Anatomy of a collapse: How did Red Sox season go off course?: Pause sports!

C'est la panique à Boston, l'équipe adorée des bostonnais est durement critiquée pour ses performances catastrophiques en septembre. Après avoir dominé outrageusement ses adversaires pendant l'été, l'équipe risque maintenant ne pas se qualifier pour les séries. On metionne même le possible congédiement de l'entraîneur Terry Francona (déjà oubliées les conquêtes de deux séries mondiales?). Pendant ce temps l'ennemi juré s'est emparé du championnat de la division est. Dès ce soir les Yankees pourraient faire très mal aux Sox!

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"These Red Sox do not deserve a playoff spot:

With nowhere else to turn, I called baseball commissioner Bud Selig yesterday.

Left him a message:

Please, Bud. This is your chance to think outside the box. You have sweeping powers that enable you to make unilateral decisions “in the best interests of baseball.’’

How about banishing the 2011 Red Sox from postseason play on the grounds of horsebleep play for the entire month of September?

This is where we are with less than a week to go in the regular season. The math says the Sox are probably going to qualify for the tournament, but they should be barred on sheer principle and merit. Let the worthy teams participate in the playoffs. The Sox are not worthy.

Really, how do you root for these guys anymore? They have the third-highest payroll in baseball. One of the players talked about winning 100 games at the start of spring training. A local tabloid touted them as “Best Team Ever’’ before a game was played.

And they are 5-16 in September. Unraveling. And now, according to Sox ambassador/Hall of Famer/Theo bandmate Peter Gammons, we’ve got new buzz that Terry Francona has fallen out of favor with Sox management and might be managing for his job (inside baseball you don’t hear much about on NESN)."

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