The Red Sox continue to miss opportunities to gain some ground on their Wild Card competition in Texas, as they had a very “meh” holiday weekend against a very “meh” team.

I don’t want to hear about Josh Beckett, he was fine last night, just like he was fine in his previous start.  The story of this game was the apparent renaissance of Mark “Mr. Perfect” Buehrle, who notched his first win since he earned the aforementioned nickname over a month ago.

For what it’s worth:

A couple of things to note:

• The Yankees will likely be in preservation mode when the Sox come into town on 9/25/09.  I’m not saying they’ll lie down (I’m sure they’d love to play the spoiler), but we’ll probably see some of their regulars resting by that point.
• The Seattle Mariners currently have the same record as the Tampa Bay Rays, both being 7.5 back in the Wild Card race.  So, both teams still have something to play for, at this point.  That could change within a few days.

Coming up: I’ll be trying to rank the Top 5 Bullpens of the Modern Era.  Not sure if the 2009 Red Sox will make the list, but curiosity is the main force driving me to write that piece.  Right now, I’m trying to define “modern era”.  For bullpen usage, it’s probably a relatively recent time span, maybe the past 25 years or so.

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