Bud Selig said that they will probably consider contraction if Boston loses at least 4 games. Selig said, "The franchise will probably be dead after that(Red Sox lossing 4 or 5 games to the Yanks) seeing as how only lunatics and people with bad taste cheer for them. We probably should have done it sooner seeing as how it takes them over 80 years to get their shit together. Contraction is probably the best way to go and it will give a baseball franchise to a more deserving city like Las Vegas, Mexico City or San Juan Puerto Rico or even a third team in NYC."
