Columnist Hyperbole: Yesterday, we said the Red Sox’ defeat was not a watershed. WWL columnist Howard Bryant disagrees. “Dustin Pedroia’s soft floater curled downward into the open, waiting glove of Erick Aybar to end the 2009 postseason for the Boston Red Sox, and the old inevitability of a momentous, improbable and historic comeback gave way to a new one: The Red Sox as we knew them are dead.” Wow. (ESPN Bahstahn)