For those of you who are worrying about the recent precipitous decline of my beloved Red Sox, and for those of you who are reveling in that decline, let it be known that I am going to Boston Wednesday morn, Sept. 14th.

I intend to head directly to Fenway for the afternoon game that day and the evening game the next day (paying off a prize to Jeff F., winner of one of the 2011 MillersTime Baseball contests).

A report upon my findings (it’s really all about pitching) will follow.

I do hope to help the situation.

I am wary to post the following as superstition (a hazard encountered by those obsessed with the game) demands one be most careful with anything that could be seen as predicting the future.

So, Disclaimer: posting of the following in no way indicates I think the beloved Sox are a shoe-in for postseason play (even tho I so predicted well prior to the season).

I am simply posting this information for those of you who care about such things. Here is the post season schedule as recently announced by MLB. Note, they’ve moved up the postseason play this year to avoid going into November with the WS.

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Just about everything.

But we can start with hitting — they’re next to last in the NL, 15th out of 16th.

And their pitching, unlike the Phillies, isn’t enough to save them.

I’ve seen them three times in the last week (kind of stupid in this weather, I know), and I think their problems are deeper than just the stats indicate.

They have no on field leadership, no one to look to ‘feed off.’ and no excitement. Werth looks bored and beaten at the plate, Zimmerman is not a leader (and I suspect he’s not back to full health), and other than Morse, the infield is weak.

They played well earlier in the season, at least well enough to get to .500.

But at the present rate, they will end up dead last in their division, and their record will be about what it was last year.

Not an encouraging scenario.

At the present rate of .627 win/loss record, Sox are on schedule to win 101+ games. I think I mentioned that several times. Check Here for previous posts.