...Well Mick if I boast about beating the Angels then I boast about beating a team that isn't at their best and really I felt bad for them because they make the playoffs but they were so banged up they didn't stand a chance (not that we would have had a problem with them anyway).

I feel ya Mick, injuries suck, I thought this year the Sox wouldn't even make the playoffs due to David Ortiz's and Manny Ramirez's injuries but they were built for the playoffs and here we are.

As for Dice-K, he's young and he's getting used to the MLB...the season is longer, the strike zone is different. He has the opposite problem that Josh Beckett had...Beckett used to just THROW and he'd throw heat, but the pitching coach taught him to be a little more fine and PITCH....Dice-K tries to be too fine and he runs up his pitch count by trying to strike everyone out....if he was more of a thrower and gave the batter more pitches to hit he'd be a lot better.

He's going to come around and be a very good pitcher