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[exGloucester]

The difference only need be a couple of timely hits, a nice play in the field, and howsa about wiping that pussy look off your faces from the other night. How about declaring Thursday "I will enjoy playing baseball, and will not wear my vagina face" day. The margin of victory need not be any more than that.

[E5 Yaz]

"I will enjoy playing baseball, and will not wear my vagina face" day.

[ookami7m]

Playoffs not over
Tampa Bay D'vil Rays are
Going to lose three

Edited by ookami7m, 16 October 2008 - 04:12 PM.

[5belongstoGeorge]

I like our chances.

[paulftodd]

The Devils fire has been extinguished. Time for Red Sox bats to ignite in time for the Rays to go swimming after the ALCS, while we go on to ring the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia.

[TheoShmeo]

ALCS Comeback III begins tonight.

[Sille Skrub]

Let's go back to Tampa, shall we?

[staz]

DO NOT...
let us win tonight.

[Gator's '88 MVP]

Win.

There is a baseball game on this evening featuring the Red Sox of Boston. I will be watching.

Why not win this one?

GO SOX.

[bellyofthebeast]

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

[HighHeat]

There's a game tonight, boys. I strongly suggest you win it.

[Foulkey Reese]

I'm just not ready for baseball to be over yet. Get this shit back to St Pete and go from there.

[rembrat]

A great man once said, "You make your own destination."

Win.

[bankshot1]

Finally!!!

It has taken 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 5

[I am an Idiot]

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

Good song choice. Let's win this one, eh?

[Foulkey Reese]

This made me laugh.

[educatedcheese]

is there even the slightest chance that Millar could throw out the first pitch tonight?

Or Kenny Lofton?

[Smiling Joe Hesketh]

Dear Red Sox players,

Please stop sucking. Immediately.

Lots of love,
SJH

[Return of the Dewey]

Prediction for Papi's first AB: HR in the Monster Seats.

That will set the tone for the rest of the game.

[RedOctober3829]

I've got no real set of expectations tonight. Yes, they have come back from 1-3 twice but this is a totally different Red Sox team than those other two. Ortiz hasn't been himself all season and there is no Josh Beckett circa 2007 on the mound tonight. For the first time this season, I am going to sit back and just not worry and stress about a win or a loss. I just want to enjoy the game for what it is: my favorite team playing October baseball. We have nothing to lose tonight. Tampa has shown they are the better team in just about every facet of the game. But, the better team doesn't always win in a 7-game series. They need go into the game playing free and easy and lay it all on the line. If it isn't good enough, so be it. But, don't go down like you have the past 2 games. Show some fight and some spark. And above all, don't get eliminated on home turf.

[TheRealness]

Did Joe Maddon watch Karate Kid? I have to wonder this, because there are life lessons to be learned from such a cinematic legend. First, and most important, is never give up. Never ever ever give up.

Second, and most pertinent to Joe Maddon, is that when you have you're opponent on the ground you FINISH HIM. The Red Sox are Sub-Zero and swaying lifelessly in the wind, and instead of Scorpion (The Rays) shooting a spear through their heads and ripping it off their rotted lifeless corpse, they let him stand there. This is like Daniel-san getting beat down, and then Johnny Lawrence not finishing him. The problem created is you've let Daniel-san (the Red Sox) get off the mat, and now, we're punching and kicking Johnny and shit, and suddenly.....

WE'RE SWEEPING THE LEG! SWEEEP THE LEG!!!!! SWEEEP THE LEG BOSTON! SWEEP THE FUCKING LEG!!!!!!!!!!!

[joyofsox]

Stick with me baby, stick with me anyhow
Things should start to get interesting right about now

Bob Dylan - "Mississippi"

[Mystic Merlin]

[Everybody Loves Rey Quinones]

Weather.com doesn't look too friendly for tonight.

http://www.weather.c...pnav_undeclared


It's pouring here in just due west of Boston in upstate NY. Anyone have a more educated guess on odds of playing tonight?

[ragecage]

I just read this thread backwards and then realized LJ started it. We're fucking winning. You know what KFK said.

[I am an Idiot]

I just read this thread backwards and then realized LJ started it. We're fucking winning. You know what KFK said.

"If LJ starts the game thread, we run roughshod over the competition" - Cabin Mirror

[JimMonaghan]

"If it not success...I will be execute."

WIN!

[Foulkey Reese]

Weather.com doesn't look too friendly for tonight.

http://www.weather.c...pnav_undeclared
It's pouring here in just due west of Boston in upstate NY. Anyone have a more educated guess on odds of playing tonight?

It might be a wet night, but I doubt anything will be heavy enough for them to call the game.

[PedroKsBambino]

Win Today.

That is all....

[I am an Idiot]

Win it for Drama's headband.

[FelixMantilla]

LJ mo-jo is good mo-jo.

[Joe Shlabotnick]

I just heard that Joe the Plumber is rooting for the Sox. That is good enough for me. WIN!!!!

[BoSoxLady]

Tonight will not be my final game of the season at Fenway. I simply won't allow it.

[Ted Cox 4 president]

The Sox will win tonight. Of this I am completely certain.

Onward!

[Mystic Merlin]

[Foulkey Reese]

Globe

A peek at the local radar shows showers in the Boston area, with a pocket of clear skies in between. The Weather Channel states the rain should clear for good in the 9 o'clock hour. From Weather.com:

Today: Overcast with rain showers at times. Thunder possible. High near 65F. Winds SSW at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 60%.

Tonight: Rain showers early with clear skies overnight. Low 44F. Winds NW at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50%.

So the game looks to be a go. The Red Sox, of course, hope they can win tonight and cause a "reign delay" for Tampa. (Boo. Sorry. Had to.)

[SawxSince67]

After that, 8 scoreless should be easy.

Win.
Win.
Win.

[Redkluzu]

We have suffered
We have prayed
Some of us have even atoned

This is the time. This is the season. This is the day.

[jacklamabe65]

When LJ starts a thread, you know it's serious shit.

LJ = Cabrara Era

[sox4ever]

The word painful often comes to mind. Numb could be close behind too I guess. Déjà Vu's also right there come to think of it. <takes breath> What I'm trying to get at here is this, being down isn't necessarily foreign ground for the Sox or us fans, but it certainly isn't welcome ground. Being down 3-1 the way we are now just doesn't seem right. Like a rotten sour milk taste in the mouth. Bitter, but nothing's sweet. The Red Sox are looking old and hurt, and the Rays are looking young and hyped. The difference between both clubs demeanor is night and day.

The Rays are cool and calm, the Sox are cool and cold. Last night I missed the first four innings due to a softball engagement (we won...mercy rule) and when I turned on EEI and heard...

"Masterson delivers the ball...."

...spew out of Joe Castiglione's mouth I knew the night's good start from softball was just a blip on the radar screen.

The strangest thing about the game, and the previous few, is that it was such an impervious beating by the Rays that you became indifferent eventually. Me and my friends were just laughing and hi-fiving any hit the Sox obtained. When David Ortiz hit that you triple you damn well would have believed that the Sox just won the game. It was odd, and looking back I can see we were completely masking the feeling we truly had. Sadness.

With all the injuries the Sox have I wouldn't have been shocked to see them lose this series, but my oh my, this is some way to lose it. I was all but lost on hope when Krazy Kris pulled me right back in there.

He turned to me and said, "Dude, we got Dice-K in Game 5...."

And then it clicked...

If Dice-K can win Game 5, then you have yourself an angry Beckett out to prove himself in Game 6, and likewise by Lester in Game 7. Call me delusional, or call me crazy, I'm fine with either. But call me anything but a Sox fan and I'll be offended, because i think we can win the 2008 ALCS. Tito kept saying this is a seven game series right? So lets make it one.

27 outs left for us, lets be smart with them.

[jose melendez]

10/16/08-- ALCS GAME 5 God Does not Play Dice

It’s time for Jose Melendez’s KEYS TO THE ALCS.

1. “God does not play dice.”

That’s what Einstein said when faced with the problems of quantum mechanics. He was wrong, of course. God does play dice. And he makes some stupid bets too. Horn high yo? Please.

What Einstein did not discuss, however, was the inverse. While God may or may not play dice, we know for certain that tonight, Dice plays God.

To play God, or at least a god, is to have the power over life and death. And that is the awful power that the man from Japan has on this fall evening. If he pitches well, the Red Sox live, if he pitches poorly, the Red Sox die. Heads or tails, on or off. It is really that simple, and that difficult.

So what do the Red Sox want tonight? What all those on the verge of death crave—to remain alive. We would like to remain alive for another month, but we would take another week, another day, even another hour. The Red Sox know this craving; we have felt it before. We felt it in 2004, when we remained on life support for days and in 2007. We know what it is like to fear that each breath is your last. But we also know how divine it is to taunt death, to escape his icy grip and flip him the bird.

Justin Masterson knows. The pious pitcher informed his Facebook friends that he is “happy to be alive. He gets it. Masterson has taken to heart the simple message of a preacher from Pittsburgh “It’s such a good feeling to know you’re alive.”

And on Friday morning, when the series is 3-2 Jose, and Justin Masterson and Dice K will make a snappy new day. Jose will be back, when they day is new, and he will have more KEYS for you. You’ll have things you want to talk about. Jose… will… too.


2. According to Wikipedia, Tampa is a Calusa Indian word that means “sticks of fire.”

Having watched the Rays brutalize Red Sox pitching, for three straight games, it seems that the first settlers of what is now Hillsborough County saw something coming. The Tampa sticks have been alight.


But Jose knows a thing or two about fire (note: he got his fireman ‘chit as a Scout), and it gives him reason to be hopeful. Let’s put it this way, there is a reason that eternal flames are not fueled by wood. Wood burns bright and beautiful crackling and colorful, but all of sudden, a funny thing happens—it goes out. There is no doubt that the Rays’ sticks have been burning bright for three nights now, but they cannot burn forever. They are not the Maccabees, we are not the Syrians and this is not Chanukah.

3. Jose spent much of Monday and Tuesday hanging around with a dog named Kazmir. It might have been Cashmere on Kashmir, but those are all really just regional variations on spelling. Little did he know at the time, that his aunt and uncle’s dog would get the call to start for Tampax Bay in the crucial fifth game of the ALCS.

Joe Maddon has managed brilliantly this series, but you’ve got to wonder what he’s thinking right now. Given the opportunity to choose between pitching Jamie Shields, who has been brilliant in the post season and a dog, he went with the dog.
What’s that, tonight’s starting pitcher is a man named Kazmir and not a canine? Are you sure? Well, what’s the difference? Neither of them is going to pick up the win tonight and either of them would have been a good acquisition in return for Victor Zambrano.

Actually, check that, there is one difference. The dog, when he barks enough can actually convince people that he’s dangerous. There’s nothing the lefty can do these days to scare anyone.

I’m Jose Melendez, and those are my KEYS TO THE ALCS.

[absintheofmalaise]

Tora! Tora! Tora!

Win for the Honor of Matsuzaka or he will commit Seppuku on the mound after the game.

[Todd Benzinger]

Red Sox
1. Coco Crisp, CF
2. Dustin Pedroia, 2B
3. David Ortiz, DH
4. Kevin Youkilis, 3B
5. Jason Bay, LF
6. J.D. Drew, RF
7. Jed Lowrie, SS
8. Jason Varitek, C
9. Mark Kotsay, 1B
--Daisuke Matsuzaka, SP

from Globe EB

[flymrfreakjar]

This is going to be my first time going to a playoff game at Fenway. A quality start and some timely hits and we're back in it.

[Foulkey Reese]

Jacoby will have a Dave Roberts moment tonight. Calling it now.

[Jeff Van GULLY]

Why move Drew out of the 1 spot? I thought Terry said that he liked when coco was able to swing freely and not try to run up the count.

Oh well...


WIN

[Todd Benzinger]

Why move Drew out of the 1 spot? I thought Terry said that he liked when coco was able to swing freely and not try to run up the count.

Oh well...
WIN

He's facing a lefty, so is (perhaps) less likely to get on base as often, esp in the first few innings before Kazmir is knocked out.

[86spike]

I am hoping for another night of Daisuke's maddening, yet effective nibbling.

The Rays have been feasting on fat pitches over the heart of the plate... and they might not see a single one of those tonight. I hope it ices them down and cools the offense for the rest of the series.

Don't let us win tonight... because then you've got to face Beckett and Lester.

[Foulkey Reese]

Tito had better ride Papelbon as hard as he needs to tonight.

[Return of the Dewey]

Tito had better ride Papelbon as hard as he needs to tonight.

Eww.