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It's NFL kickoff weekend. That's supposed to take center stage. Everything else is on the back burner, under the radar, because us American's can't get enough of this foosball.

But uh.....anyone notice what's going on with the Red Sox right now? Losers of 5 in a row, as well as 10 of their past 13, what once seemed like a mortal lock of a post-season birth is now anything but that. The Tampa Bay Devil Rays are a mere 3.5 games back of the BoSox right now in the wild card chase. The Southern California Angels of Los Angeles and Anaheim are 5 back. Jon Lester, our only healthy reliable pitcher, got shelled yesterday. Dustin Pedroia is hitting .174 in September. Adrian Gonzalez dipped below the .340 mark for the first time last week since June 11. If they even make it to the playoffs, there's a very strong chance Andrew Miller, John Lackey, Tim Wakefield, or Kyle Weiland will be our Game 2 starter.

This has a chance to be the biggest collapse in baseball since the 2007 Mets. I guess a lot of it comes back to that 2-10 start, when I posted this doozy of a blog. The most frustrating aspect of all this is that the Yankees haven't exactly been lighting the world on fire either; they had lost four in a row before winning yesterday. We're still just 3.5 back of them. But you don't need Shea Hillenbrand to come out of retirement to tell you that this is a sinking ship. It's not over yet, but boy it doesn't look good.....