we will prevail

This LJ guy ain't bad, eh?

Josh Beckett is fucking pissed.

He WILL NOT be denied.

I like baseball.

We can beat them
Just for one day
We can be Heroes
Just for one day

Beckett in Game 6. An angry Beckett in Game 6. A team that has the momentum. I don't want winter to start.

WIN

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We can beat them

Forever and ever!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiQoq-wqZxg


When they kick out your front door
How you gonna come?
With your hands on your head
Or on the trigger of your gun?

You can crush us
You can bruise us
But you'll have to answer to
Oh, Guns of Boston

I hope we find out Beckett is having some expirimental surgery before the game where his oblique is stitched back together with cadaver tendons or something.

Beckett and Lester. Anything can happen.

The odds against this game thread existing are astronomical, and yet here we are...

ALIVE!

In LJ We Trust.

It took the Sox 162 regular season games, 4 ALDS games and 4 ALCS games to finally put themselves into their traditional position of strength to win this thing.

One game at a time.

Win Game 6

As I wrote yesterday, LJ = The Cabrara Era

Pressure is now 100% on the Rays. Sox are playing with house money and I expect huge things from the offense going forward. David Ortiz has awoken.

Just because I posted it yesterday. Racism still hurts.



Win.

street lights, people

Bluto magic worked in 2004, it worked in 2007, and it worked in Game 5 Thursday night!

D-Day: War's over, man. Wormer dropped the big one.
Bluto: Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
Otter: Germans?
Boon: Forget it, he's rolling.
Bluto: And it ain't over now. 'Cause when the goin' gets tough...
[thinks hard]
Bluto: the tough get goin'! Who's with me? Let's go!
[runs out, alone; then returns]
Bluto: What the fuck happened to the Delta I used to know? Where's the spirit? Where's the guts, huh? "Ooh, we're afraid to go with you Bluto, we might get in trouble." Well just kiss my ass from now on! Not me! I'm not gonna take this. Wormer, he's a dead man! Marmalard, dead! Niedermeyer...
Otter: Dead! Bluto's right. Psychotic, but absolutely right. We gotta take these bastards. Now we could do it with conventional weapons that could take years and cost millions of lives. No, I think we have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part.
Bluto: We're just the guys to do it.
D-Day: Let's do it.
Bluto: LET'S DO IT!!!!


LET'S DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I hope Beckett puts one right on Upton's earhole with his first pitch to him tomorrow night.

LJ's got the you know what.

One game at a time. Win this next one.

Last nights game thread was the first all season that I posted in prior to the first pitch, so here's to superstition!

We've got two guys with nuts the size of Jupiter and chips on their shoulders equally as large to get rid of. I'M LOVING OUR CHANCES!!! DAMN I love the postseason!


If we've said it once, we've said it a hundred times; "don't let us win tonight".....They did.

2004 ALCS all over again.

HANTA YO

This game thread is a formality. I don't care if Beckett got his right arm amputated, he'd learn to throw lefty in between starts cause there is no way in hell he loses 2 pivotal games in the playoffs.

Win.

I'm liking the new role of the Red Sox. Until 2004, we were negative nancies. Until last season, I was hopeful but not expecting it to happen.

This year, I just expect it to happen.

Just do this.

Don't let us win game six.

The Rays are unoriginal and unfunny. Please put them out of their misery.

that was original and funny!

And goes so well with your handle

The sleeping giant has been awakened...



Eerie parallels between 2004 and this game...

Game 6, 2004 - injured ace pitcher starting in an elimination game after getting shelled in his last start.

Game 6, 2008 - injured ace pitcher starting in an elimination game after getting shelled in his last start.

Similar scenario? Similar results??

Just win Beckett!!!

I have to admit that all this recycling of Millar quotes in the last two game threads make me miss Millar...not for his bat or his glove, but for his personality. I think the interaction between Pedroia and him in the clubhouse would be hilarious.

Is Millar a FA this year? I wouldn't mind seeing him signed to take over Casey's role.

COWBOY UP and win Game 6!!!

"Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieve it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night."

Rage, Rage Beckett
Rage, Rage Ortiz

And just f-ing win

I dunno about his game thread etiquette, tho. I'm thinking of reporting him to a dope.

The whole "Tito is an idiot for starting Beckett" deal is really burning my butter. I hope Josh has heard every single WEEI caller say that Tito is giving the series away by starting him. I hope his ass is chapped raw by it. Time for Kid Heat to make a comeback.

Oh, and Mr. Shields?



Be very afraid.

My first ever post in the big-boy forum. Let's hope for rookie success.



WIN

Hack Hack Gasp Wheeze Cough
The D'vil Rays choke game 5
The Red Sox will Roll

October 2003. The Red Sox head to New York down 3-2 to the Yankees in the ALCS. Awaiting them in game 6 is Andy Pettitte, who had a record of 21-8 during the regular season, and was 2-0 with a 1.98 ERA in the postseason. The Red Sox starter? John Burkett - a guy who had a 5.15 ERA during the regular season, and gave up 4 runs in 5.1 innings against the A's in his only postseason start.

How could the Sox possibly win? This is how. They got one big inning against Pettitte. They kept working the count to make Pettitte throw pitches, and knocked him out after 5 innings. A shaky start from Burkett lead to a 2 run deficit after 5 (helped by a big error by Nomar). But the Sox pen slammed the door, and the offense feasted on the Yankees' relievers, scoring 5 runs in the late innings to take a 9-6 victory.

Fast forward to 2008. The Red Sox head to Tampa down 3-2 to the Rays in the ALCS. Awaiting them in game 6 is James Shields, one of the best young pitchers in the league; a guy who had a 2.59 ERA at home this year. The Red Sox starter? Josh Beckett - a guy who's had a 9.39 ERA in his last three starts.

ALCS Game 6, on the road, against a tough starter, down 3-2.
John Burkett. Josh Beckett.

Coincidence? I think not. It may be ugly, but the Sox will find a way to win, even the series, and send it to a seventh and deciding game.

Ol' Cliff Floyd with some interesting comments:



LINK



Make them pay, Josh.

Thanks for the bulletin board material, beautiful.

Full Clip in all its glory!

I put this in the first game of this series...or may be it was in the first game of the Angels series, but here it is:



We're in hell right now. Let's fight are way out, inch by inch!

EDIT: Buster Olney said there are few hitters you want to pitch to when they are locked in: Manny Ramirez, Albert Pujols, JD Drew

I came to you, Red Sox, on Thursday, offering to wash away the sins of a life of Suck and deliver you into a life of Filthy Pitches, Clutch Hits and TOTAL DOMINATION. You wavered on the topic for a number of hours before submitting to the power my waters possess and bowing your heads and admitting the errors of your ways.

What I am here to tell you today, my friends, is that this first step is not your entire journey. Admitting that your life consisting of sin through the ways of Suck was bringing you along a path of elimination was a powerful step in the right direction, but just as you saw the rewards of a life of TOTAL DOMINATION borne in the waters of my baptism, please believe that you must make that same choice continuously, over and over and with every pitch. You must make that same denial of Suck and acceptance of TOTAL DOMINATION with every single play you witness. Many steps, and a glorious end, my friends.



I am JohntheBaptist and I shall wash away the sins of shitty baseball and fucking atrocious pitching. Be blessed now in the waters of TOTAL DOMINATION.

ps- still stoned.

win

Will the real Josh Beckett please stand up?

Let's mother fucking do this....

win it.