2004 ALDS Game 1: 9-3
2007 ALDS Game 1: 4-0
I'm sensing a pattern...
From lurker Mark Clearly
Crush the Angels
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Edited by mrcleanwell, 01 October 2008 - 12:55 PM.
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10/1 ALDS Game 1 - Lester vs. Lackey
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Posted 01 October 2008 - 12:50 AM
It's October and that can only mean one thing, a best of 5 series against the Angels.
2004 ALDS Game 1: 9-3
2007 ALDS Game 1: 4-0
I'm sensing a pattern...
From lurker Mark Clearly
Crush the Angels
p77o3IYLRmM
2004 ALDS Game 1: 9-3
2007 ALDS Game 1: 4-0
I'm sensing a pattern...
From lurker Mark Clearly
Crush the Angels
p77o3IYLRmM
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Posted 01 October 2008 - 01:02 AM
IT'S ON BABY WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOO!!! GO SOX!
Win this first one and we take the series
Be a winner.
Win this first one and we take the series
Be a winner.
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Posted 01 October 2008 - 01:03 AM
Our number two is better than anyone else's number one. Maybe even our own.
win
win
Edited by crescd215, 01 October 2008 - 01:25 AM.
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Posted 01 October 2008 - 01:37 AM
I'm getting fully behind this thread. So here's a picture, maybe more to follow of a historical building in Burntisland. Rossend Castle.
Mary Queen of Scots Shacked up in Rossend castle for a time. And for those in the know, this castle is a two minute walk to the shop where my new play is set. The old country is behind Lester. The olde Kingdom of Fife is behind Lester. Burntisland is behind Lester. I am behind Lester. If he wins he gets a reach-around.
Mary Queen of Scots Shacked up in Rossend castle for a time. And for those in the know, this castle is a two minute walk to the shop where my new play is set. The old country is behind Lester. The olde Kingdom of Fife is behind Lester. Burntisland is behind Lester. I am behind Lester. If he wins he gets a reach-around.
Edited by fletcherpost, 01 October 2008 - 01:39 AM.
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Posted 01 October 2008 - 06:30 AM
God, I hate the Angels.
Just win.
Just win.
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Posted 01 October 2008 - 06:36 AM
The immortal words of Pete Townshend apply to the Sox playing the Angels in the post season:
"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss."
"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss."
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Posted 01 October 2008 - 07:35 AM
I know it shouldn't bother me, but on ESPN Radio this morning they were making their picks and Mike Greenberg (although he picked the Red Sox to win it all) said "There's nothing at all on paper that would make you pick the Red Sox to beat the Angels. Nothing. It's just a gut feeling"
Really? Nothing?
Really? Nothing?
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Posted 01 October 2008 - 07:38 AM
I know it shouldn't bother me, but on ESPN Radio this morning they were making their picks and Mike Greenberg (although he picked the Red Sox to win it all) said "There's nothing at all on paper that would make you pick the Red Sox to beat the Angels. Nothing. It's just a gut feeling"
Really? Nothing?
Yeah, that was odd. So was both of them picking the Dodgers to go to the series. Interesting choices.
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Posted 01 October 2008 - 08:05 AM
ALDS GAME 1—Why We Are Different
It’s time for Jose Melendez’s KEYS TO THE ALDS.
1. The setting is new, but the scene is the same.
It is North Caroline here, yet it is still Boston within these walls. A semi circle of cardboard is lashed to the top of the closet, a flimsy backboard to a flimsier hoop. On it is an image, frozen, eternal, perfect. Orlando Cabrera dives into a jubilant crowd, Dave Roberts edges Kevin Youkilis for position in the scrum and even Johnny Damon, the good Johnny Damon, the bearded Johnny Damon embraces a still ambulatory Mosey Nixon.
As Jose’s eyes drift to the left a poster hangs, long since denuded of the glass that once gave it sheen. Ramirez, Damon, Martinez, Foulke. They are all there, jolly specters of the best of days.
Still further to the left, the other closet flaps open. There amidst the striped shirts and khaki slacks Jose can see the crisp white of his number 19 jersey, MELENDEZ stitched across the back, a necessary error if he is to distinguish his jersey from Josh Beckett’s. It is a good jersey, a prized possession and a generous gift, but it is not Jose’s playoff jersey. That honor goes to a grey road uni with 49 and WAKEFIELD framed neatly across the back. Jose got the jersey in 1995 when he was slinging fries at Fenway. It still has streaks of red face paint on it from the 1999 ALCS, when joy turned to grief and from Game 3 of the 2004 ALCS when grief descended like night, only to be broken the next day by four years of shimmering dawn. The shirt bears the stains of history. It bears the stench of history. It has not been washed in nine years.
To the closet’s left side a license plate/clock declares Jose to be the Red Sox “#1 FAN.” The clock does not work. Its white hands stretch across a compass rose of a clock and freeze at 10:40, the exact time the Red Sox won the 2004 World Series. It is eerie. Sure, Jose set the hands there about two minutes ago so he could write this sentence, but still it is strange and wonderful.
Just below the clock hangs a final poster.
BATTLE FOR THE AGES
FENWAY PARK OCT. 16
PEDRO MARTINEZ vs. ROGER CLEMENS
Pedro’s smiling face perched a cross a slim cartoon body face stares across at Rahjh’s impudent mug. Game 3, 1999. Until 2004, it was the happiest day of Jose’s life. Not only did the Red Sox crush the Yankees, but Jose also saw Jimy Williams at a bar sucking down scotch after scotch.
And that is all. Except for the Red Sox coffee cup on the table to Jose’s right.. and the four KEYS books atop the bureau to his right… and a Wakefield t-shirt… and a Red Sox Hideo Nomo t-shirt… and the sleepy dork, happily typing away in the voice of a long forgotten relief pitcher while the world passes him by.
This is who Jose is. This is who the Red Sox are. It is who you are too. It is why we will win. While Jose feverishly types his youth away, the Orange Country Register lists yesterday’s top five most read stories as:
• For Kobe, 30 is the new 20
• New O.C. football Top 10 released
• Lakers keep an eye on the beasts in the East
• Mr. October: Angels need to improve post-season approach
• 5 things to watch for in Lakers training camp
These are the guys who will defeat us? The guys who play in this town? 100 wins, guaranteed home field throughout, good pitching and a monster lineup, and on the eve of the playoffs they rank below two off-season Laker stories and high school football in their own hometown? Thank God that last night there was no high school field hockey or they might have dropped out of the top ten.
The people of Anaheim are not us, nor are they we. They just aren’t. We let jerseys putrefy for nine years. We get memorabilia for players who were terrible. We brood and rejoice and brood a little more. They are fans, barely, but we are more. We are a religion, we are a movement, we are a people.
Yes we can? Certainly, but that is unremarkable. Yes we will.
Yes. We will.
2. On his blog yesterday, Tony Castrati suggested that the suddenly muscular Angles (note: not a typo, see KEY 3, or any think Jose has ever written about that team) have switched places with a Red Sox squad that had the league leader in stolen bases for the first time since Nixon was riding high. Specifically, he compared them to the plots of three movies: “Freaky Friday,” “Trading Places” and ""Like Father, Like Son.” While Jose admires any effort to work Kirk Cameron, the star of Like Father, Like Son into a baseball column, Jose categorically rejects Castrati’s analogy. Also, why not work in Malcom-Jamal Warner instead? This season has resembled the plot of at least three episodes of Malcom and Eddie. Also, unlike Warner, Cameron does not have a surprisingly good jazz combo, though Jose regrets that Warner’s group is not named “Theo and the Trio.”
But back to Castrati’s poor analogy. First, let’s start with the fact that these three movies have almost nothing in common. One is about two white guys trading bodies, one is about two white girls trading bodies and one is about high finance. And ff one wants to compare “Like Father, Like Son” to something, how can one ignore the Judge Reinhold vehicle “Vice Versa?” The only difference between the two films is that Reinhold changes bodies with Fred Savage thanks to a mysterious skull while Cameron trades bodies with Dudley Moore due to mysterious potion. They were made within a year of each other and can be purchased together as a two DVD set. Doesn’t Castrati do any research?
Now, let’s examine why each of the three films Castrati cites is a bad analogy.
In “Freaky Friday” a coke addled teenager trades bodies with her technically a man mother. Or, if your prefer the 1976 version, an FBI agent/Astronomer trades places with a voiceover woman from the underappreciated 1977 Doonesbury special, and inspires John Hinckley to shoot Ronald Reagan. Jose thinks it’s pretty clear where this analogy goes off the tracks. While Red Sox-Angles playoff series have inspired players to shoot their wives and themselves, they have never once inspired anyone to shoot an elderly actor/president. Also, Jamie Lee Curtis is twice the man John Lackey is.
What about Trading Places? In this one, two rich white investors destroy lives before eventually destroying themselves. Actually, this one sounds like it might be just about right. Wait, that’s the banking crisis Jose’s thinking of not the playoffs. Never mind.
And actually, the plot is less centered on the rich brothers than on the subject of their manipulation of a black hustler and a white commodities trader. Jamie Lee Curtis plays prominently in this one too as a hooker who is three times the man Chone Figgins is. To Jose’s mind, the only way this analogy holds up is if current Angle and former Red Sox Darren Oliver teams up with Jon Garland to bankrupt the Red Sox commodity trading owner, John W. Henry, by cornering the market on concentrated frozen orange juice. If Oliver and Garland do corner the market on concentrated frozen orange juice in the next few days, Jose will concede that the Red Sox could be in trouble.
This leaves us with “Like Father, Like Son”/“Vice Versa.” Here’s why this one doesn’t work. For this analogy to hold, you’d have to assume that the Red Sox were Dudley Moore /Judge Reinhold to begin with and were magically transformed into Kirk Cameron/Fred Savage. Castrati argues that would be a bad thing, but he is wrong. Does he know that Dudley Moore is dead while Kirk Cameron prominent evangelical Christian actor? Also Dudley Moore was the star of a film called “Arthur,” and playing a carton aardvark is not exactly a great career move. So if this transformation did transpire, it would be to Boston’s benefit, which destroys Castrati’s model.
Still, Jose will give Castrati some credit. He had the right instinct in going for a Kirk Cameron analogy, he just picked the wrong film. Given the troubles the Angles will have driving in runners in this series, the correct Kirk Cameron film analogy is “Left Behind.”
3. There have not been a lot of Normans on the Red Sox throughout their storied history. There was Norman Zauchin, who played a few years in the 50s and Norman Siebern, who played on the Impossible Dream team before wrapping up his career a year later. Nelson Norman coached for the Sox in 2001. But that’s pretty much it. At least it was until today.
Today that changes. Today we are all Normans. As we head into Battle against the Angles, 25 Normans will don helms of blue and Terry Eurona will prepare to be crowned Tito the Conqueror.
Norman Schwarzkopf will be watching. He’ll be in camouflage, so you can’t see him, but he’ll be there.
Norm and Norma Nathan will be watching from the great gossip column in the sky.
Norman the Lunatic, back to his asylum , his wrestling days long gone, will beg to watch the game just like Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
Even Greg Norman will take a break from winemaking to see what a champion looks like.
Today, the Battle of Hastings will be replayed just a few days shy of its 942nd anniversary and, then as now, the Angles will be defeated and subjected to 1,056 years of subjugation minimum
Watch out Angles, the Normans are coming and it's Hastings all over again.
I’m Jose Melendez, and those are my KEYS TO THE ALDS.
It’s time for Jose Melendez’s KEYS TO THE ALDS.
1. The setting is new, but the scene is the same.
It is North Caroline here, yet it is still Boston within these walls. A semi circle of cardboard is lashed to the top of the closet, a flimsy backboard to a flimsier hoop. On it is an image, frozen, eternal, perfect. Orlando Cabrera dives into a jubilant crowd, Dave Roberts edges Kevin Youkilis for position in the scrum and even Johnny Damon, the good Johnny Damon, the bearded Johnny Damon embraces a still ambulatory Mosey Nixon.
As Jose’s eyes drift to the left a poster hangs, long since denuded of the glass that once gave it sheen. Ramirez, Damon, Martinez, Foulke. They are all there, jolly specters of the best of days.
Still further to the left, the other closet flaps open. There amidst the striped shirts and khaki slacks Jose can see the crisp white of his number 19 jersey, MELENDEZ stitched across the back, a necessary error if he is to distinguish his jersey from Josh Beckett’s. It is a good jersey, a prized possession and a generous gift, but it is not Jose’s playoff jersey. That honor goes to a grey road uni with 49 and WAKEFIELD framed neatly across the back. Jose got the jersey in 1995 when he was slinging fries at Fenway. It still has streaks of red face paint on it from the 1999 ALCS, when joy turned to grief and from Game 3 of the 2004 ALCS when grief descended like night, only to be broken the next day by four years of shimmering dawn. The shirt bears the stains of history. It bears the stench of history. It has not been washed in nine years.
To the closet’s left side a license plate/clock declares Jose to be the Red Sox “#1 FAN.” The clock does not work. Its white hands stretch across a compass rose of a clock and freeze at 10:40, the exact time the Red Sox won the 2004 World Series. It is eerie. Sure, Jose set the hands there about two minutes ago so he could write this sentence, but still it is strange and wonderful.
Just below the clock hangs a final poster.
BATTLE FOR THE AGES
FENWAY PARK OCT. 16
PEDRO MARTINEZ vs. ROGER CLEMENS
Pedro’s smiling face perched a cross a slim cartoon body face stares across at Rahjh’s impudent mug. Game 3, 1999. Until 2004, it was the happiest day of Jose’s life. Not only did the Red Sox crush the Yankees, but Jose also saw Jimy Williams at a bar sucking down scotch after scotch.
And that is all. Except for the Red Sox coffee cup on the table to Jose’s right.. and the four KEYS books atop the bureau to his right… and a Wakefield t-shirt… and a Red Sox Hideo Nomo t-shirt… and the sleepy dork, happily typing away in the voice of a long forgotten relief pitcher while the world passes him by.
This is who Jose is. This is who the Red Sox are. It is who you are too. It is why we will win. While Jose feverishly types his youth away, the Orange Country Register lists yesterday’s top five most read stories as:
• For Kobe, 30 is the new 20
• New O.C. football Top 10 released
• Lakers keep an eye on the beasts in the East
• Mr. October: Angels need to improve post-season approach
• 5 things to watch for in Lakers training camp
These are the guys who will defeat us? The guys who play in this town? 100 wins, guaranteed home field throughout, good pitching and a monster lineup, and on the eve of the playoffs they rank below two off-season Laker stories and high school football in their own hometown? Thank God that last night there was no high school field hockey or they might have dropped out of the top ten.
The people of Anaheim are not us, nor are they we. They just aren’t. We let jerseys putrefy for nine years. We get memorabilia for players who were terrible. We brood and rejoice and brood a little more. They are fans, barely, but we are more. We are a religion, we are a movement, we are a people.
Yes we can? Certainly, but that is unremarkable. Yes we will.
Yes. We will.
2. On his blog yesterday, Tony Castrati suggested that the suddenly muscular Angles (note: not a typo, see KEY 3, or any think Jose has ever written about that team) have switched places with a Red Sox squad that had the league leader in stolen bases for the first time since Nixon was riding high. Specifically, he compared them to the plots of three movies: “Freaky Friday,” “Trading Places” and ""Like Father, Like Son.” While Jose admires any effort to work Kirk Cameron, the star of Like Father, Like Son into a baseball column, Jose categorically rejects Castrati’s analogy. Also, why not work in Malcom-Jamal Warner instead? This season has resembled the plot of at least three episodes of Malcom and Eddie. Also, unlike Warner, Cameron does not have a surprisingly good jazz combo, though Jose regrets that Warner’s group is not named “Theo and the Trio.”
But back to Castrati’s poor analogy. First, let’s start with the fact that these three movies have almost nothing in common. One is about two white guys trading bodies, one is about two white girls trading bodies and one is about high finance. And ff one wants to compare “Like Father, Like Son” to something, how can one ignore the Judge Reinhold vehicle “Vice Versa?” The only difference between the two films is that Reinhold changes bodies with Fred Savage thanks to a mysterious skull while Cameron trades bodies with Dudley Moore due to mysterious potion. They were made within a year of each other and can be purchased together as a two DVD set. Doesn’t Castrati do any research?
Now, let’s examine why each of the three films Castrati cites is a bad analogy.
In “Freaky Friday” a coke addled teenager trades bodies with her technically a man mother. Or, if your prefer the 1976 version, an FBI agent/Astronomer trades places with a voiceover woman from the underappreciated 1977 Doonesbury special, and inspires John Hinckley to shoot Ronald Reagan. Jose thinks it’s pretty clear where this analogy goes off the tracks. While Red Sox-Angles playoff series have inspired players to shoot their wives and themselves, they have never once inspired anyone to shoot an elderly actor/president. Also, Jamie Lee Curtis is twice the man John Lackey is.
What about Trading Places? In this one, two rich white investors destroy lives before eventually destroying themselves. Actually, this one sounds like it might be just about right. Wait, that’s the banking crisis Jose’s thinking of not the playoffs. Never mind.
And actually, the plot is less centered on the rich brothers than on the subject of their manipulation of a black hustler and a white commodities trader. Jamie Lee Curtis plays prominently in this one too as a hooker who is three times the man Chone Figgins is. To Jose’s mind, the only way this analogy holds up is if current Angle and former Red Sox Darren Oliver teams up with Jon Garland to bankrupt the Red Sox commodity trading owner, John W. Henry, by cornering the market on concentrated frozen orange juice. If Oliver and Garland do corner the market on concentrated frozen orange juice in the next few days, Jose will concede that the Red Sox could be in trouble.
This leaves us with “Like Father, Like Son”/“Vice Versa.” Here’s why this one doesn’t work. For this analogy to hold, you’d have to assume that the Red Sox were Dudley Moore /Judge Reinhold to begin with and were magically transformed into Kirk Cameron/Fred Savage. Castrati argues that would be a bad thing, but he is wrong. Does he know that Dudley Moore is dead while Kirk Cameron prominent evangelical Christian actor? Also Dudley Moore was the star of a film called “Arthur,” and playing a carton aardvark is not exactly a great career move. So if this transformation did transpire, it would be to Boston’s benefit, which destroys Castrati’s model.
Still, Jose will give Castrati some credit. He had the right instinct in going for a Kirk Cameron analogy, he just picked the wrong film. Given the troubles the Angles will have driving in runners in this series, the correct Kirk Cameron film analogy is “Left Behind.”
3. There have not been a lot of Normans on the Red Sox throughout their storied history. There was Norman Zauchin, who played a few years in the 50s and Norman Siebern, who played on the Impossible Dream team before wrapping up his career a year later. Nelson Norman coached for the Sox in 2001. But that’s pretty much it. At least it was until today.
Today that changes. Today we are all Normans. As we head into Battle against the Angles, 25 Normans will don helms of blue and Terry Eurona will prepare to be crowned Tito the Conqueror.
Norman Schwarzkopf will be watching. He’ll be in camouflage, so you can’t see him, but he’ll be there.
Norm and Norma Nathan will be watching from the great gossip column in the sky.
Norman the Lunatic, back to his asylum , his wrestling days long gone, will beg to watch the game just like Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
Even Greg Norman will take a break from winemaking to see what a champion looks like.
Today, the Battle of Hastings will be replayed just a few days shy of its 942nd anniversary and, then as now, the Angles will be defeated and subjected to 1,056 years of subjugation minimum
Watch out Angles, the Normans are coming and it's Hastings all over again.
I’m Jose Melendez, and those are my KEYS TO THE ALDS.
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Posted 01 October 2008 - 08:06 AM
Jason Bay is going to come up huge this post season.
You heard it here first.
You heard it here first.
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Posted 01 October 2008 - 08:14 AM
Gil Velazquez is going to come up huge this post season.
You heard it here first.
You heard it here first.
Edited by PedroSpecialK, 01 October 2008 - 08:15 AM.
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Posted 01 October 2008 - 08:15 AM
Jason Bay is going to come up huge this post season.
You heard it here first.
Quiet down Imgran.
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Posted 01 October 2008 - 08:22 AM
Angels lineup, per Boston.com
1. Chone Figgins, 3B
2. Garret Anderson, LF
3. Mark Teixeira, 1B
4. Vladimir Guerrero, DH
5. Torii Hunter, CF
6. Howie Kendrick, 2B
7. Mike Napoli, C
8. Gary Matthews Jr., RF
9. Erick Aybar, SS
SP -- John Lackey
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Comes at you like a tornado of hair and the NHL salary cap
Posted 01 October 2008 - 08:26 AM
Jesus, Napoli has a .273/.374/.586 line
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Posted 01 October 2008 - 08:31 AM
Today is one of my favorite days of the year. There's a certain relief in another classic - the first day of spring training. There's a tingling excitement with one - the first game of the year. But today, today there is full-steam-ahead-pounce-and-pounce-early-and-often-my-team-is-better-than-your-team.
As a man who is enveloped in Id, I'd say this is my favorite of the three.
As a man who is enveloped in Id, I'd say this is my favorite of the three.
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Posted 01 October 2008 - 08:52 AM
The first post-season game thread makes me nostalgic for Kitchkinet's tard cap, after the game one debacle of last year.
Win tonight, and this is your reward:
EDIT: Pic might be NSFW for some, so here's a link.
EDIT: Pic might be NSFW for some, so here's a link.
Edited by RSN Diaspora, 01 October 2008 - 09:56 AM.
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Posted 01 October 2008 - 08:53 AM
With a little luck tonight the Red Sox will see the same John Lackey who had an 8.14 ERA in September. The same John Lackey who allowed opponents to bat .356 against in September. Since the All-Star break, he's actually been entirely unimpressive. With a little luck, that's the Lackey we'll get.
Edited by NomarRS05, 01 October 2008 - 08:54 AM.
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Posted 01 October 2008 - 08:55 AM
You put a space in it - here's the fixed one.The first post-season game thread makes me nostalgic for Kitchkinet's tard cap, after the game one debacle of last year.
Win tonight, and this is your reward:
EDIT: Pic might be NSFW for some, so here's a link.
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Posted 01 October 2008 - 09:14 AM
Red Sox' regular season record against the Angels: 1-8. This needs to be addressed, starting tonight.
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Posted 01 October 2008 - 09:22 AM
Red Sox' regular season record against the Angels: 1-8. This needs to be addressed, starting tonight.
I'll settle for 4-8.
Crush these bastiches.
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Posted 01 October 2008 - 09:31 AM
Fuck, an Aybar.
It's time for the LAoAaAaA to assume the position.
It's time for the LAoAaAaA to assume the position.
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Posted 01 October 2008 - 09:36 AM
Jon Lester, lhp
School: Bellarmine Prep, Tacoma. Class: Sr.
Hometown: Puyallup, Wash.
B-T: L-L Ht.: 6-3 Wt.: 195 Birthdate: 1/7/84
College Commitment: Arizona State.
Scouting Report: At 6-foot-4 and 190 pounds, Lester looks like a big leaguer. He is athletic, swings the bat well and runs well enough to be considered a top position prospect, but scouts see him first as a pitcher. He has one of the best lefthanded power arms in the country. His velocity has been up and down this spring, ranging from 88 mph on the day he threw a perfect game to a high of 93; he is aggressive with the pitch and holds his velocity well. He could add another 2-3 mph on his fastball because he is projectable. His curve is below-average now but has a chance to be a solid pitch. Committed to Arizona State, Lester could be a prime target for the Mariners, who have the 28th overall selection.
Almost a teammate of Pedroia. Almost.
The first pick of the Henry/Werner/Lucchino era gets Game 1.
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Posted 01 October 2008 - 09:40 AM
Lackey is going to get shelled.
I hope the karma gods don't notice this...
Edited by mrcleanwell, 01 October 2008 - 09:41 AM.
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Posted 01 October 2008 - 09:50 AM
Happy (Almost) Annual Beat the Piss Out of the Angels Week. I love this time of year.
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Posted 01 October 2008 - 09:57 AM
Getting up at 5:45 am tomorrow, going to put a Red Sox playoff game on my big screen in HD, all the way over here. Breakfast will be pancakes with maple syrup, watching the Sox kick some Angels around the place. How cool is that?
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Posted 01 October 2008 - 09:58 AM
Getting up at 5:45 am tomorrow, going to put a Red Sox playoff game on my big screen in HD, all the way over here. Breakfast will be pancakes with maple syrup, watching the Sox kick some Angels around the place. How cool is that?
Are you KGB? Because that would be cool.
Edited by DJnVa, 01 October 2008 - 09:58 AM.
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Posted 01 October 2008 - 10:07 AM
It's going to be a long night here on the East Coast. I'm going to take a nap now so I don't fade through the game.
Let's go Red Sox!
Let's go Red Sox!
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Posted 01 October 2008 - 10:23 AM
It's already been addressed: the regular season is over.Red Sox' regular season record against the Angels: 1-8. This needs to be addressed, starting tonight.
Seriously though--six of those eight losses came in late July, at the height of the Manny soap opera. We're a very different team now than we were then, and not just in left field. The other two losses came in April: one was a start by Bad Jon Lester, who shortly thereafter left the team to be replaced by his good twin, and the other was an excellent start by Masterson which was ruined by a bullpen implosion--and the bullpen hasn't been doing much imploding lately.
So I think we can legitimately throw the regular season out the window.... and WIN.
[EDIT: lurker bosockboy reminds me that the April series was also during the period when the team was hit hard by the flu; Lester was pitching on three days' rest because Dice-K was sick, and Masterson was called up to fill Lester's regular spot. So the Angels really have caught us at our worst moments this year.]
Edited by Savin Hillbilly, 01 October 2008 - 10:46 AM.
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Posted 01 October 2008 - 10:24 AM
Josh Beckett gets hurt and we just replace him with another #1 ace.
Not too shabby really.
Not too shabby really.
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Confidence is high with Lester on the mound. Lets win this thing and get a good start for this series.
Time to set the tone in LA/Anaheim tonight.
Sleep is optional!
Time to set the tone in LA/Anaheim tonight.
Sleep is optional!
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Posted 01 October 2008 - 10:37 AM
Set. The. Tone.
That's it.
Oh, win.
That's it.
Oh, win.
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Posted 01 October 2008 - 10:42 AM
Now I had a full commitment to post this Al Pacino Speech as a motivation to win the game. But I found something better. Doc Rivers once said:
That man is a champion. The Sox can be champions. AGAIN.
RED SOXTOBER begins tonight!
Not one to leave on a high note, let me add:
Great moments cannot be repeated, but Championships can be.
You don't need a speech from me, we're the better team. I don't have to trick you to fire you up, we're the better team. We don't need trick plays, we're the better team. But what we have to do is focus. Have great focus. Have great mental toughness. Dominate our space the entire night on offense and defense.
That man is a champion. The Sox can be champions. AGAIN.
RED SOXTOBER begins tonight!
Not one to leave on a high note, let me add:
Great moments cannot be repeated, but Championships can be.
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Posted 01 October 2008 - 10:53 AM
Dude, I can control the weather.Are you KGB? Because that would be cool.
#42
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Don't make him go all Lucic on your ash
Posted 01 October 2008 - 11:03 AM
And so begins my playoff superstition again in earnest.
LETS GO RED SOX
LETS GO RED SOX
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foulkiavelli
Posted 01 October 2008 - 11:06 AM
Assuming he's starting, I wonder how many times the Angels will bunt on Lowell tonight.
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Posted 01 October 2008 - 11:11 AM
KG says: BEAT LA!!
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#45
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Posted 01 October 2008 - 11:11 AM
When are these clowns gonna announce a roster?
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Posted 01 October 2008 - 11:15 AM
I don't like heading into the postseason without a rally cry.
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Posted 01 October 2008 - 11:15 AM
When are these clowns gonna announce a roster?
1 PM EST. Tito is on WEEI right now but won't divulge anything new until that deadline.
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Posted 01 October 2008 - 11:19 AM
Hopefully, as many times as the Yankees bunted on Schilling in the Bloody Sock Game.Assuming he's starting, I wonder how many times the Angels will bunt on Lowell tonight.
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foulkiavelli
Posted 01 October 2008 - 11:22 AM
Probably means that Cora is starting.1 PM EST. Tito is on WEEI right now but won't divulge anything new until that deadline.
