My apologies for the brevity of this post, I just wrapped up a ten-hour weekend workday and I’m pooped. Thank God for Johnny Walker, he always gives me something to look forward to at the end of a long day. We had a “dust sky” at dusk today that turned everything into a strange and eerie dusky coral color, but the picture I took with my Blackberry just didn’t do it justice.

That was a great series played this weekend between the Sox and the Evil Empire, wasn’t it? OK, so no one loves four-hour baseball, but both teams are so incredibly evenly matched that it’s hard not to envision an American League Championship series between them to determine who gets slaughtered by the Phillies in the World Series.

If you’re a Sox fan, you have to love the take-aways from this series: a resurgent Carl Crawford and continued above-expectation play by catcher Jarrod Saltalmacchia and right-fielder Josh Reddick (nice walk-off double against “The Fruitbat”, Josh!). And John Lackey’s start on Saturday night was a good omen of things to come.

If you’re a Yankees fan, you have to be concerned about the fact that the Beantown Nine’s continued success against starter C.C. Sabathia and closer Mariano Rivera. The Sox have absolutely no fear when it comes to these guys, and you can bet that the Yankees will be overly dependent on both of them come the playoffs. And what was that with Yankees manager Joe Girardi not bringing said “Fruitbat” out for the tenth inning after he had only thrown nine – count ’em, nine! – pitches to dispatch the Sox the previous inning? I mean, you bring in Tuesday’s scheduled starter (Phil Hughes) to pitch the tenth? That’s just bad managing. But no one ever said Girardi was a great manager to begin with. Actually, he’s a jerk. Like the rest of the Yankees.

Sure, Stevie Williams is gonna catch a lot of flack for his comments after Adam Scott’s win this past weekend at Firestone, but I’m with him here. It’s obvious Williams feels deeply hurt and disrespected by Tiger Woods after patiently waiting around a good year and a half for Woods to get his life and golf act back together and then, simply because he wanted to go out and (gasp!) try and make some bread by looping for Scott, he gets unceremoniously sacked by Woods for so-called “disloyalty”.

If I’m Williams I’d feel exactly the same way and call Tiger out for being the ass he is. It just goes to show that, no matter how hard you work to become one of the the greatest professional golfers that ever lived, achieving class and respect is something that some people find unattainable. And that’s something Tiger will never have. Good for you, Stevie.