One game out isn't good enough this year

I'm still convinced, despit Torontos nose dive, the wild card won't be coming out of the East this year. So, one game back is not the best place to be. One game up is.
Boston Red Sox, Major League Baseball - CBS SportsLine.com

You are only one game behind the Yankees in the American League East race. Not a terrible position to reside at all. I believe they call that being in the thick of it. Yet all I hear from my Sox friends, from you Sox types, is how the world is coming to an end. We're dead, we're toast. We're dog meat. We're not going to win it.

Three games taken from Baltimore is great, but there are still nine games against the Yankees to worry about.

And I'm starting to believe the only help the Sox are going to get is from themselves (I really wish they'd picked up a middle reliever). So, live or die, this is the pitching staff the Sox have to go with. That ERA column doesn't exactly inspire joy in my heart.

No.	Player	P	GP	GS	W	L	SV	SVO	CG	SHO	R	ERA	IP	SO	BB	AVG
38	Curt Schilling	SP	25	25	14	5	0	0	0	0	72	3.89	166.2	149	22	.268
19	Josh Beckett	SP	24	24	13	6	0	0	0	0	86	4.92	146.1	120	46	.246
18	Jason M. Johnson	SP	19	19	3	11	0	0	0	0	77	6.26	102.0	47	33	.337
49	Tim Wakefield	SP	19	19	7	8	0	0	1	0	62	4.14	119.2	80	43	.233
62	Jon Lester	SP	13	13	6	2	0	0	0	0	33	4.09	72.2	54	36	.283
30	Matt Clement	SP	12	12	5	5	0	0	0	0	50	6.61	65.1	43	38	.291
55	Lenny DiNardo	SP	7	5	1	2	0	0	0	0	21	7.11	25.1	15	12	.367
52	Kyle Snyder	P	9	5	3	2	0	0	0	0	27	6.23	30.1	28	9	.331
16	David Wells	SP	5	5	1	2	0	0	0	0	22	6.23	26.0	13	5	.354
60	David Pauley	SP	3	3	0	2	0	0	0	0	14	7.88	16.0	10	6	.419