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[Rick Burlesons Yam Bag]

So here we are again.

How can something that is supposed to feel good suddenly feel so crappy?

Enough.

Seriously, you are boring I am unoriginal and unfunny. Please put me out of my misery.


This is the time to stand up and be counted. Now is the time to dig deep. And here's the good news - sh*t keeps bouncing my way. All things being equal I will be luckier than you.

I am the stopper. That is my role.

We define the end game.



The buck stops here.

[DJnVa]

Fuck the White Sox.

Fuck Berman and Sutcliffe.

Fuck the naysayers.

The Sox are back at home.

Edited by DJnVa, 05 October 2005 - 10:37 PM.

[ffynon]

Sign seen at park tonight:

"I'ts our turn."

Get it right. No i'ts not.

[Talon]

History

History is a funny thing....usually History favors one person, and History is not a thing that one person does and similar people do over and over again, then it just becomes a played out "oh, well thats nice" moment

IN THE HISTORY OF PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL ONLY 1 TEAM HAS COME BACK FROM AN 0-2 DEFICIT IN A BEST OF 5 SERIES...ONLY 1

AND WHO THE FUCK WAS THAT? THE BOSTON MOTHERFUCKING RED SOX

SURE...DEREK LOWE, SCOTT WILLIAMSON, PEDRO MARTINEZ, AND EVEN THE FUCKING NAPKIN ARE NOT HERE ANYMORE...BUT YOU KNOW WHAT....WHO NEEDS THEM?

WE HAVE 3 GAMES TO WIN FELLAS, I CAN FEEL IT...THE WHITE SOX ARE NOT LONG FOR IT, THEY MAY BE THE BEST TEAM, BUT HISTORY (THERES THAT WORD AGAIN) SHOWS THAT THE BEST TEAMS ARE NOT ALWAYS THE TEAM THAT COMES OUT ON TOP

BOYS...I WANT BLOOD...AND SCREW THE WHOLE NOT SHOOTING UNTIL YOU SEE THE WHITES OF THIER EYES THING, JUST FUCKING DO IT!

WIN...NOTHING LESS IS ACCEPTABLE

[ragecage]

Enough of this. You're coming home now. Pitch well, hit well, play good defense. Win.

Edited by ragecage, 07 October 2005 - 01:05 PM.

[LynnRoyalRooter]

Need a W Friday...Get the ball to Schilling on Saturday...
Take your chances Sunday...but first....

WIN

[5belongstoGeorge]

So here we are again.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
--Confucius

[NYCSox]

I guess we need to have one of these 0-2 or 0-3 rallies each season.

So be it.

[Old Fart Tree]

Bool-Cheet!

You Win Today!!!

You Win Tomorrow!!!

AND THEN YOU SEE WHERE YOU ARE!!!

Edited by Old Fart Tree, 06 October 2005 - 12:03 AM.

[Number45forever]

I know you grew up in Mass as a Red Sox fan. Don't count the Sox out. Don't...

Don't let us win tomorrow. I'm telling ya, win tomorrow, Schilling in Game 4, then anything can happen in Game 5.[/Millar]

You've done it before. Do it again.

Win tomorrow, then see where you stand.

It's Wake time.

[MikeGatorGreenwell]

2 TIX TO GAME 3 I am unoriginal and unfunny. Please put me out of my misery!!! Who else is going??

Edited by MikeGatorGreenwell, 06 October 2005 - 09:58 AM.

[MikeGatorGreenwell]

BTW .. I think it's Schilling time .. how can you NOT start Schill when you're down 0-2 and he's on 4 days rest??? WTF Francoma WAKE UP!!!

[MikeGatorGreenwell]

Just win


It.Is.On.

[Sparky Lyle]

BTW .. I think it's Schilling time .. how can you NOT start Schill when you're down 0-2 and he's on 4 days rest??? WTF Francoma WAKE UP!!!

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Huh?

What?

Edited by Sparky Lyle, 06 October 2005 - 01:05 AM.

[someoneanywhere]

1999:



2003:



2004:

[PseuFighter]

gatorgreenwell, might want to remove that image.

[PedroKsBambino]

Win Today.

[epraz]

The game's tomorrow.

[staz]

Win Tomorrow.

[Dave Stapleton]

So have we won three in a row this year? Yes .... 13 times.


April

Thu. 14 NY Yankees W 8-5
Fri. 15 Tampa Bay W 10-0
Sat. 16 Tampa Bay W 6-2

May

Tue. 3 at Detroit W 5-3
Wed. 4 at Detroit W 4-3
Thu. 5 at Detroit W 2-1

Mon. 9 Oakland W 13-5
Tue. 10 Oakland W 3-2
Wed. 11 Oakland W 6-5

June

Sun. 12 at Chicago Cubs W 8-1
Mon. 13 Cincinnati W 10-3
Tue. 14 Cincinnati W 7-0

Sun. 19 Pittsburgh W 8-0
Mon. 20 at Cleveland W 10-9
Tue. 21 at Cleveland W 9-2

Wed. 22 at Cleveland W 5-4
Fri. 24 at Philadelphia W 8-0
Sat. 25 at Philadelphia W 7-1

July

Tue. 19 Tampa Bay W 5-2
Wed. 20 Tampa Bay W 9-4
Thu. 21 at Chicago Sox W 6-5

Tue. 26 at Tampa Bay W 10-9
Wed. 27 at Tampa Bay W 4-1
Fri. 29 Minnesota W 8-5

Sat. 30 Minnesota W 6-2
Sun. 31 Minnesota W 4-3
Tue. 2 Kansas City W 6-4

August

Sun. 7 at Minnesota W 11-7
Mon. 8 Texas W 11-6
Tue. 9 Texas W 8-7

Wed. 10 Texas W 16-5
Fri. 12 Chicago Sox W 9-8
Sat. 13 Chicago Sox W 7-4

Sun. 28 Detroit W 11-3
Mon. 29 Tampa Bay W 10-6
Tues 30 Tampa Bay W 7-6

September

Fri. 23 at Baltimore W 6-3
Sat. 24 at Baltimore W 4-3
Sun. 25 at Baltimore W 9-3

Let's make it 14 !!!!

[Talon]

NO WAY

NO FUCKING WAY CHICAGO WINS 8 FUCKING GAMES IN A ROW

NOT ON OUR WATCH

[LooieLooie]

Drown myself in sorrow
As i look at what you done
Nothin' seems to change;
That bad times stay the same,
And i can't run

Sometimes i feel
Sometimes i feel
Like i been
Tied to the whippin' post
Tied to the whippin' post
Good lord, i feel like i'm dyin'

[PedroKsBambino]

The game's tomorrow.

You've missed the theme, clearly.

[epraz]

Clearly.

[Talon]

Drown myself in sorrow
As i look at what you done
Nothin' seems to change;
That bad times stay the same,
And i can't run

Sometimes i feel
Sometimes i feel
Like i been
Tied to the whippin' post
Tied to the whippin' post
Good lord, i feel like i'm dyin'

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THIS AIN'T THE PLACE TO DROWN IN SORROW...THERES A PESSIMISTS THREAD FOR THAT ON THE MAIN BOARD (KNOW THE ROOLZ OF THE LAND!)

THIS IS WHERE WE TELL EVERYONE HOW THE RED SOX WONT EVER DIE

[visalia oak]

So have we won three in a row this year? Yes .... 13 times.
.
.
.
September

Fri. 23 at Baltimore W 6-3
Sat. 24 at Baltimore W 4-3
Sun. 25 at Baltimore W 9-3   

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Who was in charge of that September magic? That's right - The Yammer!!!
MS Paint I am unoriginal and unfunny. Please put me out of my misery!!!

[DLew On Roids]

Cleveland '99.
Oakland '03.
New York '04.
Chicago '05.

Sounds right to me. You don't have to win three in a row, you just have to win Friday night.

[ookami7m]

Some Boston Hockey is back I am unoriginal and unfunny. Please put me out of my misery, from the king of I am unoriginal and unfunny. Please put me out of my misery - Bobby Orr

[AnkleStigmata]

..... whoops, sorry, that's a Yam GUN. I'll start again:

[Let it Flo]

we shall not flag or fail. we shall go on to the end. we shall fight on the pitching mound and in the batters box and on the basepaths. we shall fight with gloves and with bats, with growing confidence and growing strength. we shall defend our trophy, whatever the cost may be. we shall never surrender.

[pk1627]

We have a team that can win the game friday. Beyond that, I could care less.

[FredLynnsGlove]

I carry some of the blame for his 0-2 start.

My wife and I just welcomed a baby boy to the world, Jude- and I've been missing some of the Rage that I usually carry around that makes me, me.

So, to balance it out- here we go-

KILL

KILL

KILL

[Papi's Mango Salsa]

It's time to show why the Boston Red Sox are World Champions!

WIN the next game!

[Ebbets2Fenway]

Just in case no one has seen this....enjoy

http://www.shutuptimmccarver.com/

[shoebox91]

We win this game we win the series. There I said it.
SO WIN THE DAMN GAME!

[5belongstoGeorge]

[CaptainLaddie]

.... is this game even going to be played? Supposed to rain/thunder all night starting at 4.

How does the rain/wet effect Wakefield's knuckler?

[happybooker99]

Win one for the Yammer.

[Rasputin]

Gentlemen, I would appreciate a win today.

[Worst Trade Evah]

Timmeh's got a little somethin' somethin' for those clowns from Chicago:

Edited by Worst Trade Evah, 07 October 2005 - 07:51 AM.

[BCSoxFan]

October 10, 1999

Byline: Gordon Edes, Boston Globe Staff

Not finished yet; Red Sox are depleted . . . but not defeated

In certain circles - namely, the six-state region that bumps Canada on one side and New York on the other - the news that Nomar Garciaparra wouldn't be of any help to the Red Sox as they tried to stave off winter yesterday afternoon could have meant only one thing:

Wait till next millennium.

However, the Red Sox have made it an article of faith that they're at their most dangerous when they're most shorthanded.

Minus Garciaparra, who sat out because of his sore right wrist, the Sox extended summer for at least another day with a 9-3 swatting of the Cleveland Indians, who lead the best-of-five American League Division Series, 2-1, but couldn't close out a team whose only certifiable superstars, Garciaparra and Pedro Martinez, were on unscheduled shore leave.

"That's the beauty of this team," said lefthander Kent Mercker, who will face Indians ace Bartolo Colon in Game 4 tonight instead of packing his golf clubs. "You lose a guy like Pedro, you lose a guy like Nomar, the team rallies and scores nine runs.

"At this point of the year, if one guy is going to cost you a season, you probably wouldn't be here in this position in the first place. That's not taking anything away from Nomar. We'd love to have him in there. But we don't have that luxury right now. And the guy who filled in did a tremendous job."

Garciaparra's stand-in, Lou Merloni, jump-started two rallies, Ramon Martinez pitched gallantly for nearly six innings, and slugging John Valentin won a wrestling match with his evil twin, slinging John Valentin, overcoming his second ghastly throwing error in three games by delivering two big hits: a tie-breaking home run in the sixth inning and a tie-breaking two-run double in the seventh.

"It's been a crazy year for me," said Merloni, the Framingham Kid who figured his days with the Sox were numbered after two demotions to Pawtucket this summer. "But it's not where you start, it's where you finish."

Merloni had an idea Friday night that Garciaparra, his closest friend on the team, would be unable to play because of recurring pain in his wrist. "He told me, 'Get me through this game; I might have a chance tomorrow,' " Merloni said. "I told him, 'Don't worry about it; I'll give you a chance to play again.'

"I'll come ready to play [ today] . Hopefully, he'll be ready to play, but if he's not able, I'll try to put us back in Cleveland."

Rookie Brian Daubach, who had promised there was still a little magic left in the Belleville Basher, followed Valentin's bases-loaded ground-rule double with a three-run home run to make the seventh a five-run inning, the biggest the Sox have enjoyed in the postseason since they scored six for Luis Tiant against the Big Red Machine in Game 1 of the 1975 World Series. Merloni would drive in the sixth run of the inning three batters later.

Daubach's home run, which cleared the camera well in center field, came one pitch after he had clocked plate umpire Tim Welke in the head with a backswing.

Shaken by his contact with the umpire's coconut, Daubach turned to on-deck hitter Mike Stanley. "I said, 'Settle down,' " Stanley said. "He said, 'I guess I better swing.' I said, 'That might be a good idea.' "

Valentin, who was hitless in his first 10 postseason at-bats but drove center fielder Kenny Lofton to the track in the fourth, came up in the sixth and launched one that even Lofton couldn't retrieve, a 409-foot home run into the triangle that gave the Sox a 3-2 lead. That came off Jaret Wright, pressed into action when Indians starter Dave Burba was forced out after four innings because of a strained forearm.

Then, in the very next Indians at-bat, in an uncanny imitation of his disastrous misplay in Game 1 - same Sox pitcher (Derek Lowe), same Indians batter (Manny Ramirez) - Valentin fielded a grounder and bounced another throw in the dirt, allowing Lofton to score the tying run.

Valentin inexplicably threw on the run when he had enough time to take a seat on a Jordan's sofa. But he picked himself up off the floor in the bottom of the inning with his double off reliever Ricardo Rincon.

"This game pulls on your emotional strings, that's for sure," said Stanley. "We were pulling for John, not that he needed to make up for anything. That was a huge boost for him."

As lifts go, however, it was tough to top the one the Sox received from Ramon Martinez, as calm as Pedro the Younger is passionate. Ramon the Elder gave up a run in the fourth on singles by Jim Thome and Harold Baines and a sacrifice fly by David Justice. He left to a standing ovation in the sixth, an ovation that would have been sweeter had he been able to hold onto a 2-1 lead. But the Indians pushed across the tying run before he left on a double by Robbie Alomar, an infield out, a walk, and a fielder's choice.

Martinez, who struck out six and allowed just five hits while throwing 96 pitches, was saluted as much for his gallantry and grace as his excellence.

"He didn't have his 'A' stuff, but he didn't have to, because he's so damn smart," pitching coach Joe Kerrigan said.

Lowe, who struck out Thome on three pitches after Valentin's error, a dramatic upgrade from the home run ball he threw Thome after Valentin's misplay in Game 1, went 2 1/3 innings for the win.

Stanley was amused at the suggestion that the Sox required any emotional rescue because of Garciaparra's absence. Pregame speeches? "That's not part of our team," Stanley said. "If somebody had done that, we probably would have looked at him funny: 'Sit down, we know what to do.' "

That's why they have yet to run out of tomorrows.

[bosoxgirl27]

Let's win today, boys.

[Papi's Mango Salsa]

The weather? Depends upon the forecast you look at:

The Weather Channel



or Accuweather forecast

Edited by srb89400, 07 October 2005 - 08:52 AM.

[AnkleStigmata]

.... is this game even going to be played?  Supposed to rain/thunder all night starting at 4.

How does the rain/wet effect Wakefield's knuckler?

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Isn't high humidity good? The moisture providing resistance to make the knuckler do strange things. Thought I read somewhere that a similar principle explains why Wake does well in the Metrodome, something to do with the atmospheric pressure required to keep the baggie inflated.

Wind also is good, in moderation -- too little doesn't help the knuckler dance but too much makes it tough to keep pitches in/near the strike zone. (I know when I saw the forecast before Wake's start last Saturday, I was concerned -- little wind and low humidity. Sure enough, he got shellacked.)

anyway, latest from National Weather Service:

MAZ015-080415-
SUFFOLK MA-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BOSTON...CHELSEA...REVERE...WINTHROP
911 AM EDT FRI OCT 7 2005

...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM 6 PM EDT THIS EVENING THROUGH LATE
SATURDAY NIGHT...

.REST OF TODAY...MOSTLY CLOUDY. A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS LATE THIS
MORNING...THEN A CHANCE OF SHOWERS THIS AFTERNOON. HUMID WITH HIGHS
IN THE UPPER 70S. SOUTH WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH. CHANCE OF RAIN
40 PERCENT.
.TONIGHT...RAIN LIKELY IN THE EVENING...THEN RAIN AFTER MIDNIGHT.
AREAS OF FOG. HUMID WITH LOWS IN THE MID 60S. SOUTH WINDS AROUND 10
MPH. GUSTS UP TO 25 MPH AFTER MIDNIGHT.


so if they can get this game in, I'd say those look like primo conditions for the knuckler.

[PedroKsBambino]

Win Today.

That's all.

[CarboCopy]

All things are ready, if our minds be so.

[Sille Skrub]

Phew, the stopper is back at the top of the game thread.

Nice and humid for the dancing knuckler in Titletown.

"Nobody comes into our house and pushes us around."

Win today!

[Deweys New Stance]

All I'm saying is......don't let us win today.

You better finish us off right now; don't let us win today. Because then we've got the other big guy, Schilling, going tomorrow. He's like what, 6'2", and about 380? 340? Something like that. Anyway, you know he's not gonna lose in his house. And then you get to Game 5, and everybody knows that anything can happen in a Game 5. Hell, we could get Dan Shaugnessy in there to play 2nd base. "Batting ninth, Dan Shaugnessy"

Just don't let us win today...

[Dave Stapleton]

The weather?  Depends upon the forecast you look at:

The Weather Channel
or Accuweather forecast

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Looks like Saturday will be a wash out. Hmmmm .... interesting.