Playoff excitement, Thompson the bland

Thoughts on the Indians-Red Sox matchup and more I take issue with the following from Tom Verducci's "Inside Baseball" column.

"The Red Sox got what they wanted: an ALCS matchup against Cleveland rather than yet another exhausting Armageddon with the Yankees."

Just because most of us here in Boston were thinking it, doesn't mean we want to hear it coming from other people. And the choice of "Armageddon"? Please.... We would have crushed the Yankees, no problem. Really.

Thompson met lowered expectations, barely Thompson performs, as I expected him to. Romney and Giuliani scuffle... and Romney infuses the negative attack politics into the debate. Romney's negative, dirty politics have been the central point of his campaign to date. It is a preview of what the Nation will have to endure if he is chosen as the GOP nominee. In our current political climate, the broader spectrum of the American populace, (outside of the far right who may show up for the GOP primaries) WILL not have the stomach for this. I believe a vote for Romney in the primaries will essentially amount to a vote for Hillary Clinton. Hopefully we will never find out if I'm right, or wrong.