this point of the season. [Curt Schilling] has been out for a while; he's coming back. That's like acquiring a front-line starter at the [trading] deadline. We've got to look at that as a positive."

"It always happens, it always comes out like that," [David] Ortiz said of sighting the Yankees in the rearview mirror. "I always say, it's never over till the last month of the season. I never take the Yankees for granted. They always put a good team together, and they find a way to come from behind and win games. We've got to keep playing, baby. We got to do what we did in the first half, win games."

If I close my eyes, I can see Butch Hobson and George Scott, and it's 1978, and Scott is saying "Choke? There's no such thing as 'choke.' Choke is when you grab someone by the neck. Now, that's 'choke'..."

Gosh, was that really 29 years ago? Where has the time gone?

Posted by Steve Lombardi at July 19, 2007 08:36 AM

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