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2018 Wild Card Gameday Thread
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Post by James Dunne on Oct 3, 2018 8:18:14 GMT -5
The 1993 Giants won 103 games and didn't get to play in the playoffs. The team that beat them, the 104-win Braves, lost to the 97-win Phillies in the NLCS. Those Phillies lost to the 95-win Blue Jays in the World Series.
And, for the record, the Cubs didn't tie for the best record in the NL. The Brewers alone had the best record in the NL. The Cubs had the second best record in their division.
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Post by pedrofanforever45 on Oct 3, 2018 8:29:50 GMT -5
I think the tweet I posted was referring to the Cubs record after Game 162.
Yeah there have been worse circumstances. Our own 1978 99 win Red Sox got screwed way more too. I don't feel bad, just thought someone wanted to see that tweet to see how far the Cubs have fallen in two days. It was bound to happen to someone. I hope it happens to the Yankees.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Oct 3, 2018 8:57:14 GMT -5
Yesterday was also the first playoff game I believe that the Cubs used 23 different players in. I don't know if that's a Cubs record or a MLB record. Nervous about today. Oakland is going full bullpen game in a elimination game. Liam Hendricks is the "opener." Their rotation isn't good, so I sort of don't blame them. Hopefully Oakland brings the bats. I really don't want to face the Yankees because of blood pressure related reasons. I'll pass lol. Same here. Much prefer Oakland, but I don't like their chances tonight. I worry that Hendriks will be awful as the opener and the Yankees will jump on him. I'm hoping Severino melts down like he did last Oct against Minnesota or maybe bounces pitches in the dirt that Sanchez has no capability of blocking. The thought of Fernando Rodney or even Familia doesn't exactly instill me with confidence. The A's have a great pen, but honestly I'd rather see the Sox face them. Without Manaea the A's don't really have any strong starters. Fiers would probably get Game 1 and he pitched well against the Sox, I think, when he was pitching in Detroit, but I would think the Sox could handle him at Fenway and it's not like the A's can have 3 or 4 bullpen games - or can they? The A's do have an intimidating lengthy lineup but I'd much rather see the Sox take their chances with Oakland than NY because I think the Sox would handle Oakland better (the thought of going to NY tied at 1 makes me nervous as opposed to the thought that the Sox should crush whoever Oakland brings out to start) and it would be better for my own sanity, which always slips into the gutter when our Sox plays that Pinstriped team.
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Post by pedrofanforever45 on Oct 3, 2018 9:09:40 GMT -5
Ohh my god, thanks for reminding me that my best hopes for the best playoff matchup for the Sox could rest in the arm of Fernando Rodney. Someone please hit my head against the wall and call it a carnival ride already.
Lol sometimes I really hate October. I can feel the anxiety building already (even though it is a game blah blah blah).
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Oct 3, 2018 9:17:11 GMT -5
While we wait for the game, today is a cool anniversary of sorts, better than the 40 year anniversary of the Bucky Dent game yesterday.
28 years ago on a Wed night Oct 3rd, 1990, the Red Sox played the White Sox the final game of the 1990 season. The Bosox led the Blue Jays by 1 game while they played the Orioles.
Mike Boddicker started for the Red Sox. Carlton Fisk caught for the White Sox while a rookie named Frank Thomas was the 1b.
Early in the game, Dwight Evans in his last regular season game with the Red Sox, bounced a single up the middle to put the Sox up 1-0 and scored on Tom Brunansky's triple and then Bruno scored on a botched run-down play between 3b and home plate to make it 3-0.
Boddicker pitched great and then tired in the 7th. The White Sox scored a run on a two out single but Dan Pasqua got thrown out at the plate "by a mile" I remember Sean McDonough saying. Meanwhile the Jays led the Orioles 2-1 late in the game.
Then Jeff Reardon, shortly removed from back surgery, pitched the 8th and got Frank Thomas to strike out to end the inning and quickly got the first two outs of the 9th inning.
One out (actually one strike) away from victory and 1986 fresh in everybody's mind, Reardon surrendered an 0-2 basehit to some youngster named Sammy Sosa and then hit future Red Sox Jeff Fletcher with a pitch to bring Ozzie Guillen up to the plate.
Guillen lined the ball down the RF line and the ball and RF Tom Brunansky disappeared from camera view. Bruno appeared to be picking something up. I thought it was the ball, but it actually was his cap. He had made the sliding catch in the corner to preserve the 3-1 win and prevented Guillen from at least tying the game.
I remember Wade Boggs shouting "Believe!" after the game as the Red Sox were division champs. I remember Jean Yawkey raising a toast along with John Harrington - it was her last celebration of any sort as Red Sox owner. As it was, moments later, I think it was Mickey Tettleton who homered for Baltimore to win their game with Toronto in the last of the 9th, so the margin of victory wound up being 2 games.
It was a nice fun accomplishment for a modestly talented 88 win Red Sox team that would get blown out by Dennis Eckersley's A's in the playoffs for the 2nd time in 3 years.
Fun memory. I was a college freshman and remember coming home to see that game. Anybody remember that game?
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Post by James Dunne on Oct 3, 2018 9:45:01 GMT -5
While we wait for the game, today is a cool anniversary of sorts, better than the 40 year anniversary of the Bucky Dent game yesterday. 28 years ago on a Wed night Oct 3rd, 1990, the Red Sox played the White Sox the final game of the 1990 season. The Bosox led the Blue Jays by 1 game while they played the Orioles. Mike Boddicker started for the Red Sox. Carlton Fisk caught for the White Sox while a rookie named Frank Thomas was the 1b. Early in the game, Dwight Evans in his last regular season game with the Red Sox, bounced a single up the middle to put the Sox up 1-0 and scored on Tom Brunansky's triple and then Bruno scored on a botched run-down play between 3b and home plate to make it 3-0. Boddicker pitched great and then tired in the 7th. The White Sox scored a run on a two out single but Dan Pasqua got thrown out at the plate "by a mile" I remember Sean McDonough saying. Meanwhile the Jays led the Orioles 2-1 late in the game. Then Jeff Reardon, shortly removed from back surgery, pitched the 8th and got Frank Thomas to strike out to end the inning and quickly got the first two outs of the 9th inning. One out (actually one strike) away from victory and 1986 fresh in everybody's mind, Reardon surrendered an 0-2 basehit to some youngster named Sammy Sosa and then hit future Red Sox Jeff Fletcher with a pitch to bring Ozzie Guillen up to the plate. Guillen lined the ball down the RF line and the ball and RF Tom Brunansky disappeared from camera view. Bruno appeared to be picking something up. I thought it was the ball, but it actually was his cap. He had made the sliding catch in the corner to preserve the 3-1 win and prevented Guillen from at least tying the game. I remember Wade Boggs shouting "Believe!" after the game as the Red Sox were division champs. I remember Jean Yawkey raising a toast along with John Harrington - it was her last celebration of any sort as Red Sox owner. As it was, moments later, I think it was Mickey Tettleton who homered for Baltimore to win their game with Toronto in the last of the 9th, so the margin of victory wound up being 2 games. It was a nice fun accomplishment for a modestly talented 88 win Red Sox team that would get blown out by Dennis Eckersley's A's in the playoffs for the 2nd time in 3 years. Fun memory. I was a college freshman and remember coming home to see that game. Anybody remember that game? Remember it well. I was at the game the night before with my dad when a win would have clinched. They lost to the White Sox in 11 on an Ozzie Guillen base hit, after they'd come back to tie the game in the 8th. I don't think anyone in the park sat down after the 8th inning on. They were modestly talented, but they had a lot of luck with health that year: eight players with at least 520 plate appearances, and the other spot was split between Luis Rivera and Marty Barrett (with Jody Reed switching from second base to shortstop depending on who was playing that night. Roger Clemens had arguably his best season, Mike Boddicker was great as the #2.
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Oct 3, 2018 10:14:51 GMT -5
I'm split between one and done for the MFY and a 3 game sweep. If it's one and done, the Yankee fans will think they would have beaten the Sox. Roads plowed through the Yankees seem all that much sweeter.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Oct 3, 2018 10:23:49 GMT -5
While we wait for the game, today is a cool anniversary of sorts, better than the 40 year anniversary of the Bucky Dent game yesterday. 28 years ago on a Wed night Oct 3rd, 1990, the Red Sox played the White Sox the final game of the 1990 season. The Bosox led the Blue Jays by 1 game while they played the Orioles. Mike Boddicker started for the Red Sox. Carlton Fisk caught for the White Sox while a rookie named Frank Thomas was the 1b. Early in the game, Dwight Evans in his last regular season game with the Red Sox, bounced a single up the middle to put the Sox up 1-0 and scored on Tom Brunansky's triple and then Bruno scored on a botched run-down play between 3b and home plate to make it 3-0. Boddicker pitched great and then tired in the 7th. The White Sox scored a run on a two out single but Dan Pasqua got thrown out at the plate "by a mile" I remember Sean McDonough saying. Meanwhile the Jays led the Orioles 2-1 late in the game. Then Jeff Reardon, shortly removed from back surgery, pitched the 8th and got Frank Thomas to strike out to end the inning and quickly got the first two outs of the 9th inning. One out (actually one strike) away from victory and 1986 fresh in everybody's mind, Reardon surrendered an 0-2 basehit to some youngster named Sammy Sosa and then hit future Red Sox Jeff Fletcher with a pitch to bring Ozzie Guillen up to the plate. Guillen lined the ball down the RF line and the ball and RF Tom Brunansky disappeared from camera view. Bruno appeared to be picking something up. I thought it was the ball, but it actually was his cap. He had made the sliding catch in the corner to preserve the 3-1 win and prevented Guillen from at least tying the game. I remember Wade Boggs shouting "Believe!" after the game as the Red Sox were division champs. I remember Jean Yawkey raising a toast along with John Harrington - it was her last celebration of any sort as Red Sox owner. As it was, moments later, I think it was Mickey Tettleton who homered for Baltimore to win their game with Toronto in the last of the 9th, so the margin of victory wound up being 2 games. It was a nice fun accomplishment for a modestly talented 88 win Red Sox team that would get blown out by Dennis Eckersley's A's in the playoffs for the 2nd time in 3 years. Fun memory. I was a college freshman and remember coming home to see that game. Anybody remember that game? Remember it well. I was at the game the night before with my dad when a win would have clinched. They lost to the White Sox in 11 on an Ozzie Guillen base hit, after they'd come back to tie the game in the 8th. I don't think anyone in the park sat down after the 8th inning on. They were modestly talented, but they had a lot of luck with health that year: eight players with at least 520 plate appearances, and the other spot was split between Luis Rivera and Marty Barrett (with Jody Reed switching from second base to shortstop depending on who was playing that night. Roger Clemens had arguably his best season, Mike Boddicker was great as the #2. I remember they lost 3-2. Kept waiting for the winning run to score. I think Ellis Burks had a chance but it didn't happen. The game of the year that year happened earlier the previous week when Jeff Stone, in his first plate appearance of the season, lined a basehit off of Tom Henke to win a game that epitomized that season. The Sox jumped out to a 4-0 lead and then Larry Andersen allowed the tying run to score (so worth Jeff Bagwell - hah!) and then the Sox went ahead in the 8th on 2 errors by Toronto 3b Kelly Gruber. But then Jeff Gray (who I liked - he was becoming a good pitcher until that stroke ended his career) allowed a 2-run HR to Junior Felix to put Toronto up 5-4 before Greenwell in the bottom of the 9th tied the score with a hit off of Henke and then the surprise PH Stone won it. I also remembered when they interviewed Stone (who I think had some serious emotional/mental issues) he said afterwards that he "might go out and get dru.., I mean celebrate." I remember that team playing a 2 day stretch against Minnesota in which they won a game 1-0 when the Sox banged into 2 triple plays in the same damn game (Brunansky and Reed) and then hit into 7 double plays the following night but won 5-4 because they managed to turn 4 DPs themselves. And I also remember how bad the Yankees were (last place with 95 losses), that during a 4 game sweep at Fenway they got Bucky Dent fired, and I remember them tagging their starter Andy Hawkins three times that year. His ERA for his three starts was 162.00, based on giving up 18 runs in 1 inning pitched (I think they were all 1/3 innings stints). My memory might be failing there as I think it's just about impossible to be that bad. Even David Price at Yankee Stadium isn't that bad, so I probably have that 18 runs in 1 inning memory wrong. But yeah you have that team assessed correctly. Clemens was at his absolute best that season. Got robbed of a Cy Young award because the voters were dazzled by Bob Welch's 27 wins.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Oct 3, 2018 10:36:18 GMT -5
I'm split between one and done for the MFY and a 3 game sweep. If it's one and done, the Yankee fans will think they would have beaten the Sox. Roads plowed through the Yankees seem all that much sweeter. True, but the flipside of that is pretty dark. If the Sox/Yanks play each other either the Yankees avenge their Fenway fiasco in August and beat the winningest Red Sox team ever and if they go all the way, it gets exponentially worse. I absolutely loved the regular season and will cherish the memories but if the Yankees knock the Sox out, it will have that feel of (for me at least) of the way most Patriots fans feel when you talk about the 2007-08 season. An undefeated season is great but nobody will care. All anybody will remember is the Giants winning the Superbowl and wrecking the most important game of the season. I mean do any Yankee fans like talking about their 2004 AL Eastern Division title? I think when you bring up 2004 to a Yankee fan, they either cringe or run away. It's the post-season that is the enduring memory. OTOH, if the Red Sox beat the Yankees then the Red Sox will have managed to humiliate the Yankees. It will totally validate the Fenway Fiasco and put it alongside the Boston Massacre from 40 years ago. A loss to the Yankees in the ALDS and nobody will care about that series which ultimately becomes meaningless. If Yaz had hit a 2-run double in Game 163 40 years ago nobody would even talk about the Boston Massacre. And of course if the Red Sox not only beat the Yankees in the ALDS, but win the world series, that would make it exponentially worse for the Yankees. Basically the Yankees would have had the most miserable 100 win season in history that is only remembered for getting swept when the regular season games in August meant the most, the Sox clinching the division on their soil, and then the Sox bouncing them out of the post-season. The only thing missing would be them watching the World Series banner raising ceremony in 2019 like they did in 2005 (and then they got their butts handed to them that day by Tim Wakefield and the Sox!). It's almost like there's no in between when it's the Sox/Yanks. If the Sox played the A's and lost I'd be very disappointed but the level of baseball devastation would be nowhere near what losing to the MFYs would be, but on the flipside beating the A's wouldn't resonate quite as much, but I'd still be happy and excited. Given that I've already endured 2003 and 2004 and I'm getting older, I don't think I need to experience anymore heart-in-throat moments if given a choice. It's why I don't ride roller coasters anymore. lol
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Post by mobaz on Oct 3, 2018 10:38:02 GMT -5
While we wait for the game, today is a cool anniversary of sorts, better than the 40 year anniversary of the Bucky Dent game yesterday. 28 years ago on a Wed night Oct 3rd, 1990, the Red Sox played the White Sox the final game of the 1990 season. The Bosox led the Blue Jays by 1 game while they played the Orioles. Mike Boddicker started for the Red Sox. Carlton Fisk caught for the White Sox while a rookie named Frank Thomas was the 1b. Early in the game, Dwight Evans in his last regular season game with the Red Sox, bounced a single up the middle to put the Sox up 1-0 and scored on Tom Brunansky's triple and then Bruno scored on a botched run-down play between 3b and home plate to make it 3-0. Boddicker pitched great and then tired in the 7th. The White Sox scored a run on a two out single but Dan Pasqua got thrown out at the plate "by a mile" I remember Sean McDonough saying. Meanwhile the Jays led the Orioles 2-1 late in the game. Then Jeff Reardon, shortly removed from back surgery, pitched the 8th and got Frank Thomas to strike out to end the inning and quickly got the first two outs of the 9th inning. One out (actually one strike) away from victory and 1986 fresh in everybody's mind, Reardon surrendered an 0-2 basehit to some youngster named Sammy Sosa and then hit future Red Sox Jeff Fletcher with a pitch to bring Ozzie Guillen up to the plate. Guillen lined the ball down the RF line and the ball and RF Tom Brunansky disappeared from camera view. Bruno appeared to be picking something up. I thought it was the ball, but it actually was his cap. He had made the sliding catch in the corner to preserve the 3-1 win and prevented Guillen from at least tying the game. I remember Wade Boggs shouting "Believe!" after the game as the Red Sox were division champs. I remember Jean Yawkey raising a toast along with John Harrington - it was her last celebration of any sort as Red Sox owner. As it was, moments later, I think it was Mickey Tettleton who homered for Baltimore to win their game with Toronto in the last of the 9th, so the margin of victory wound up being 2 games. It was a nice fun accomplishment for a modestly talented 88 win Red Sox team that would get blown out by Dennis Eckersley's A's in the playoffs for the 2nd time in 3 years. Fun memory. I was a college freshman and remember coming home to see that game. Anybody remember that game? Remember it well. I was at the game the night before with my dad when a win would have clinched. They lost to the White Sox in 11 on an Ozzie Guillen base hit, after they'd come back to tie the game in the 8th. I don't think anyone in the park sat down after the 8th inning on. They were modestly talented, but they had a lot of luck with health that year: eight players with at least 520 plate appearances, and the other spot was split between Luis Rivera and Marty Barrett (with Jody Reed switching from second base to shortstop depending on who was playing that night. Roger Clemens had arguably his best season, Mike Boddicker was great as the #2. That was my first year with weekend season tickets. I was too young to go to a night playoff game, so we were hoping for an extended series so there'd be a daytime game. Didn't happen. I had to wait until 1995.
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Oct 3, 2018 10:57:44 GMT -5
I'm split between one and done for the MFY and a 3 game sweep. If it's one and done, the Yankee fans will think they would have beaten the Sox. Roads plowed through the Yankees seem all that much sweeter. True, but the flipside of that is pretty dark. If the Sox/Yanks play each other either the Yankees avenge their Fenway fiasco in August and beat the winningest Red Sox team ever and if they go all the way, it gets exponentially worse. I absolutely loved the regular season and will cherish the memories but if the Yankees knock the Sox out, it will have that feel of (for me at least) of the way most Patriots fans feel when you talk about the 2007-08 season. An undefeated season is great but nobody will care. All anybody will remember is the Giants winning the Superbowl and wrecking the most important game of the season. I mean do any Yankee fans like talking about their 2004 AL Eastern Division title? I think when you bring up 2004 to a Yankee fan, they either cringe or run away. It's the post-season that is the enduring memory. OTOH, if the Red Sox beat the Yankees then the Red Sox will have managed to humiliate the Yankees. It will totally validate the Fenway Fiasco and put it alongside the Boston Massacre from 40 years ago. A loss to the Yankees in the ALDS and nobody will care about that series which ultimately becomes meaningless. If Yaz had hit a 2-run double in Game 163 40 years ago nobody would even talk about the Boston Massacre. And of course if the Red Sox not only beat the Yankees in the ALDS, but win the world series, that would make it exponentially worse for the Yankees. Basically the Yankees would have had the most miserable 100 win season in history that is only remembered for getting swept when the regular season games in August meant the most, the Sox clinching the division on their soil, and then the Sox bouncing them out of the post-season. The only thing missing would be them watching the World Series banner raising ceremony in 2019 like they did in 2005 (and then they got their butts handed to them that day by Tim Wakefield and the Sox!). It's almost like there's no in between when it's the Sox/Yanks. If the Sox played the A's and lost I'd be very disappointed but the level of baseball devastation would be nowhere near what losing to the MFYs would be, but on the flipside beating the A's wouldn't resonate quite as much, but I'd still be happy and excited. Given that I've already endured 2003 and 2004 and I'm getting older, I don't think I need to experience anymore heart-in-throat moments if given a choice. It's why I don't ride roller coasters anymore. lol For me, the 2004 ALCS as the wildcard no less, punched the entire E ticket. It actually made the Sox first championship in a bazzilion years anti-climatic.
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Post by jmei on Oct 3, 2018 11:07:50 GMT -5
Tough to live life as a fan filled with fear and anxiety. Bring it on, I say.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Oct 3, 2018 11:16:49 GMT -5
True, but the flipside of that is pretty dark. If the Sox/Yanks play each other either the Yankees avenge their Fenway fiasco in August and beat the winningest Red Sox team ever and if they go all the way, it gets exponentially worse. I absolutely loved the regular season and will cherish the memories but if the Yankees knock the Sox out, it will have that feel of (for me at least) of the way most Patriots fans feel when you talk about the 2007-08 season. An undefeated season is great but nobody will care. All anybody will remember is the Giants winning the Superbowl and wrecking the most important game of the season. I mean do any Yankee fans like talking about their 2004 AL Eastern Division title? I think when you bring up 2004 to a Yankee fan, they either cringe or run away. It's the post-season that is the enduring memory. OTOH, if the Red Sox beat the Yankees then the Red Sox will have managed to humiliate the Yankees. It will totally validate the Fenway Fiasco and put it alongside the Boston Massacre from 40 years ago. A loss to the Yankees in the ALDS and nobody will care about that series which ultimately becomes meaningless. If Yaz had hit a 2-run double in Game 163 40 years ago nobody would even talk about the Boston Massacre. And of course if the Red Sox not only beat the Yankees in the ALDS, but win the world series, that would make it exponentially worse for the Yankees. Basically the Yankees would have had the most miserable 100 win season in history that is only remembered for getting swept when the regular season games in August meant the most, the Sox clinching the division on their soil, and then the Sox bouncing them out of the post-season. The only thing missing would be them watching the World Series banner raising ceremony in 2019 like they did in 2005 (and then they got their butts handed to them that day by Tim Wakefield and the Sox!). It's almost like there's no in between when it's the Sox/Yanks. If the Sox played the A's and lost I'd be very disappointed but the level of baseball devastation would be nowhere near what losing to the MFYs would be, but on the flipside beating the A's wouldn't resonate quite as much, but I'd still be happy and excited. Given that I've already endured 2003 and 2004 and I'm getting older, I don't think I need to experience anymore heart-in-throat moments if given a choice. It's why I don't ride roller coasters anymore. lol For me, the 2004 ALCS as the wildcard no less, punched the entire E ticket. It actually made the Sox first championship in a bazzilion years anti-climatic. I know what you mean, but I'd hate to imagine that victory without the ultimate victory. It sure made those 1918 signs at Yankee Stadium vanish. Without that sweep against St. Louis, that doesn't happen - at least until 2008 (after the 2007 victory). I get what you're saying in the sense that I was so in the moment when they beat the Yankees, but I feel like it took an hour for it to sink in after they beat the Cardinals. It didn't hit me until ESPN showed that awful cringeworthy graphic that I was so used to seeing. Longest Droughts in Baseball History Chicago Cubs 1908 Chicago White Sox 1917 Boston Red Sox 1918 At least that's what I thought I saw until I realized it was different: Longest Droughts in Baseball History Chicago Cubs 1908 Chicago White Sox 1917 Cleveland Indians 1948 My initial reaction to seeing that list was, "Where are the Red Sox on this list?!" Then a split second later the realization was "Hey, the Red Sox are OFF this F$#@n' list!!!!! Then it hit me. "Party time!!!! Time to get souvenirs!!" For me, this team is too damn special for it not to win the World Series. I know the odds are against it and there's a lot of ways they don't win, but this team and season has been really special and there would be nothing better than capping it off with a Championship (beating the Yankees isn't the ultimate goal, although if that did happen along the way....). The Sox have had plenty of 95 win seasons where you hope they win and you love the team, but this team has stood above that. I really hope that by the end of October we're not debating did the regular season make up for the disappointment of.... Instead I hope we're talking about the season as one unit and marveling at the greatest Red Sox team in modern history if not their entire history (depending upon your viewpoint of the 1912 Red Sox)!
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Oct 3, 2018 11:18:45 GMT -5
Tough to live life as a fan filled with fear and anxiety. Bring it on, I say. It is. I guess I just care too damn much, more than any sane rational person should. Don't know how my wife puts up with me and now my little guy is becoming a fan. I'd love nothing better than to share a Championship with him. I'd risk pissing off my wife to wake my 6 year old up if the Sox are 3 outs away from winning the World Series. It would be just too special.
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Post by soxfansince67 on Oct 3, 2018 13:58:17 GMT -5
Tough to live life as a fan filled with fear and anxiety. Bring it on, I say. I love this and heartily agree. This is a time to have confidence in this wonderful team...we've witnessed history and they are now in the position to go and get it. I suspect there is no fear or apprehension in any of them - Mookie, Xander, JD, Benny - they've been there and done that and they will bring it as best they can. but at some point you gotta play and win the games - we are only a few days away from seeing it all play out. I can't wait!
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Post by Canseco on Oct 3, 2018 14:05:45 GMT -5
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Post by soxfansince67 on Oct 3, 2018 14:28:07 GMT -5
The other night I went back and found 2004 Sox Yankees games 4, 5, 6 and 7 - all four full games are easy to find on YouTube - didn't watch every inning of all of them, but enough to have a newly realized amazement at how our team clawed, fought, simply refused to lose. So many long at bats - barely fouled off balls - dramatic at bats, the awesome joy of what Papi did, then Bellhorn (!!!! - he had Hembree hair first!) - and Damon's jacking those homers to left. Nail biting relief pitching - watching Foulk go to full counts so often.
As a tune up to what we are about to get to watch, I would recommend folks to find those games and relive some once in a lifetime magic.
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Post by Guidas on Oct 3, 2018 15:14:43 GMT -5
The other night I went back and found 2004 Sox Yankees games 4, 5, 6 and 7 - all four full games are easy to find on YouTube - didn't watch every inning of all of them, but enough to have a newly realized amazement at how our team clawed, fought, simply refused to lose. So many long at bats - barely fouled off balls - dramatic at bats, the awesome joy of what Papi did, then Bellhorn (!!!! - he had Hembree hair first!) - and Damon's jacking those homers to left. Nail biting relief pitching - watching Foulk go to full counts so often. As a tune up to what we are about to get to watch, I would recommend folks to find those games and relive some once in a lifetime magic. I have them on DVD. Actually fell asleep at one point in game 4 after having been up for 47 hours and going through some other stress in my life. The DVDs gave me new appreciation for (the great - at least in the latter part of that series) Curtis Leskanic. Alan Embry was great as set-up man as well in 4-7. I was living in Connecticut at the time and surrounded by Yankee fans. In fact, my next door neighbor was very good friends with Gene Michael (really, I even got to go with him one time to Gene Michael's house and have dinner with him - he was great and let me ask him anything I wanted. Boy do I have stories to tell. Let's just say, upper management knew all about PEDs and seemed to encourage it). The neighbor had box seat tickets to every single game of the ALCS through Gene in New York and Boston and was giving me so much crap it was incredible. Being filled with - well, whatever it was - I told him after Game 3 that the Sox were going to win the next 3 and force a game 7. He literally laughed in my face - like he got close and laughed for about 10 seconds in my face - and told me if they did he would personally drive me to the Bronx and sit next to me in the box for Game 7. I called him on it when it happened but he said he didn't remember promising me that. I waited up after the win - who could sleep!? - until he drove back from the Bronx and gave him dumpster full of crap right there at 3:47 a.m. in front of his place when he got out of his car. The games 4, 5, 6 and 7 wins were peak moments in my life (and I didn't even play!). I still have the NY paper that has the back page headline "Hell Freezes Over" with the photo of Pedro celebrating. And I still hate the Yankees.
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Post by pedrofanforever45 on Oct 3, 2018 15:17:02 GMT -5
Tough to live life as a fan filled with fear and anxiety. Bring it on, I say. Lol, yeah it sucks. It's a love/hate thing with October when the Sox and Yankees are both in it with the two teams that could be destined to square off. You just want the Sox to do well, and if they lose to that toilet team, well it rips everything out of me baseball wise for months. I'll completely shut it down baseball wise. I can accept any loss in the postseason besides to that team. That team makes my blood boil when it comes to everything. The special attention with TV, their obnoxious stadium, their stupid background music after every homerun or strikeout, their obnoxious commentators, their overrated superstars, the special treatment from the umps with balls and strikes. It always happens and it's nails on a chalkboard to me. I rather avoid it, but I won't turn away at the same time.
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Post by jimed14 on Oct 3, 2018 15:42:25 GMT -5
I guarantee that Yankees fans are more nervous than Red Sox fans.
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ericmvan
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Post by ericmvan on Oct 3, 2018 17:01:00 GMT -5
You guys have got to quit with the great reminiscence stuff. As I mentioned a bit ago, somewhere in a box I have the 1986 ALCS game 5 on a VHS tape and I've haven't watched it since the day after the game, I think. What's more, I'm not sure that my VCR is correctly hooked up to my receiver, so if you force me to go find it, it may be even more of a time sink that it seems to me right now.
I gotta set the DVR, go grocery shopping (which I planned to do Monday -- gee, what happened there?), take a nap, and probably end up starting the game at about 9:30. But last night I started the WC game at 11:45 PM and finished after 4:00 AM, scoring every pitch.
(Did you know that the Cubs used 12 players in the 8th spot in the batting order?)
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Post by jerrygarciaparra on Oct 3, 2018 17:37:58 GMT -5
Another game on cable. Does anyone know what time the Sox games are on TV ? Also, how the hell do you get TBS when you dont pay for cable? Is there a HULU or something that I can try.
Oh.....AND.....PHUCK THE YANKEES. KILL THEM DEAD OAKLAND !!!!!!
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Post by jerrygarciaparra on Oct 3, 2018 17:39:45 GMT -5
Tough to live life as a fan filled with fear and anxiety. Bring it on, I say. Amen. This is when the real fun starts !!!
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Post by p23w on Oct 3, 2018 18:58:45 GMT -5
After 2004 I never again heard the "3515 hits.... and one pop up" from NYYankee fans. That resonates with me.
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Oct 3, 2018 19:06:15 GMT -5
Great broadcast team. Anderson, Eck, Darling. It doesn't get a whole lot better.
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