Gut Check

Let's be frank, shall we? This was not the greatest weekend for the Sox. After having his start pushed back to yesterday on account of Friday's rainout Paul Byrd lost a decent game to the Blue Jays and Roy Halladay, 4-1. Today's game was much more shameful, with last year's ace Josh Beckett getting lit up for eight runs over two and a third innings before losing 15-4 to give up both games in the rain-shortened home series. To just ice over this cake of bad luck, J.D. Drew left the game with tightness in his back.Oh, the things that go wrong.This weekend perfectly summed up the troubles of this year's team. Saturday's game was an example of the pitching being passable but the power being out in the lineup, and today's game was just a ****** outing by the guy who should be our ace, and again a slight power outage. In the hindsight of the Manny trade (because I know so many people think Manny's absence in the order has affected everyone) we still made th...