Cue the duckboats!    It doesn’t get much better than this for Red Sox fans.    Not only did Julio Lugo re-injure himself running in the outfield last night/Jed Hoyer hit him in the kneecap with a crowbar, but our long national nightmare with Clay Buchholtz is over.     Thank fucking god!   Did you see his stats in today’s Globe?  The Red Sox are 70-42 without Buchholz and with them they are 3-12.   That’s impossible!  I haven’t seen anything that bad since my high school team went like 60-4 in 3 years and ESPN’s Todd McShay was 0-3 on the mound.     At some point you just got to cut the cord.    So despite last night’s loss I'm as optimistic as I’ve been in a long time about our chances.   You know the Devil Rays and their 1 game losing streak are shaking in their boots.    

PS – You know it’s bad when a major leaguer says he agrees with the decision to get demoted….

"But the last couple starts, it's hard to think they can give me any more opportunities than they have in this stretch, especially with only a month and a half left in the season and the pennant race as close as it is now. "You've got to send guys out there that . . . you believe they're going to go out there and give you a win or give you six, seven innings, and I haven't been doing that. So I hate to say it was the right decision, but I believe it was."