AL East Heating up. Or is it?

Here we go again, for the second time this season, Red Sox nation is panicking. Currently, I have yet to reach that panic mode that usually plagues BoSox fans such as myself. Sure a 10 game lead would be preferable to a 7.5 game lead, that much is obvious. However, despite the Red Sox playing .500 ball on this last homestand, and despite the Yankees seemingly endless recent run scoring ability, I am not worried. Should I be? Perhaps but the fact remains that I am not worried. In fact, I expected this.

The Yankees are too good, repeat, too good to just go quietly in the night, this we knew. Hell of an offense and a solid starting rotation will get you a couple big time runs, this is fact. Now the thing that panicking Red Sox fans forget, is that Boston is a great team, hands down one of the best in the league this year. With a great offense, though not as good as NY when they are hitting and better pitching throughout the staff. (Perhaps Hughes will help to even this up but the Bullpen still blows). The Red Sox are built to win in the Reg season and more importantly, in the playoffs. Now, I am not sure how long this Yankees run will last but if you follow baseball, you know that they won't be scoring 13-21 runs on a nightly basis for long, and the Red Sox will most likely get hot very shortly(if they havent already against the ChiSox). By the second week of August the lead will be back up to around 9. The Red Sox are too good and the Yanks have too big of a flaw, I mean how bad can one bullpen be?

So I am not worried at this point, nor will I be worried when the Yankees heat up again in early to mid September. The Red Sox are too consistent. David Ortiz goes down temporairily, no big deal, Lugo and Crisp decide to hit .324 and .329 respectively over the last month. Curt Schiloling takes a month off ?(big time pickup in the long run, he will be good to go for the playoffs) Hello Kason Gabbard.(Sure it was KC and CWS but a Win is a win). The skill this there so have no fear Red Sox fans, the Yankees will not catch us. Not now, not back in June when Abreu was "reborn" and certainly not in September. The Yankees Suck and one cannot forget this.

Couple random thoughts

1. Personally, I think if Arod opts out, the perfect place would be San Francisco. No joke inteded here, just think it would work.
2. If Lester dominates tonight look out
3. This is looking like the most boring trade deadline in a long time.