Most day/night doubleheaders have an afternoon game followed shortly thereafter by a game starting around twilight. Well, screw tradition. In my half of the world (that would be China for the time being), the Sox won the first game of their doubleheader by taking it to Sir Sidney and his kingdom of pinstriped men with a 7 A.M. start. Then, the Sox get a chance at the sweep in the second game that will start at 1 A.M. That’s right, it’s the new 7AM(day)/1AM(night) doubleheader. They’ve thought of everything in the Far East.

A lot of people (including my co-blogger) are calling the MFY dead this season. Until they’re mathematically eliminated, I won’t dare make that predication. However, sweeping the doubleheader would be sweet for two reasons:

1. Forcing the MFY to make up eight games in a month would be a whole lot harder than six, and…
2. After all the verbal fellatio that the talking heads have been giving the Toilet because of it’s last year, how nice would it be for the Sox to leave there for the last (regular season) time with a sweep? The Sox had been given enough swirlie’s there, it would be all too sweet to turn the tables just before the old place gets destroyed.

Lester starts the back-end of the doubleheader, and hopefully we all remember the last time he pitched vs. the MFY (ok, it was a shameless plug, but can you blame me?). Let’s flush the Toilet.