Hour 1: The Yankees Win

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We will start out with the Yankees beating the Red Sox last night by a score of 9 to 2 So in the two games, they outscored the Red Sox 18 to 2 And the Yankees move on to the American League Division Series, which will start Saturday. The first pitch is at 630 in the TROP in St. Petersburg, Florida, against the first place Tampa Bay Rays, who had the best record in the American League. These two teams split, they didn't split 13 games. In 13 games, Tampa Bay won 7 and the Yankees won 6 But let's talk about the match up between the Yankees and the Red Sox. To say that it was lopsided, I think is an understatement. The Red Sox, I look at them, and I see their record of 87 and 75 So they won 6 fewer games than the Yankees. And then I try to delve into the numbers, because the team that I saw in these two games at Yankee Stadium did not belong on the field with this Yankee team. It wasn't of the same level of talent. It wasn't on the same level of managing.

It just looked like a bad team. So, 87 and 75 When you consider that the Red Sox won on a 32 and 5 run.

So, if you took those 37 games, and you made them 20 and 17, or if you want to go 23 and 14, which is a nice run, the Red Sox are not that good. If you took that run of 32 and 5 out, and who knows how they went on that run?

That's a quarter of the season. They might be an under 500 team.

So, for 37 games, they turned the baseball world on its ear, and they got into the postseason. And good for them. You can't take away 32 and 5 But when you take a broad view of that Red Sox team, they're not good. They're not that good.

I don't know how they did it. I mean, you look at the players that they put out there on a daily basis, they're not that great.

And then they made two big trades, which cost a lot of prospect capital. I mean, big time players in their farm system to get Adley Rushman, who really didn't do much for them offensively, and to get Eric Miller, who a lot of Yankee fans were very angry that the Yankees didn't empty their farm system to get this hefty lefty. And he was a huge part of both of the losses, and has been bad for about the last three weeks.

So they gave up so many good young players, future players, to make a run for it this year. And did they make a run essentially on hope of a 32 and 5 run? I don't know. And then on top of that, Chad Tracy, who I really, really like, I mean, what a delightful human being. I hate to say it, and I hate to criticize people that I really like, but you tune into this show for honesty, he was in over his head. Aaron Boone managed circles around him.