Youkilis to the DL (The Fat Lady Begins Her Vocal Exercises)
Word just came across the airwaves that Kevin Youkilis, apparently feeling left out, is going somewhere that many of his 2010 teammates have gone before: the 15-day disabled list. Mike Lowell has been activated to take his place.
I’m not usually a Chicken Little type, but with the Red Sox now 6.5 games behind a the wild card leader, their two best position players out for the next two weeks, and a 4-game series in Yankee Stadium on deck, this could very well be the killing blow for the team’s playoff hopes.
Update: 98.5 FM is reporting that Youkilis has torn a muscle in his thumb. It could require surgery, and if it does, Youkilis is done for the year (as are his 24 teammates).
For fuck’s sake.
Now this one hurts. With, perhaps, the exception of Mr Beltre, Youkilis has been the only consistently *great* (OPS 975 as of today) player in the lineup. They can, of course, keep pace without him. But at this point, it’s not about keeping pace; for the sox to claw their way back into wild-card contention with two extremely good (and deep) teams is going to require a 10/12-game tear. That needs, at the least, a fully fit Youkilis. I’m not normally a superstitious man – but this season suddenly feels jinxed.
But – as Mr Lee might tell us – we must accept reality as it is, and not as we would like it to be. The Sox were, on paper, a great team. But that team doesn’t exist in our reality. So, I suppose we should be happy that Lowell gets to crush a couple more into and over the monster, and that Kalish, Doubront, Nava etc get a chance to prove themselves in the bigs. Ommm…
It has been fun watching some of the younger guys (Kalish, Doubront, Nava if you stretch the definition of “young”) contribute. Otherwise…man, what a frustrating season.
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