It's All My Fault

To quote the former leader of TedNation, "I APOLOGIZE A THOUSAND TIMES!"

Everything was going fine. The Sox were cruising. The Yankees were bruising and losing. And I had to go and screw it all up.

I went on vacation.

I should have known better.

Usually, I won't even move from the chair I'm sitting in if things are going well for the Sox. So what do I do when things couldn't be going better for the local nine? I head south with my family, including my Blog Co-Authors, abandoning the cause and the wheels start to come off. The Sox sleepwalk through Oakland losing three of four and needed a near perfect performance from Curt Schilling to escape with one win. Yea they came alive a bit and took two out of three from the D-backs, but a 3-4 road trip was not what we were looking for.

Meanwhile, the Yanks have finally awakened. Walkin' Bobby Abreu has begun swinging the bat again. (Interestingly enough coinciding with New York feasting on Minor (i.e.) National League teams.) They win six in a row, slice 5 games off the lead and are now are only 9 1/2 games out and in second place.

Again, I'm sorry.

Now don't get me wrong. Spending a week with my family, Mickey, Minnie and millions of my closest friends in the hot house known as Disney World was fantastic. But I get what I deserve for deserting the Sox.

It's always an experience following the Sox from a baseball hotbed like Orlando, Florida. After a day of working the parks, coming back to the hotel room and trying to find a score is always a trip. Flipping on ESPN night after night and seeing the losses mount was truly depressing. The first night was the Pap loss to New York on A Rod's homer. That was followed by three successive losses to the A's. By Thursday, I thought I might have to cut my vacation short and fly home to end the losing streak. Thank God The Big Schill pitched his best game of the year and allowed me to finish my visit to the Magic Kingdom.

But now I'm back and things may be turning around. The Sox have won two of three since I returned and with some appetizing AAAA teams on the menu, things should stabilize from here. Hopefully this was the bad stretch we all knew was coming, but the Sox better start hitting or we could be in for some rough times ahead.

For now though, I'm back at my post so never fear.

I may have to consider off season vacations from now on.