Wake up, Sox fans! The Red Sox are in a race!

Over the last couple of months, I have noticed that Red Sox fans seem to be losing attention to the team. Tickets are harder to sell off if you can't make a game. Comments on Red Sox blogs have dropped. We are in mid-September, atop the wild card lead by only two games, and it seems as if Red Sox Nation is in a collective funk -- myself included. What's going on? This season has certainly been trying -- one of the more trying ones that I can remember in recent memory. We started the season hot. The Sox were on top of the world and nothing could go wrong. Then the pieces started breaking off. Daisuke Matsuzaka would go on to have a lost season. David Ortiz's slump just kept going... and going... and going. One by one, the vaunted pitching depth got so bad that we had to drag Paul Byrd out of retirement. The Yankees had a light turn on in late May that has yet to turn off as they have been playing what feels to be and probably is .700 ball since. The offens...