Baseball Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous baseball thoughts and observations.

The Red Sox lead the Yankees by 10.5 games. That means they could be swept by the Yankees and still have the largest Divisional lead in all of baseball. It does kinda take the drama out of the series from the Red Sox perspective... Ichiro is back on track for another 200-hit season. Right now he's on pace for 220 hits... There is drama on the Yankee end of this series. If the Red Sox get a 3-game sweep - I think Joe Torre gets fired. It just has to happen. I like Joe Torre but I think it would be really funny if Torre was let go before Roger Clemens has a chance to throw his first pitch for the Yankees (seeing how Clemens said that Torre was a big factor in him signing with the Yankees)... The Rockies have a good news / bad news deal going on. The bad news is they lost a really ugly 12-inning game to the Royals yesterday and today have to face reigning NL Cy Young winner Brandon Webb on the road. The good news is that Webb hasn't been able to beat the Rockies this year - going 0-2 with a 7.00 ERA in three starts this season. I think this may be a case where the bad news far outweighs the good news... Happy 66th birthday to Bobby Cox who is probably glad not to be celebrating his birthday in Boston playing the Red Sox...