Final Score
Red Sox 6
Blue Jays 7

Time to Pull the Plug: O.K…O.K! Enough already. Wave the white flag. We surrender!

The time has come my friends, to end the Matt Clement experiment. It’s not going to happen for him, and if by some miracle it does, it won’t be here in Boston. The guy just doesn’t have “it,� whatever “it� is.

Watch his face when Terry Francona goes to take him out of the game. “Welcome Matt� won’t even look his manager in the eye. He can’t. Not after mouthing off about being skipped in the rotation against the Yankees a few weeks back. Also, watch his face the minute a baserunner gets on against him. It’s like he’s scared out there. It’s getting pathetic, and it’s getting downright disastrous for a team that is fighting hard for a World Series.

To the Red Sox credit, they hung tough and almost made a remarkable comeback against a Cy Young winner and a team that’s given them fits all year. Last night very nearly turned into a joyous comeback. But the 6-Love hole their starting pitcher put them in was just too much for Boston’s Boys of Summer to overcome in the end.

Perhaps it’s too soon to rush the minor leaguers. Maybe the veteran options available in trade right now aren’t very attractive or would cost too much to acquire. But the Sox can’t continue to trot this guy out there every 5th day. Not if they want to make a serious run at the playoffs in the ultra-competitive American League.

What do YOU think? Time to pull the plug on Mr. Clement? What are our options?