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Laakea

October 20th, 2004, 09:08 AM

Taking the series to game 7...not bad. We'll have to see what happens tonight.

Miulang

October 20th, 2004, 09:12 AM

Those bums (the Sox) are my boys! :) Hope they can break the "curse of the Bambino" today. They've already gained fame as the only team in the history of the playoffs to come from a 3-0 deficit to tie the series up and force a 7th game.

Miulang

pzarquon

October 20th, 2004, 10:43 AM

I don't know much about baseball, but even I know this was a big deal. All the hubbub prompted me to go back and refresh my memory when it comes to the "Curse of the Bambino (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_the_Bambino)." If you believe in the curse, you can only see the historic, come-from-behind game seven as the biggest wind-up yet for another big let down. :)

Miulang

October 20th, 2004, 10:51 AM

Linkmeister

October 20th, 2004, 11:18 AM

While my principal allegiance is to the Dodgers, I've for long felt a tug towards the Red Sox (it's probably related to all the times the Yankees beat the Dodgers in the '40s and '50s World Series; common enemies, and all that), so these last three games have just been gut-wrenchingly difficult to watch. Can redemption finally be at hand? I hope, I hope! ;)

EastCoastTropics

October 20th, 2004, 11:33 AM

On the local Boston news this evening a woman thinks that this is the Red Sox year! She was remodeling her bathroom and found a postcard postmarked 1918....the year that the Red Sox won the series! She's hoping that this is a sign that the curse will be broken! My hubby and oldest DD are big, big Red Sox fans! GO SOX!!! :)

Mocha

October 20th, 2004, 11:49 AM

Miulang

October 20th, 2004, 12:16 PM

Although I'm a diehard Yankees fan...the Red Sox really deserve to win. With all the talent that the Yankees have bought...they just don't put it together when it's needed...and they do spend BIG bucks for ARod, Jetter, etc.
I'm not quite ready to cheer for the Sox but may have to! ;)
We saw ARod mature into the player he has become while he played here with the Mariners and were mightily disappointed when he went to the Yankees for the bucks. He abandoned his fans here and everytime they play us now and ARod comes to bat, he gets a pretty hearty round of boos from the fans. Now the Yankees also have John Olerud, also one of our local favorites. This trade may have been one of the final nails in Bob Melvin's demise.

Despite our dismal showing this year (bottom of the AL barrel), we still have Ichiro (saw him break the hitting record earlier this month) and Edgar, who as part of his retirement package, now has a street named after him, and the AL DH title is now called the "Edgar Martinez AL Designated Hitter of the Year". Both these guys are salt of the earth, and not arrogant the way ARod became as he became more famous.

Miulang

Kilinahe

October 20th, 2004, 01:40 PM

I have a soft spot for the Sox. I really don't follow baseball but whenever the Sox are doing well, I'm cheering for them.

Konaguy

October 20th, 2004, 04:37 PM

We saw ARod mature into the player he has become while he played here with the Mariners and were mightily disappointed when he went to the Yankees for the bucks. He abandoned his fans here and everytime they play us now and ARod comes to bat, he gets a pretty hearty round of boos from the fans. Now the Yankees also have John Olerud, also one of our local favorites. This trade may have been one of the final nails in Bob Melvin's demise.

Actually I do recall A-Rod signed a large free agent deal with the Texas Rangersafter the 2000 season. He spent three individually productive years with the Rangers, while the Rangers as a team stunk. Then before this season he was nearly traded to the Red Sox. But the Players union blocked the trade. He ultimately ended up with Yankees.

YoungNeil

October 20th, 2004, 11:39 PM

Enjoyed seeing Rodriguez sulk off after watching the BoSox celebrate on the field.

George needed to spend that money on starting pitching rather than another infielder.

Laakea

October 21st, 2004, 02:45 AM

It's their year...Well deserved

Miulang

October 21st, 2004, 04:16 AM

Linkmeister

October 21st, 2004, 08:25 AM

I love my idiots (that's what they call themselves)! :)
I was one block away from Fenway at a job interview the year that the Bosox lost the AL playoff series to the Yankees because of a homerun. Go Sox nation!

Miulang

That's not specific enough. Was it 1978, with Bucky Dent? Or 2003, with Aaron Boone? Or... :D

It's quite a history between those two teams.

Miulang

October 21st, 2004, 08:51 AM

That's not specific enough. Was it 1978, with Bucky Dent? Or 2003, with Aaron Boone? Or... :D

It's quite a history between those two teams.
'Twas 1978. I was also in Beantown in 1967 or 1968 when the Sox went to the AL playoffs. That was the "Impossible Dream" team, with Freddie Lynn, Carl Yazstremski, Pudge Fisk...man, there was a near-riot in Kenmore Square when that happened.

Miulang

Miulang

October 22nd, 2004, 11:02 AM

Here is a sad, sad postscript to the Red Sox victory the other day:

BOSTON (Oct. 22) -- Boston Mayor Thomas Menino said he was considering banning alcohol sales near Fenway Park during the World Series, following rowdy celebrations of the Red Sox's league championship that turned deadly when a police officer shot a projectile into a crowd. ...

Emerson College student Victoria Snelgrove, 21, died on Thursday, hours after being hit in the eye with what was designed to be a non-lethal projectile that would douse the target with a pepper-like spray. Her father expressed outrage at the city's response to her death. ..."

Of course there are cries of excessive force, but the police were trying to quell and over-exuberant bunch of drunken Red Sox fans (probably in Kenmore Sq) and unfortunately the student got caught in the middle.

This kind of disturbance should have been expected (Boston is a very sports loving town) by the cops, but I'm not sure pepper spray was the right weapon to be using against a bunch of alcohol-infused rowdies, either.

The police don't have it easy...on the one hand, they are charged with protecting property and lives, and on the other they are accused of using excessive force. No wonder many of them end up being alcoholic or wife beaters...the psychological stress on them has to come out someplace. :(

Miulang

pzarquon

October 22nd, 2004, 03:49 PM

Sad indeed. Wrong place, wrong time. The woman was a student, studying journalism (http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=50313), in fact. It was such a great night for Boston... but for one family, an awful tragedy.

I've always been skeptical of "nonlethal weapons (http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2004/10/22/nonlethal_guns_causing_alarm/)" because - while they might be less lethal per discharge, the comfort they give law enforcement also means they're discharged more often. Don't get me wrong, I'll take a bean bag over a bullet... but training in the proper use of such weapons needs to improve, as do the weapons themselves.

Staying on topic, though... looks like it's the Sox versus the Cardinals (http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11158294%255E2722,00.html). Go Sox!

Miulang

October 23rd, 2004, 08:18 PM

Yay! The "idiots" won 9-7! Manny Ramirez's 2 errors certainly didn't help matters, but who cares how they won! :)

Seen in the Fenway crowd were Ben Affleck (with an unnamed brunette) and Stephen King.

Miulang

BTW: as a result of that death of the woman in Kenmore Sq. who was hit in the eye by one of those pepper spray projectiles, the Seattle Police Dept. today indicated that they will no longer use that weapon to quell public disturbances anymore.

Konaguy

October 23rd, 2004, 09:24 PM

Yay! The "idiots" won 9-7! Manny Ramirez's 2 errors certainly didn't help matters, but who cares how they won! :)

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=241023102

Red Sox 11 Cardinals 9

Miulang

October 23rd, 2004, 09:35 PM

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=241023102

Red Sox 11 Cardinals 9
Heh, you're right. I must've been in the bathroom for the 9th inning! :)

It'll be interesting to see how well Schilling pitches tomorrow night. They said the doctors put in another 2 stitches today to try to keep his ankle strong. :eek:

Miulang

Miulang

October 24th, 2004, 06:53 PM

The lovable idiots won again! This despite making 4 errors (again). Curt Schilling is one iron man. I am just so in awe of this guy. They did closeup shots of his face when the Sox were at bat, and you could see the pain he was having, and you could also see him praying for strength. That he lasted as many innings that he did is nothing short of miraculous.

I hope the Sox can do as well on the road as they did at Fenway. The Cards haven't lost a home game in quite awhile. The good thing is the Cards can't sweep the Sox because they're now 2 games up in the Series.

Miulang

pzarquon

October 25th, 2004, 07:38 AM

Man. I'm trying hard to not get my hopes up. At this point, I half expect the Sox to go 3-0... and then for the Cardinals to do exactly the same thing the Sox did in the ALCS playoffs and... no, it's to horrible to even contemplate! :eek:

pzarquon

October 27th, 2004, 06:53 AM

Well, it's 3-0 (http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/recap;_ylc=X3oDMTBpNWZic251BF9TAzI1NjY0ODI1BHNlYwN 0aA--?gid=241026124&prov=ap). They're one win away from the championship, and breaking the curse (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_the_Bambino). Oh, if it could be that easy...

Serenity

October 27th, 2004, 10:19 PM

It was a history in a making for braking the curse &
finally wining the world series.
Woo Hoo, baby!!!.

Mocha

October 27th, 2004, 10:52 PM

Can't really believe that the Red Sox did it! Bean town must really be jumping!
Eight straight wins...good pitching does beat good hitting! Can Derek Lowe be "bought" by the Yankees...he's a free agent. Congratulations to the Red Sox organization! :D

EastCoastTropics

October 28th, 2004, 01:32 AM

Beantown is jumping...especially this morning! As of this hour, the Red Sox team have made their way to Fenway Park! There were police blockades at every traffic intersection that they passED with fans on the sidewalks waving to the players! The mayor of Boston has not decided what day the parade with be. Some say tomorrow but also Saturday is an option since it'll be a weekend and more folks will be able to view the parade with school-aged children. They are also expecting more parade goers this year and are thinking of starting the parade on the outskirts of Boston to accomodate more parade goers.

The players are getting off the buses and being interviewed by the press. Pedro said that he calls Boston his home and hope that he is with the Red Sox next year!

As for Boston t-shirts and the such....they just announced that the official tshirts are out! Several months ago Joanne's Sewing Store had bolts and bolts of "licensed" fleece fabric, Red Sox being one of them. I picked up enough fabric to make 3 lap blankets. My oldest DD and her boyfriend also love the Red Sox and I'm planning to give them the lap blankets for Christmas. Personally, I'd love to have a "Boston Red Sox World Champions" Christmas tree ornament for this year! :D

Go RED SOX!!
WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS

yeah baby!

pzarquon

October 28th, 2004, 07:24 AM

That's insanely great. Yeah, boo hoo that the series is over in four rather than seven and that the big money flow got stemmed early... The Sox won the World Series! Proof that insurmountible odds and overwhelming cynicism can still be beat by the impossible dream... sometimes.

Now about those Cubs...

Miulang

October 31st, 2004, 08:16 AM

Over 2.3 million supporters lined the streets around Fenway Park yesterday as the Sox waved the World Series trophy overhead. Truly awesome.

Also incredible: the original contract that sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees in 1918 turned up on eBay. Current price: somewhere over $100k.

Miulang

P.S. For the Cubbies to get rid of their curse, I believe they have to allow goats back into the stands.

EastCoastTropics

October 31st, 2004, 10:06 AM

My daughter and her friends went to Boston to see the Red Sox in the parade. They had a great view as they were at the entrance to the Charles River where all the duck boats entered. They caught the T in and said that although the parade was packed and it was cold and drizzling, everyone was in great spirits!

Speaking of Babe Ruth, an original signed photo of the babe is going for 10K on eBay...