Anything and Everything Red Sox vs Yankees

parrotsgirl · Post by **parrotsgirl** » October 14, 2003 7:26 am

now if they can keep this afternoon about Bball too we'll be all set....was a good game....just kinda hard to get into after Saturday.....

RAGTOP · Post by **RAGTOP** » October 14, 2003 7:38 am

good game last night. 6 million dollar question???? If it goes 7 do the Sox dip into the the Wakefield well 1 more time or is it Pedro?

BottleofRum · Post by **BottleofRum** » October 14, 2003 8:43 am

RAGTOP wrote:good game last night. 6 million dollar question???? If it goes 7 do the Sox dip into the the Wakefield well 1 more time or is it Pedro?

Pedro no question! Wakefield is on borrowed time and is due for a meltdown... lets face it, it isn't as good as he has pitched the last two games.
There in no other pitcher in baseball that I would want for a game 7 than Pedro. In a perfect wold the Sox would win the next two games allowing Pedro to pitch game one of the world series.

RAGTOP · Post by **RAGTOP** » October 14, 2003 8:51 am

not sure if I agree. I'll give you that Wakefield is on borrowed time, no doubt. Pedro pitched 130 pitches against Oakland and in his carrer he is usually junk for at least the next 3 starts after throwing that many pitches, saturday was a perfect example. With only another 4 days rest and in light of this weekend I'm not completely sold on Petey for game 7.

BottleofRum · Post by **BottleofRum** » October 14, 2003 8:56 am

I'll take my chances with Pedro in a must win game.

And this is not the first time Jeff Nelson has had a problem with ballpark staff..

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/yankees/paulpriore1.html

st.somewhere · Post by **st.somewhere** » October 14, 2003 9:30 am

I say that you have to give the ball to Pedro in game 7. Watch him closely though... If he's not on his game it really won't be to hard to tell. He's pretty much a guy either has it or doesn't have it. If they hit him early then you go to Wakefield out the pen for long relief...

Also, I don't know if you guys saw the FOX news after the game, but they were showing all the "celebs" that were in attendance last night. Jimmy was at the frigin' game last night!! How cool is that?

IP 42 · Post by **IP 42** » October 14, 2003 9:38 am

"The day I can't take a cocky 160-pound Red Sox pitcher is the day I hang up my jockstrap"

I think the bigger question here that needs to be answered is why is Zimmer still wearing a jockstrap?

I am picturing a grapefruit with dental floss tied around it.

st.somewhere · Post by **st.somewhere** » October 14, 2003 9:45 am

IP 42 wrote:I am picturing a grapefruit with dental floss tied around it.

The fact that you're picturing it all is a lil' frightening!!!

RAGTOP · Post by **RAGTOP** » October 14, 2003 9:48 am

all year Grady has been replacing Walker for Damien Jackson when a tough left hander is starting. He wouldn't possibly do that tonight... would he?????

This would be my lineup:

Damon
Walker
Nixon
Manny
Mirabelli (Ortiz will look foolish against Wells)
Millar
Varitek
Garciapopup (also find this funny, killing us with men on base)
Mueller

How can i get this too Grady?

IP 42 · Post by **IP 42** » October 14, 2003 10:01 am

st.somewhere wrote:
IP 42 wrote:I am picturing a grapefruit with dental floss tied around it.
The fact that you're picturing it all is a lil' frightening!!!

Too much coffee and an active imagination.

In today's Globe, Grady said he was leaning towards starting Walker. The guy only has 5 jacks and a slugging percentage over 1.0 .

BottleofRum · Post by **BottleofRum** » October 14, 2003 10:07 am

RAGTOP wrote:all year Grady has been replacing Walker for Damien Jackson when a tough left hander is starting. He wouldn't possibly do that tonight... would he?????

This would be my lineup:

Damon
Walker
Nixon
Manny
Mirabelli (Ortiz will look foolish against Wells)
Millar
Varitek
Garciapopup (also find this funny, killing us with men on base)
Mueller

How can i get this too Grady?

After the game yesterday Grady said Walker would be in the line-up today.

RT that would not be you batting order would it? 3 leftys at the top with Mirabelli hitting 5th?

RAGTOP · Post by **RAGTOP** » October 14, 2003 10:20 am

I don't by into the righty left matchups as much as some. If this was the regular season I would say go ahead and play the percentages. This is game 5 of the ALCS and all bets are off. I have no problem replacing Ortiz with Mirabelli. How many times is Ortiz going to look foolish up there? If Mirabelli gets 1 hit that's 1 more than Ortiz will have. The only 3 that I have confidence in right now are 3 lefty's (Damon, Walker and Nixon). Play it like softabll, stack your top half of the order and hope the last half comes through and right now we can only hope Nomar and Billy M. come through because they are not showing us anything.

Is game 5 the place to start juggling the lineup... probably not but hell let's make it interesting

SchoolGirlHeart · Post by **SchoolGirlHeart** » October 14, 2003 10:32 am

REALITY CHECK.....

The Boston Globe wrote:To escape stress, troops in field tune in the Sox By David Filipov, Globe Staff, 10/14/2003

BALAD, Iraq -- It says something about the stress level of Lieutenant Phil Blanchard's life right now that the Pittsfield, Mass., native and lifelong Red Sox fan finds watching the Olde Towne Team's torturous playoff run the most relaxing part of his day.

Blanchard's job as platoon leader in the First Battalion of the 64th Armored Regiment lends new meaning to the phrase "diehard Red Sox supporter." On a typical day, he leads 18-hour patrols to search out and destroy Iraqi insurgents who lay deadly ambushes for US convoys and lob mortar rounds into the sprawling base of the Fourth Infantry Division's Third Combat Brigade, 40 miles north of Baghdad.

On Blanchard's first patrol back in July, an Iraqi rocket-propelled grenade struck a glancing blow on one of his tanks. Any time they go out on patrol, he and his men expect to come under fire in sneak attacks similar to the ones that the US military said killed three Fourth Infantry Division soldiers and wounded five on Sunday and yesterday.

For Blanchard and other Sox fans on the front lines in Iraq, watching the local nine grind it out against the hated Yankees, something made possible by the recent arrival of satellite TV dishes and decoders in this most remote and hostile corner of Red Sox Nation, is a welcome diversion from the dangers of duty.

"It takes your mind off how things are here," said Blanchard, whose next patrol was due to head out early today, about the time the Red Sox captured Game 4, 3-2. "When you have a game to get back to after a patrol it's pretty good. You get to focus on something else. Once the game is over, it's right back to reality.

"It's great that there is baseball," he said. "Of course things are better when the Sox win."

Blanchard's Red Sox obsession is clear from the duty board at the entrance to the concrete hangar on the dusty former Iraqi airfield his platoon calls home, where the unit's daily schedule is listed under the large heading "Red Sox vs. Evil Empire."

Blanchard is reading "Babe: The Legend Comes to Life," because "you gotta get to know the man to beat the curse."

Red Sox fans are a distinct minority among the troops in Iraq. In an army dominated by Southern drawls and Midwestern twangs, Blanchard's broad New England accent stands out. So do the pictures on the wall over his bunk. Most soldiers have pictures of family members, or pinups of scantily clad young women cut out from magazines. On Blanchard's wall, the clippings are pretty much all Pedro, Nomar, and Manny, a fitting collection for someone who says his earliest childhood memory was of his father jumping for joy after Dave Henderson's memorable home run in Game 5 of the 1986 AL Championship Series.

Chief Warrant Officer Eric Moran, 32, who grew up in Boston and now serves in Baghdad, also has an earliest childhood memory from the Sox playoff past: Luis Tiant twirling a marathon complete-game win against the Cincinnati Reds in Game 1 of the 1975 World Series.

Moran and Master Sergeant Joseph Sturniolo, 51, of Framingham stayed up until 2:30 a.m. to catch Game 3 live on the satellite TV his unit set up in their recreation tent at Camp Victory in Baghdad, and did not regret it despite the 4-3 Sox loss to the Yanks.

"It was a pretty good game," Sturniolo said. "But I was hurting when I had to get up at 5:30 a.m. the next morning." Sturniolo and Moran serve in a unit that escorts visiting delegations through Baghdad, where US convoys are attacked several times a day.

"It's been gut-wrenching since the playoffs started," Moran said. He was talking about the Red Sox, not the threat of ambushes.

"When they came back from two down against Oakland, that was pretty hard on the ticker," Moran said. "If they win the World Series, I think I'm going to cry."

For soldiers who are not from the Boston area, Red Sox fans' passion comes as a surprise.

"I never quite understood the rivalry," said Blanchard's platoon sergeant, Jason Gallegos, who hails from Wyoming but has rooted for the Yankees since the days of Don Mattingly. Blanchard "lives it. You can feel the actual feeling he has. If the Red Sox win, I'll definitely root for them in the World Series."

That comradely sentiment did not prevent Gallegos from some good-natured ribbing of his commander after the Pinstripes took Game 3.

"That's the worst part," said Lieutenant Brent Osborn of Nashville, commander of a scout platoon in the First Battalion of the 64th Armored, who became a Red Sox fan after attending Boston College. "After they lost to the Yankees in 1999, I had to listen to the Yankee fans."

"The worst part," said Blanchard with a laugh, "is when your platoon sergeant is a Yankees fan."

"Being here now definitely puts it in perspective," said Osborn, who watched Game 3 holding his hand radio, in case he got the call to lead a patrol out to search for Iraqi fighters. "Before, if the Sox lost, I'd get angry. Now I'll be, like, `It's just a game.' "

"But they can't lose a playoff to the Yankees!" he added.

Sox fans are not the only passionate baseball supporters in Balad. On Third Brigade's main base, troops have built a makeshift ballpark in a dusty field where soldiers play whiffleball. Until a few days ago, the scoreboard was a replica of the one on the Green Monster, and a sign on the right field wall once said, "Go Red Sox." But Cubs' fans have apparently taken over the field, removing the scoreboard and replacing the sign with a caricature of the late legendary Chicago announcer Harry Caray.

"The Red Sox just can't get any respect," observed Lieutenant Ed Park, a Yankee fan.

http://www.boston.com/news/world/middle ... n_the_sox/

One of these guys is from my hometown....

(I remember watching from the FSOTW when the Patriots won the Super Bowl...)

SchoolGirlHeart · Post by **SchoolGirlHeart** » October 14, 2003 3:22 pm

Thought this probably ought to get resurrected from the middle of page two before game time!

Oh, I heard an interview on 103.3 FM this morning with Ryan Reynolds, the guy who wrote the song "Cowboy Up". He used to wrestle steer (he's from Texas) and says the phrase means to get back up no matter how badly you've been knocked down.

GO SOX!!!!!

ph4ever · Post by **ph4ever** » October 14, 2003 3:32 pm

SchoolGirlHeart wrote:Thought this probably ought to get resurrected from the middle of page two before game time!

Oh, I heard an interview on 103.3 FM this morning with Ryan Reynolds, the guy who wrote the song "Cowboy Up". He used to wrestle steer (he's from Texas) and says the phrase means to get back up no matter how badly you've been knocked down.

GO SOX!!!!!

pssssst it's steer wrestle

SchoolGirlHeart · Post by **SchoolGirlHeart** » October 14, 2003 3:39 pm

ph4ever wrote:
SchoolGirlHeart wrote:Thought this probably ought to get resurrected from the middle of page two before game time!

Oh, I heard an interview on 103.3 FM this morning with Ryan Reynolds, the guy who wrote the song "Cowboy Up". He used to wrestle steer (he's from Texas) and says the phrase means to get back up no matter how badly you've been knocked down.

GO SOX!!!!!
pssssst it's steer wrestle

I thought that's what I said!

The morning drive guy on 103.3 translated for us northerners.... he said it's like riding down the road on the hood of your car and grabbing a mailbox...

ph4ever · Post by **ph4ever** » October 14, 2003 3:49 pm

SchoolGirlHeart wrote:
ph4ever wrote:
SchoolGirlHeart wrote:Thought this probably ought to get resurrected from the middle of page two before game time!

Oh, I heard an interview on 103.3 FM this morning with Ryan Reynolds, the guy who wrote the song "Cowboy Up". He used to wrestle steer (he's from Texas) and says the phrase means to get back up no matter how badly you've been knocked down.

GO SOX!!!!!
pssssst it's steer wrestle

I thought that's what I said!

The morning drive guy on 103.3 translated for us northerners.... he said it's like riding down the road on the hood of your car and grabbing a mailbox...

well maybe - if the mailbox had horns to gore you with and holves to step on you. Oh yea and the car also has holves.

TheSecretsInTheCrust · October 14, 2003 3:56 pm

Line ups:
Red Sox
CF Damon
2B Walker
SS Garciaparra
LF Ramirez
DH Ortiz
1B Millar
RF Nixon
3B Bill Mueller
C Jason Varitek

Yankees
2B Soriano
SS Jeter
1B Giambi
CF Williams
C Posada
LF Matsui
DH Johnson
3B Boone
RF Garcia

kitty · Post by **kitty** » October 14, 2003 4:15 pm

GO RED SOX!!!

LaTda · Post by **LaTda** » October 14, 2003 4:20 pm

kitty wrote:GO RED SOX!!!

Hey Kitty,
I have family up in Voluntown, I think I just heard them yelling the same thing you did above

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