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ALCS pitching rotation

Game 1: Matsuzaka
Game 2: Beckett
Game 3: Lester
Game 4: Wakefield
Game 5: Matsuzaka
Game 6: Beckett
Game 7: Lester

Are you shitting me, Terry? It's like our can-do-no-wrong Postseason managerial genius has been replaced by Grady Little. First of all, Wakefield over Byrd? Secondly, how in God's name is Jon Lester not going until Game 3? Perhaps you're trying to save him for Game 7. That logic is on par with Grady saving Williamson and Timlin for Game 8 in 2003. There is no Game 7 if you've already lost four games, Terry. With Beckett being a total question mark this postseason, Lester has to go in Game 2. You cannot risk the series going back to Fenway already down 0-2. You just can't. I suppose you could argue that Lester is much better at home. I get that and all, but you're really gambling that Beckett is 100 percent healthy, and that Game 3 against the Angels was just a fuck-up. I'm baffled by this move. Really. I'm trying to rationalize it and I can't.