re: Red Sox Winning Streak!

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I can't imagine how that team went on a 10 game losing streak - did they over perform last year?

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They did over perform a bit last year. I know a lot of Sox Fans don't agree with me, but last year was pretty much a miracle. Nava, Gomes, Salty, and Napoli pretty much had career years. Buchholz was amazing, and what he did in the playoffs has apparently messed him up this year. Xander came in and was straight money in the postseason.

WMB not coming around has very much effected this team, and combine that with JBJ not really hitting and the rotation being a mess, not to mention the failure of the Sizemore experiment, and you have this season.

The last two years have been glorified bridge years, notice they aren't exactly picking up long term contracts. There is a ton of young talent in that farm system. Ceccini looks like the second coming of Wade Boggs and a young Youk, Mookie has been tearing the cover off the ball, we have two extremely talented catcher prospects, among a very strong core of pitchers (albeit no true #1 rotation arms).

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if you ever have a chance to make it to fenway I would add it to my bucket list.

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I used to live up in NH and we'd regularly go to Fenway. I loved it.