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General Discussions => No Glove No Love => Topic started by: Drew_Kingsley on March 30, 2004, 09:07:31 am
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Figured I\'d start the ball rolling. It\'s 9:00am on opening day, and we\'re already 1/2 game ahead of the Yankees. I can feel it... our year.
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these young people have no sense of history.....when are you gonna learn that march, april and may are not september and october...the difference between a fenway frank and a yankee stadium frank is........they don\'t serve fenway franks in october.... just keep feelin it...but it\'s only your month
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man one of the joys of being in CT the yankees red sox rivalry ... F the Yanks!! ha ha there I said it the first one of the season!!
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Oh geez...Here we go
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The King finally steps up to the plate....
I have the feeling this year too. Last year I did not. Every game we won in the series was accompanied by a huge feeling of amazement. Not this year though. This year we are expecting it!
Duane is right about one thing though: march, april and may are not september and october....
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Are u all high? Drew is right on the ball. The WHOLE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BASEBALL and other sports is THE JOURNEY. From game 1 through game 162, the ups and downs, the injuries, the speculations. It\'s ALL A PART OF BASEBALL. If you can not get into the season from the get go why bother? I have heard all of the arguments abt how most of the season does not count etc. etc. and it always comes down to the casual fan does not have the perserverence or stamina to support a Baseball team from start to finish.
You go Drew though The Angels are gonna run through yo\' Red Sox ;)
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Originally posted by Drew_Kingsley
Figured I\'d start the ball rolling. It\'s 9:00am on opening day, and we\'re already 1/2 game ahead of the Yankees. I can feel it... our year.
:lol: :lol: enjoy your half game lead folks, it\'s gonna last all of. . . I dunno, I say a week, then you\'re in the rearview AGAIN!
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Originally posted by leith
. The WHOLE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BASEBALL and other sports is THE JOURNEY. ..You go Drew though The Angels are gonna run through yo\' Red Sox ;)
I totally agree. I wait all year for baseball season! I even go to spring training games. MAN, I love baseball.
Living here in Boston I must admit I have become a Red Sox fan... Though I do root for the Angels as well, but my heart is with the Padres, even though they suck!
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Originally posted by Giavanna
I totally agree. I wait all year for baseball season! I even go to spring training games. MAN, I love baseball.
Living here in Boston I must admit I have become a Red Sox fan... Though I do root for the Angels as well, but my heart is with the Padres, even though they suck!
Giavanna since I moved to SD in \'90 I have always continued to support my hometeam Angels(born in OC). After the Fire Sale in \'94 I became a Padre fan mainly due to my belief that unless the team is in Direct conflict w/ your hometeam you root for the team in the city you live in.
I have fallen in love w/ the Padres and am a major supporter of this team. Have you been to Petco ? IT IS AWESOME!!!!! The team they have built this year DOES NOT SUCK. DO NOT BE SURPRISED TO SEE THIS TEAM WIN ITS DIVISION. Go PADS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Originally posted by oldnewbie
when are you gonna learn that march, april and may are not september and october
In terms of the post season, you\'re right. But in terms of the regular season, a win is still a win and a loss is still a loss. While I agree with the whole philosophy of "finishing strong" on your way into the playoffs (see the 2000 - 2003 LA Lakers for how NOT to do this... but that\'s another thread), the first 20 games don\'t count any less than the last 20.
Originally posted by oldnewbie
these young people have no sense of history
It\'s easy to have a sense of history when you\'ve lived through so much of it. The last time Duane was at Yankee Stadium, everybody starting chanting \'1918\' and he had a flashback to his high school graduation.
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By the way, my guess is this thread will be 200 pages by September... especially if we have enough semi-off-topic posts like this one.
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A win or a loss in April counts the same as one in September.
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Originally posted by leith
Are u all high? Drew is right on the ball. The WHOLE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BASEBALL and other sports is THE JOURNEY. From game 1 through game 162, the ups and downs, the injuries, the speculations. It\'s ALL A PART OF BASEBALL. If you can not get into the season from the get go why bother? I have heard all of the arguments abt how most of the season does not count etc. etc. and it always comes down to the casual fan does not have the perserverence or stamina to support a Baseball team from start to finish.
You go Drew though The Angels are gonna run through yo\' Red Sox ;)
Now Leith, I was not saying it\'s not about "the journey," and I was certainly not saying I\'m not "getting into the season" yet. Just the opposite. All I was saying by agreeing with Duane on that one moot point is that you can\'t count your chickens... No reason to not be fuckin excited about those chickens, I just won\'t start counting em yet.
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Originally posted by jocelyn
I just won\'t start counting em yet.
When you do start counting, make sure that you\'re wearing sandals. You\'ll be able to count twice as high.
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Glad to hear the Pads aren\'t gonna suck. I haven\'t been able to pay too much attention. I\'m gettin ready to move and I\'ve already cancelled my paper and shut off the cable. Plus I\'m at school almost twelve hours everyday... Man I can\'t wait to get outta here, but that\'s for another thread...
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Originally posted by Drew_Kingsley
When you do start counting, make sure that you\'re wearing sandals. You\'ll be able to count twice as high.
Oh wow Drew that\'s a really great idea, thanks for sharing your secrets with me.
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Well everyone, I just had to re-post this considering there\'s an obvious outbreak of Yankees-Red Sox fever in the air. This was posted hours before Game 7 of the Yankees-Red Sox ALCS last year, and I\'m predicting the exact same scenario this season with few name substitutions to be decided at a later date (for players like Clemens, etc.). And for the record, Cubs beat the Astros in this year\'s NLCS and defeat Yankees in the World Series.
Pitch
October 16, 2003
Oh the tangled webs we weave when the Yanks fail to relieve
As a Mets fan of 20 years who\'s been in exile since April I\'d like to offer a prediction:
Red Sox 1, Yankees 0 in 17 innings. It breaks down like this:
Roger Clemens, despite hitting six batters, will pitch a no-hitter for 10 innings, before being relieved by Mariano Rivera, who will escape bases-loaded, no-out jams in 11th and 12th innings. Pedro Martinez will hit 10 batters, walk six batters and allow 1 hit, a single to Enrique Wilson of course, but will shockingly induce 8 double-play ground outs, 4 from Jason Giambi, before leaving after 8 innings with a pitch-count of 232.
He will be relieved by Tim Wakefield, who will strike out every batter for the duration of the game, except Giambi, who will ground out every time in what would have been double plays had anybody had been on base.
In the top of the 17th inning, Jeff Weaver, chocking on the dust he\'s collected from sitting in the Yankees bullpen, will allow a two-out triple to Todd Walker. Joe Torre will then elect to intentionally walk Garciaparra and Ramirez to load the bases, after which Weaver will promptly balk home Walker with the go-ahead run before an 0-2 pitch to Kevin Millar to give the Sox the 1-0 lead.
In the bottom of the 17th, Tim Wakefield takes the mound to face Giambi, who at this point is approximately 0-for-12. Torre, upset at his pricy slugger, calls upon Don Zimmer to pinch hit. Wakefield throws a 27-mile-per-hour fastball off Zimmer\'s ass and the ball bounces back to Wakefield. Zimmer charges Wakefield, but runs out of breath while trying to rush up the mound, and immediately retires from baseball, then goes and blubbers about it at a press conference that nobody attends because the game is still being played. Meanwhile, with Giambi on first, who was allowed to re-enter and pinch run for Zimmer because the Yanks have nobody left, Wakefield throws a knuckleball to first base to pick off Giambi for the first out. Grady Little then stuns the crowd by removing Wakefield and activating Byung-Yun Kim off the inactive roster to, "do an outstanding job to reverse an outstanding curse and defeat an oustanding Yankees team." Kim immediately walks the bases loaded, then gets Nick Johnson to pop up to Varitek behind the plate, who applies the tag to Bernie Williams, who tried to score from third.
Byung-Yun Kim is named ALCS MVP, Zimmer\'s press conference runs for three days and interrupts Fox\'s coverage of Sweaty Fuck Bungalow, Pedro Martinez and Roger Clemens quit baseball, attend musician\'s school, and join Herbie Hancock\'s band to promote the re-release of "Headhunters," and Jeff Weaver and the dope who interfered at Wrigley Field the other night are fried alive in goat milk on pay-per-view to benefit the Foundation Against Overpaid Pitchers and Selfish Jerks Who Put Their Own Needs to Collect Souveniers Ahead of Those Who Are Trying to Get Their Team in the World Series for the First Time in Fifty Years After Having Just Worked Their Ass Off for the Past Six Months (really, a marvelous organization).
Oh yeah, the Red Sox will sweep the Marlins in the World Series and the Mets will trade their entire team, except for Jorge Velandia of course, to the Sox for Tim Wakefield, who will start every game next season as the Mets go 162-0, and get swept by the Don Zimmer-managed Brewers in the first round.
It\'s been a great October. Let\'s keep it going. Best sport ever.
Chris Pitch
Remember, the only the curse is having inferior pitching.
In reterospect....
Ah, what a trip down memory lane. I came so close to nailing it exactly. My biggest problem for this year\'s re-predicted scenario is who will replace Zimmer? Maybe Mattingly?
Pitch
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no offense leith but anybody west of say newark should stay the hell out of this one....it\'ll get ugly
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SCREW THE RED SOX I WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER 1986 DAMN IT !!!!!!!!!
I only hate the Yanks because they are in NYC and i hate all NYC teams and the Angels have had their # the past 5 yrs. (Angels have the best record against them the past 5 yrs. for some reason.)
SO sorry Duane but anytime the Bosox get props I gotta throw down.
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An hour and a half and counting.... let\'s see how our disabled boys can do!
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leith,is reggie jackson still playing for the angels??
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LOL ser the funniest post i have ever read from you bro\' Right the fuck on!!
and no but we got Vlad and some pitching finally.
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hey,wally joyner still on the roster??
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You need to stop rite now \'cause that was too spooky. i was totally gonna make a Wally comment but blew it off. Na we still got Brian Downing as a hitting instructor though we pissed of Carew somehow I think. Oh well as long as Bobby Grich still comes around I\'m cool.
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Season prediction:
In June, Nomar goes down with career ending ACL tear while fielding a routine grounder (a la John Valentin.) Sox trade Ramirez and Martinez to Yankees for A-rod. Good trade on the Sox\' part, knowing that Ramirez and Martinez were each only a couple of years away from becoming Yankees anyways. Plus, A-Rod is is pumped to be back at shortstop, and claims at his introductory press conference that he never wanted to be a Yankee.
Yankees win division by 3 games, Sox take wild card. ALCS game 7, Yankees are 5 outs away from winning and leading 5-1. Sox score 3 runs on Pedro in the eighth. With men on 2nd and 3rd and one out, score 5-4, Torre sticks with Pedro. Pedro the Yankee then cooly strikes out A-Rod and Ortiz, Rivera mops up 9th, Yanks take series, get swept by Astros in World Series with Clemens getting the complete game shutout in game 4 at Yankee Stadium.
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Originally posted by Wolfman
Season prediction:
In June, Nomar goes down with career ending ACL tear while fielding a routine grounder (a la John Valentin.) Sox trade Ramirez and Martinez to Yankees for A-rod. Good trade on the Sox\' part, knowing that Ramirez and Martinez were each only a couple of years away from becoming Yankees anyways. Plus, A-Rod is is pumped to be back at shortstop, and claims at his introductory press conference that he never wanted to be a Yankee.
Yankees win division by 3 games, Sox take wild card. ALCS game 7, Yankees are 5 outs away from winning and leading 5-1. Sox score 3 runs on Pedro in the eighth. With men on 2nd and 3rd and one out, score 5-4, Torre sticks with Pedro. Pedro the Yankee then cooly strikes out A-Rod and Ortiz, Rivera mops up 9th, Yanks take series, get swept by Astros in World Series with Clemens getting the complete game shutout in game 4 at Yankee Stadium.
Did u send any of what you\'re smokin\' w/ the guys? I sure hope so!
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Nice start to the season. A bunch a birds beat up on ya. Well there\'s always tomorrow.
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yeah ugly ugly ugly... fucking Boston pitching!
m-i-c, k-e-y......
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Sox are in last place! Brooklyn Bridge, here I come!
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In Godzilla We Trust
GO YANKS!!!!!
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BTW if this becomes the ONE and ONLY Baseball 2004 thread, the over/under is 792 responses by Halloween.
P.S. Pop quiz: Who can be the first person to name the other way that the number 792 is significant to baseball?
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I believe this is the only and only BOSTON RED SOX thread. Not just baseball in general. Therefore, all of you Yanks fans coming on here to fluff your team, GET YOUR OWN DAMN THREAD!
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Nah, Yankees fans are welcome, I think there should be one baseball thread and that\'s it. Can you beleive I now live just 3.2 miles from Yankee Stadium? (aka Death Star.) Yikes! Were it not for the Harlem River, I could walk to the stadium! As it is, the subway can get me there in about 7.
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GO Angels !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ya boooooooooooooooy!
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Well, Drew started the thread and is the only other confirmed Boston fan on here so we will have to see what he says about it. I say, NY get your own thread! I don\'t want "GO YANKS!" in my boys\' thread!
Seth if I lived that close to Yankee Stadium I would defintiely catch a game or two.
oh and also aJwvof and I believe Boston may have recruited Giavanna as a fan!
So yeah we\'ll have to go with a majority vote
(edited to condense 3 posts into 1!)
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Geez Joce, could you inflate your post total any more? Look at those 3 posts in a row, all within 2 minutes of each other, all 1 sentence long. Just so you know, you can use the spacebar twice between sentences and actually put more than one thought into the same post. :cartman: :scooby:
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Well, if it weren\'t for the ridiculous no-edit policy, we wouldn\'t have this problem no would we? If I thought of something I wanted to add, I could just edit it in without having to create a whole new post!
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That\'s right baby! Red Sox! (and the Padres) :banana:
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What is the no-edit policy you speak of? I can\'t find it anywhere. The edit button works just fine for me when I need to use it. That\'s what it\'s there for. Can you show me a copy of the no-edit policy? I\'d feel bad if I have been violating a forum policy.
BTW for all gamblers, due to Jocelyn\'s 1-sentence-per-post limit, the over/under for this thread\'s responses has just jumped to 861 by Halloween. Still waiting for someone to respond to the significance of the number 792 though.
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Yeah Go Padres ( and Angels) !!! Face it this is a baseball thread now.
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Originally posted by Wolfman
What is the no-edit policy you speak of? I can\'t find it anywhere. The edit button works just fine for me when I need to use it. That\'s what it\'s there for. Can you show me a copy of the no-edit policy? I\'d feel bad if I have been violating a forum policy.
I believe she is refering to the policy informally placed upon the forum by a select few trouble makers who will go nameless( u know who u are. ) I edit all the time but sometimes it just does not show if edited right away i believe. Joc edit away edit away u r free free I say!
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this is what I love and hate about Red Sox fans. They never seem to know when to stop talking, heh. And the same holds true for Patriots fans too, but we\'ll leave that for another day. Anywho, last week when the Yankees got beat by the Devil Rays, every Sox fan I ran into during the day (who all know I am a Yankees fan) couldn\'t help but run their mouth, "hey man, what happened?; hey man, you guys can\'t even beat the Devil Rays." It amazes me that every time the Red Sox lose a game they have nothing to say at all, and if I were to give them an "aww, they got spanked by the Orioles" today I\'d get the evilest look imaginable and probably get ignored until the Sox won 3 in a row and then I\'d get the "Oh hell yea kid! watch out new york, we\'re on a winning streak!"
So I ask you Beantown fans out there, why is this? Are you the same way? What is the \'high\' Sox fans get out of rubbin it in when the Yankees lose?
And Wolf, great prediction, but I\'ll go with Nomar goes out for a month with a broken toenail and then comes back only to go out for the rest of the year with an ACL tear from playing soccer with the wife
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Originally posted by Wolfman
Still waiting for someone to respond to the significance of the number 792 though.
Amount of career doubles for Tris Speaker, the MLB record in the category since 1928. And the significance of 1928? Only ten years after 1918 ;)
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after red sox game one.....last place
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Originally posted by antbach
this is what I love and hate about Red Sox fans. They never seem to know when to stop talking, heh. And the same holds true for Patriots fans too, but we\'ll leave that for another day. Anywho, last week when the Yankees got beat by the Devil Rays, every Sox fan I ran into during the day (who all know I am a Yankees fan) couldn\'t help but run their mouth, "hey man, what happened?; hey man, you guys can\'t even beat the Devil Rays." It amazes me that every time the Red Sox lose a game they have nothing to say at all, and if I were to give them an "aww, they got spanked by the Orioles" today I\'d get the evilest look imaginable and probably get ignored until the Sox won 3 in a row and then I\'d get the "Oh hell yea kid! watch out new york, we\'re on a winning streak!"
So I ask you Beantown fans out there, why is this? Are you the same way? What is the \'high\' Sox fans get out of rubbin it in when the Yankees lose?
Now Ant, since Boston ran around Baltimore like a bunch of chickens with their heads cut off last night, there have been so many Yankees fans that have jumped all over it right quick. (example: "after game one... last place.") There is equal ribbing on both sides I believe. Are you trying to say that Yankess fans are always gracious and mature about the Red Sox season? Yeah right.
Also, most of the Boston fans I know are quick to comment when their team is playing poorly. We still hold faith regardless of the outcome, which some say is stupid and I say is what makes the nation the nation, but we know when our guys aren\'t up to par. Read my post from last night, which was posted I think before the 7th was even through, maybe the 8th.
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Now now joc, I didnt say Yankee fans dont do some rubbing in themselves, but in my own experiences I have been on the latter end. I for one know that MOST Yankee fans don\'t do the sort only because, well, simply, we don\'t have to ;). But like I said, my friends who are Red Sox fans, even people I don\'t talk to on a regular basis, seem to
feel the need to make it a point that the Yankees lost. Even after the Yankees beat the Sox last year in the ALCS they made it a point to call my phone after the Marlins won to rub it in, what is the need for such a call? I had to shut my phone off after the Super Bowl too. Only New England sports fans can show so much passion to feel the need to hassle a non Patriots/Red Sox fan at any given time.
Note: this post probably makes no sense since I feel as I just completely blabbled my way through it, but I just can\'t put it correctly on paper/type my view, heh.
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whats wrong cant take a little hasslin\'? new york fans are sallys
(totally just playin)
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No way that was totally coherent I know what you\'re trying to say. I do have to comment that every time I am in the New Haven area, not even in fucking NY, I get hassled all night by Yankees fans. Regardless of how the teams are actually playing. Also I got 3 phone calls last night after 2 AM which were NY fans (well 1 was an Orioles fan) just calling to rub it in. I really think it goes both ways. BUT you are right, a Boston fan will probably never turn down the opportunity to give a NYer a hard time. It\'s an inherent part of a Masshole\'s personality. We can\'t help it. It\'s a part of who we are. You have to either love us or hate us, and we totally understand if you hate us. We just don\'t care! :D :stoned:
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Originally posted by Gfunk
whats wrong cant take a little hasslin\'? new york fans are sallys
(totally just playin)
not when it\'s uneeded, not when new york beat boston to get where they were even though they lost, not when it\'s a football game and I could care less who won/lost.,
Originally posted by jocelyn
I do have to comment that every time I am in the New Haven area, not even in fucking NY, I get hassled all night by Yankees fans.
well, yes, heh, that will happen especially if you go into Richters, my brother being the main ball buster from the corner especially if he\'s been drinking for a while and someone has a Sox hat on. There are plenty of Sox fans in New Haven though, ya just have to search for em ;)
Originally posted by jocelyn
I really think it goes both ways. BUT you are right, a Boston fan will probably never turn down the opportunity to give a NYer a hard time. . .You have to either love us or hate us, and we totally understand if you hate us.
I\'m sure it works both ways, don\'t get me wrong. But it just gets to me when people rub it in my face, that\'s all. I don\'t call them, so why bother me? And as for the love or hate us, thats exactly it, it\'s great so I love the Boston fans for their passion, but I hate that their passion extends beyond the game. And it does go beyond the game, that\'s what sickens me. How on earth can you actually approve of a \'Yankees Suck\' chant at a rally for the Patriots Super Bowl win? That\'s what disgusts me, that Boston fans can\'t even celebrate something, I\'m personally afraid of a Red Sox World Series win cos that\'s all that will be heard in Boston for months, is Yankees suck, then us Yanks fans will have to walk around with t-shirts saying "Us 26, Them 2"
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Yeah it does go beyond the game, because, for many Boston fans, it is more than I game, it is a huge part of their life that was instilled from as soon as they were young enough to go to Fenway with their fathers. I myself leave it in the "game" status. But many don\'t. It may be annoying to NYers, but, it\'s pretty amazing from my end of the table!
BTW, a "Yankees Suck!" chant is always appropriate. Any time, any place. ;)
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Originally posted by jocelyn
Yeah it does go beyond the game, because, for many Boston fans, it is more than I game, it is a huge part of their life that was instilled from as soon as they were young enough to go to Fenway with their fathers. I myself leave it in the "game" status. But many don\'t. It may be annoying to NYers, but, it\'s pretty amazing from my end of the table!
BTW, a "Yankees Suck!" chant is always appropriate. Any time, any place. ;)
I wouldn\'t say it\'s annoying, it\'s more of a. . .. . let\'s say. . . .hassle, yea that\'ll work. It\'s a hassle for people like me for sure, when I\'m more of a die-hard Bruins fan than a Yankees fan (hockey was a much bigger part of my life than baseball) and go to a Bruins game to hear Yankees Sucks chants, although now that I think of it, it is kind of ammusing.
any time and any place \'eh joc? if you even dare start a Yankees Suck chant at a breakfast show in the tri-state area you may not make it out of there ;)
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Note to self: Bring enough of my Boston friends for a chant to the next Breakfast show I can make it to. Well, except for Cafe 9, it\'s too small there....
Seriously though I can\'t believe we lost a season opener! :rolleyes: It just took Pedro too long to find his groove I guess. And Timlin? What the hell!? And leaving 14 guys stranded on base!? ugh
We\'ll see how Schilling does tomorrow starting against his boys the Orioles....
(edited to add smiley to show sarcasm)
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Originally posted by Wolfman
P.S. Pop quiz: Who can be the first person to name the other way that the number 792 is significant to baseball?
Tris Speaker\'s all-time career record for doubles is 792.
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Originally posted by antbach
Amount of career doubles for Tris Speaker, the MLB record in the category since 1928. And the significance of 1928? Only ten years after 1918 ;)
had ya beat drew ;)
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Originally posted by antbach
Amount of career doubles for Tris Speaker, the MLB record in the category since 1928. And the significance of 1928? Only ten years after 1918 ;)
I guess that I completely missed this. Oh well, if there\'s one thing that I\'ve learned from being a BoSox fan it\'s that second place ain\'t bad.
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Originally posted by Drew_Kingsley
Oh well, if there\'s one thing that I\'ve learned from being a BoSox fan it\'s that second place ain\'t bad.
:point: :lollol:
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Congrats to Anthony for winning the baseball trivia. Here is the next installment:
Name another way that the number 792 is significant to baseball! (Yes, there is another, and yes, it can be figured out without any math.)
As a lifelong Sox fan who grew up with Red Sox wallpaper in his bedroom, I have to say that the Yankees Suck chant...sucks! I am sick of hearing it after 4.5 years and 2 ALCS at UMass. It is a rallying cry for the meatheads of the universe. Listen to Baker Quad 5/5/1 disc 3, and at the end of the show you can hear all the meatheads who stumbled into the quad starting this chant to drown out the Psyche-B chant. After PB played their best show ever, period, this is what some people chanted. It\'s disgusting.
Look, I\'m no saint, I go to Yankee Stadium when the Red Sox are there in my bright red Ramirez shirt with a Red Sox beach towel worn as a cape and stand on top of the bleachers getting in the eye of everyone for 5 sections and I even bring pro-Sox signs to Yankee Stadium. (Just ask Pecoraro, he had the honor of seeing me in action.) But I will not do the Yankees Suck chant.
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Originally posted by Wolfman
Congrats to Anthony for winning the baseball trivia. Here is the next installment:
Name another way that the number 792 is significant to baseball! (Yes, there is another, and yes, it can be figured out without any math.)
Look, I\'m no saint, I go to Yankee Stadium when the Red Sox are there in my bright red Ramirez shirt with a Red Sox beach towel worn as a cape and stand on top of the bleachers getting in the eye of everyone for 5 sections and I even bring pro-Sox signs to Yankee Stadium. (Just ask Pecoraro, he had the honor of seeing me in action.) But I will not do the Yankees Suck chant.
Probably not the correct answer but yahoo! gave me this, 1990 Topps Baseball card set had 792 total cards, which includes Sosa\'s rookie card. Actually now that I look at the search again most sets had 792 cards in the 80s too.
I do the same at Fenway Wolf, for Yanks/Sox games, not that far out though. I just stick with my Jorge jersey, unbottoned with my 1918 shirt under and my yanks cap.
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Originally posted by Wolfman
Name another way that the number 792 is significant to baseball! (Yes, there is another, and yes, it can be figured out without any math.)
There are 792 baseball cards in a complete set of any year (this is at least true of Topps).
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Wow, you guys are good. I was looking for someone to get really nasty on me and give both answers the first time, but that\'s incredible work on both of your parts, I thought the cards in a complete set would come out much faster than the doubles record. I guess the Internet really does have all the answers.
Round 3:
What famous event took place the same day Fenway Park opened?
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Originally posted by Wolfman
Round 3:
What famous event took place the same day Fenway Park opened?
Detroit Tigers Stadium opened also?
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Originally posted by leith
Detroit Tigers Stadium opened also?
If that\'s the correct answer, I believe it was just called Tiger\'s Stadium
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don\'t know about famous event, but my extensive 30 second research says it was on 4:20
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oh, and two more
1. they beat the team now known as the Yankees
2. the titanic sank a few days earlier
and yes, leith, tiger stadium opened the same day
any more brain busters for a not-tired-drunken-Ant?
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Originally posted by Wolfman
What famous event took place the same day Fenway Park opened?
Not even breaking a sweat... The Titanic sank. Go figure. (Interestingly enough, Tiger Stadium opened the same day. It was also 420 [April 20th, 1912])
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These questions are getting popular. I thought that I was the only "random sports fact sponge" on the board.
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Originally posted by Drew_Kingsley
Not even breaking a sweat... The Titanic sank. Go figure. (Interestingly enough, Tiger Stadium opened the same day. It was also 420 [April 20th, 1912])
Close but it sank around the end of the 14th into 15th as far as can be figured.
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Anyway, back to the BoSox related chatter. It turns out that we don\'t get NESN at Fairfield (that\'s the New England Sports Network for you non-Northeasterners). Thus I\'ll be taking the ESPN.com route to keep an eye on this game. The Curt Schilling Experience begins tonight...
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Yeah I\'m excited for this game and considering skipping school to go to the bar to watch it. I wanna see his first start against his ex-team mates.
Schilling is one intense dude.
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Johnny Crash Damon! lmao!
he did call that one though
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:asskicked :banghead: :slap: :bomb: BULLPEN :confused: :doh: :huh: :jawdrop: :no: :scared: :shock2: :sigh:
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Under .500. Gee, that Brooklyn Bridge looks nicer every day...
How\'s this for mandatory hipocracy: We (Sam Adams) are doing promos around Yankee Stadium when the Red Sox come into town and the slogan is "Sam Adams: The Only Good Thing To Ever Come Out Of Boston." Ouch!
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Originally posted by antbach
oh, and two more
1. they beat the team now known as the Yankees
2. the titanic sank a few days earlier
and yes, leith, tiger stadium opened the same day
any more brain busters for a not-tired-drunken-Ant?
The Titanic was the correct answer, it was actually the same day. I dunno if that one game was a famous event in world history!
ROUND FOUR: Without surfing all over the net to find the answer, what is Roger Clemens\' first name?
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Originally posted by Wolfman
The Titanic was the correct answer, it was actually the same day. I dunno if that one game was a famous event in world history!
ROUND FOUR: Without surfing all over the net to find the answer, what is Roger Clemens\' first name?
Close but it sank around the end of the 14th into 15th as far as can be figured.
round4 could it be Roger?
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Since when do outfielders cover as pitchers?
geesh! What an opening day. This town was crazy!
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Originally posted by leith
Close but it sank around the end of the 14th into 15th as far as can be figured.
round4 could it be Roger?
That\'s right, it set sail the same day Fenway opened, sank 2 days later. My bad. Well, the people got it anyways.
Roger is not the correct answer. Roger is Roger Clemens\' middle name.
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Originally posted by Giavanna
What an opening day. This town was crazy!
Ah yes, lovely opening day at Fenway. I skipped school junior and senior year of high school to go. Myself and a friend got in line at 4:30AM each time. Year 1 we were 3 and 4 in line, year 2 we were 8 and 9. Opening Day 1998 was really really ridiculous...the Sox were down 7-2 going into the bottom of the ninth, and only about 1000 people were left watching, I mean, it was totally empty because it was cold and all the hotshots who got hooked up with opening day tickets didn\'t care. Heathcliff Slocumb is on to close for Seattle, we had traded him in the offseason because he blew about 70 saves for us the year before. The Sox score seven runs, and finish it off on a grand slam by Mo Vaughn. I\'ve never hugged so many strangers before, it was WILD!
That game was also funny because, just like this year, it was Good Friday and Passover. Because of this, there were no alcohol sales at Fenway Park, a fairly controversial decision for opening day. So I made a big sign that said "If I Wanted To Be Dry, I Would Have Used More Speed Stick." (Keep in mind that I\'m 17.) I had this out while we\'re sitting in line all morning, and all the TV and radio crews that interview the diehard fans sitting in line all morning came straight to us. We did all these interviews pretending that we were 21. At noon we were in a restaurant eating lunch and saw ourselves on TV 3 different times. A bartender there saw us on TV and our desperate pleas for alcohol sales, and gave us each 2 rounds on the house. That\'s the first time I ever got served at a bar. All in all a fun day, Ferris Bueller would have deemed it quite worthy.
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Ah Ferris, if only you had caught a foul ball with your bare hand...
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I\'ve got to start checking the board more often when I\'m at home. I was sure that somebody would have this by now.
The Rocket\'s first name is William.
Oh, and you may say that his middle name is Roger, but we Boston fans know that he actually has the same middle name as Bucky Dent and Aaron Boone.
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Originally posted by Drew_Kingsley
The Rocket\'s first name is William.
Point, Kingsley. That puts the score at Drew 3 (cards in a set, Titanic, William), Anthony 3 (doubles record, cards in a set, Titanic), and leith .5 a point for the Titanic correction.
Round 5: What is the secret message on the Green Monster? (OK, it\'s obviously not completely secret, but it\'s quite inconspicuous.)
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Originally posted by Wolfman
Round 5: What is the secret message on the Green Monster? (OK, it\'s obviously not completely secret, but it\'s quite inconspicuous.)
The only "inconspicuous" thing I know of about the Green Monster is that there is a room behind the scoreboard. But I assume that ain\'t the answer.
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Question 5 Funny u ask this funnier that me a best coast guy gets it I think. The initials of the owners are in the Monster but in Morse Code. The owners b4 the ones now Yawkey\'s or something like that.
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Point leith! The initials of Thomas Yawkey and Jean Yawkey are written in Morse in the white borders between sections of the scoreboard on the Monster. Very good coming from someone on the west coast indeed!
Round 6: What is freakishly ironic about the Red Sox\' retired numbers above the right field grandstands? (Just the Sox\' numbers, not Jackie Robinson\'s #42.)
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Originally posted by Wolfman
Round 6: What is freakishly ironic about the Red Sox\' retired numbers above the right field grandstands? (Just the Sox\' numbers, not Jackie Robinson\'s #42.)
Ha! This is one of dad\'s favorite bits of trivia (However it\'s now incorrect).
The Red Sox retired the numbers of (in this order): Ted Williams (9), Joe Cronin (4), Bobby Doerr (1), and Carl Yastrzemski (8). The date that Red Sox won their last World Series was September 4th, 1918... 9/4/18.
BUT... The Red Sox have since retired Carlton Fisk\'s #27. So I want a bonus point, damnit. :)
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Here a random funny one:
If you watch the show futurama, in the year 3000, baseball has finnally been \'jazzed up\' and renamed "Blernsball" so that its not so boring (now it is utterly imposible to understand whats going on). Regardless, The New New York Mets players all have fractions for numbers, because "All the Whole numbers have been retired". However, at one point they play the Boston red soxs, and you see a player with the number 24 on his jersey...
Aside from this meaning that they were in expo or world series status when the game was played, you should be happy to know the sign outside Shea reads "Home of the Mets, world champions, 1969, 1984." Apparently the Mets don\'t get any better over the next few hundred years :P
also for you sox fans:
ESPN Classic this afternoon (4/16) is red sox non-stop
12 noon - The 2003 ALCS: A rivalry renewed
1p - 1996 NYY @ Fenway
4p - The babe and the billygoat: Reverse the curse?
5p - The 2003 ALCS: A rivalry renewed (again)
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last night was great!!! I love watching pedro get hammered, it makes me happy :) and Miguel in the 12th, I called that one. its good to know that watching the Sox lose in extra innings made me not as down after the Bruins downfall
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Originally posted by Drew_Kingsley
Ha! This is one of dad\'s favorite bits of trivia (However it\'s now incorrect).
The Red Sox retired the numbers of (in this order): Ted Williams (9), Joe Cronin (4), Bobby Doerr (1), and Carl Yastrzemski (8). The date that Red Sox won their last World Series was September 4th, 1918... 9/4/18.
i was once painting a house for an old guy (he was charles nagy\'s uncle) he was in his 70\'s and loved the sox....one day he came home all excited because he had recently received a book on the sox and on the back it had these four numbers largely displayed this prompted him to play the number and he had hit it that day for about 5 grand....needless to say we adjourned to his fridge in the garage for a coupleof the one beer to have when your having more than one.....he was a nice old guy....he used to visit me occasionally at the firehouse to show me something new that he\'d get sent to him from his nephew....i also had my car stereo stolen at gunpoint in front of his house....but that\'s a whole nother story having nothing to do with the sox....i\'ll tell it in the parking lot at set break at cafe 9
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Originally posted by Drew_Kingsley
Ha! This is one of dad\'s favorite bits of trivia (However it\'s now incorrect).
The Red Sox retired the numbers of (in this order): Ted Williams (9), Joe Cronin (4), Bobby Doerr (1), and Carl Yastrzemski (8). The date that Red Sox won their last World Series was September 4th, 1918... 9/4/18.
BUT... The Red Sox have since retired Carlton Fisk\'s #27. So I want a bonus point, damnit. :)
Point Drew! This is one of my alltime favorite Sox facts.
Went to the game on Thursday, had the honor of seeing Pedro get shelled for 7 runs and watched the Red Sox lose a game by five runs in 11 innings. If Pedro is pitching and the Sox score 7 runs, there should be about a 1 in 25,000 chance that they lose. (Bill James, where are you? I love you.)
Round 7: Who is baseball\'s alltime leader in losses, and why is it ironic?
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Originally posted by Wolfman
Round 7: Who is baseball\'s alltime leader in losses, and why is it ironic?
The all-time leader is Cy Young (316?) who is also the all-time leader in wins (511).
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Point Kingsley!
Interesting Sox experience Thursday night. Stayed for all 11 innings of the game in Boston against the Orioles, which the Sox lost by FIVE! Ugh. Beautiful night though. Go back to my hotel (Park Plaza) and go to the bar downstairs called Whiskey Park with a bunch of coworkers. It\'s a nice bar, mostly $10 cocktails, everyone looks good, name-on-the-list type of place, about 200 people there all between 21 and 28. At about 12:30am who walks in but Bernie Williams and Derek Jeter, with an entourage of 4 body guards. This girl I was talking to sees Bernie Williams standing next to us and recognizes him and totally starts babbling to him. He was polite to her but clearly disinterested, but she wouldn\'t stop. Bottom line is that Bernie completely cut off my conversation with this girl, but obviously she was a ditz anyways.
Round 8: (No look-ups!) Who is the alltime leader in singles?
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To be clear though, I\'m not mad at Bernie, he couldn\'t shake this girl. I actually feel bad for him...imagine being 26 or however old he is and having to go to bars with two chaperones. Somehow I doubt that the Milwaukee Brewers have the same problem. Maybe they only do the body guards in Boston, but considering how much money these guys are worth to the Yankees, my guess is that the team probably sends the bodyguards with them everywhere.
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Originally posted by Wolfman
Round 8: (No look-ups!) Who is the alltime leader in singles?
I actually don\'t know. But logic would say Pete Rose, so that\'s my gamble... errr... guess.
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Originally posted by Wolfman
I actually feel bad for him...imagine being 26 or however old he is and having to go to bars with two chaperones.
first, im surprised she didnt go after Jeter, heh, and second, I think he\'s at least 32-35, he\'s been in CF for more than 10 years
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Originally posted by Wolfman
Round 8: (No look-ups!) Who is the alltime leader in singles?
since Drew took the logical guess, I\'ll go with George Brett
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yeah, i looked up bernie, he turn 36 in september
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george brett is my all-time favorite player and i would guess that\'s......incorrect.......my guess would be ricky henderson....my thinking is that he ran many doubles into singles to pad the stolen bases....my real guess would have been rose but it seems so obvious...now i have to go look it up
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i didn\'t look it up but suddenly i think i know......my guess is wade boggs
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Originally posted by oldnewbie
i didn\'t look it up but suddenly i think i know......my guess is wade boggs
that was gonna be my second stab at it, I dont think he ever legged out a triple in his career, lol, or many doubles for that matter
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Just did some quick research... it\'s got to be Pete Rose.
Rose has 3215 career singles. Only 12 other players have at least that many total hits.
By the way, George Brett had 3154 career hits and 2035 singles. Boggs had 3010 hits and 2253 singles.
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Originally posted by Drew_Kingsley
Just did some quick research... it\'s got to be Pete Rose.
Rose has 3215 career singles. Only 12 other players have at least that many total hits.
By the way, George Brett had 3154 career hits and 2035 singles. Boggs had 3010 hits and 2253 singles.
So, you actually had the time to look up each one\'s career hit totals and subtract their doubles, triples, and home run totals to come up with those numbers ;) I noticed that no site listed # of singles and that was the only way to concoct the # of singles, but I was too lazy.
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Originally posted by antbach
So, you actually had the time to look up each one\'s career hit totals and subtract their doubles, triples, and home run totals to come up with those numbers ;) I noticed that no site listed # of singles and that was the only way to concoct the # of singles, but I was too lazy.
I admit it, I have that much free time.
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Point Kingsley. Pete Rose is the correct answer.
Great game today, let\'s see if they can take 2 of 3 in New York.
Round 9: a. A fair fly ball hits the wall, then goes off the outfielder\'s glove and over the wall. What\'s the call? b. A fair fly ball hits the outfielder\'s glove, then hits the wall then goes over the wall. What\'s the call? c. A fair fly ball hits a player in the head, then hits the wall, then hits the player\'s glove, then goes over the wall. What\'s the call?
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Originally posted by Wolfman
Point Kingsley. Pete Rose is the correct answer.
Great game today, let\'s see if they can take 2 of 3 in New York.
Round 9: a. A fair fly ball hits the wall, then goes off the outfielder\'s glove and over the wall. What\'s the call? b. A fair fly ball hits the outfielder\'s glove, then hits the wall then goes over the wall. What\'s the call? c. A fair fly ball hits a player in the head, then hits the wall, then hits the player\'s glove, then goes over the wall. What\'s the call?
A. home run
B. home run
c. home run
they are all home runs, the ball never hit the ground. . . example, canseco, hit him off the head, went over and was a home run, it never hit the ground.
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i beleive a. is a ground rule double
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My first thought would be the same as Ant\'s, but that wouldn\'t get me any credit at this point, so let\'s say:
A. Ground Rule Double
B. Home Run
C. Ground Rule Double
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wow, i really needed to reread those and wait until I was sober to answer, heh, oops. . .
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Yeah Tony, those are some pretty confusing questions for the drunken mind!
Nobody\'s gotten it completely right yet though.
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Originally posted by Wolfman
Round 9: a. A fair fly ball hits the wall, then goes off the outfielder\'s glove and over the wall. What\'s the call? b. A fair fly ball hits the outfielder\'s glove, then hits the wall then goes over the wall. What\'s the call? c. A fair fly ball hits a player in the head, then hits the wall, then hits the player\'s glove, then goes over the wall. What\'s the call?
okay, ill take a sober stab at it
I\'m gonna completely reverse my guesses from last time and go
A. ground rule double
B. ground rule double
C. ground rule double
Each using the same reasoning. Once the ball hits the wall it is the same as hitting the grass on a single, which is why it is not an out if someone catches a shot off the Green Monster in the air. In all three above cases the ball hits the wall every time before going over the wall.
Note: my logic probably sucks but I tryed, and don\'t call me Tony ;)
Edit: all assume that the ball hits the wall below the colored home run marking
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Nope. One more day with this one. Who\'s stepping up? No look-ups!
Sox rock. Can\'t wait for Sunday\'s game w/ Pedro at Yankee Stadium. If anyone knows of 2 Saturday extras let me know!
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Originally posted by Wolfman
Listen to Baker Quad 5/5/1 disc 3, and at the end of the show you can hear all the meatheads who stumbled into the quad starting this chant to drown out the Psyche-B chant. After PB played their best show ever, period, this is what some people chanted. It\'s disgusting.
i remember that... i can\'t remeber the instigator of it all, but I want to say db and peck started the 1918 and red socks suck chants first during the pb chant, which caused instant meathead retaliation of yankees suck chants, and the battle was on. great show, but it was cold as hell. Ron was playing slap all through the first set, and when I asked him why he said his hands were so cold that he couldnt move his fingers to pluck the stricgs, so he was just hitting his hand against the strings - not even a true \'slap\' style. It was freighen cold once the sun went behind the building!
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Originally posted by Wolfman
Nope. One more day with this one. Who\'s stepping up? No look-ups!
Sox rock. Can\'t wait for Sunday\'s game w/ Pedro at Yankee Stadium. If anyone knows of 2 Saturday extras let me know!
check out eBay, lots of good prices goin on there, depending on where you want to sit, I pretty much scored tickets for tomorrow nights game for $25 each, in the upper deck, but not too high, I didnt go through with it cos I checked my checking account and realized there was no money ;)
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Not trying to step on wolfs trivia game (i have no idea on the last one), but I got a couple of questions from people at work.
Here\'s the first:
Q. What was the name of the staduim the sox played in before fenway park? (current location of Northeast university)
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Originally posted by FrankZappa
Here\'s the first:
Q. What was the name of the staduim the sox played in before fenway park? (current location of Northeast university)
Huntington Ave. somethingorother, but thats where NU is ;)
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oh, and tell the damn ESPN people to stop talking about Barry Bonds!! It\'s getting sickening I swear, every friggin show I turn on there is a Barry Bonds reference, I could be watching bowling and have to hear his name!!! AHHHHH!!! To hell with Bonds!
Edit: and get rid of Kruk on baseball tonight!! He\'s terrible!! Although I\'ll admit he is getting better since the season opener, but he still sucks as an analyst!
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Originally posted by antbach
Huntington Ave. somethingorother, but thats where NU is ;)
The Huntington Avenue Grounds, to be precise.
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that one goes to drew on a technicallity for using the full name.
next question:
Q. John Talyor offically changed the name of the team to "The Red Sox" in what year, and bonus, name any of the 5 other titles they went by before this change.
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Originally posted by antbach
Edit: and get rid of Kruk on baseball tonight!! He\'s terrible!! Although I\'ll admit he is getting better since the season opener, but he still sucks as an analyst!
right, I\'ll get right on it.
Krunk, your out. Pitch, put down the snapple, you in!
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Originally posted by FrankZappa
that one goes to drew on a technicallity for using the full name.
next question:
Q. John Talyor offically changed the name of the team to "The Red Sox" in what year, and bonus, name any of the 5 other titles they went by before this change.
no 1/2 point?? blah!
Anyways:
The name change happened in 1907.
Other names included Pilgrims, Plymouth Rocks, Puritans, Speed Boys
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no half point, all you did was name a street. But I\'ll give you a half point for naming the other team names, and one I didn\'t know. I also have The Americans and The Somersets as names, but I never heard of the speed boys. I\'m going to need to find some tougher questions.
next:
Q. Who is the only red sox player in the 20th century to hit 50 or more homeruns in a season?
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Originally posted by FrankZappa
Q. Who is the only red sox player in the 20th century to hit 50 or more homeruns in a season?
Jimmie Foxx (1938?)
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yes and yes. Jimmie Foxx hit 50 in 1938, th only red sox player to ever reach that many.
moving on:
Q. The red sox set a team record for the longest winning streak with 15 games.
What year did this occur?
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The answer to my question is a. Ground Rule Double. b. Home Run C. home run.
Paul, I\'ve seen the website where you\'re getting all these questions from. Nothing wrong with that, but I just thought I\'d put it out there that my questions are 100% original!
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i answered this....ant gave three answers and i corrected the one that he had incorrect...i could have been more specific i guess but if you will re-read that portion of this thread you will clearly see that i had it right...drew, your the de facto thread manager....?? help me out.
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Originally posted by antbach
A. home run
B. home run
c. home run
they are all home runs, the ball never hit the ground. . . example, canseco, hit him off the head, went over and was a home run, it never hit the ground.
immediately followed by...
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Originally posted by oldnewbie
i beleive a. is a ground rule double
it\'s pretty clear....yeah me
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Originally posted by Wolfman
The answer to my question is a. Ground Rule Double. b. Home Run C. home run.
Okay, now, WHY!!!??? I want explanations damnit!
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i don\'t know exactly why....i\'ve just been a very big baseball fan for a very very long time and i remembered it ;)
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once it hits the wall, it either has to go out for a homer or if it touches anything else before going out, it\'s a ground rule double....that\'s the gist of it
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now go to bed....you must have class in the morning ;)
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i\'d feel much better if we had an official baseball thread instead of any specific losers :duck:
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Originally posted by Wolfman
Paul, I\'ve seen the website where you\'re getting all these questions from. Nothing wrong with that, but I just thought I\'d put it out there that my questions are 100% original!
yea, those are from a couple of web sites. One of the guys I work with gave me the links, so I figured I\'d re-post them. (I knew mine would get answered faster than yours just because of that).
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Originally posted by oldnewbie
i\'d feel much better if we had an official baseball thread instead of any specific losers :duck:
Clearly you\'ve forgotten that it was a specific loser who started this thread.
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speaing of losers, look who got spanked by the sox (yankees)!
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11-2, goodguys!
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Well, it\'s been 2 amazing days at Yankee Stadium. Each day started with serious street-side ticket swinging, buying and selling. Workin the lots baby, oh yeah. Saturday was the most beautiful day I have ever seen, and what better way to enjoy it than with a 12 inning victory! My buddy and I were in the bleachers and were treated to a nice 4 hour sampling of New York\'s Finest Meatheads. I cannot repeat anything they were saying, and they didn\'t care one bit that there were kids everywhere. We were accused of being homosexuals about 2,000 times, and there is nothing better than having 500 meatheads pointing at you and singing "Why Are You Gay" to Y.M.C.A. Thing is though, come the 12th innning, they were spent. Top of the 12th, Sox players had 2 strikes on them and instead of standing up they just sat there like it was a library, and this was before Boston even took the lead. Then bottom of the 12th, with their team down by 1, totally devastated and silent. So weak. Today, we had $40 seats but sat in the $125 seats. Nobody called us one name or responded to anything we said. We were quite tame just because it was so boring to talk trash and have everyone just politely listen. But when Pedro mowed down Jeter in the sixth to end the inning with runners on second and third, we totally came out of the shell and really let Jeter have it (no swears or slang though), and nobody retaliated. I mean, there we are, telling the Yankees captain that he doesn\'t deserve pinstripes and that he should go back to triple A to work on his hitting and that Nomar is better and waving a Red Sox towel in his face from about 30 feet away, and he\'s looking right at us and hearing every word, and not one Yankee fan piped up. (Maybe they felt bad because Bernie gave me the cockblock last week.) The fans are just as lost as the team right now. We finally got some retaliation in the 9th inning while we were doing a non-stop "sweep" chant to every Yankee fan who was leaving their team early.
Bottom line though, 2 phenomenal baseball games. Totally October-style ball, great time. This is The Year.
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Hey now! Best record in baseball! Hey Dave, how about we rename this thread to 15-6 Red Sox: The mighty Red and White!
Trivia round 9: Alltime leader in walks (batter, not pitcher).
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Mr. BALCO
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scratch that, soon to be Mr. BALCO, Ricky Henderson is the record holder, and Bonds will surpass him sometime this season, if not by the all star break at his current rate
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Point antbach.
Sox lose double header to Texas, Yankees 5-0 since Sox sweep. Wait till next year.
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the royals always get the yankees healthy :(
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The red sox are like daylight savings time....Ahead in the spring and behind in the fall!
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Originally posted by realisthis
The red sox are like daylight savings time....Ahead in the spring and behind in the fall!
Wow a classic if i ever read one!
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here\'s my contribution to the trivia questions:
bottom of the ninth, score is tied 5-5, home team has the bases loaded. batter hits a ground-rule double. what is the final score of the game?
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gonna take a stab at this one and say 6-5 because the batter only has to reach first base safely for the ballgame to finish, therefor it wouldn\'t actually be a double, just a single and only the person on third needs to cross home plate.
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oh and for you Sox fans, did you enjoy your April lead at the top of the division? how does it feel to know that the Yankees are winners of their last 6 and only 1.5 games behind?? Can you hear the footsteps coming from behind and about to pass you in the standings??
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Originally posted by davepeck
bottom of the ninth, score is tied 5-5, home team has the bases loaded. batter hits a ground-rule double. what is the final score of the game?
I\'m going to say 6-5 or 7-5... it COULD be 7-5 if the home team chooses to make it so, but it doesn\'t have to be. It all depends on how far the runners advance (anybody remember Robin Ventura\'s \'grand slam single\'?).
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Originally posted by antbach
gonna take a stab at this one and say 6-5 because the batter only has to reach first base safely for the ballgame to finish, therefor it wouldn\'t actually be a double, just a single and only the person on third needs to cross home plate.
right you are, ant. good work.
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Hold on, I disagree. In the same situation, if the guy hits a home run then it\'s 9-5, I know that for sure, so by that logic if everyone still gets the bases they are entitled to, then it\'s 7-5. Let\'s go to the lookup...
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Nope, you guys are right, the base entitlement rule is for home runs only. Good question! Let\'s stick to rules...here\'s two.
1. Bottom of the 9th, 2 outs, home team down by 2, bases loaded. Batter hits a home run. The runner on third makes it 10 feet down the line towards home, steps in a drain and breaks his leg. He cannot get up to touch home plate. The runners behind him proceed to score. The visiting team appeals to third base. What happens?
2. 1 out, runner on third. Fly ball to the outfield. The runner on 3rd sees the left fielder touch the ball, then starts running for home. The left fielder has the ball go off of his glove, but he is backed up nicely by the centerfielder who makes the catch. The runner scores, but the defense appeals to third base, saying the runner left before the ball was caught. What\'s the call?
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Originally posted by Wolfman
1. Bottom of the 9th, 2 outs, home team down by 2, bases loaded. Batter hits a home run. The runner on third makes it 10 feet down the line towards home, steps in a drain and breaks his leg. He cannot get up to touch home plate. The runners behind him proceed to score. The visiting team appeals to third base. What happens?
Without taking the injury into consideration, I would say that when the first runner behind him passes him, that is the third out. Thus the home team loses by two.
Originally posted by Wolfman
2. 1 out, runner on third. Fly ball to the outfield. The runner on 3rd sees the left fielder touch the ball, then starts running for home. The left fielder has the ball go off of his glove, but he is backed up nicely by the centerfielder who makes the catch. The runner scores, but the defense appeals to third base, saying the runner left before the ball was caught. What\'s the call?
I remember seeing a play like this a few years ago. The runner is out on the appeal to third because the ball was not "legally caught" until the centerfielder caught it.
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9 days later...Sox still haven\'t won and Yankees still undefeated since Sox sweep. First place: GONE. Must not be April anymore. I feel personally responsible, I think I woke the sleeping Giant with trash I was talking to Jeter last Sunday. Sorry Sox fans, I blew the season, blame me. Next year Nomar = Dodger, Tek = Diamondback, Pedro = Yankee. Wait till next millenium!
Any more trivia anwers?
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Wow, first place on May 24th...this might be the latest into the season the Sox have held onto first since the magical summer of... \'95. In weird personal news, I am starting to like the Mets a little bit. Am I sick?
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Originally posted by Wolfman
In weird personal news, I am starting to like the Mets a little bit. Am I sick?
Nah, it\'s just you are a Red Sox fan, but live in NY, and basically it means you are a fan of the game and you need a local team to root for, and because of your Sox ties you are forced to cheer for the Metropolitans.
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The Anaheim Angels welcome Raul Mondesi to the eventual Champs of this year!
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Originally posted by leith
The Anaheim Angels welcome Raul Mondesi to the eventual Champs of this year!
yeah....there\'s a great addition to your clubhouse
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Originally posted by Wolfman
[BIn weird personal news, I am starting to like the Mets a little bit. Am I sick? [/B]
me too.....i\'ve been listening to the games on the radio and i don\'t know why:confused:
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Tonight Anaheim will hopefully show ya damn bosox fans some real Baseball!!!!!!!! Game @ 7 tonight and I am there tomorrow to root my Angels on. YEAH BOYYYYYYYYYYY!
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Game 1) 7- 6 ANAHEIM uh huh!!
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Looks like it\'s time to resurrect the Rally Monkey.
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give each other a few hugs too
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Originally posted by Wolfman
Looks like it\'s time to resurrect the Rally Monkey.
HELL NO!!!! Now that Disney is out of the fuckin\' way we hopefully will never have to see that damn travesty to baseball tradition. Turn your damn cap inside out and backwards if ya wanna be superstitous in Baseball!
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Originally posted by leith
Game 1) 7- 6 ANAHEIM uh huh!!
Game 2) 10- 7 ANAHEIM One guy beat the bosox Vlad 9 RBI bosox team 7 RBI aahhhh tooooo baaaad nomah is huut. waahhhh
OK OK sorry all I just really dislike them and yeah i know it was years ago but hey we woulda beat the mets and the Singing Cowboy coulda seen his boys as Champs. Such is life though.
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Despite the frustration I must say that was a great game to watch... My hometown bar was up in arms by the end of the night... the red Sox Nation is like no other!
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I\'m gonna give the Sox credit this year, they made it almost into June with the AL East lead. . . Time to start chasing that Wildcard boys and girls ;)
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Wild Card....it\'s only 2 games back......
it\'s also good to see Jeter in a distant second behind Nomah for the All Star Game
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jeter is starting to heat up bigtime
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gag...
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oh yeah....i forgot.....he\'s a man ;)
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Originally posted by oldnewbie
oh yeah....i forgot.....he\'s a man ;)
Awesome Duane just Awesome.
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Originally posted by weekapaug19
it\'s also good to see Jeter in a distant second behind Nomah for the All Star Game
Better to have Nomar not playing than Jeter playing this year.
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2 Days till NOAMAH!!!
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120 days till the Sox clinch the wild card!
First place: GONE. (And not coming back) That\'s OK, Labor Day was the latest we\'ve had it in years. Good season! I\'m not worried at all about the wild card. Yankees, Angels, Sox, and Central Division winner in the playoffs, no doubt about that.
By the way: Let\'s Go Mets! (Oh my god I hate living in New York.)
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Damn BOSOX at least the Padres kept it close.
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It\'s pretty pathetic that they only won by and scored one run....but a win is still a win
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Originally posted by weekapaug19
It\'s pretty pathetic that they only won by and scored one run....but a win is still a win
That\'s the first time I\'ve ever heard a 1-0 game called pathetic. Usually they\'re called a "pitcher\'s duel" and they are a rare treat.
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Originally posted by Wolfman
That\'s the first time I\'ve ever heard a 1-0 game called pathetic. Usually they\'re called a "pitcher\'s duel" and they are a rare treat.
A pitching duel between David Whales and Pedro is exciting usually. Not last nite though, Pedro got the Zone David did not. It was not all that exciting.
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Oh and something tickin\' me off. How can someone who has not played all season lead the all star vote @ Shortstop? That is ridiculous! I understand fan voting but come on. Have a little respect for the players actually playing.
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If Damon didn\'t know who played on the team that just beat his he isn\'t doing his job. btw it was Loretta to Nevin for the last out who happened to be Damon. Niiiiice!
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Originally posted by leith
Oh and something tickin\' me off. How can someone who has not played all season lead the all star vote @ Shortstop?
This demostrates one or a combination of two things.
1.) The Red Sox are marketing the hell out of the voting.
2.) Too many people who don\'t pay attention to baseball still vote.
I personally don\'t know enough about the league as a whole to vote intelligently. The best I could do is vote solely on statistics, and that only works to a degree (sorry Wolf, statistics aren\'t everything :) )
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Pads and RSox 1-1 in the Series. After being a Boston Fan for a few years it\'s a hard choice for me. I\'ve been to 3 home games here in SD already and I\'ve come to really love the Pads this year. I\'m glad they showed themselves in Fenway. I\'ll be happy either way though.
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haha that\'s like me and the Angels/Pads. Though when they do play I always seem to root for the Angels.
Drew u r right on point 2 most likely. It has been a popularity contest 4ever that\'s why they let managers have picks to fill in the roster. It\'s just amazing that people probably do not even realize Nomah has not played they just know the name.
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Originally posted by Wolfman
That\'s the first time I\'ve ever heard a 1-0 game called pathetic. Usually they\'re called a "pitcher\'s duel" and they are a rare treat.
If you watched any of that game....it was very boring. And besides, the sox should put up a hell of a lot more runs than 1 vs. SD.
And Nomah is batting .500 on the season so far :)
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So... I missed Porter\'s for a ballgame. I will start by saying that I am sure Porter\'s would have been more fun.
However...
The game itself was alright. Lowe didn\'t pitch terribly which was a nice treat. (Actually, 7 scoreless innings, which suprised me, because I didn\'t think the pitching looked THAT good. But hey, can\'t argue with the scoreboard.) But, we weren\'t hitting anything either. Weak. Even weaker was our defensive playing- the fielding was TERRIBLE. Really really bad.
We won though, Ortiz hit a homer in the 7th... Manny almost screwed it up by missing a catch, which allowed a run (I don\'t care if the wind was blowing- no excuse, he was prancing around out there like an idiot)... then in the bottom of the ninth Damon walked, Bellhorn hit a double, and then Ortiz hit a single to right field. When he hits the ball he\'s pretty good. :)
My seats were... well, not too bad. Little did I know when I got the tickets from the old man that they were .406 club seats. Holy shit. There was a private suite which we shared with about 8 or 10 other people (ok I guess therefore it wasn\'t entirely private.) In this room we had a bathroom, free beer (Sam Adams of course, hahaha has to be a Boston brew), free wine, a little bar, tons of food (fruit, salad, and all sorts of hors d\'ouerves , plus ice cream and cake and such), leather seats and a couch, tables, etc.; a pretty nice setup I must say. You could either sit behind the glass (lame) or go outside and sit in our rather spacious seating which was located a bit right (quite high up) of home plate, so the pitches were sort of coming at us. I could see the whole park without having to turn my head at all. Freakin unbelievable.
The funny thing is, we almost didn\'t get to go in because we didn\'t meet the dress code (collared shirt for guys, no jeans for girls, neither of us fit the bill). Dress code at a ball game. Imagine. ha!
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Damn Joc. seems like u was sittin\' pretty @ the game. If this was later in the year I may say u made the right choice going to the game imo. As it is June and the Breakfast was playing Porter\'s What were u thinking? :)
Padres are helping out a bit taking it to the hated Yankees!
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I am aware of the faxt that there is no real excuse... but my dad gave me the tickets, and I would have really hurt his feelings if I didn\'t go.
And, yes, go Pads! BoSox are 2.5 GB now...
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Understand. Gotta love pa.
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Yankees down 2-0 with 2 outs in bottom of ninth hit back to back solo homers to tie the game. 12th inning, down 3, score 4 in the bottom to win.
OMG the Yankees are out of control. Nobody\'s beating them this year, just forget about it. They\'re too fucking good. It\'s just not fair.
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:banghead: :killself:
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Originally posted by jocelyn
:banghead: :killself:
hehehe.. post #666 for joce!! rotfl
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How appropriate.
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That suicide smilie is really disturbing.
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Originally posted by Wolfman
Yankees down 2-0 with 2 outs in bottom of ninth hit back to back solo homers to tie the game. 12th inning, down 3, score 4 in the bottom to win.
OMG the Yankees are out of control. Nobody\'s beating them this year, just forget about it. They\'re too fucking good. It\'s just not fair.
Against Trevor Hoffman and Rod Beck no less. Freakin\' Yankees!!!!!!!
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Grand slam NOMAH! Wild card magic number is down to 106!
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Couln\'t believe Trot got robbed......he\'s hitting the ball like a maniac this year. It was a good catch tho
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Originally posted by Wolfman
Grand slam NOMAH! Wild card magic number is down to 106!
Better watch out for those "We are the hottest team in the bigs" Tampa Bay Devil Rays fellas!
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The Stinging Rays finally lost last night, now their only 9000 games back
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Originally posted by weekapaug19
The Stinging Rays finally lost last night, now their only 9000 games back
Look at it this way, the Rays are 6 games behind the Sox for the Wild Card which is only 1/2 a game more than the Sox deficit for the AL East. . .
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Gimme an S!
Gimme a W!
(hey, that\'s my initials...)
Gimme an E!
Gimme another E!
Gimme a P!
What\'s that spell?
SWEEP. The Sox get the Yankees right when they need them. 3 guaranteed Sox victories! Aggregate score of series: Sox 16-6.
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what?
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Very nice 5-3 victory for the Sox to open the series. Lowe pitched a very good game! Didn\'t like Foulke loading the bases and allowing a run, but he got out of it and got the save. Nomar 2-5 with HR, 3 RBI, and some nice field work, oh yeah. Sox now 7-1 against the Yankees...wow. Too bad they can\'t beat up on everyone else like this.
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(http://espn-att.starwave.com/media/mlb/2004/0629/photo/a_varitek_ft.jpg)
"There\'s always next year."
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(http://espn.go.com/i/page2/quickie/040701_quickie.jpg)
The thing about sequels is that the endings can be so predictable:
Spider-Man 2? Don\'t want to spoil it, though I\'m betting many of you will be among the millions to see it this long weekend.
Red Sox choking? A night after they booted the game away (E-6 from the Garciaparra Goblin), it was the same story, different villain -- E-3 from "Doc Rock-Hands," David Ortiz, that gave way to a seventh-inning Yankees rally and W.
What\'s more daunting to the competition: S-M2\'s box-office haul ... or New York\'s ever-expanding (7.5-game) division lead?
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There\'s nothing daunting about the Yankees\' 7.5 game lead at all. I\'ve been thinking Wild Card ever since Aaron Boone rounded second base.
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:jawdrop: OMG IS JETER SERIOUS??!?!?! :holyshit:
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Seriously injured, sure.
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Well, not everyone in the Yankee organization was on top of their game last night. WFAN just replayed John Sterling and Charlie Steiner\'s radio call of the seeming triple play in the eleventh. It took them over two minutes two figure out why it wasn\'t a triple play. When it first happened, Steiner called "TRIPLE PLAY! TRIPLE PLAY! TRIPLE PLAY!" :lol: Then during the commotion afterwards they still could not figure out that Ramirez had been put out "twice" heading from 2nd to 3rd. The Sox\' next batter came up, it\'s about 2 minutes after the play, and Sterling says, "Can someone please tell me how that\'s not a triple play?" :lol: Then on Flaherty\'s hit, Steiner called it "GONE!" even though it was about 10 feet short of the wall. :lol: Funny stuff, I can\'t believe they missed the triple play call that badly.
I wonder how the Sox radio guys called it. I would take a lot of solace in knowing that the Sox can beat the Yankees in the broadcast booth.
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Originally posted by Wolfman
I wonder how the Sox radio guys called it. I would take a lot of solace in knowing that the Sox can beat the Yankees in the broadcast booth.
it was probably nothing but *beeps* on the 7-second delay. :D
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Originally posted by Wolfman
Seriously injured, sure.
(http://espn.starwave.com/media/mlb/2004/0701/photo/a_jeter_ft.jpg)
seriously willing to do whatever it takes to win a ballgame, sure.
how bout nomar though.. is HE serious?? sitting back on the bench the entire game, while the rest of his team is up on the dugout rail watching their season slip away.. get up. show a little leadership and team spirit, eh?
wolf, good call on the sweep though. you were half right..
Trying To Look On The Bright Side (http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/040701)
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What are you gonna do Pec, say I-told-ya-so because the Yankees beat the Red Sox? You might as well get in my eye because the sun came up.
In all seriousness, Nomar needs to be traded tomorrow for a Double-A pitcher and a bucket of baseballs. He doesn\'t want to play now and there\'s no long-term prospects whatsoever. The rest of the team did play an amazing game and never gave up. They went tooth-and-nail with a superior team, in a hostile environment, for 13 innings. I was one of the few people in Boston who never wanted to trade Nomar this past offseason. My quote was "Nomar bleeds red, A-Rod bleeds green." I wanted Nomar to stay and didn\'t care for A-Rod while most of Boston was gaga about the deal. Well, A-Rod still bleeds green but Nomar has gone from red to yellow. Trade him now while you can still get anything for him.
The Yankees have won the division, but once October rolls around, it doesn\'t matter who won the division. I still have no doubts that these two teams will be duking it out again in the ALCS. This is far from over!
But we already know what\'s going to happen, don\'t we?
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Originally posted by davepeck
how bout nomar though..show a little leadership and team spirit, eh?
How about showing a little heart to go with those. . .
Originally posted by Wolfman
The Yankees have won the division, but once October rolls around, it doesn\'t matter who won the division. I still have no doubts that these two teams will be duking it out again in the ALCS. This is far from over!
But we already know what\'s going to happen, don\'t we?
I\'ve said it once in this thread already and I\'ll say it again for the last time, Beware the Devil Rays :lol:
But yea, we all do know what\'s going to happen if it comes down to the ALCS, whoever the Yanks pick up to play 2B will hit a walk off homer in game 7 ;) (even though Cairo earned his pinstripes the other night I\'m still thinking George wants someone else, although the combined numbers of Cairo/Wilson are pretty good. . .)
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Originally posted by Wolfman
What are you gonna do Pec, say I-told-ya-so because the Yankees beat the Red Sox?
that\'s the thing - i never told you so, and i never will. red sox fans seem to be the ones that like to do that all the time.. i just sit back, relax, and let my team do the talking..
but anyways, out on dvd today:
Still We Believe: The Boston Red Sox Movie (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0001I56LY/pbfanscom-20)!
"dooon\'t stop, believing!!" :D
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Originally posted by davepeck
that\'s the thing - i never told you so, and i never will. red sox fans seem to be the ones that like to do that all the time
Yeah, I guess you\'re right. Yankees all the way in 2004! There, I told ya so.
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Originally posted by davepeck
seriously willing to do whatever it takes to win a ballgame, sure.
pfft. It is his JOB. The catch was impressive, yes. But his willingness to make the catch? So what?! He gets paid millions of dollars, and if he won\'t dive into, I dunno, a swamp full of alligators to catch the damn ball because he can\'t handle a few bumps and bruises then that is just pathetic. I don\'t know why everyone made such a big deal about this. Sure, it was a great catch. But it\'s not like he\'s some sort of hero because he got scraped up a bit. Jesus christ
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the natural reaction of a human body is to shy away from contact like that that is sure to cause injury. it just proves his desire and concentration levels are superior to most ballplayers today. he\'s a leader and a winner.....theres a lot of real good ballplayers......even on the red sox........but not many in history with a knack for getting it done when it counts most, like him. oh yeah......and nomar didn\'t see fit to even try to do his job that night.....by the way.....i was there :)
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What about the fans that MOVED!! I mean he had already CAUGHT the ball, be a cushion for the guy damn!
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see my first sentence ;)
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All\'s I\'m saying is it would prove their desire to help their team. I know people don\'t wanna get hurt but from the way Yankee fans talk so much shit you would think they would help a guy out. Damn how many times you seen Shaq flatten people? Some even take the hit to save the big man. Stupid yes but being a fan(fanatic) means sometimes not acting logically like moving when 300+ lbs. is coming @ you. If I gotta take a hit for Khalil Greene or Sean Burroughs so that the Pads can stay healthy I think I would. Hell if I got hurt, after my hospital stay you don\'t think i would get some gear or tix? LOL
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oh...i agree with you.....just that it\'s human nature....also..... with a great athlete.....give him some room and he just might recover(a different way of looking at it) either way....i saw a great game game.....my last two yank/sox games....game 7 and this game.....i have a resume that says take me to the game cause cool shit always happens when i\'m there......the pine tar game, game 5 against arizona, game one against the padres and the previously mentioned sox games to name a few
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Originally posted by oldnewbie
oh...i agree with you.....just that it\'s human nature....also..... with a great athlete.....give him some room and he just might recover(a different way of looking at it) either way....i saw a great game game.....my last two yank/sox games....game 7 and this game.....i have a resume that says take me to the game cause cool shit always happens when i\'m there......the pine tar game, game 5 against arizona, game one against the padres and the previously mentioned sox games to name a few
Well I agree w/ all those being games w/ cool shit but the Pads one. Langston threw a friggin\' strike that would have set the Yanks down but noooooooooooooo.
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one call didn\'t blow a 7 run lead or cause a sweep ;)
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I disagree. That nonstrike took the fight out of the guys and the awesome presence of Yankee Stadium took ahold and ........ :( :( It just really sucked!
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oh......ok.....one call in game one caused all that to happen to the best team in the national league.....yeah your right....or maybe they just weren\'t really that good ;) (i hate that league)
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Well compared to The Yanks of that year obviously they were not that great. Yeah the Yanks took it to the Pads but @ least Tony went yard there.
As for the Senior League @ least their pitchers got some balls and hit like every other player on their team. The whole reason for the DH is outdated and w/ Interleague play obsolete. I hate waiting for the 3 run bomb. Earn your damn check and steal a bag or two. Play small ball, show us some real baseball talent, move a runner over w/ a sacrifice, pull a double steal, bunt and make the pitcher field. I could go on and on.
Oh and BTW my favorite team is the AL Anahiem Angels.
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i hate watching pitchers hit and i hate watching the number eight guy get pitched around and i hate watching a great pitcher leave a game prematurely only to be replaced by a marginal utility player.......just my opinion
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i sure would like to see that hoo haa pedro pick up a bat though
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and for the record.....i HATE gary sheffield but he would have been my new hero if he had kicked pedros ass the other night like he deserved
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Originally posted by oldnewbie
i sure would like to see that hoo haa pedro pick up a bat though
MY point exactly.
So glad Clemens is in the NL now. Inside pitching bastard.
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Originally posted by oldnewbie
and for the record.....i HATE gary sheffield but he would have been my new hero if he had kicked pedros ass the other night like he deserved
Sheffield only player to be named an AllStar on 5 diff. teams. Shows he\'s an ass but can play.
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notice when you criticize pedro, the sox fans are strangely silent.....they don\'t really like him either
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What a game (again) today! Looks like the Yankees are in the market for a closer. I wonder if Randy Johnson will agree to be a closer?
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man....it just gets better and better......with the same old outcome ;)
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I just got back from a road trip following the best team in baseball (yup better than the yanks even) with the kiddies, Pittsburgh PNC park is awesome, Wrigley rocks but Busch stadium rules (too bad they\'re knocking it down) and I\'ve got two words for all of you.......GO CARDS!!!!!!!
Evelyn
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Originally posted by oldnewbie
and nomar didn\'t see fit to even try to do his job that night.....by the way.....i was there :)
Yes, as m,uch as it saddens me to say it... Nomar needs to go. Useless...
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I would like to hereby reinforce my previously-expressed opinion that the Chicago Cubs will win this year\'s World Series, a prediction that was solidified with the Garciaparra trade. Obviously, the Red Sox should have dealt him in the offseason when they had the chance to get A-Rod, but blew it. So the Sox made a panic move Saturday because they know he would have left as a free agent following the season due to the fact that he\'s a timid baby whose feelings got hurt when his team merely tried to trade for one of the best players in baseball history in Rodriguez.
Still, the Sox should have let Garciaparra play out the string and taken their best shot at the World Series this year. Curt Schilling and the Headhunter aren\'t getting any younger. This is a WIN NOW team. They were not equally compensated in this trade, and Garciaparra, despite being mostly heartless and gutless as one of the most overrated players in the game (not as good as A-Rod, Jeter or Tejada), is still a solid contact hitter and will tear it up the rest of the way due to his new and comfortable surroundings.
It\'s a fitting trade. One team\'s curse ends while another\'s just keeps building, largely due to numbskull deals like this one. I\'m sure Theo Epstein was just stressed out with his driver\'s license exam coming up.
A pathetic move from a floundering franchise. As a Mets fan, I know the feeling. The Sox will still eek out the Wild Card, but again lose to the Yankees in the ALCS, which they probably would have done even if they hadn\'t traded Mr. Mia Hamm.
By the way, Yankees fans shouldn\'t exactly be doing cartwheels over getting Esteban Loaiza. They would have had Randy Johnson if they hadn\'t already emptied their farm system. It\'s ironic that the last "prospects-for-veterans" trade the Yankees made involved getting Aaron Boone. He\'s done a lot since he sent that Wakefield knuckler into the left-field stands, hasn\'t he?
Some of those prospects the Reds have now might have been useful in trying to acquire the Unit. It won\'t matter next year when Johnson goes to the Bronx as a free agent, but until then...
Cubs win, Cubs win!!!
Pitch
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Now is as good a time as any to get this thread going again
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it\'s on life support
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CLEAR!!!
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I wonder if the Red Sox will go for the two-point conversion
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man those people must be getting cold
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It\'s their destiny to be the Yanks bitches. Do these people just not understand?
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Originally posted by ChrisPitch
I wonder if the Red Sox will go for the two-point conversion
it won\'t do any good
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Now if they get the TD and the two and Mirabelli kicks a field goal, they\'re back in it
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think he\'s got the leg for it?
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or like a similar situation.....would it be wide right?
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soooo....how about those red sox?
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Hey Terry, think it might be time to drop Bellhorn outta the two slot?
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el duque against lowe. why not mussina on normal rest? cause torre wants to see duque in a spot where he can afford to lose and if it works.....mussina to start the series....if it doesn\'t....mussina against pedro in his last start before moving to the bronx ;)
sorry....this belongs in the other thread :blinky:
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Dave, I guess it\'s just about time to close this one.
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Was listening to the FAN last night and a caller made a comment on how this whole situation with the curse and the Sox is like Giligans island. you wish they could find a way off the island for their own sake, but its so entertaing that if they succeed, the show is over. Long live the curse
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The Yanks have just advanced to being their Grand Daddies!
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Originally posted by Drew_Kingsley
Dave, I guess it\'s just about time to close this one.
I\'m calling myself out on this post...
I was just trying to nip this oh-so obvious joke in the bud before an overzealous Yankee fan got to it. Shame on me.
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Originally posted by Mark
The Yanks have just advanced to being their Grand Daddies!
OOPS! :asskicked
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Looks like we are all putting out feet in our mouths at this point.
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Originally posted by leith
It\'s their destiny to be the Yanks bitches. Do these people just not understand?
Originally posted by jocelyn
Looks like we are all putting out feet in our mouths at this point.
Leith, you\'re up buddy.
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Yeah I believe I gave them kudos in the other thread for the greatest comeback ever but Joc has convinced me to stand by my convictions thus I am now convinced it was more a Yankee collapse than the bosox accomplishing anything. Go Cards!!!
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Yeah they didn\'t accomplish anything :rolleyes: