Red Sox Fans Remaining Oddly Calm

Oh, how we love a good "pitcher looking forlorn in the foreground as guy who just homered off him trots around the bases in the background" photo. After last night's 5-4 loss to the White Sox, thanks largely to a Tony Graffanino error and a Tadahito Iguchi three-run jack shortly thereafter, Boston has its back against the wall already, and not in a Al-Pacino-In-Sea-Of-Love kind of way.

We hesitate to do this, because Red Sox fans don't like to be classified as Ones Who Fret, but we still had to check in and see what they Sox blogs are saying this morning.

• Surviving Grady: "Last October, this would have been a profanity-filled rant with all sorts of illogical reasons why the Sox are doomed to break our hearts and spirits again. Now, I know better; this is simply a test." • Fire Brand Of The American League: "If Tony Graffanino ends up the scapegoat for the 2005 season, I will have to question the mental aptitude of the fanbase that I proudly call myself a part of." • Red Sox Fan In Pinstripe Territory: "We have some pigeons that live on our air conditioner, right outside our window. Today, I heard them making a racket, and when I saw that they were either fighting or mating, I reached for my video camera to capture the action." (It's true, he has pictures.) • Keep Your Sox On: Never say die, don t fear the sweep and GO RED SOX!!!

Say what? The Boston blog world doesn't seem to be freaking out at all. They're optimistic, hopeful or just posting pictures of birds doing it. Did last year's championship really turn Boston fans into normal fans, like so many of them have claimed? Because we were expecting to log on this morning and see much teeth-gnashing and garment-rending. But nope.

We'll see what happens in Game 3, though.

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