Rays/Sox

Frank the halos were gone awhile ago or are you watching reruns of the
regular season........Dice-K pitches Thursday night and the sox will
win the rays need this to go 7 games so they get the revenue for the
last 2 games in tampa if they don't how they gonna pay any free agents
coming up after the seasons end.....

"Tim J." wrote in message
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riverman wrote:
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But where are all the Sox fans on roff?

I'm just trying to wade through all the liberal bull****. So much to
ignore, so little time.
Go Sox!
--
TL,
Tim

MLB is for pussies. Real men watch NCAA women's volleyball!

Op

On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 06:02:03 -0700 (PDT), Mike wrote:

Frank the halos were gone awhile ago or are you watching reruns of the
regular season........Dice-K pitches Thursday night and the sox will
win the rays need this to go 7 games so they get the revenue for the
last 2 games in tampa if they don't how they gonna pay any free agents
coming up after the seasons end.....

Sounds like a plan! ;-)

Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance: tonite's game was all
over the emotional map. I'm cooked...

I almost posted "We got 'em right where we want 'em!" after the series went
3-1 Rays ;-) but my heart wasn't in it. Heck, these young upstart Rays have
been playing so freaky well all season long it's scary to think about *next*
season, never mind the chances of the Sox winning this playoff.

But....we'll go to the Trop and see if this ugly loss has taken some of the
cool out of the Rays game. Ya never know.

Now, if we could just find a starting pitcher that won't get murdered in the
first three innings...

/daytripper (Go Celtics! ;-)

On Oct 17, 12:36*pm, daytripper wrote:


Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance: tonite's game was all
over the emotional map. I'm cooked...



Wow, WHAT a game! I saw the folks at the end calling their friends who
left early and laughing at them for abandoning their $400 seats for
what was one of the biggest comeback wins of any Series Championship
game in history.

It reminds me of a Utah Jazz game I was at back in, god, something
like 1985 or something. There were 7 seconds left on the clock, the
Jazz were down by 12 points, and the other team (I can't remember
who....someone in the east...) was shooting 1:1 foul shots. The short
of it is that the Jazz actually WON in regulation!! There were a
series of stolen inbound passes, 3 pointers and foul shots and the
Jazz took it. Everyone (including the media) had left already, and one
lone Radio announcer was there, announcing the game.

Anyway, off to Tampa to see if the Sox can pull off one more October
Miracle. Man, things sure have changed in the past half-dozen years!
I'm afraid to even *mention* the "C---- of the B------".

--riverman

On Oct 10, 4:59*pm, riverman wrote:
So which way will it go? The Rays seem to be the only team that
consistently stops the BoSox...10 times out of 18 matchups, and most
of those in the latter half of the season. The Rays seem to be the
only team that really have the Soxs' number this year. Add to that the
Sox have only beaten them once at Tropicana, and the first two games
seem a bit scary.

On the other hand, Matsuzaka was the pitcher who did manage to beat
them in Florida, and by the largest whomping that the teams have had
(13-5). If he can help the Sox pull off ALCS game 1, then the Sox (who
have beaten the Rays 7 times out of 9 matchups in Fenway) have a three-
game homestand to take the series...if they can win all three.

This one seems pretty close to call; in some ways, it seems that Tampa
is favored, but these certainly ain't the Sox of old. They have a new-
found way of bringing it out when needed. And I'd love to see them
playing against Manny in the WS...if it comes to that (which is
probaby will on the NL side...)

I'm rooting for the Sox in 7 in a real nail-biter. The series will go
like this:
W L W W L L W

Anyone wanna bet a see-through against the Sox winning the ALCS?

--riverman

Yee HAH! Game 7 is ON, and for my money, its still gonna be the Sox. I
predict that TB will come out swinging, and put 5 runs on the board
before the end of the 5th, and the Sox will win 7-6 in 10 innings.

How's that for a random guess out of the blue? :-)

--riverman

On Sat, 18 Oct 2008 21:07:08 -0700 (PDT), riverman
wrote:
Yee HAH! Game 7 is ON, and for my money, its still gonna be the Sox. I
predict that TB will come out swinging, and put 5 runs on the board
before the end of the 5th, and the Sox will win 7-6 in 10 innings.

How's that for a random guess out of the blue? :-)

"Horrible"?

This series has had me more tense than if I was standing on a 50th story ledge
in a gale. So, I don't need a repeat of Game 5 - or anything remotely
approaching it ;-)

I'd enjoy another game like tonite's, if you can swing it, thank you very much
in advance.

Game 1, the Ray's were tight as drums, and it showed. They got a lot looser
after the two-sided slugfest of Game 2 (which we should have won, damnit!) and
stayed loose for 3 through 5. But after their incredible Game 5 loss, they
were back to being majorly up-tight tonite for Game 6. A total of four hits
for *that* team?

And I predict they're gonna be even *tighter* tomorrow night. So, if the Sox
can remember that their still playing with house money like they were tonight,
the Sox should be the favorites. And if Lester is on his game, the Rays are
done.

btw: I nearly croaked tonite trying to find the fricken game on the TV. I
didn't see the pre game show as I was out finishing up helping my youngest son
move into his new house - which doesn't have the cable turned on yet. I got
home right at 8PM, turned on the tube - and saw some black comedy show for 15
minutes, spanning the entire first inning of the game! I scanned all the
damned channels, checked the newspaper tv listings twice, checked the internet
- everything said the game should have started on TBS - but that damned comedy
show was on! I was in the middle of calling my BIL who was also nearly
apoplectic when the comedy show was finally replaced with the game!

Damned TBS - they're strictly Amateur Hour when it comes to sports
broadcasts...

/daytripper

On Oct 19, 12:54*pm, daytripper wrote:
On Sat, 18 Oct 2008 21:07:08 -0700 (PDT), riverman
wrote:

Yee HAH! Game 7 is ON, and for my money, its still gonna be the Sox. I
predict that TB will come out swinging, and put 5 runs on the board
before the end of the 5th, and the Sox will win 7-6 in 10 innings.

How's that for a random guess out of the blue? :-)

"Horrible"?

This series has had me more tense than if I was standing on a 50th story ledge
in a gale. So, I don't need a repeat of Game 5 - or anything remotely
approaching it ;-)

I'd enjoy another game like tonite's, if you can swing it, thank you very much
in advance.

Game 1, the Ray's were tight as drums, and it showed. They got a lot looser
after the two-sided slugfest of Game 2 (which we should have won, damnit!) and
stayed loose for 3 through 5. But after their incredible Game 5 loss, they
were back to being majorly up-tight tonite for Game 6. A total of four hits
for *that* team?

And I predict they're gonna be even *tighter* tomorrow night. So, if the Sox
can remember that their still playing with house money like they were tonight,
the Sox should be the favorites. And if Lester is on his game, the Rays are
done.

btw: I nearly croaked tonite trying to find the fricken game on the TV. I
didn't see the pre game show as I was out finishing up helping my youngest son
move into his new house - which doesn't have the cable turned on yet. I got
home right at 8PM, turned on the tube - and saw some black comedy show for 15
minutes, spanning the entire first inning of the game! I scanned all the
damned channels, checked the newspaper tv listings twice, checked the internet
- everything said the game should have started on TBS - but that damned comedy
show was on! I was in the middle of calling my BIL who was also nearly
apoplectic when the comedy show was finally replaced with the game!

Damned TBS - they're strictly Amateur Hour when it comes to sports
broadcasts...

/daytripper

Hell, even Faux Network got MLB to delay the start of WS Game 5 by 10
minutes so that Obama's half-hour primetime campaign speech doesn't
interfere with the game.

http://tinyurl.com/5rjfmt

But you're predictions may be right...Tampa does seem to clamp up when
the pressure is on, and the Sox seem to thrive in these do-or-die
situations. In many ways, the Sox are still the Heartbreaker Sox of
old, but they have learned to come back in the clutch rather than
choke. But they certainly have always been a Clutch team...as long as
I can remember, anyway, and I've been a Sox fan for over 40 years.

If anyone else has been watching the betting by-lines over the week,
its been swinging back and forth both ways like mad. Right now, I
think all bets are almost even money for game 7...

--riverman

On Oct 19, 1:31*pm, riverman wrote:


But you're predictions may be right...

Jeez...even *I* don't usually make spelling mistakes like that. Shows
how keyed-up today's game has got me...

--riverman

On Sat, 18 Oct 2008 22:42:08 -0700 (PDT), riverman
wrote:

On Oct 19, 1:31*pm, riverman wrote:


But you're predictions may be right...

Jeez...even *I* don't usually make spelling mistakes like that. Shows
how keyed-up today's game has got me...

--riverman

well, thanks for not making fun of my "their for they're" faux pas ;-)

/daytripper

Okay, Sports fans, here we go!

Top of the 6th, Sox trail 2-1. This is looking like a real scrappy
ball game...none of those Home Run Derby matchups today, nosireebob.
Unfortunately, it seems like TB tends to win the scrappy ones, with
the Bosox needing to strand 4-6 people on base for every run they
score, while Tampa seems to get as many runs as hits. The Sox better
start stacking up baserunners if they want to win this one without
giving RSNation ulcers.

--riverman