That two game series against Tampa Bay was quick and humiliating; it was an undignified fart in the middle of the 2009 MLB schedule that we will soon mercifully forget.  This four game series against the Yankees, however, is shaping up to be more of a prolonged torture session, one that Red Sox fans will remember for some time.

Throwing stones from a glass house. A large, overpriced, publicly funded glass house.

The team is beaten and battered, missing several of the key players used to rack up those 8 straight wins against the Yanks.  The criminally ineffective John Smoltz and Billy Traber were used as cannon fodder for the surging New York lineup, hence the lopsided score in the first game.

Today, with Josh Beckett on the mound, there is at least a chance for some redemption before Clay Buchholz is thrown to the wolves on Saturday.

Some more good news: you remember Jed Lowrie’s surgically repaired wrist?  Yeah, it’s experiencing “numbness and tingling”.  Not the good kind of numbness in tingling, like the kind I get when I snort model airplane glue every Tuesday morning.  This is the bad kind you get, when one or more of your bones/tendons are not functioning as they should.

So, brace yourself for some more playing time at SS for Nick Green (ugh).

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