ALCS game three and beyond

[Benny Profane]

Matsui is coated with Wa. He is a study of dignity in a very undignified time. There are many good reasons he stands with his back to reporters at times, just like Miles Davis on stage. Modern day Dimaggio, with just 50 percent of the skill and class, but that's saying a lot.

God, I envy you and your fucking baseball ticket tonight.

[Dexter Rutecki]

I am a typical Yankee fuckwit marching in lockstep with all the other braindead bandwagonners who think outspending the rest of the league by the largest margins in all of sports prove something about me and my team. I am stupid and worthless. If the Yankees don't win the series I'll go on and on about what happened five years ago and fifty years ago to prove how great I am, even though I don't know shit about baseball beyond 'Sheffield is the MVP', or 'I like Jeter's ass'. I am the ultimate in obnoxious sports franchises/fans, and a complete assfuck. Mike and the Maddog rule. So does Steinbrenner.

Pinstripe orgasm.

[Dexter Rutecki]

Watching the gm 3 national Anthem right now--funny as hell.

[Benny Profane]

dumb ass manny!

[gimpy]

this is just too fucking painful

[Benny Profane]

Wow.

Sgt. Dan Clark

wow

beyond gay

NY wins in "tenor" dpt.

jeez

[iceman]

Fuck you, asswipe. so who's the "computer geekwad"?, fat-gay-guys-shitting-on-each-other-internet-porn-masturbating fuckface, typical asshat Red Sox fan, I saw enough of you little shits. There is no one more bitter and self-hating than a Red Sox fan.you dickwad. Before you start blowing crap out of your ass, maybe you should think for one fucking second about how stupid the shit you're saying sounds.

Serious potty-mouth problem.

[Dexter Rutecki]

I stopped watching in the seventh.

I never stop watching.
But tonight I did.

I don't know what happened, and because I heard someone saying something about more Yankee home runs, I don't wanna know.

At least we got Wakefield out of the way tonight--if that's what he was gonna throw tomorrow, I'm glad he won't be pitching.

Anyhoo, one thing did make me happy tonight:

http://i18.ebayimg.com/02/i/02/95/a0/ba_1.JPG

[elevens]

Roll over and play dead

Last nights game was beyond sad. As a Met fan, I can hold my head up and say that at least we give a solid effort before we lose to the Yanks. This is worse than anyone could imagine. Maybe Pedro's little friend can get into tonights game.

Let's go St Louis.....

elevens

[tuffy109]

http://www.io.com/~woodward/d7/ziflames.gif

do you think the sox will even show up today?

[basom]

the worst baseball game i've ever seen live.

i stayed to the ugly end, it got to be just unbelieveable.

during sweet caroline me and bill were singing our own version:

i need ten runs
oh oh oh
could you please just score ten god. damn. runs.
ten runs! ten runs! ten runs!

francona sealed his fate last night, he managed the pitching badly, very badly. word is the ownership is not amused. drama city in beantown.

so i'm going to watch d lowe from the seats that are going (or were, i wonder if people are putting up $$ now??) for $4000-$6000 on ebay. i couold finance my whole winter with that. too bad i can't sell 'em, fuckety fuck fuck fuck.

my prediction: sox in five! w00t! fuck

[snorkeldeep]

ugh. well i guess ican say im glad i couldnt even get standing room for yesterday. i would have probably jumped off of the right field roof. un-fucking-believable.

[stump832]

I'm as sick as any Sox fan about the way this series has gone, and let me preface the following statement that I haven't liked Francona from Day One, but I just can't agree that the blame is gonna fall on Francona for last night's game, or the postseason in general. Of course theres drama in Boston - theres drama in Boston when the Sox lose an extra inning game to the Orioles in April. Tito's got a 3 year deal, and won 98 games in his first season with the team. I'm not sure he's going anywhere.

You're not going to win any games when your pitching gives up 32 runs in three games, no matter how good your offense is. It hurts even worse when the batters score a total 16 or 17 runs. Maybe he should have pulled Arroyo when he gave up 4 instead of 6 runs? Or Wakefield after he gave up 2 runs instead of 400,000? I guess a point could be made that Francona let the series get out of hand by starting Schilling despite knowing about the ankle, but even that has no bearing on the outcome of games 2 or 3. To be honest, I have no idea what went wrong. Its a confluence of almost everything going wrong that possibly could. Its the Billy Beane "shit happens in a small sample of games" axiom. And its painful to watch.

[Benny Profane]

The only job in baseball that will be harder to recruit for than a Sox manager is a Rockies pitcher.

[Altaholic]

I don't think Terry should be canned of this, but it would not suprise. We played terrible, after wrecking the Angels. At least I like the Pats as my favorite Boston team. The next two game will be huge, Pat play the Jets at at home, and then The Steelers on the road. The Steeler's rookie QB is frickin' amazing, that guy is scaring me as a pats fan.

[SIZE=3]Yankees still suck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![/SIZE]

[basom]

Of course theres drama in Boston - theres drama in Boston when the Sox lose an extra inning game to the Orioles in April. Tito's got a 3 year deal, and won 98 games in his first season with the team. I'm not sure he's going anywhere.

you may be right. i was only reporting what i heard about Henry's reaction to saturdays game. aparently he was not impressed by francona's bullpen management.

last night was amazing on several levels. the nation deflated, people were selling their tickets for half of face value, tickets that just three or four days ago were going for 10-15x face value. you could buy standing room last second release tickets without waiting in a line.

then you have the longest post season game ever played. 5 plus hours of nail biting. the people could have given up. its easy to go home and get a decent nights rest. why do i want to stick around untill 1:38 am if we are just going to boot it and get swept, i dont want to see that. well.... the fans stayed. we waited, and hoped that something would come out it. and the screaming masses were rewarded. guess how many walkoff homers have been hit in red sox playoff history????? four. and ortiz has two of them this season. the feeling inside the park was frenetic.

are they going to win today? maybe, maybe not. i think so, i think this is going back to new york. will the win the series? most likely no, but i will be watching either way. i will be screaming my lungs horse. call me masochistic, call me delusional....... much like skiing in the east it's about the pursuit, trying against the odds to find that sweet line that is holding snow. dealing with terrible weather/snow/tight as fuck trees/bushwacks from hell to get to one moment of release, that may last for the briefest of moments. but when you feel it, however brief that feeling is, you know why you put in the effort, and delt with the slog. go sox.

[shamrockpow]

you may be right. i was only reporting what i heard about Henry's reaction to saturdays game. aparently he was not impressed by francona's bullpen management.

last night was amazing on several levels. the nation deflated, people were selling their tickets for half of face value, tickets that just three or four days ago were going for 10-15x face value. you could buy standing room last second release tickets without waiting in a line.

then you have the longest post season game ever played. 5 plus hours of nail biting. the people could have given up. its easy to go home and get a decent nights rest. why do i want to stick around untill 1:38 am if we are just going to boot it and get swept, i dont want to see that. well.... the fans stayed. we waited, and hoped that something would come out it. and the screaming masses were rewarded. guess how many walkoff homers have been hit in red sox playoff history????? four. and ortiz has two of them this season. the feeling inside the park was frenetic.

are they going to win today? maybe, maybe not. i think so, i think this is going back to new york. will the win the series? most likely no, but i will be watching either way. i will be screaming my lungs horse. call me masochistic, call me delusional....... much like skiing in the east it's about the pursuit, trying against the odds to find that sweet line that is holding snow. dealing with terrible weather/snow/tight as fuck trees/bushwacks from hell to get to one moment of release, that may last for the briefest of moments. but when you feel it, however brief that feeling is, you know why you put in the effort, and delt with the slog. go sox.

Serious props to all of you that stayed through that 5 hour slog. At least you didn't have to listen to McCarver harping on "The Sox can't win in extra innings, their bullpen is shot from yesterday!"

'HE'S CHOPPING THE RUSSIAN DOWN!'

[Jackie Treehorn]

Is it me, or does Tony Clark look like an extra from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom?

[tuffy109]

hahahahahahaha

quantrill, oi vey.