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« Reply #330 on: August 06, 2009, 11:34:10 am »
Red Sox at Yankees tonight to start a four-game series!

Boston could either be 1.5 games up or 6.5 games back (and in third place) by Sunday night. And let\'s face it, if the Yankees don\'t at least win the Smoltz-Joba and Buchholz-Sabathia games, they don\'t belong in the postseason.

Assuming the pitching matchups hold true, Yankees take three out of four.
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« Reply #331 on: August 06, 2009, 11:44:10 am »
Agreed; Red Sox pitching = teh fail these days
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« Reply #332 on: August 06, 2009, 08:55:00 pm »
John Smoltz: clearly a Hall of Famer and cleary DUNZO.

Hopefully I\'m proven wrong, but Billy Traber entering the game in the fourth inning with the bases loaded looks a bit like a white flag to me.
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« Reply #333 on: August 07, 2009, 05:53:58 am »
13-6.....  The worst the Yankees could finish this series is a 1/2 up on the Sox...  Bring on baby #2...
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« Reply #334 on: August 07, 2009, 05:11:28 pm »
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John Smoltz: clearly a Hall of Famer and cleary DUNZO.

Yup.
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« Reply #335 on: August 08, 2009, 12:55:51 am »
that hurt........ a lot.  Hope my day at the stadium goes better for Boston tomorrow.
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« Reply #336 on: August 09, 2009, 04:00:21 pm »
padres OWN the Mets. lets hope that johan can at least end this despicable 8 in a row losing streak in S.D.
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« Reply #337 on: August 09, 2009, 11:05:54 pm »
Who wants to be the first to say that David Ortiz getting outed as a steroid user reinstated the Curse of the Bambino?

At least the Red Sox aren\'t leaving any doubt that they don\'t belong in the playoffs. I would hate be sitting around in October thinking they could have won the World Series if they had just squeaked in to the postseason as the Wild Card.

Taking eight straight from the Yankees before the All-Star Break and promptly laying an egg in the Bronx in August sounds a lot like the Red Sox that I grew up with.
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« Reply #338 on: August 09, 2009, 11:30:21 pm »
the signing of johnny damon was totally worth the money and.....oh yeah....i told you so!
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« Reply #339 on: August 09, 2009, 11:33:00 pm »
Go Red Sox 2010!!!

I am offically done for the season, (unless things get better in the next few weeks ;) )what an awful weekend, and such a shitty day for me at Yankee Stadium.

Quote from: Drew_Kingsley;238076
Taking eight straight from the Yankees before the All-Star Break and promptly laying an egg in the Bronx in August sounds a lot like the Red Sox that I grew up with.


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« Reply #340 on: August 10, 2009, 06:10:20 am »
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Go Red Sox 2010!!!

I am offically done for the season, (unless things get better in the next few weeks ;) )what an awful weekend, and such a shitty day for me at Yankee Stadium.

Quote from: Drew_Kingsley;238076
Taking eight straight from the Yankees before the All-Star Break and promptly laying an egg in the Bronx in August sounds a lot like the Red Sox that I grew up with.


:that:


Okay, so, I\'m not going to gloat, but do you consider yourself a fan or just a casual fan?  Go back to the posts earlier in the season; did Yankee fans say that the season was done after we lost 8 straight to boston?  No....  And where\'s Wolf\'s review of the weekend, I\'m doing to hear it...
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« Reply #341 on: August 10, 2009, 08:21:28 am »
lots of baseball left, plenty of time to come back
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« Reply #342 on: August 10, 2009, 09:28:30 am »
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Okay, so, I\'m not going to gloat, but do you consider yourself a fan or just a casual fan?  

I\'m not sure if you were referring to me and/or Me!, but it\'s funny you should bring this up. I\'ve been thinking about it a lot lately, and I\'ve noticed that I am no longer a Red Sox fan by choice. I spend September through November living and dying with every point of every Yale volleyball match. I do the same thing with Yale women\'s basketball from November to March, and repeat once again with Yale baseball from March to May. These are my friends, co-workers and people that I care about. I\'m not so delusional to think that I have an impact on wins and losses, but I am, in some respect, a part of the team. So by the time Yale baseball ends, the fan in me is too exhausted to really care about the Red Sox like I used to.

However, after holding my breath for all 494 pitches of Friday\'s 15-inning game or getting that familiar sinking feeling when Damon and Tex went back-to-back (and cheek-to-cheek) last night, I can\'t deny that I am still a Red Sox fan. I just don\'t think the right side of my brain is as big a fan as the left any more.
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« Reply #343 on: August 10, 2009, 09:52:18 am »
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Okay, so, I\'m not going to gloat, but do you consider yourself a fan or just a casual fan?  

I\'m not sure if you were referring to me and/or Me!, but it\'s funny you should bring this up. I\'ve been thinking about it a lot lately, and I\'ve noticed that I am no longer a Red Sox fan by choice. I spend September through November living and dying with every point of every Yale volleyball match. I do the same thing with Yale women\'s basketball from November to March, and repeat once again with Yale baseball from March to May. These are my friends, co-workers and people that I care about. I\'m not so delusional to think that I have an impact on wins and losses, but I am, in some respect, a part of the team. So by the time Yale baseball ends, the fan in me is too exhausted to really care about the Red Sox like I used to.

However, after holding my breath for all 494 pitches of Friday\'s 15-inning game or getting that familiar sinking feeling when Damon and Tex went back-to-back (and cheek-to-cheek) last night, I can\'t deny that I am still a Red Sox fan. I just don\'t think the right side of my brain is as big a fan as the left any more.


I was actually refering to Me!\'s comment...  If you\'re a fan, you\'re a fan through the shitty times as well as the championships...  As a RS fan, you should be happy that you saw 2 WS teams by the time you were 28... Think about the generation of die hard fans that died before \'04 and didn\'t see one at all...  Do I like the red sox, no I hate them, but I do have respect for the red sox fan because they\'ve suffered through years of shitty teams to finally get their championship season...  Right now, other than Leith and the Padres, the only fans in the Northeast that should be talking about their season being over is Mets fans...
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« Reply #344 on: August 10, 2009, 12:29:27 pm »
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Go Red Sox 2010!!!

I am offically done for the season, (unless things get better in the next few weeks ;) )what an awful weekend, and such a shitty day for me at Yankee Stadium.

Quote from: Drew_Kingsley;238076
Taking eight straight from the Yankees before the All-Star Break and promptly laying an egg in the Bronx in August sounds a lot like the Red Sox that I grew up with.


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Okay, so, I\'m not going to gloat, but do you consider yourself a fan or just a casual fan?  Go back to the posts earlier in the season; did Yankee fans say that the season was done after we lost 8 straight to boston?  No....  And where\'s Wolf\'s review of the weekend, I\'m doing to hear it...


1. I\'m def not a casual fan.  Born and raised Red Sox fan.  Got DirectTV just so we could get NESN, and watch all the games.  
2. There\'s only a minor tinge of seriousness to my comments, it\'s more just frustration at the piss poor weekend.
3. There\'s a big difference bewtween losing 8 before the all star break and getting swept now and being 6 1/2 back.  Yes there is still baseball left to play, but if things don\'t turn around and quickly, then the race is over.

Really my comments are just voicing my frustrations over a frustraing week as a Red Sox fan, and a very very frustrating day at Yankee Stadium on Sat.  To sit there and watch your team do nothing offensively the whole game made the whole thing very painful to watch.  It would have been one this if we could have mustered up more than the one or two hits we got in that game.  Especially against CC who hasn\'t exactly been a guaranted W for NY this year.

and yes as you said, a real fan is there in the good times and bad, and I\'m very grateful to have seen 2 WS titles in my life.......... but I also think as a real fan I have to right to get pissed off every once and awhile and be ridiculous.  :D
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