Let's not forget that Alex Rodriguez was 0 for 5 in the game where the Yankees beat the Red Sox 15-9 in Fenway Dump.

After falling behind 9-0. But then, the Yankees scored 15 unanswered runs. So they won the game 15-9 at Fenway Park.

Also, the Yankees are in first place:

"What we really saw Saturday at Fenway after the Red Sox were ahead 9-0, what we saw and kept seeing as Bobby Valentine brought one scrub after another out of his bullpen into this train wreck of a game, was just more of the fall that we thought ended with the last game of last season for the Boston Red Sox."

"We."

I'm just pondering the presumption that Mike Lupica speaks for me.

It's too horrifying to ponder, so I'll just have to move on.


"Somehow the Red Sox just keep falling and falling. And every time you think they have hit bottom, they give you a game like Saturday’s against the Yankees, as bad a regular-season loss as any Red Sox team has ever had against the Yankees in any era, making you imagine by the end that the Yankees had dropped the Red Sox from the top of the Green Monster."

I can think of a lot of crushing regular-season losses, though I don't want to go through them right now.

You see, I am a Yankee fan, not a Red Sox fan. From my perspective, that was not a crushing loss, it was an uplifting win.

It somehow felt more satisfying the day after Kevin Millar ran his mouth, even though yesterday's game really had nothing to do with Kevin Millar or the 2004 ALCS.

"But if you say this is Valentine’s fault after he has managed 14 games, then you must think he picked these scrub pitchers, think he has been in charge of a Red Sox farm system that no longer produces talented pitchers.

Come on, this isn’t just about Saturday, it is about everything that has happened to the Red Sox over the last three-plus seasons, about an organization that lost its way under a former boy genius named Theo Epstein because he lost his way before he found his way to the Chicago Cubs."

Mike Lupica just called Theo Epstein a "former" boy genius.

"Once I ran to you
Now I'll run from you
This tainted love you've given
I give you all a boy could give you ..."