June 30th, 2006 → 9:29 am @ Seth Mnookin // 3 Comments
“It’s OK to say it. Don’t worry about jinxing them. The 2005 Red Sox are going to win the American League East. By a landslide…. Stop worrying about the Yankees, Orioles, and Jays. It’s not even going to be close.”
– Dan Shaughnessy, June 26, 2005
“The Sox have not made an error since the Nixon Administration (actually it’s June 11, 16 games, which ties a major league record) and they lead the Yankees by four games. It’s almost beginning to look like Secretariat in the Belmont around here…”
– Dan Shaughnessy, June 30, 2006
Ah, the unbridled optimism that comes with interleague play.
Post Categories: Dan Shaughnessy & Red Sox
Nordberg
5 years ago
Hyperbole NEVER appears in a Shaughnessy column.
Dan should know better by now. I can’t say I was surprised to read it.
behindthepen
5 years ago
who in God’s name is Dan Shaugnessy? some idiot poster on one of those web sites?
Daniel W. Drezner
5 years ago
Your summer books for 2006!!…
Astute and frequent readers of danieldrezner.com — all six of you — might have noticed that I did not post any books of the month for this June. Astute as you all are, no doubt you suspected this was because……