Read the news today, oh boy

I only saw one play of last night's game, because I am a bad fan and went to bed instead. (I have other reasons, but they're really only excuses.) It didn't help that the one play I saw was a bobble by Youkilis, and an attempt by Daisuke to salvage it that ended with him slipping, looking as though he twisted his left ankle, and falling directly onto his ass.

The score was 2-0, Worst Team in the AL West. I figured if that mess was any indication, I wouldn't miss much by going to bed. Honestly, this year's Sox are making it pretty easy to skip out at times--once they lose a game, you know they're going to go on a 7-game losing streak, so you might as well not tune in until the following week.

Anyway, it turns out my karmic punishment for such a blase approach was to wake up this morning to find I had, indeed, missed much.

Like:

• Manny's 499th home run.
• Julio and Tito get ejected.
• Matsuzaka leaves with 'shoulder fatigue'.

On that last point, in a word...SHIT. In some more words: with Josh not feeling himself, Curt still AWOL and Buccholz needing some more development in the minors, we are quickly shedding starting pitching, which is, oh, really the only good kind of pitching we've had so far this year. And unfortunately, despite appearances, there's only one of Bartolo Colon.