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[InsideTheParker]

But let the Boston Red Sox do something, while they have the chance! It is not every day that Beckett is needed. But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is Beckett, whether we like it or not. Let him make the most of it, before it is too late!

---ITP, Waiting for Beckett

[LeoCarrillo]

[Rasputin]

In the entire known history of the universe, I have never been less enthused about a Josh Beckett start.

[Harry Hooper]

If it be now, ’tis not to come. If it be not to come, it will be now. If it be not now, yet it will come—the readiness is all. Since no man of aught he leaves knows, what is ’t to leave betimes? Let be.

[celticladda]

If it be now, ’tis not to come. If it be not to come, it will be now. If it be not now, yet it will come—the readiness is all. Since no man of aught he leaves knows, what is ’t to leave betimes? Let be.

For aught I know, this is profound.

[54thMA]

As a lifelong Red Sox fan, as bad as 1978 and 1986 were, 2003 and the 8th inning meltdown/Boone home run was my low point as a fan, pretty much came to accept the fact that the Yankees had our number and I was never going to see this team win a world series.

Got a call about an hour after that game 7 from my uncle Peter from Arizona, he was blowing a gasket wanting to know why Little left Martinez in as was the rest of the baseball world. My uncle was the one who instilled the love of baseball in me as in the summer of 1975 he came to visit for two months and in that time took me to about 15 Red Sox games, it was a great time in my life, times I will never forget.

Then in 2004 a miracle happened and not only did they pull off the greatest comeback in baseball history in the ALCS to move on to the world series, but they did it vs the Yankees; "1918", the curse, 86 years since they last won a world series, 1967, 1972, 1975, Bucky Dent, 1986, 2003, all gone in the blink of an eye, without a doubt the greatest Boston sports victory I will ever get to witness.

Although some of you younger fans don't have the history with this team that I do, I can tell you it was worth going through all the misery to get that title, almost 30 years for me of heartbreak and disappointments one on top of the other, one worse than the next.

As happy as I was over this historic win, I was also sad that my uncle never got to see it; he passed away the December before from a heart attack.

This entire season has been a royal shitshow; all I ask is to go out and beat these fuckers tonight and take the series.

Do it for me.

Better yet, do it for my uncle.

And if they can't, I hope Beckett sticks one in Swishers ear, although I doubt if it will meet with any obstructions and just pass on through to the other side.....................

[Sprowl]

Yes, yes, let’s talk about the weather.

How beautifully blue the sky,
The glass is rising very high,
Continue fine I hope it may,
And yet it rained but yesterday.
Tomorrow it may pour again
(I hear the country wants some rain).

[LynnRice75]

It seems odd not to be more excited about a Sox/Yanks game in mid August.
But.. in the back of my mind, I still picture a scenario where they end August at .500 then have the "reverse collapse" September and move into the playoffs.
It could still happen. A win today would get us moving in the right direction.

[bill]

BP was encouraged by the Sox win yesterday and bumped their playoff chances back to 5.1% Another strange thing happened, they went from .0% chance to win the division to .1%. Now I know yesterday's % was more like .03 but it kind of reminds me of the Monty Python sketch "Bring out your dead" and one of the people objected "I'm not dead yet!".

[bill]

Yesterday, in his 8th game since being promoted to AA, Xander Bogaerts hit his 4th double and 3rd homer, giving him an 1121 OPS as the youngest player in the Eastern league. When BA does their top 100 this winter, I will be surprised if he is not in the top 5. Barnes, Owens, and Workman all pitch today, two of whom will probably take Beckett and Lackey's spot in the rotation in a couple years. Britton, Pimentel. Ranaudo, Wright, Hernandez, and Stroup are also candidates.Our thoughts and best wishes for a speedy recovery for Brian Johnson after yesterday's incident.

Edited by bill, 19 August 2012 - 10:24 AM.

[rembrat]

So the latest is that Shoppach and bunch of other dudes sent the text message from Adrian's phone. I really hope someone writes a tell all book about 2012.

Oh, yea, win or whatever.

[SoxLegacy]

As a lifelong Red Sox fan, as bad as 1978 and 1986 were, 2003 and the 8th inning meltdown/Boone home run was my low point as a fan, pretty much came to accept the fact that the Yankees had our number and I was never going to see this team win a world series.

Got a call about an hour after that game 7 from my uncle Peter from Arizona, he was blowing a gasket wanting to know why Little left Martinez in as was the rest of the baseball world. My uncle was the one who instilled the love of baseball in me as in the summer of 1975 he came to visit for two months and in that time took me to about 15 Red Sox games, it was a great time in my life, times I will never forget.

Then in 2004 a miracle happened and not only did they pull off the greatest comeback in baseball history in the ALCS to move on to the world series, but they did it vs the Yankees; "1918", the curse, 86 years since they last won a world series, 1967, 1972, 1975, Bucky Dent, 1986, 2003, all gone in the blink of an eye, without a doubt the greatest Boston sports victory I will ever get to witness.

Although some of you younger fans don't have the history with this team that I do, I can tell you it was worth going through all the misery to get that title, almost 30 years for me of heartbreak and disappointments one on top of the other, one worse than the next.

As happy as I was over this historic win, I was also sad that my uncle never got to see it; he passed away the December before from a heart attack.

This entire season has been a royal shitshow; all I ask is to go out and beat these fuckers tonight and take the series.

Do it for me.

Better yet, do it for my uncle.

And if they can't, I hope Beckett sticks one in Swishers ear, although I doubt if it will meet with any obstructions and just pass on through to the other side.....................

Outstanding!

[Doctor G]

in tonight to keep the number of New Yorkers wearing Yankee jerseys to a minimum on Cape Cod this week.

[Hendu's Gait]

Whatever it takes
Or how my heart breaks
I will be right here waiting for y'all

[E5 Yaz]

[fineyoungarm]

It seems odd not to be more excited about a Sox/Yanks game in mid August.
But.. in the back of my mind, I still picture a scenario where they end August at .500 then have the "reverse collapse" September and move into the playoffs.
It could still happen. A win today would get us moving in the right direction.

Mr. Christian! Surely you are s******g me!

[54thMA]

Outstanding!

Thanks; 2003 really was the nut punch of all nut punches. At that point, what else could go wrong with this team? Lucky me, I had tickets for game 3 of the ALCS, the classic 19-8 massacre.

To this day, Hell till the day they drop me in the ground I'll never be able to wrap myself around how they came back from down 0-3 to win that series.

Just beat these assholes tonight.

I hate this version of the Yankees more than the 1978 version, never thought I'd be able to say that.

Swisher annoys the crap out of me, him trotting around the bases the other night after hitting his second home run with a shit eating grin on his face really jerked a knot in my ass.

He should have been knocked on his ass the next time up.

Where's Pedro when you need him.

[Stu Nahan]

As a lifelong Red Sox fan, as bad as 1978 and 1986 were, 2003 and the 8th inning meltdown/Boone home run was my low point as a fan, pretty much came to accept the fact that the Yankees had our number and I was never going to see this team win a world series.

Got a call about an hour after that game 7 from my uncle Peter from Arizona, he was blowing a gasket wanting to know why Little left Martinez in as was the rest of the baseball world. My uncle was the one who instilled the love of baseball in me as in the summer of 1975 he came to visit for two months and in that time took me to about 15 Red Sox games, it was a great time in my life, times I will never forget.

Then in 2004 a miracle happened and not only did they pull off the greatest comeback in baseball history in the ALCS to move on to the world series, but they did it vs the Yankees; "1918", the curse, 86 years since they last won a world series, 1967, 1972, 1975, Bucky Dent, 1986, 2003, all gone in the blink of an eye, without a doubt the greatest Boston sports victory I will ever get to witness.

Although some of you younger fans don't have the history with this team that I do, I can tell you it was worth going through all the misery to get that title, almost 30 years for me of heartbreak and disappointments one on top of the other, one worse than the next.

As happy as I was over this historic win, I was also sad that my uncle never got to see it; he passed away the December before from a heart attack.

This entire season has been a royal shitshow; all I ask is to go out and beat these fuckers tonight and take the series.

Do it for me.

Better yet, do it for my uncle.

And if they can't, I hope Beckett sticks one in Swishers ear, although I doubt if it will meet with any obstructions and just pass on through to the other side.....................

Well done. Saw a guy in NYC today wearing a 1918 hat and told him it's time to update the wardrobe. In short, fuck the Yankees and all their asshole fans. It's time for Beckett to channel game 6 in 2003 and have their knuckle dragging, know nothing fans trudge out of that overpriced sham of a bullshit stadium disappointed.

[LeoCarrillo]

For those of us who live in New York City, beating the Yankees is roughly 10% about beating the Yankees (because Swisher, A-Rod, Martin, do they still have Cervelli?, Joba are wankers. I'm sure I'm forgetting someone.). It's 90% about a takedown on their arrogant, entitled fans. Before 2004, if you went to a game and so much as applauded a Nomar double, 10 guys around you would start the "1918" shit. Or the "Bil-ly Buck-ner" shit.

They lived to rub it in. Lived for it. So those fans can forever, and in every Sox-Yanks game from now until Armageddon, eat a bag of Doberman shit.

Now that they no longer lord 1918 over us, the most annoying thing about their fans is that they're vainglorious/ignorant enough to maintain a fantasyworld that the MFY still reign atop all of the Baseball Kingdom. Like they've had enough pitching to win it all for the past three years. Like every free agent either A.) wants; or B.) Is afraid to come here and play. Like they didn't spend 2 billion dollars over 10 years to win 1 title. Like Ichiro is a big fucking deal still.

These are bad people. Like the Manson family or sadistic Louisiana chain-gang prison guards.

Let's knock them down. Tonight and forever.

And YES company man Michael Kay can eat dogshit, too.

Edited by LeoCarrillo, 19 August 2012 - 02:42 PM.

[54thMA]

Well done. Saw a guy in NYC today wearing a 1918 hat and told him it's time to update the wardrobe. In short, fuck the Yankees and all their asshole fans. It's time for Beckett to channel game 6 in 2003 and have their knuckle dragging, know nothing fans trudge out of that overpriced sham of a bullshit stadium disappointed.

I try not to get too worked up over Yankee fans, or fans of any other team for that matter as like us, all they want is for their team to win.

Don't let Mr 1918 hat wearer get under your skin as all he's looking to do with a hat like that is to get a rise out of people, not sure what the point of the hat is as 2007 would be correct.

There isn't much you can say to Yankee fans, they of the 27 WS titles and 40 AL pennants.

Going forward, no matter how many more WS titles they win, they can never erase 2004.

All the 1918 hats in the world won't change that.

[E5 Yaz]

Anyone who thinks that this disappointing team can show its worth by purposing throwing at a player from the opponents is more concerned about meaningless matters than improving the Red Sox.

Purposely throwing at batters is assinine. Cheering for it is worse.

[snowmanny]

Anyone who thinks that this disappointing team can show its worth by purposing throwing at a player from the opponents is more concerned about meaningless matters than improving the Red Sox

Purposely throwing at batters is assinine. Cheering for it is worse.

Dancing when he has to leave the game is horrendous. Popping champagne when it turns out that it's a season-ending injury is boorish. Laughing when Suzyn Waldman cries about it is immature. Throwing a party when the gangrene sets in leading to a career-ending amputation is just plain naughty.

Edited by snowmanny, 19 August 2012 - 03:11 PM.

[Trotsky]

Wait.... even if said guy is Nick Swisher!?!?!! Geez you guys are no fun.

[E5 Yaz]

Wait.... even if said guy is Nick Swisher!?!?!! Geez you guys are no fun.

You don't have to do as I say. Root as you see fit

[Curll]

Reading the Jeff Passan thread on the mainboard today

[shawnrbu]

Watching Beckett tonight is going to be as comical as Triple H beating Brock Lesnar at SummerSlam.

[E5 Yaz]

Ellsbury CF
Crawford LF
Pedroia 2B
Gonzalez 1B
Lavarnway C
Saltalamacchia DH
Podsednik RF
Ciriaco SS
Punto 3B

[LeoCarrillo]

Wait.... even if said guy is Nick Swisher!?!?!! Geez you guys are no fun.

Yeah! Swisher banged Varitek's wife!

(Okay, it was like two years before she even started dating Tek. Does that make a difference?)

[AMS25]

Derek Jeter SS
Nick Swisher 1B
Robinson Cano 2B
Curtis Granderson CF
Eric Chavez 3B
Raul Ibanez LF
Russell Martin C
Ichiro Suzuki RF
Casey McGhee DH

From the Lohud Yankees Blog

[TheoShmeo]

Ellsbury CF
Crawford LF
Pedroia 2B
Gonzalez 1B
Lavarnway C
Saltalamacchia DH
Podsednik RF
Ciriaco SS
Punto 3B

It's a little scary that my reaction to this line-up is to nod approvingly.

Going to the Can for the first and likely last time of this season. Please Josh Beckett, don't make me leave before half time.

[bill]

Workman wins, no decision for Owens, Barnes gets rained out. Bogaerts with two more doubles. At Pawtucket, Iglesias has a 3 for 3 day and Nava walks twice in a rehab game.

[Adrian's Dome]

It's a little scary that my reaction to this line-up is to nod approvingly.

Going to the Can for the first and likely last time of this season. Please Josh Beckett, don't make me leave before half time.

Halftime?

[soxhop411]

RT @peteabe: Valentine said the #redsox will meet tomorrow to make a decision on Carl Crawford's surgery.


SO its going to happen.... Right?

[npmalk]

Last night, The Nick Punto emerged from the ashes of shitdom. Please repeat last night's performance.

[Al Zarilla]

Halftime?

If the game was at Fenway, he could mean halfway through the first inning. You know, Beckett pitching...I hate hate hate to make posts like that. I had Beckett's 2007 post WS Wheaties box picture on the wall in my office until I moved a month ago.

[TheoShmeo]

Halftime?

Humor. Or at least, intended humor. Gallows humor, more accurately.

[Rooster Crows]

I have no discourse - idle or not - just a desparate plea to kick some friggin' Yankee ass and win!

GO SOX - TAKE THE SERIES TONIGHT!

[Pearl Wilson]

I'm sure I'm forgetting someone

Yes. Yes you are.


Granderson. You forgot Granderson.

[E5 Yaz]

Edited by E5 Yaz, 19 August 2012 - 05:18 PM.

[InsideTheParker]

Swisher annoys the crap out of me, him trotting around the bases the other night after hitting his second home run with a shit eating grin on his face really jerked a knot in my ass.

He should have been knocked on his ass the next time up.

Where's Pedro when you need him.

If you mean that they should pitch him inside, OK; if you mean that they should hit him, then you are no better than your Yankees fan counterparts who want the same for Ortiz when he watches his HRs.

As for all the aggro over the arrogance of the competing fan base, I guess you guys sympathize with the Orioles' fans who resent arrogant Sox fans at Camden Yards. Yes, some Yankees fans are impossibly dumb and rude, but it's all designed to get a fleeting sense of superiority. Put them on ignore!

Edited by InsideTheParker, 19 August 2012 - 05:17 PM.

[snowmanny]

Nm

Edited by snowmanny, 19 August 2012 - 05:18 PM.

[Jordu]

They lived to rub it in. Lived for it. So those fans can forever, and in every Sox-Yanks game from now until Armageddon, eat a bag of Doberman shit.

Yankee fans are the worst rub-it-inners in all of baseballdom. So many of them only follow the team so they can taunt fans of every other team. They come to our ballpark with their $175 Swisher game jerseys, their gold chains and chest fuzz, three handfuls of gel slicking back their hair, 30 extra pounds around their middles, stubby fat fingers, swaggering in packs of 2 or 6 or 10, making as much noise as a jet landing on your forehead when some Yankee reaches on a nine-hop ground ball in the hole with two out.

I once spent some time over beers with a sportswriter buddy pondering this question: Who are bigger assholes, Mets fans or Yankee fans? Took about five minutes to decide. Yankee fans, because they're not baseball fans, they're just Yankee fans. At least some Met fans are baseball fans.

Josh, please find, deep inside you, for this night, the Beckett who loves to kick ass.

[Pearl Wilson]

Sometimes I miss the Red X.

X

Edited by Pearl Wilson, 19 August 2012 - 05:21 PM.

[E5 Yaz]

Sometimes I miss the Red X.

X

Yeah, don't know what happened there. This was the pic:

http://images4.fanpo...988-160-120.gif

[Kilgore A. Trout]

There's still a baseball game? Idon't know about you, but-

[LeoCarrillo]

As for all the aggro over the arrogance of the competing fan base, I guess you guys sympathize with the Orioles' fans who resent arrogant Sox fans at Camden Yards. Yes, some Yankees fans are impossibly dumb and rude, but it's all designed to get a fleeting sense of superiority. Put them on ignore!

That's wise advice. But even the Dalai Lama would be all "Fuck Yankees" if he'd caught rub-it-in shit from MFY fans for dozens of games in The Bronx pre-2004. It was like having your dog get nutpunched and then 20 guys in Yankee caps walk by and laugh, and then their Jeter-jersey girlfriends (despite not knowing what a dog is, or what a nutpunch is) join in and laugh too.

Nah, fuck it. I hate 'em.

[Hendu's Gait]

If the game was at Fenway, he could mean halfway through the first inning. You know, Beckett pitching...I hate hate hate to make posts like that. I had Beckett's 2007 post WS Wheaties box picture on the wall in my office until I moved a month ago.

so last month was your fault?

[Hendu's Gait]

I once spent some time over beers with a sportswriter buddy pondering this question: Who are bigger assholes, Mets fans or Yankee fans? Took about five minutes to decide. Yankee fans, because they're not baseball fans, they're just Yankee fans. At least some Met fans are baseball fans.

Josh, please find, deep inside you, for this night, the Beckett who loves to kick ass.

300 seconds? really?

[SemperFidelisSox]

This is Kelly Shoppach. I stole Sempers phone. I regret nothing. See u later.

[Kilgore A. Trout]

This is Kelly Shoppach. I stole Sempers phone. I regret nothing. See u later.

I don't know how to tell you this, but you've been traded to the Sons of Mookie Wilson message boards.