“It’s OK to say it. Don’t worry about jinxing them. The 2005 Red Sox are going to win the American League East. By a landslide…. Stop worrying about the Yankees, Orioles, and Jays. It’s not even going to be close.”
– Dan Shaughnessy, June 26, 2005
“The Sox have not made an error since the Nixon Administration (actually it’s June 11, 16 games, which ties a major league record) and they lead the Yankees by four games. It’s almost beginning to look like Secretariat in the Belmont around here…”
– Dan Shaughnessy, June 30, 2006
Ah, the unbridled optimism that comes with interleague play.
Hyperbole NEVER appears in a Shaughnessy column.
Dan should know better by now. I can’t say I was surprised to read it.
who in God’s name is Dan Shaugnessy? some idiot poster on one of those web sites?