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[Andrew]

Do it.

[patman]

Just in case anyone forgot who is starting tonight:

[rembrat]

Our Manny is better than their Manny so therefore we must win.

[asection8]

[redsoxfan1776]

WIN!!!

[the_pun2000]

Josh Beckett smells a ring...he can taste a world championship...he is the guy on the mound for us tonight. Win

[Cyberlibrarian]

JUST DO IT.

WIN!!!

[gtg807y]

My only fear? That my AL champs t-shirt won't arrive in time for the game. I have no game-related fears, qualms, insecurities, mainly because of these guys:

Edited by gtg807y, 24 October 2007 - 06:41 AM.

[Effa]

EXTRA!!! EXTRA!!!!
READ ALL ABOUT IT!!!!!!!
RED SOX WIN WORLD SERIES!!!!!!

This t-shirt is from 2004, and I intend to wear it all day today.

Absence of any other I am unoriginal and unfunny. Please put me out of my misery...only this one.

JUST WIN .

[Sprowl]

I have no game-related fears, qualms, insecurities, mainly because of these guys:

WINston approves: Never in the field of human conflict will so much be owed by so many to so few.

[RedSoxTarheel38]

I wearing my 2004 World Series shirt and the same hat I've been wearing nearly 24/7 for the past month. Just do it.

WIN.

[Scippycup]

World Series Game 1. RED SOX vs Rockies. 8pm tonight

It doesn't get much better than this.

WIN

[Effa]

Main board's got G38 starting the last 3 gamethreads. And who do we have?

Andrew.

(Just kidding--go get 'em big boy--and Happy Belated Birthday!)

[physcho20x9]

Do I have to go to work today?

I'm giddy, only ten and a half hours to go.

Unfortunately, my 04 gear is dirty from being worn all weekend, so I'll be rocking the next best thing, my hat and shirt from what started it all in Boston - Super Bowl XXXVI.

[ham_sandwich]

Om

Aum

We got this. Win.

[Rudi Fingers]

It's 40 years after the Impossible Dream, and I am glad to see them honored again tonight.

This time, though, it's the Rockies who are the Impossible Dream Team. They are nearly as young as the 1967 Sox across the board. And it's the Sox who have Beckett and Papelbon, who both have the intensity and the dominance of a Bob Gibson, and it will be the Sox who win the series.

The Rockies are a worthy opponent, and should only get better. Jeff Francis has been impressive, but he isn't (yet) the dominating Cy-Young caliber pitcher that Beckett (or 1967 Lonborg) is. Matt Holliday is doing a great 1967 Yaz impression - but he hasn't (yet) had a triple crown season. This could take seven games, and we will enjoy every minute.

WIN!

edit - removed BK Kim I am unoriginal and unfunny. Please put me out of my misery since he's no longer on the team

Edited by Rudi Fingers, 24 October 2007 - 01:57 PM.

[cjdmadcow]

After many years lurking the main board I guess today would be a good day to make my first post into a game thread.

Todays itinery for me here in the UK:
7.30am to 5.45pm - Work
7.00pm to Midnight - Sleep
1.00am to ? - Game 1 (probably switching continuously between FOX on satellite and MLB International on network tv)
5.00am or thereabouts to 7.30am - Sleep

Thursday? Rinse & repeat.

On. It is.

CJD

[Al Zarilla]

After many years lurking the main board I guess today would be a good day to make my first post into a game thread.

Todays itinery for me here in the UK:
7.30am to 5.45pm - Work
7.00pm to Midnight - Sleep
1.00am to ? - Game 1 (probably switching continuously between FOX on satellite and MLB International on network tv)
5.00am or thereabouts to 7.30am - Sleep

Thursday? Rinse & repeat.

On. It is.

CJD

Do you have anybody to talk to about it over there? Just wondering.

[inter tatters]

After many years lurking the main board I guess today would be a good day to make my first post into a game thread.

Todays itinery for me here in the UK:
7.30am to 5.45pm - Work
7.00pm to Midnight - Sleep
1.00am to ? - Game 1 (probably switching continuously between FOX on satellite and MLB International on network tv)
5.00am or thereabouts to 7.30am - Sleep

Thursday? Rinse & repeat.

On. It is.

CJD

My day shall be much the same, except I have NASN (not to be confused with NESN, this is Europe after all) and will be watching it live on TV!

WIN

[FoulketoMinky]

This is Turtle mountain. It is part of the Rocky Mountain range in Canada, and it is about one hour from where I live. We have a cabin in the mountains very near to it. It used to look like every other mountain, solid, strong and imposing. But in 1903 it collapsed. It was not known at the time that it was structurally unsound, and one morning down it came, a major collapse. Tonight is the start of Colorado's 1903. They've been on an impressive streak and look pretty strong. But the Sox are about to expose those structural weaknesses, and the Colorado Rockies are about to collapse just like this Canadian Rocky.





WIN

Edited by FoulketoMinky, 24 October 2007 - 10:21 AM.

[foulkehampshire]

This kid is on FIAH!

Of course we're going to WIN

[cjdmadcow]

My day shall be much the same, except I have NASN (not to be confused with NESN, this is Europe after all) and will be watching it live on TV!

WIN

That's what I meant to say...I'll watch NASN and the FOX feed but I enjoy the banter in the studio between innings on Channel 5.

Pre-match nerves are beginning to rumble around the stomach. Or it could be the chili chicken I had for lunch.

CJD

[Imgran]

[cjdmadcow]

Do you have anybody to talk to about it over there? Just wondering.

I used to watch games with a very good friend of mine...White Sox fan actually... but he made the fatal error of meeting a girl who changed him forever. And not for the better.

So it's just me, the tv, the laptop and SoSH. I'll save the alcohol for the weekend and any potential games 5,6 & 7 next week when I'm off work.

CJD

[njingles3]

Thanks to the Sox, I can no longer sleep at night.

Win, because sleeping is a waste of time anyways.

[PayrodsFirstClutchHit]

I'm trying to build up a little hate and discontent for the Rockies, but nothing yet.

I'm sure by the second inning I will be cursing their offspring.

Win!

[hittery]

Sent to me from my former boss this morning:

Our Father, who art at Fenway...
Baseball be thy game.
Thy Kingdom come,
Playoffs need to be won,
On Earth, then on to the Cask 'n' Flagon.
Give us this day, a perfect Papi,
And forgive us our losses,
As we forgive those,
Like Eric Gagné.
And lead us not, into desperation,
But deliver us from any losses.
For thine is the Power,
And the Glory,
To beat the Rockies,
Forever and ever....the Yankees still suck Amen


I'd rather she'd sent me one of her WS tickets, but oh well.

[Al Zarilla]

This kid is on FIAH!

Of course we're going to WIN

A guy on sports talk radio out here (SF Bay Area) called Josh Beckett "the Caucasian Bob Gibson". As much as I have to admire that guy (1967, etc., etc.) Josh Beckett doesn't need any qualifiers or other descriptives than Josh F'ing Beckett. I never heard Babe Ruth called the white Josh Gibson. Hey, Josh, Gibson, Josh Beckett, Bob Gibson, playing with my mind here. Come on Josh, Assassin, my nickname for him, start the sweep going tonight!

[BernieRicoBoomer]

WIN!!!

Because Holliday still hasn't touched home...

[MakeMineMoxie]

So, I hear these Red Sox people are playing another baseball game tonight. How interesting! Now that I know that, some Patton I am unoriginal and unfunny. Please put me out of my misery.



"Our basic plan of operation is to advance and to keep on advancing regardless of whether we have to go over, under, or through the enemy Rockies. We are going to go through him like crap through a goose!"

[dynomite]

The Red Sox are on a mission from Gahhd.

[Yazdog8]

I now bring you a one act play, Bambi versus Godzilla.

In the role of Bambi: The Colorado Rockies hitters
In the role of Godzilla: Josh Fucking Beckett

[fieldslikebuckner]

To paraphrase Warren Zevon - There will be plenty of time to sleep, when your dead.

Just win.

[katefear]

Thanks to the Sox, I can no longer sleep at night.

Win, because sleeping is a waste of time anyways.

My husband wanted to contribute some mixtape I am unoriginal and unfunny. Please put me out of my misery over at podbean....

[vyrago]

I've been stocking up on sleep since Sunday. Time to wake up and watch the great and powerful Sox win a second WS in my lifetime!!

It starts tonight!

[patman]

I now bring you a one act play, Bambi versus Godzilla.

In the role of Bambi: The Colorado Rockies hitters
In the role of Godzilla: Josh Fucking Beckett

Wow, I didn't realize the practice of having 10 minutes of credits and only 10 seconds of actual movie had been around for so long - I thought it had been invented by Youtube and Windows Movie Maker. I realize the director was trying to make an artistic statement, but if he's going to do it right, then he should have used scrolling white arial lettering on a blue background and played some music consisting of some whiny dude whining over some super-saturated drop-tuned guitars.

But seriously, that's pretty much what's going to happen to the Rockies.

[PragueSox]

Thanks to the Sox, I can no longer sleep at night.

Win, because sleeping is a waste of time anyways.

Prague and the rest of the Central European Time zone hear you loud and clear. Here's to a Red Sox victory in four games +/- three hours in length. I don't know if I can take another stretch like the ACLS!

That being said, it's off to bed. See you in five hours!

Go Sox!!!!!!

Edited by PragueSox, 24 October 2007 - 02:03 PM.

[Cyberlibrarian]

That being said, it's off to bed. See you in five hours!

Go Sox!!!!!!

Five hours! It can't get here fast enough.

[LiveAndDieWithTheSox]

Pitch better.
Hit better.
Run better.
Catch better.
Throw better.
WIN!
btw - good post by FoulketoMinky

[CoolPapaBellhorn]

I'm trying to build up a little hate and discontent for the Rockies, but nothing yet.

I tend to cheer for/against cities and fanbases moreso than players when there's nothing particularly likeable/unlikeable about the players themselves. With that in mind, here are some things to hate about Denver:

1. The bandwagon factor. That ballpark was empty a month and a half ago, and now everyone's suddenly bitching that they took the day off of work to get tickets, but couldn't get tickets. Gee, I guess you'll have to settle for that other method that you've been using not to follow the Rockies for the past ten years... watching on TV. My heart bleeds.

2. Coors Light sucks. Just as Budweiser products were not allowed in my household for five days three years ago, Coors will be similarly banned until this series is over.

3. They're playing up the small-market angle, but they're not a small market. Denver has four pro teams, new stadiums for all of them, and has won two Super Bowls and two Stanley Cups in the past eleven years. Before the NHL salary cap, the Avalanche were in the top three in NHL payroll every year. The Broncos are always contenders. The Nuggets have Iverson and Anthony. And the Rockies paid Mike Hampton almost as much as the Red Sox gave Manny. This is not some over-matched, long-suffreing city like Cleveland.

4. They spawned Shannon Sharpe. His Denver-colored glasses have/will likely cause him pick the Rockies in this series, just as he always picks for the Broncos and against the Pats.

5. The white towels. I blame Canada for this (the first time I saw this phenomenon was in Vancouver in the '94 NHL playoffs), but it's annoying nonetheless.

There are plenty of others - feel free to add on. But my point is: fuck 'em. They have no appreciation whatsoever for what they have there.

Win. At all costs.


EDIT: grammar

Edited by CoolPapaBellhorn, 24 October 2007 - 02:55 PM.

[franklgl]

2. Coors Light sucks. Just as Budweiser products were not allowed in my household for five days three years ago, Coors will be similarly banned until this series is over.

What if I have been drinking Coors Light all through the post-season? For superstitious reasons (and partially because I think it's a good beer), can I still drink it?

[ThreeRunBomb]

Once again, 38th President I am unoriginal and unfunny. Please put me out of my misery:

[Andrew]

Main board's got G38 starting the last 3 gamethreads. And who do we have?

Andrew.

(Just kidding--go get 'em big boy--and Happy Belated Birthday!)

Hey, my level 70 Warlock could kick his level 70 Shaman's ass.

Sorry I haven't been posting much in the game threads, guys. Suddenly everyone I know is a huge Red Sox fan and wants to watch the games with me. Gee, where were you guys all year? Ah, whatever, free food and the one month of the year where being obsessed with the Sox is a turn on to girls instead of making you look weird.

[Andrew]

What if I have been drinking Coors Light all through the post-season? For superstitious reasons (and partially because I think it's a good beer), can I still drink it?

If you stop and the Sox lose it was stupid for breaking a streak.
If don't stop and the Sox lose it was stupid for drinking an enemy team's drink.

[Rangerrob]

What if I have been drinking Coors Light all through the post-season? For superstitious reasons (and partially because I think it's a good beer), can I still drink it?

Ohio is far enough away from Boston to get a pass on drinking the enemy drink. If yah can't get Sam Adams, keep with what got yah here.

Yah know what Colorado, Winning 21 of 26 is still a pretty good record.

"WE'RE GANNA DOO IT AGAIN!!!" - Papi

WIN!!!

[DeronJohnson'sTriple]

5. The white towels. I blame Canada for this (the first time I saw this phenomenon was in Vancouver in the '94 NHL playoffs), but it's annoying nonetheless.

Jesus, they have white towels too?!? Yes, that is definitely a reason to hate them. Maybe not hate, I'll just scorn them unless we lose a game to them in Denver. But that DID make me hate Cleveland fans. Fucking stupid.

Anyway, not sure how early I can get out of work, might be quite a lot of DVRing and no gamethreading.

I am strangely calm, not cocky -- I HATE cockiness in any fan or player, and do think it's an invitation to doom.

But Beckett's on the mound and our bats have just been on fire, so I like our chances.

A game 1 victory will do much to deflate these guys, whose only real impression I came away with after the NLCS was the sight of many a shit-eating grin, particularly on Clint Hurdle's ruddy mug.

Ah, wait: shit-eating grin= cockiness.

OK, I hate them.

[Doooweeeey!]

I tend to cheer for/against cities and fanbases moreso than players when there's nothing particularly likeable/unlikeable about the players themselves. With that in mind, here are some things to hate about Denver:

5. The white towels. I blame Canada for this (the first time I saw this phenomenon was in Vancouver in the '94 NHL playoffs), but it's annoying nonetheless.

The towels are okay with me. Usually, "waving the white flag", or "throwing in the towel" means...well, you know.

Win the at-bat.
Win the inning.
Win the last game you play.
Win the Fucking World Series.

WIN

Edited by Doooweeeey!, 24 October 2007 - 03:31 PM.

[franklgl]

I'll let you know tomorrow if I drank Coors or not.

And I agree about the white towels. They were waving those things in Cleveland like they were on fire. And of course being cheap towels that were given away for free at the door, they were falling apart and getting towel dust in my beer. It looked like it was snowing with all the dust coming off those stupid towels. This a HUGE reason for me to hate the Rockies.

[Rudi Fingers]

What if I have been drinking Coors Light all through the post-season? For superstitious reasons (and partially because I think it's a good beer), can I still drink it?

Eeeeew. Can't you just get some Sam Adams Light for a week?

Colorado brews awesome beer - it just isn't Coors. After the Sox win out, and you are ready to drink Colorado beer again, check out Dale's Pale Ale - the best beer I have had from a can. Tangent: Cans are better than bottles at keeping beer fresh than bottles, but people perceive bottled beer as being higher quality.

[Doooweeeey!]

I'll let you know tomorrow if I drank Coors or not.

And I agree about the white towels. They were waving those things in Cleveland like they were on fire. And of course being cheap towels that were given away for free at the door, they were falling apart and getting towel dust in my beer. It looked like it was snowing with all the dust coming off those stupid towels. This a HUGE reason for me to hate the Rockies.

Sounds like a game time decision... Why not try Red Stripe?