Author Topic: The Official 2004 Boston Red Sox Thread (Read 31698 times)

Wolfman · « **Reply #75 on:** April 10, 2004, 10:33:30 am »

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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.

Wolfman · « **Reply #76 on:** April 10, 2004, 10:45:16 am »

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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.

ChrisPitch · « **Reply #77 on:** April 10, 2004, 10:21:10 pm »

Ah Ferris, if only you had caught a foul ball with your bare hand...

Drew_Kingsley · « **Reply #78 on:** April 11, 2004, 02:36:43 am »

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.

Wolfman · « **Reply #79 on:** April 11, 2004, 04:06:04 am »

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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.)

Drew_Kingsley · « **Reply #80 on:** April 12, 2004, 08:45:35 pm »

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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.

leith · « **Reply #81 on:** April 12, 2004, 10:52:14 pm »

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.

Wolfman · « **Reply #82 on:** April 13, 2004, 10:52:35 pm »

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.)

Drew_Kingsley · « **Reply #83 on:** April 13, 2004, 11:34:49 pm »

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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 (

. 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.

FrankZappa · « **Reply #84 on:** April 16, 2004, 10:43:55 am »

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

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)

antbach · « **Reply #85 on:** April 16, 2004, 01:48:00 pm »

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

oldnewbie · « **Reply #86 on:** April 16, 2004, 10:32:48 pm »

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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 (. 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

Wolfman · « **Reply #87 on:** April 17, 2004, 11:44:11 am »

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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 (. 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?

Drew_Kingsley · « **Reply #88 on:** April 17, 2004, 12:32:52 pm »

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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).

Wolfman · « **Reply #89 on:** April 18, 2004, 07:38:44 pm »

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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