Uh oh…

“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.

3 Comments »

1. Hyperbole NEVER appears in a Shaughnessy column.
   Dan should know better by now. I can’t say I was surprised to read it.

   Comment by Nordberg — June 30, 2006 @ 2:41 pm

2. who in God’s name is Dan Shaugnessy? some idiot poster on one of those web sites?

   Comment by behindthepen — June 30, 2006 @ 5:06 pm

3. Your summer books for 2006!!…

   Astute and frequent readers of danieldrezner.com — all six of you — might have noticed that I did not post any books of the month for this June. Astute as you all are, no doubt you suspected this was because……

   Trackback by Daniel W. Drezner — July 1, 2006 @ 3:57 pm

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