The Red Sox now have a reason to fear the Angels

They didn't before. Why would they? Sure, LA has won this season, but when it really counted, the Sox have beat them the last 2 years in October. But with LA's new weapon, one of the best hitters in the game, the Angels just got a little more scary. I kept a running journal of yesterday before the Red Sox game:

3:50 MT: mlbtraderumors.com reports Teixeira is off to LA for Casey Kotchman and Steven Marek. Was Frank Wren thinking of a different Teixeira when he did this trade?

It's also weird that mlbtraderumors.com had the trade news on their site five minutes before espn.com. Only one guy runs the site, Tim Dierkes, who also works for rotoauthority.com, and must have some sweet inside hookups.

3:55: After finding out the news, I sit grumbling for 10 minutes, mainly about how the Red Sox should have been more aggressive towards gettign Tex. After being taunted by my co-commissioner in my mogul league , an Angels fan, I realize that, 1) we have Theo Epstein, and 2) The Sox only need to play Tex once more in the regular season. It could be worse: he could of gone to the Yankees (gulp!)

Theo apparently is involved in talks with everyone who wants Manny, which is a small number of teams. Most of those teams don't want the huge salary, so he'd have to eat it, meaning he could get more in a deal! I, and most Sox fans, trust Theo to do what's right for the team.

4:29: After 34 Minutes of discussing Red Sox trade possibilities with fellow mogul-ers and reloading mlbtraderumors.com (nothing going on) I realize Boston will be playing their second-to-last game before the deadline in 30 minutes. Tonight they will have the "luxury" of not dealing with Teixeira, though they will have to tomorrow. Go Buchholz!

5:15: One more check of the site before the game starts, and nothing at all. Maybe tomorrow, or maybe November...

I originally wrote this at 5:49:

A 3-minute half inning. Not good. Lackey is throwing a no-hitter (hopefully that jinxes him!)

I was terrified when he brought the no-no into the 9th. My jinx had backfired and the Sox were going to get no-hit! Thankfully, Pedroia (Man, that guy is awesome!) singled, and Youk broke up the shutout with a 2-run homer ovah the Monstah! But the Angels hung on, and will be going for their second sweep against the Red Sox tonight, this time in Boston. Is that possible? We'll see...