Red Sox Salvage Series Split Behind Dominant Daisuke

Do you all know if the Red Sox take three games vs NYY, they will be only 3.5 out?
Will the season still be over?

We’re not ignorant and it sounds like you’re trying to paint us as such, much the same way my little sister used to when we were little. Sort of a “Will you believe me then?!” it creates a you v. us situation instead of actual debate, you’re sort of calling us out that way. Of course if we beat the Yanks this weekend it helps, we all know that.

That doesn’t change that over the next 50 games, missing Youk for all of it and Pedrioa for a week or two more, we have to play at a level of play we haven’t sustained for a period of 50 games even with Youk and Pedrioa. Besides us playing at that level, we’re also having to bank on the Yanks and Rays playing .500 level ball the rest of the way out, a level of play that they haven’t played at for that amount of time this year either. They’ve had some bad 10 game stretches but being that bad for how good they are for 50 games? Hard to count on that. Also hard to count on us improving by a large amount, Youk being out means we’re downgrading at first to Lowell/VMart and then downgrading at catcher from VMart to Cash, our worst player.

A better way to pose it without seeming to rub it in our faces:

If we can win the series this weekend we’ll only be 4 (3 with a sweep) games back with about 50 games left, do you guys think that’ll help turn the tides a little in our favor?

It’s less intrusive on our beliefs and allows us to find common ground.

My answer to that question instead of the one I posted above is:
Yes, it would be tremendous for this team to take 3 out of 4 in New York to start a 10 game road trip. That would be the sort of momentum we haven’t had this year with the injuries and could fire up the team for a run to the top.

Instead you got the thought out snoody response with all the numbers that make me pessimistic about our chances and driving me further from the middle ground that presumably you want us all to have.

People don’t think we’re in because of what I’ve been saying the last couple of days, it really isn’t up to us anymore. We can play great for the next two months and win every series and there are still ways for us to not make it. It’s hard to say that yes, for certain we’re going to play great, despite what we’re missing and that yes, the Yanks and Rays are going to nosedive. It just seems now that the odds are stacked against us and we accept that.

If we were at this point right now and only a couple games back it’s a different story because in that situation if we play really well it can make the difference on our own instead of what we’re actually looking at now.

Just the way we see it and you chose to look at it with more optimism and that’s fine but you’ll find a more positive response if you post things like “We’ve got a lot riding on this weekend” instead posting “agree” or “disagree” statements on every post on the matter.

It also doesn’t help that I LOVE to argue (if you haven’t figured that out already) and at my internship I generally have nothing to do all day except for between 2-4, so don’t take it personally, I just have a firm belief that I feel is being questioned so I want to defend it, if it sparks some debate awesome, I would love to hear your reasoning beyond the “6 games back line.”