Red Sox

[Tomasso]

Section 6, great view of Tony C's backside

The tragic story of Tony C, what could have been.

 

[spiridon]

Oh how I miss day games!

Yeah, me too in some respects. I still remember watching Gibson/Lolich (Cardinals/Tigers) battle in the Series while I was still in grade school.....luckily our teacher was a baseball fan and made sure we had a TV in the classroom for the occasion.

MAN, was Beckett awesome last night or what!? What a way to start off a game.......strike out the side in the top of the 1st, then have a leadoff homerun in the bottom half!!! Pretty much set the tone for the rest of the night.:eusa_clap

 

[KittyT]

MAN, was Beckett awesome last night or what!? What a way to start off a game.......strike out the side in the top of the 1st, then have a leadoff homerun in the bottom half!!! Pretty much set the tone for the rest of the night.:eusa_clap

Beckett is amazing every night

That leadoff home run was the best - moreso because it was slammed by a very likeable 5'9" rookie who always gets made fun of for being a small guy with a big swing. Well, that big swing made history:

"Before Wednesday night, only one player in 102 previous World Series had led off Game 1 with a home run: Don Buford of the Baltimore Orioles, who hit a solo shot off the Mets' Tom Seaver in 1969. Pedroia also became the first rookie in history to lead off a World Series with a homer."

 

[thunderw21]

My roomates are Rockies fans. They were not at all happy last night. Every run or walk the Sox got they would get or hit something. I had to leave the room for fear of being injured.

 

[KittyT]

"Oh, you Red Sox!"

 

[K.D. Lightner]

It looks as though the Red Socks were again out to shatter that alleged "jinx" they had -- and shatter they did.

Another blanking....

karol

 

[LizzieMaine]

I'm just glad they wrapped it up quick -- now I can start catching up on my sleep!!

(And please, please, please, let them *not* spend the winter trying to sign A-Rod.)

 

[Tomasso]

Another blanking....

Three of the last four World Series have been sweeps.

 

[Tommy Fedora]

Notes on the series...

The Red Sox won the World Series when the Yankees lost to Cleveland. The National League is just not good enough, period.
The winner of the American league should be crowned World Series Champion and the National League winner should play the American League wild card in an exibition series lol
Seriously, I've been a Yankee fan longer than many of you here have been alive. My son-in-law-to-be is a serious Red Sox fan and I'm trying to understand where I went wrong with my daughter. I've already told him that my coffee maker is off limits lol

 

[carter]

Tommy, Thanks. The last two sentences cracked me up. Carter lol

 

[Miss_Bella_Hell]

Jim Lonborg, the star pitcher of the 1967 Impossible Dream team, was on the phone yesterday. He's a dentist on the South Shore now, just about the nicest guy who ever played professional sports. Asked if anyone ever complains to him about his team not winning the heart-breaking seventh game of the World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals, he replied without hesitation: "No, never."

"You know that old clich?©," he added, "it's all about the journey, and that was something that was always special about any Red Sox season - what it took to get there, the different cast of characters involved."

I'd just like to point out that Mr. Lonborg was in fact MY dentist growing up, and I went to high school with his kids. Nice house they had, nothing showy, nice big yard.

Also, GO SOX!

 

[Miss_Bella_Hell]

I'm just glad they wrapped it up quick -- now I can start catching up on my sleep!!

(And please, please, please, let them *not* spend the winter trying to sign A-Rod.)

Seconded. A-Rod is poison to a baseball team.

 

[Dalexs]

I don't know, not to take a pot shot at the Rockies, but seriously,
the Red Sox swept the Rockies to win the world series, so what?

Its not's quite like the Yankees losing to the Florida Marlins in '03.

Where are they now?

 

[dhermann1]

So, now the Girardi era begins. I like the idea of the Yanks starting all over with a youth movement, and a terrific starting rotation. Any thoughts, Yankee fans (or Yankee haters?)

 

[KittyT]

Seconded. A-Rod is poison to a baseball team.

The Sox are pretty much set for the coming years - we have good young pitching, some great rookies and a strong farm system. All we have to do is get rid of Coco Crisp (too bad we can't get rid of JD Drew) and offer Lowell maybe another 2 year contract and we'll be good to go.

Yes, A-Rod is poison. He is about as unlikeable a player as you can find. Ultimately, I think it doesn't matter how great a player he is - one of the things that makes the Sox the team they are is their chemistry and their spirit. In that respect, Lowell is much more valuable to us.

 

[dhermann1]

The Sox are pretty much set for the coming years - we have good young pitching, some great rookies and a strong farm system. All we have to do is get rid of Coco Crisp (too bad we can't get rid of JD Drew) and offer Lowell maybe another 2 year contract and we'll be good to go.

Yes, A-Rod is poison. He is about as unlikeable a player as you can find. Ultimately, I think it doesn't matter how great a player he is - one of the things that makes the Sox the team they are is their chemistry and their spirit. In that respect, Lowell is much more valuable to us.

I think that A-Rod jumping ship from that Yankees like this will guarantee that he will be booed by everybody everywhere, for the rest of his career. And he won't understand why. But I don't put him in the same league of unlikeability as a certain home run king, and numerous others. A-Rod just doesn't get it, that's all.
As far as the future is concerned, The Twins had a couple of good years, and faded, the Blue Jays had a couple of good years, and faded. Likewise the Yankees. It's REALLY hard to stay on top in Major League Baseball. Wait till next year!

 

[cooncatbob]

I used to like the Sox's when they were lovable losers, but now they're just as arrogant as the Yankees and the Patriots and just as easy to hate (in a sports context, I actually like and respect Jeter and Torre)

 

[KittyT]

I used to like the Sox's when they were lovable losers, but now they're just as arrogant as the Yankees and the Patriots and just as easy to hate (in a sports context, I actually like and respect Jeter and Torre)

Oh I don't agree at all. I don't think they are conceited or egotistical at all. When you watch interviews with them, they are all very humble and all about the Team. Almost every interview I read with them during this post season focuses on not getting ahead of themselves, taking it one game at a time, one pitch at a time, and working together as a team to get to the end of it. I don't see an unlikeable side to that at all.

 

[cooncatbob]

Oh I don't agree at all. I don't think they are conceited or egotistical at all. When you watch interviews with them, they are all very humble and all about the Team. Almost every interview I read with them during this post season focuses on not getting ahead of themselves, taking it one game at a time, one pitch at a time, and working together as a team to get to the end of it. I don't see an unlikeable side to that at all.

Well that's because your on the inside looking out.
During the 80s and 90s when the 49ers were the class of the NFL I didn't think they were arrogant, but someone on the receiving end of one of the butt whippings might have another viewpoint.
Also those of us on the outside read stories written by writer from opposing cities while you read stories from the home town writers.
It's all from a persons point of view and I'm sure the the Red Sox's are a great bunch of guys. But in a sporting context they're right up there with the Yankees, they spend the most money so they win, there fore those of us on the outside "hate them" (purely in a sporting way)