Ah, Beckett. Nice to have you back to your old ways. :D
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[QUOTE=tatertots;197071]Ah, Beckett. Nice to have you back to your old ways.
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That part of the game was even better than the Lowell HR.
Beckett started offering his, um...thoughts, things broke loose and then Lackey acted as a giant brick wall.
I guess everything is bigger [I]from[/I] Texas, haha. I'd hate to mess with those two in a bar fight!
Nice! I obviously missed it since I can't watch it but when I saw that headline I hoped that it was the fire the clubhouse needs to pick things up a little. Especially with Youk injured and out now. I can always count on Josh to bring the spark!
[QUOTE=tatertots;197078]I can always count on Josh to bring the spark![/QUOTE]
He was done for the night anyway, so it was the other guys that started the brawl with a blatant HB.
Although he seemed to be "off" on his inside pitch as he did hit two batters a little earlier, heh. :wink2:
I was actually at the game tonight...got hooked up with some tickets from work (I work in Kenmore Square), but since I was working, couldn't make it over to Fenway until the 4th inning. Got to my seats right after Bill Hall hit that home run. But I even said when I was still at work...look at the reception Mike Lowell is getting, the fans still love the guy. I told the bartender, "Watch him hit a bomb right now"...5 seconds later he smoked one over the monster and the crowd (and the dugout) went bat **** crazy. I ****** love it. What a way to come back. **** of an outing by Beckett as well. Couldn't see what really happened with the benches clearing, I was sitting in the bleachers and could barely see what was happening so of course I decided to just yell "FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT" with a few obscenities mixed in.
Unfortunate.
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[QUOTE=molds13;197711]Unfortunate.
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The way we are playing Cleveland, the season is over anyway.
Right now, I'm just watching to see my favorite players while thinking about next year...
Losing Youk is the worst one yet. I still believe they can be a playoff team but this one ups the degree of difficulty quite a bit. Ugh when's the first Patriots game?
The Red Sox are the most punishing force in my summer life (I'd make a joking reference to that Jimmy Fallon movie that dealt with people like me, but the truth doth hurt.)
On Friday, I was thinking SWEEP! On Saturday I was thinking, we can win the other two. On Sunday I was thinking - DOOOOOOOMED. And now I am thinking, wow this Lester guy is good and Ellsbury stole 4 bases? We are only 4 back from the Rays?
They always reel you in...they are evil like that...
It is never one heart break. It is an entire season of heartbreak, because hope is always on the horizon.
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Is this true? Anyone heard anything else?
I'm not sure how I feel about this yet. I was so betrayed when he left that it will take a lot for me to forgive his greedy ways. Maybe if he grows his hair out again and gets that beard goin' I could forgive him. :)
If it is true, it might be time for Theo to go...
[B]Edit:[/B] It looks like they are just trying to slow the process of him going to the Rays or Yankess. Damon has a no trade clause to the Sox and he just said he would invoke it.
The Sox are decimated.
The VM crush just now was huge.
I don't care if there is no long run chance being we are missing 44% of our fielding starters...
I want the wild card and there is hope. Wounded warriors...
Hook line and sinker. I am in, for now (again for the 20th time this year before I give up, which will be on the day the Sox are mathematically eliminated.)
I really hope my Braves can hang on and take the NL East (they have a 2 game lead right now) but I have serious doubts about it. I just can't see them holding off Philly the last 30+ games of the season. Atlanta won big tonight but they had lost 4 games in a row including an embarrassing and pathetic 12 - 10 loss at Coors Field against the Rockies after Atlanta had built up a 10 - 1 lead in that game. But thankfully Philly got swept in a four game series at home to the Houston Astros. Atlanta and Philly play each other 6 times in the last 12 games of the season so that could tell it all right there, I guess I'll just have to wait and see.
Rangers clinched the A.L West, and my second favorite team the Reds are on the verge of clinching the N.L Central. Good year in baseball for me, for once.
[QUOTE=Lionsfan780;210348]Good year in baseball for me, for once.[/QUOTE]
And a bad one for me. Last night was probably the last game I'll watch this year, unless there is a Yankee elimination game somewhere in the playoffs.
I'm a bad sports fan. Besides football, I rarely watch post season events if my team is out of the running...unless I really, really, really want to see a team lose.
That said, I've been very lucky as there has been lots of playoff action across all sports in Boston over the last decade.
[QUOTE=Bacchus;210350]And a bad one for me. Last night was probably the last game I'll watch this year, unless there is a Yankee elimination game somewhere in the playoffs.
I'm a bad sports fan. Besides football, I rarely watch post season events if my team is out of the running...unless I really, really, really want to see a team lose.
That said, I've been very lucky as there has been lots of playoff action across all sports in Boston over the last decade.[/QUOTE]
I dont think that makes you a bad sports fan, I know alot of people who do not watch the playoffs if their team isnt involved. I'm sure the Sox will be back in the playoffs next year, they had too many injuries to overcome this season and the Rays probably wont be able to keep all their players this offseason.
[QUOTE=Lionsfan780;210351]I dont think that makes you a bad sports fan, I know alot of people who do not watch the playoffs if their team isnt involved. I'm sure the Sox will be back in the playoffs next year, they had too many injuries to overcome this season and the Rays probably wont be able to keep all their players this offseason.[/QUOTE]
The funny thing is I watch all sorts of different games during the course of the year, but the playoffs without my team is too emotionally traumatic. :D
Ya, the Rays are going to be ripped apart by the big market teams this winter (they are cutting their payroll by at least 12 million next year to start.) They be lucking to keep one of the following: Carlos Pena, Carl Crawford, Rafael Soriano - and it won't be Crawford.
I'm sick of everyone pointing the finger at the injuries of the Sox as the reason they aren't in the playoffs. I won't do the numbers crunching until after the last week but I'd expect the REAL reason we came up short is because our bullpen (as a whole, anyone who is not one of the starting 5) has been TERRIBLE. I'd be surprised if we aren't leading or in the top 3 among teams whose bullpen has blown leads of 1 or 2 runs. Despite the injuries, we will still finish the season with the 2nd or 3rd best offense overall and probably within 50 runs of our total from last year (872). Okajima is probably only still around because he's a lefty, but he is definitely in a hot seat right now. Papelbon too, but we owe him too much money next year to not use him.
[QUOTE=Aereas;210460]I'm sick of everyone pointing the finger at the injuries of the Sox as the reason they aren't in the playoffs. [/QUOTE]
Um, how do you know the Sox will not be in the playoffs? They have not been mathematically eliminated, yet. ;)
On a technicality... I didn't say they "won't be" in the playoffs, I said they are not in the playoffs (currently). :P Another solid outing by Buchholz tonight; I was starting to worry that he and Lester were catching the negativity from the rest of the pitching staff.
[QUOTE=Bacchus;210465]Um, how do you know the Sox will not be in the playoffs? They have not been mathematically eliminated, yet. ;)[/QUOTE]
I think it may be time to throw in the towel. :D
And on a more important note, Phillies won the division tonight :D
[QUOTE=Aereas;210470]On a technicality... I didn't say they "won't be" in the playoffs, I said they are not in the playoffs (currently).[/QUOTE]
Well played, well played. :wink2:
On the upside this season, I think we have seen the clear emergence of Bard as the go to guy/closer (1.83 ERA) and there is no reason to sign Papelbon in the offseason (which will free $10 million plus for a setup guy and some mid relief.)
Also, we clearly have two amazing young aces, who with a solid bullpen would both easily have over 20 wins and probably be 1 and 2 in the Cy Young running.
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Here's an interesting tidbit for the Rays fans:
Tampa Bay has won 32 of their games this year by 5 or more runs, while losing 28 games by 1 run.
Compare to the Yankees: 33 wins by 5+, 19 losses by 1
Compare to the Red Sox: 35 wins by 5+, 22 losses by 1
So the Rays have dominated their opponents almost as often as the other 2 best teams, while getting unlucky a bit more often. Had luck favored them more they could have had a 100-105 win season this year.
(Bacchus, *coincidentally I'm sure, the Sox lost 22 games by 1 run, and we lost 22 games by handing the ball over to our bullpen with a 1+ run lead and blowing it.)
Awesome.
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[QUOTE=Lionsfan780;211864]Rangers take game 1!! Cliff Lee is such a stud, thank you Mariners for trading him to us and not the Yankees.[/QUOTE]
Cliff Lee might be amazing, but he was overshadowed last night!
That said, congrats on the Rangers winning their first post season game in 14 years. :D
[QUOTE=Bacchus;212265]Cliff Lee might be amazing, but he was overshadowed last night!
That said, congrats on the Rangers winning their first post season game in 14 years. :D[/QUOTE]
Yes he was overshadowed by Halladay. That was amazing to watch. Thanks for the congrats, hopefully they can get win number 2 today.
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