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Whicker: This year has nothing to do with Angels-Red Sox past
July 21st, 2008, 11:02 am · 3 Comments · posted by Mark Whicker, ocregister.com
In the first place, Dan Shaughnessy is not an East Coast honk. He has outraged far more fans in Boston than he has in other parts of the country, because he has taken his own teams to task.
In the second place, he makes some good points, and I was pleasantly surprised to read the comments on our blog that recognized this. Yes, the Angels are probably better this year. Yes, the Red Sox probably aren’t as good as last year. No, the weekend sweep doesn’t correlate to that, no more than the fact that the Dodgers beating the Angels 2 out of 3 means they’re better than the Angels.
What I would add is that last year has nothing to do with this year at all. If the Angels lose this year to Boston – and we don’t even know if they’re going to play them – it won’t be because of Manny Ramirez and Curt Schilling last year, or Roger Clemens and Dave Henderson in 1986.
After all, the Giants beat the Patriots in the Super Bowl only six weeks or so after the Patriots beat the Giants in the regular season.
Click here to read what the Boston Globe’s Dan Shaughnessy had to say about the Angels.
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Red Sox need to win the east or at least be in first place (with a significant lead) before they talk about October.
Yo Whicker, you sound like ARod.
The Boston Red Sox column writer should stop worring about what the Angles are doing or going to do. He really needs to concentrate on what his team is doing or not doing. The standings show that hands down. The Angles are 8.5 games in first place and the Sox are 1.5 games back of the Devil Rays. I know that there is a lot of baseball left before we can talk about the Angles second championship, but come on which would you rather be a part of, a team which gets along with each other or a team that has their version of “Dennis Rodman”, Manny Ramirez. You take your pick!