Loyal Sox Fans,

Today is the most unfortunate day of the season.  The Tampa Bay Rays defeated our home town Boston Red Sox last night in game 7 of the ALCS to end our season.  The natural tendency today is to hang our heads in sorrow, to be stuck in a perpetual state of disbelief, and share with others our disappointment.  However I think all of us can agree that the Sox this year gave us another great ride!  The home town nine fought through serious injuries and adversity the past 6 months to still entertain us with good sound baseball.  I think it is only natural at this time of year when the unthinkable happens, and we are done for the season, to look longingly toward the future and start to evaluate next years club.  I must say the future looks promising.  It seems Theo and his group will have plenty of money to spend on free agents and the pipeline of young talent already in the system is strong.  Just take a minute to think about the fact that the Sox no linger have to pay Manny 20 million and Curt Schilling around 10 million.  That should help us fill some possible holes!  It will be interesting to see what the Sox end up doing with Jason Varitek, after all the loyalty and all of the intangibles he has I think his anemic batting average will probably show him the door.  So on such a sad day spend some time looking forward to next years possibilities and remember THE YANKEES DIDN'T EVEN MAKE THE PLAYOFFS AND BASICALLY WHERE OUT OF CONTENTION ALL YEAR!!!  If that doesn't bring a smile to your face today nothing will.

Go Sox in 2009

Ted