The deal that will give Boston a dynasty

It's been all quiet on the Johan Santana front for nearly a week now, which has been kind of enjoyable, since it has given Yankees fans time to wallow in the possibility of the Sox acquiring another ace. Imagine this starting lineup:
Josh Beckett

Johan Santana

Daisuke Matsuzaka

Curt Schilling

Clay Buchholz

Tim Wakefield

That's if the Sox deal Jon Lester, Coco Crisp and a package of Minor League prospects, as has most frequently been mentioned.
If Boston includes future Hall of Fame center fielder Jacoby Ellsbury in the deal instead of Lester, you could put Lester into that rotation and bring Wakefield in out of the bullpen, a role he's filled very successfully from time to time in the past.
Can you imagine Wakefield coming in to clean up for Beckett, confusing hitters with knuckleballs after they've struggled to catch up with Beckett's fastball?
And you'll notice that I listed a rotation of six pitchers.
If the Red Sox pull off this trade for Santana, why not a six-man rotation? Matsuzaka thrived in Japan under that scenario, and did far better in Boston when he had an extra day of rest.
With that extra time off between starts, and the adjustments he's going to make during the offseason to life and pro baseball in the U.S., Matsuzaka's stuff could be as dominant as Beckett's and Santana's.
Good luck beating Boston in a five-game playoff series the next few years.

It's true about them young pitchers

It's true. Young pitchers today are a bunch of pussies!
And we're not even trashing the Yankees with this post.
No sooner did we write about the Joba Rules and how ridiculous it was to treat rookie phenom pitchers like they have the body of a 4-year-old girl than news broke that Red Sox pitcher Clay Buchholz will miss the rest of the season due to "shoulder fatigue."
They let him pitch (horrors!) a full nine innings so he could get that no-hitter, and there you go, he's ruined for life.
Too young to settle into a good steroid regimen?

Young pitching? We'll show you young pitching

The Yankees' big new focus, their Great White Hope, is young pitching.
Phil Hughes, Joba Chamberlain, Ian Kennedy.
Well, Hughes' ERA is astronomical, Chamberlain has been suspended, and Kennedy didn't look bad at all tonight.
But once again, New York is upstaged by the 2007 Red Sox.
In only his second Major League start, Clay Buchholz, who looks like he's about 12 years old, threw a no-hitter tonight against the Baltimore Orioles. And by the way, the Sox had some offense, too, winning 10-0.