I hate to say "I told you so..."

I'm not going to talk about the Braves' recent sucking against the Philadelphia Phillies, or how retarded Alfonseca looks like whenever he celebrates a strikeout.

I'm not going to talk about how tired I'm getting of ESPN picking up Braves games (read: late-games) whenever they're not picking up the Red Sox vs. Yankees.

But speaking of the Red Sox...

Their lead is now down to 4 games.

Every sportswriter, their mothers, their best friends for whom they ghost-contribute to their own putrid sports blogs lay the Yankees out to waste when their lead dipped to like 50 games behind Boston. Sports Illustrated, ESPN, Fox Sports, every major media outlet had claimed that the Yankees were done for. Sometimes I feel like I was the only person in the world who, despite not being a Yankees fan, was still the only person outside of New York to not count out the Yankees. Ever since Jeter gave it to us mathematically how they had to play, it just turns out that the rest of the team responded, and has been playing that way.

Yes, the Braves have won 14 straight division titles, which seems like a record that'll never be broken. But the Yankees are up to nine, and this season is not over yet. The Red Sox and Yankees still have to play several more times, and each time the Yankees win, that'll be an entire game in the standings. Sportswriters seem to have forgotten that just two years ago, Boston seemed to be cruising to a division title, until the Yankees literally snuck in and took it from them the day before the regular season ended.

There's nothing strange about how sports are - the world prematurely buries a perennial-good team during a slow start, said team is alleviated of the pressures of success. With the lack of pressure, the players play looser, more relaxed. A more relaxed, loose team has a tendency to win. It's happened in all sports, not just baseball.

And if people don't realize this, and keep the pressure on Boston to hold off the Yankees, instead of pressuring the Yankees to win #10 in a row, Yankee Stadium is going to have yet another banner in their rafters for their dominance in the Inferior League.