GOODBYE SEPTEMBER, HELLO OCTOBER

Let the playoffs begin. The Red Sox came into this week's action having already clinched a playoff spot. But the team still had work to be done; the AL East crown and home field advantage throughout the playoffs.
Good news, both goals were accomplished. The team welcomed Oakland into the Fens and won both games. Not only did the two wins even the season series at 4-4 versus Oakland, the Sox came even closer to clinching. The last 4 games witnessed the good guys welcoming in Minnesota. The team lost the opener 5-4 despite two chances with the bases loaded in the final frame. The following night the club bounced back and won, which coupled with a Yankees devastating loss gave the Red Sox their first division crown since 1995. After finishing 2nd to the Yanks in basically all those years, the team finally took the division. The good guys lost the division to the pinstripes during the final weekend a couple years back, thus this time was sweet. Congrats.
Then the Sox clinched home field throughout the following night after a win over the Twins coupled with an Indians loss. The team won every possible scenario in the regular season and finished with the best record in baseball (despite a close loss on the final day of the regular season). The team almost blew it but held on. The Yanks, Angels and Indians are the other three teams. The Sox welcome the halos into town starting on Wednesday. The Sox also got to choose which playoff schedule they wanted via the best record in MLB.
The Sox did well against the Angels in the regular season and have 3 hot starting pitchers going in Dice-K, Schilling and Beckett. Manny came back this week and Ortiz and Drew are really hot.
Meanwhile, the Patriots were off today but play on MNF versus the Bengals. So the next weekend edition of this blog will have a wrapup of the Red Sox/Angels series and two Pats games. The Pats welcome in the Browns 6 days after the Bengals game.
Congrats to the Billerica Indians football program, which should move from #4 to either #3 or #2. They beat a good Andover team and p[lay again next weekend.
The B.C. Eagles football team got off to their best start in over 50 years by defeating UMass 24-14. They moved from being #11 to #6 in the ESPN Coaches Poll (#12 to #7 AP poll)in the national college football polls! Amazing stuff! The program has not been in the top 10 since 1992. The Eagles are favorites next week as they welcome Bowling Green into Chestnut Hill before heading on the road to take on Notre Dame and Virginia Tech. Go Eagles!
Lastly, the black and gold open their season this upcoming Friday in Dallas. As you all may know from earlier posts, I am an avid hockey fan so expect some predictions by week's end.
And if you think I got the nickname "the prophet" for nothing' you're wrong. My predictions stand strong. Look at my football and baseball posts from earlier this year with my forecasts. Speaking of that, the Olympia took place this weekend and my foreshadowing was close. I got 4 of the 5 correct, including Cutler first and Martinez second. Congrats Jay.