Friday, February 24, 2012

The Curse Of The Scout-Bino

On the NESN set in Fort Myers last night, Dustin Pedroia revealed a piece of BlackSeptember history that might explain everything. During the rain delay in Game 162 in Baltimore, Red Sox advance scouts passed out ALDS Scouting Books to players. At the time, the Red Sox were ahead of the Orioles, 3-2. The Muddy Chicken did not like this taunting of the Baseball Gods and said so at the time. Sure enough, the immortal Robert Andino put the final nail in the season's coffin a short while later.