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[doc]

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.

Fat Tire Amber is pretty good too

[Andrew]

It's beer? Hooray, beer?

[ShortSox]

Anyway, runners on the corners now with two out, Garko up. Could be the Indians’ best and last chance and … Garko flies out to deep center, Papelbon yelling to himself as he strides off the mound. I imagine he was shouting something like “That’s what I’m talking,” only profanely.

Or maybe he simply screamed “Shazam!” It’s possible.

Courtesy of Albany Times Union Sports Blog - ALCS Game 7



Boston's own Captain Marvel. Just Win.

[hrbrendan]

im having the bar Im going to not serve coors light during the game. anyone who orders it will be told to drink sam adams instead.

-b

[Doooweeeey!]

Hey doc, love your first sig.
How about some more HST I am unoriginal and unfunny. Please put me out of my misery?

Pretty sure he woulda liked this team....




Edit: speeeling

Edited by Doooweeeey!, 24 October 2007 - 04:12 PM.

[Rudi Fingers]

It's beer? Hooray, beer?

Just doing my public service to keep franklgl's I am unoriginal and unfunny. Please put me out of my misery strong - millions of advertising dollars have tought me that holding a Coors Light can is like holding the Colorado Rockies in the palm of your hand. Let's put it this way - if, after winning the World Series, Papelbon wears a beer box on his head, it can't be a Coors Light box or it would be seen that Papelbon was rubbing victory in their faces. Therefore, drinking it cannot be good I am unoriginal and unfunny. Please put me out of my misery. And, as Jose Melendez and Kevin Millar have taught us, liquid courage I am unoriginal and unfunny. Please put me out of my misery is very powerful when necessary.

[Doooweeeey!]

Just doing my public service to keep franklgl's I am unoriginal and unfunny. Please put me out of my misery strong - millions of advertising dollars have tought me that holding a Coors Light can is like holding the Colorado Rockies in the palm of your hand. Let's put it this way - if, after winning the World Series, Papelbon wears a beer box on his head, it can't be a Coors Light box or it would be seen that Papelbon was rubbing victory in their faces. Therefore, drinking it cannot be good I am unoriginal and unfunny. Please put me out of my misery. And, as Jose Melendez and Kevin Millar have taught us, liquid courage I am unoriginal and unfunny. Please put me out of my misery is very powerful when necessary.

Ahh. The voice of reason! No Coors in this house.

[ShortSox]

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?

I recommend Guinness myself. It's not for everyone but it's my brew of choice.

And for the record, I tempted the Gods by changing my shirt (worn from Friday to Sunday) when the score was 3-2 on Sunday night.

Voila! Cleveland ass-kicking ensued and the ALCS was ours.

Change is good.

Edit - Periods make reading much easier

Edited by ShortSox, 24 October 2007 - 04:16 PM.

[TeddyBallgame9]

Just doing my public service to keep franklgl's I am unoriginal and unfunny. Please put me out of my misery strong - millions of advertising dollars have tought me that holding a Coors Light can is like holding the Colorado Rockies in the palm of your hand. Let's put it this way - if, after winning the World Series, Papelbon wears a beer box on his head, it can't be a Coors Light box or it would be seen that Papelbon was rubbing victory in their faces. Therefore, drinking it cannot be good I am unoriginal and unfunny. Please put me out of my misery. And, as Jose Melendez and Kevin Millar have taught us, liquid courage I am unoriginal and unfunny. Please put me out of my misery is very powerful when necessary.

All the advertising dollars ever spent in the history of advertising couldn't convince me of anything other than that Coors Light absolutely blows.

WIN!

[Andrew]

Why do any of you people drink Coors anyway?

[doc]

Hey doc, love your first sig.
How about some more HST I am unoriginal and unfunny. Please put me out of my misery?

Pretty sure he woulda liked this team....


Edit: speeeling

I was planning that

* We were somewhere around Yawkey on the edge of Fenway when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like "I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive..." And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Boston. And a voice was screaming: "Holy Jesus! What the fuck are these goddamn animals?"
I turned to my attorney who was facilitating the tanning process by pouring a beer on his chest, he said "What the fuck are you screaming about", poor bastard he would be seeing those bats soon enough.
* The sporting editors had also given me $300 in cash, most of which was already spent on extremely dangerous drugs. The trunk of the car looked like a mobile police narcotics lab. We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug-collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.
The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon. Our mission was to drive to Boston to cover the World Series Boston against Colorado. A savage beat down for the ages was about to commence. The Boston team was a throwback, baseball players, a modern gas house gang. Colorado were a bunch of nice Christan white boys, might have well been fed to the lions, Boston was going to win and it wasn't going to be pretty.


* The car suddenly veered off the road and we came to a sliding halt in the gravel. I was hurled against the dashboard. My attorney was slumped over the wheel. “What’s wrong?” I yelled. “We can’t stop here. This is Beckett country!"

[AMcGhie]

Why do any of you people drink Coors anyway?

Because when you're in college, its all you can afford.
I've graduated to Harpoon/Sam/Magic Hat now that I can actually afford non-piss.

Tonight, however, I will be going with my Black+Tan I am unoriginal and unfunny. Please put me out of my misery of Guinness/Smithwicks.

Edited by AMcGhie, 24 October 2007 - 04:36 PM.

[Andrew]

Because when you're in college, its all you can afford.
I've graduated to Harpoon/Sam/Magic Hat now that I can actually afford non-piss.

Tonight, however, I will be going with my Black+Tan I am unoriginal and unfunny. Please put me out of my misery of Guinness/Smithwicks.

I'm in college! I don't drink that crap!


...maybe that's why I'm broke.

[CoolPapaBellhorn]

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?

That's your call, I guess - whatever keeps your I am unoriginal and unfunny. Please put me out of my misery going. But I still think it sucks.

Bud Light is actually my beer of choice, but I switched to Sam Light in '04 for the pro-Boston/anti-St. Louis I am unoriginal and unfunny. Please put me out of my misery, and that worked out.

[RedSoxTarheel38]

I'm in college! I don't drink that crap!


...maybe that's why I'm broke.

I second this. My last $20 went to two 6-packs of Sam Adams today.

[Infield Infidel]

I second this. My last $20 went to two 6-packs of Sam Adams today.

Yes boys and girls, Drink Sam Adams today

After drinking other stuff on Sunday, I ordered a Sam right after Lugo's error. All went well after that


Go Sox.

[JayeBrady]

It would be nice if Josh could add yet another MVP award to his trophy case....

Edited by JayeBrady, 24 October 2007 - 05:30 PM.

[neil]

I hope the team isn't coming into this thinking they've already won the WS.

Colorado is a dangerous team right now. The best way of beating them is to win Game 1. We don't want to give them any confidence. We must break them.

[MoGator71]

I'm with ShortSox and AMcGhie myself, Guinness all the way.

So I need some help...I wore just my Sox cap all through the ALCS until they went down 1-3, then I pulled out the Pedro jersey for the next 3 games - and you know how that went. So now I'm torn. Do I stick with Petey? Or do I go back to cap only and save Petey until I really need him, in an elimination game? I'm reluctant to go to the well too many times, ya know?

[WalletTrack]

Tired of waiting... it's the World Series, baby.
Let's. Play. Ball.

[Preacher]

Yes boys and girls, Drink Sam Adams today

I can do that. Should I try to finish my homework or just start now?

Edit: Wait, I'm an idiot. Homework, beer and pregame show work well together.

Edited by Preacher, 24 October 2007 - 06:00 PM.

[luqin]

Win it for Millhouse.

[Uncle Mumford]

Sam Adams Octoberfest. And not just because it's October.

[Preacher]

Sam Adams Octoberfest. And not just because it's October.

Yeah, I tried to buy that the other day but all the liquor stores in town (at least the 5 I went to) stopped selling it last week. Bastards.

[MoGator71]

Yeah, I tried to buy that the other day but all the liquor stores in town (at least the 5 I went to) stopped selling it last week. Bastards.

Well there's a big demand for it this month...apparently there's only one October. Who knew.

[Uncle Mumford]

This is a fluke, more commonly called a flounder.

The fluke is a rather ugly, bottom-dwelling ocean flatfish that eventually comes to have both its eyes on one side of its head.

It has been found as deep as the bottom of the Marianas Trench off the coast of Japan, the lowest point on planet Earth.

Every year, some people in Scotland and have a contest to trap these cagey ambush predators by ambushing them back. They step on them.

The fluke is also edible if you fry it up and add a good sauce.

Most important, the fluke bears no resemblance whatsoever to the 2004 Red Sox.

IT IS ON.

[the_pun2000]

I'm in college! I don't drink that crap!
...maybe that's why I'm broke.

6-bucks a cup all you can drink at the Paper City on Fridays......just saying (never above helping out a fellow lush)

[the_pun2000]

Gordon just said that wildfires in cali may have burned Phil Nevin's house down...that CAN'T be a bad sign.

[Bellhorn]

I'm with ShortSox and AMcGhie myself, Guinness all the way.

Me too. Finances, superstition....nothing comes between me and my Guinness. Unless I'm in England, where there's John Smith's Extra Smooth.

Let's make "Beckett to Oki to Paps" the 21st century version of "Tinker to Evers to Chance"

WIN!!!!!!

[Barbara]

Tonight we are going to ROCK and ROLL all over the Rockies.

TO VICTORY !!

[nvalvo]

Gordon just said that wildfires in cali may have burned Phil Nevin's house down...that CAN'T be a bad sign.

Woah. That's a bit extreme. But just a bit.

Thankfully, the socal wildfires seem to be coming under control.

Beckett will do something similar to the streaking Rockies in a few minutes.

[neil]

Guinness all the way.

Such an overrated stout. You can get better from almost any microbrewery.

[NomarRS05]

Beckett > Francis.

Win.

[trotsplits]

And as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our souls
There was a lady we all know
Who shines white lightning words that show
How everything still turns to gold
And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at long
How all is one and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll

And she's buying a stairway to heaven

[trotsplits]

Sam Adams through the current win streak. Started the postseason with Sam's Octoberfest. Switched after game 4 ALCS

[RedSoxTarheel38]

Sam Adams through the current win streak. Started the postseason with Sam's Octoberfest. Switched after game 4 ALCS

I'm trying for some Octoberfest tonight, I'll find out if my "source" found some in about 10-20 min. Any reviews?

[Mr. Sparkle]

Death to the Underdog

By Will Leitch

Through it all, almost every Red Sox fan I've ever met has just wanted to be normal.

I'm not talking about the bandwagon jumpers of the last few years, the so-called "fans of a lessor stature than I" fans who think Luis Tiant is the name of an ocean liner, treat Yawkey Way merely as a place to meet particularly inebriated coeds and totally understand how Jimmy Fallon feels, man.

I'm talking about the lifers, the ones who have surrendered their summer New England nights to the rhythms of Troy O'Leary and Lou Merloni. These are not fans who ever believed in the stupid "Curse of the Bambino" or held the fatalistic notion that their team was some sort of doomed stepsister of history. They were not interested in dopey, staged promotions like "President of Red Sox Nation." They grimaced when Ben Affleck, Tim Russert and Renee Zellweger started showing up at games and giving between-innings interviews. None of that ever meant anything to them. They just wanted to watch their team win, because that's what fans do.

The history of the Boston Red Sox has always been so fraught with high-minded, scholarly dissertations on what the Red Sox "mean" that the pure joy of being a fan of the best team in baseball has almost been lost. I suspect last night's Game 7 victory over the Indians, clinching the Red Sox' second World Series trip in four years, will help change that.

Red Sox fans have taken to calling the 2007 season "The Possible Dream," as opposed to the unofficial "Impossible Dream" moniker of 1967. This is telling; the Red Sox are no longer the scrappy underdogs attempting to overcome the evil empire of the Yankees. They are no longer measured by their relation to a rival, or to history. They are simply the most well-run, successful franchise in baseball right now, a team that wins through heart, determination and relentless talent.

The truest fans do not care about anything but their team winning; another World Series victory wouldn't erase the memories of 2004 (not that anyone would want it to), but it will be one final step to finally burying that overblown classification of a condemned franchise. The Red Sox will simply be champions, and that will be more than enough.

Red Sox fans don't have to be participants in some sort of Greek tragedy anymore. Being a fan is not a three-act play. To win via magic is glorious. To win via sustained, lasting dominance is sublime. The Red Sox might win the World Series, and they might not, but now they're just another outstanding baseball team, rather than epic heroes in some sort of Sisyphean quest.

They're a great baseball team. This is what real Red Sox fans have wanted all along.

Edited by Mr. Sparkle, 24 October 2007 - 06:53 PM.

[patinorange]

1967 was like yesterday.
I can remember the excitement, the feelings, the hope. I remember my eighth grade teacher in Waltham coming in and telling us the score. I remember my Dad trying to make me feel better after that SOB Gibson beat us.

1975 is a little more blurry, I think I was drunk the entire time ( school)
I remember Bernie's homer, and the leap and how far I use to be able to jump.
Game 7, still an emotion I can't quite classify..not hate, not depression, not mad, not sad...A unique emotion that I haven't felt before or since.

1986, older, wiser, and fooled again. When we won the first 2 at Shea, like Mike Barnicle, I thought it was over. That was bitterness. That emotion I can identify.

2004, pure joy. It's all been said here and other places..the best part, it infected my kids.

2007, more relaxed, older and wiser, but hungry as ever. It's not rational for a grown man to be attached to a pro baseball team, the uniform.
I guess all the standard cliches apply, relationship to childhood and Dad, attachment to home, memories, all that.

Don't know what it is, but it's there. Thanks to SoSH for letting me feel like I am sitting at a bar in Waltham, talking the game, even though I am 3000 miles away. Thanks to my fellow lurkers..It's been a great season and a lot of fun to vent, rant, beg, and yell for joy.

Thanks to this team which has demonstrated everything good about sports. Thanks to Mike Lowell and Curt Schilling, remnants from the "old school" that old dogs like me love.

Happy my team is in the WS, happy that the Yanks did not win the division, happy to have home field advantage, and happy most of all to have at least 4 baseball games left.

Go Sox.

[NomarRS05]

cool little intro on Fox actually.

[LESDL]

No words can properly describe how I feel right now. We are at the start of the WORLD SERIES!!!!!!!

We have another WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP within our grasp!

I will treasure these moments as if there were no tomorrow. I love this team, and I've REALLY enjoyed being here in the good ol' sandbox with you all during this great season.

REACH OUT AND TAKE IT!

WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[OrlandoMerced]

cool little intro on Fox actually.

I'm sure Eck loved it.

[EllisTheRimMan]

I can't believe I am listening to this shit. Who is this bitch?

[Bellhorn]

Beckett > Francis.

Win.

From an SAT Test Prep book I found lying around:

Beckett : Francis = Brady : _______

(Correct answer: Jason Cambell)

Sorry man, couldn't resist.

[mandurro]

At least they (FOX) are on site so if something is happening on the field, i.e. anthem, we should know it.

Edited by mandurro, 24 October 2007 - 07:05 PM.

[Yazdog8]

Wow, Fox amping up the annoyance factor in the first 5 minutes.

Eric Byrnes...just because they swept your sorry ass team, doesn't mean they have an offense as good as the Red Sox, you moron.

[NomarRS05]

From an SAT Test Prep book I found lying around:

Beckett : Francis = Brady : _______

(Correct answer: Jason Cambell)

Sorry man, couldn't resist.

booooo! sadly, you're correct. Pats will beat us this weekend, but our D will put up a fight, at least in the first half.

Now back to your regularly scheduled baseball chat

[astilla espléndida]

Eric Byrnes is a moron

[mandurro]

Seriously how is it FOX can't do better than this piece of shit studio crew? It's not like this is their first year doing this...

[Savin Hillbilly]

Yes boys and girls, Drink Sam Adams today

I'm on Wachusett IPA myself, with Harpoon to back it up when the Wachusett's gone. Not Sam, but both local.

[mandurro]

Pats will beat us this weekend

They better, I have them in a huge teaser with the Giants.