Good News for Dice-K

Congrats, Dice-K, you now have some company on my "least favorite Red Sox players" list: Eric Gagne, who may just suck more than you do. He came into today's game with a 16.20 ERA in Boston — sixteen-point-two!! — and then he gave up a two-run home run to Miguel Tejada in the bottom of the 8th, which tied the game at 3-3. Your teammate has now given up seven runs with the Red Sox, just one less than he had given up when he was with Texas the entire first part of the season, and he hasn't even pitched five full innings for us yet! And then the Sox end up losing the game — thanks to a walk-off three-run homer by Kevin Millar, of all people. Now the Yankees are just four games behind in second place. Jeez ... Who'da thunk this trade would turn out so badly?