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Post by Prince Hal on Oct 6, 2021 11:03:03 GMT -5
The idea that you can just switch from one team to another, hopping around year to year looking for a winner flies in the face of what a true fan is.
Especially when you hop to a team like the Padres.
I am Bwah-Hah-ing along with you, @mrp.
One of my good friends, a former prof of mine, turned 84 this year. His uncle took him to the final game of the 1949 season at Yankee Stadium, the first of many crushing moments he has endured during his many decades of loyalty to the Sox. (He still savors the wonders of Yaz and the '67 season.) As he is fond of saying in class and out when introducing a known fact, "I know, you know, and the American people know that beating the Yankees in this year, in that wild card game, and in the way it hapened, is a sublimely satisfying cap to the season."
The Sox are playing with house money from here on in.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Oct 6, 2021 17:56:08 GMT -5
I've never met a sports fan like that, but I don't tend to talk sports online.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2021 19:18:01 GMT -5
ERod is always an enigma; Sale still isn't really himself and loses both velocity and control in a heartbeat; Well both E-Rod and Sale crapped the bed so far... -M
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2021 21:09:11 GMT -5
30 for 30!
Red Sox rookie reliever Tanner Houk had his streak of 30 consecutive batters retired (spanning 4 outings) ended tonight by Wander Franco in the 5th inning. That's a perfect game plus three batters, just spread out over 4 appearances.
Houck began his string Sept. 28 at Baltimore by retiring Pat Valaika on a pop fly for the last out of the eighth inning. He then retired all 15 Nationals he faced in the penultimate game of the regular season, a start on Oct. 2 at Washington, striking out eight. Then he appeared in relief during the AL Wild Card Game against the Yankees and worked a clean seventh inning.Tonight he entered in the 2nd and had a perfect 2nd, 3rd, and 4th inning, and had 2 outs in the 5th before Franco got a hit. 30 batters faced, 30 batters retired.
-M
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2021 20:39:34 GMT -5
What an ending to that Sox Rays game, and what a gut punch to the Rays. Having the go ahead run taken away by a fluke bounce in the top of the inning only to give up a 2 run walk-off homer in the bottom. Tomorrow's game will be interesting as both teams went deep into their bullpens and used the pitchers slated to start tomorrow in relief tonight. As a Sox fan, I'm elated with the win, but man what a horrible way to lose a post-season game for the Rays. Just about any other park and that ball stays in the stadium on the bounce and the runner scores. The only solace they can take is that it was 2 run homer, so if they didn't score again (and the next batter was retired to end the inning so they wouldn't have) they still would have lost on the walk off, but that's not really any solace and it's a gut punch they have to shake off before tomorrow's game.
-M
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Post by Prince Hal on Oct 10, 2021 23:42:33 GMT -5
What an ending to that Sox Rays game, and what a gut punch to the Rays. Having the go ahead run taken away by a fluke bounce in the top of the inning only to give up a 2 run walk-off homer in the bottom. Tomorrow's game will be interesting as both teams went deep into their bullpens and used the pitchers slated to start tomorrow in relief tonight. As a Sox fan, I'm elated with the win, but man what a horrible way to lose a post-season game for the Rays. Just about any other park and that ball stays in the stadium on the bounce and the runner scores. The only solace they can take is that it was 2 run homer, so if they didn't score again (and the next batter was retired to end the inning so they wouldn't have) they still would have lost on the walk off, but that's not really any solace and it's a gut punch they have to shake off before tomorrow's game. -M All true, but then again, they’d already had twelve innings to score one more run. Fenway giveth and Fenway taketh away. Today it gaveth. I’d never seen a play where the ball hit the fence, the ground, a player and then bounce over the fence. But the umps had it right. Rays are too good to go gently into that good night tomorrow. Here’s hoping Sox can find a way to grab the win, get the pitchers rested, and take it to Houston or Chicago.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2021 21:39:36 GMT -5
Sox win a nail-biter they almost gave away. Onto the ALCS!
-M
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2021 23:07:39 GMT -5
RIP to the 2021 Red Sox season. It was preceded into the great beyond by the Red Sox bats.
-M
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Post by thwhtguardian on Oct 23, 2021 6:28:10 GMT -5
RIP to the 2021 Red Sox season. It was preceded into the great beyond by the Red Sox bats. -M Yeah, the bats really dried up and the Astros pitching really got hot at the same time which really doomed us. Still, it was a good season and we beat the Yankees and the Rays so I call it a win. I'm actully hoping the Astros do well, Dusty is a hell of guy and definitely deserves a World Series ring as a manager.
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Post by Rob Allen on Oct 24, 2021 14:56:07 GMT -5
Meanwhile, the NBA season has begun and my Portland Trail Blazers are 1-1 under new coach Chauncey Billups. Will this be the year they stay healthy and surprise everybody?
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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 24, 2021 18:31:09 GMT -5
It's a good versus Evil World Series now that it's Astro/Braves. Lets' go Braves !
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Post by The Captain on Oct 25, 2021 5:59:44 GMT -5
It's a good versus Evil World Series now that it's Astro/Braves. Lets' go Braves ! As a Pirates fan, there is nothing on earth that could ever get me to root for the Braves. I still remember exactly where I was and who I was with that fateful night in 1993 when Barry Bonds candy-armed his throw home and the Braves beat the Bucs to reach the WS. However, I could never bring myself to root for a team managed by Dusty Baker, so I guess it's... Go Meteor Strike!!
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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 25, 2021 6:04:44 GMT -5
It's a good versus Evil World Series now that it's Astro/Braves. Lets' go Braves ! As a Pirates fan, there is nothing on earth that could ever get me to root for the Braves. I still remember exactly where I was and who I was with that fateful night in 1993 when Barry Bonds candy-armed his throw home and the Braves beat the Bucs to reach the WS. However, I could never bring myself to root for a team managed by Dusty Baker, so I guess it's... Go Meteor Strike!! I really have no horse in the race but the Astros did something terrible that damaged the integrity of the game. I have no love for the Braves because they have always whipped the Mets butt, but Houston has to go down.
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Post by Prince Hal on Oct 25, 2021 12:16:12 GMT -5
The Braves began in Boston, so, yeah, I'll go with them.
Can't quite muster up much hate for Dusty Baker, though.
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 7, 2021 8:53:30 GMT -5
Braves won the Ws but, who cares. I just couldn't stomach the Astro's winning it..They should have been stripped of their title .
In other news, Odel Beckum released by the Cleveland Browns. The Giants let him go a few years ago, so I'm inclined to believe he's a trouble making pain in the neck.
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