Quick baseball rant: I don’t want to hear another word about whether the Boston Red Sox drank beer or not.  It goes on everywhere.  Get over it.  Does it really matter whether the drinking took place back in the clubhouse or in the dugout?  The answer is no.  Also, don’t you think a blog like Deadspin or TMZ would have been all over that months ago?  Surely ONE photo would have emerged of Josh Beckett slamming a beer.  I’m sick of this great MLB playoffs getting overshadowed by an organization that somehow feels it has the right to still dominate the baseball conversation weeks after they completed one of the worst collapses in baseball history.  The arrogance shown by the front office in throwing their entire clubhouse under the bus in the now infamous Boston Globe piece is shocking.  But apparently that wasn’t enough as they then completed the hubris by shipping off the man who made all of this recent success possible in Theo Epstein.  Of course getting that deal completed in a reasonable fashion wasn’t sufficient either and so they’ve dragged along the negotiations for two weeks and counting and guess what?  If you’re not in Dallas or St Louis right now, you’d probably never guess there’s a World Series being played.  The Boston Red Sox ruined baseball.

Generation Y, where Tony LaRussa definitely scored a BASEketball style psyche out on Ron Washington last night.