MayDay Summer

Two reasons I am now on the Red Sox bandwagon: 1) yesterday they looked good even while losing, and 2) it's very difficult to imagine how the Yankees, without Kevin Brown, will keep their lead in the division or amount to anything in a short series.

Brown has always been something of a nut-job (I got a close look at him in a game earlier this year, and he has the dead, blinkless stare you'd imagine a serial killer has), but this is the first time it has come to destroy him and his team. Without him the Yankee rotation is Mussina (0-5 in his last five decisions), Vasquez (a mess lately), Lieber (inconsistent all year), El Duque (all they have) and maybe Loaiza, if they still dare to walk him to the mound.

Boston could be in first place by next weekend.