Boston Red Sox

jimed14

Brain of mJ wrote:

Probably the least watched 1 hitter in history, great work though, Josh.

Fully admit, I didn't see one damn pitch.

It's nice that when hockey is over, not only is it mid-June but the Sox also have a 1.5 game lead.

So, the longest streak without winning a Championship for Boston sports ... The Patriots! Jan 2005.

Slackers.

FenwayFaithful

Only the 2nd game I didn't watch this season. I'm 65 for 67.

neilybabes86

FenwayFaithful wrote:

Only the 2nd game I didn't watch this season. I'm 65 for 67.

u need to get a life buddy

i kid i kid

FenwayFaithful

neilybabes86 wrote:

FenwayFaithful wrote:

Only the 2nd game I didn't watch this season. I'm 65 for 67.

u need to get a life buddy

i kid i kid

That's what people tell me. Seriously though, DVR is great. You can rip thru games in 90 minutes.

force-10

Clay left with an injured back. I hope its not too serious :(

If he is to miss the rest of the month, then I´m afraid the sox will be in for a downslide. I hope the bats keep up.

force-10

Adrian!!!!

Holy shit! 2 run lead in the 9th. Francona probably loves this fella!

jimed14

force-10 wrote:

Clay left with an injured back. I hope its not too serious :(

If he is to miss the rest of the month, then I´m afraid the sox will be in for a downslide. I hope the bats keep up.

DL stint for Clay ... former prospect Andrew Miller to come up and make a few starts. Maybe he's learned something as his last month or so he's been pretty dominant in AAA.

His two starts this week are against the Pads and Pirates (some offensively challenged teams) ... so, hopefully he can shut them down enough and let the offense do their thing.

2 out of 3 from a tough Milwaukee club = a good weekend.

Loved the Bruins goal horn being used for when the Sox scored runs today, thing went off quite often.

RW81233

First time back to Fenway since '09 and only the second since spending a month there for the dissy in '07. I wanted to stab my ears during the fucking horn shit and the stupid house music song, and it kept happening - over and over :oops: . I must say I have never seen a team hit the ball like the Sox did this weekend (and for the past month for that matter), it's like slow pitch softball right now. Marcum threw a change that was at Ellsbury's shoes and he ripped it out to right, Ortiz's old bag of bones had a great at-bat too that brought game 1 into a tie, Gallardo threw pitches that normally strikeout batters and Pedroia (in particular) was fouling them off. Every out was a hard hit ball. It's like they know what's coming. According to my cousin-in-law things are going so well only three words scare the shit out of Sox fans at this point - random drug test. Still to go into the Fens and beat Lester with Randy Wolf, and be an outstanding play by Pedroia away from being up 5-4 with no one out in the 3rd inning in Game 1 is a good showing by the Brewers. I don't know if I could handle a rematch UNLESS the NL wins the All-Star Game and Ortiz has to sit the bench for the majority of a series.

P.S. - Sat in the SS Pavillion near the LF foul pole on Sunday and it took less than an inning for the first n-bomb to rain down toward the Brewers left fielder. Ahhh Boston you are never gonna change, especially when Pawtucket apparently doubles as a Klan rally ...seriously how many white prospects do the Sox have?

P.P.S. Two guys were sitting out there 30 feet apart wearing Cole Hamels jersey's acting as if they were scouting both teams for October....weird.

FenwayFaithful

RW81233 wrote:

First time back to Fenway since '09 and only the second since spending a month there for the dissy in '07. I wanted to stab my ears during the fucking horn shit and the stupid house music song, and it kept happening - over and over :oops: .

It was for the Bruins just for that day. The Bruins do the horn and the dumb zombie nation song when they score a goal.

FenwayFaithful

I missed my 3rd and 4th Sox games of the season this weekend. :( But it's ok because it was for EV in CT.

67 for 71 games

I gotta get my act together. Shit.

RW81233

yeah i know...Boston is such a funny town like that where the teams are expected to support one another. Don't know if you saw or if it was on ESPN but they brought the Bruins in on the Duckboats with the Cup and they all threw out the first pitch. Delayed the start of the game by like 25 mins and almost made us miss our plane...well that and the 16 runs scored.

FenwayFaithful

RW81233 wrote:

yeah i know...Boston is such a funny town like that where the teams are expected to support one another. Don't know if you saw or if it was on ESPN but they brought the Bruins in on the Duckboats with the Cup and they all threw out the first pitch. Delayed the start of the game by like 25 mins and almost made us miss our plane...well that and the 16 runs scored.

Yeah, I saw that. So much pomp and pageantry. I love it. That's why we're the greatest sports city in the world. It's like a fraternity, as Mr. Youkilis explained after the game.

Johnny Abruzzo

RW81233 wrote:

P.S. - Sat in the SS Pavillion near the LF foul pole on Sunday and it took less than an inning for the first n-bomb to rain down toward the Brewers left fielder. Ahhh Boston you are never gonna change, especially when Pawtucket apparently doubles as a Klan rally ...seriously how many white prospects do the Sox have?

Seriously??? That's fairly shocking. I didn't think Boston was any more racist that Phila but that definitely does not happen here. Actually I think Philly fans subconsiously mock white players much more (Jaws, Schmidt, Burrell). And please don't bring up any QB's, as they are all equally mocked.

RW81233

FenwayFaithful wrote:

RW81233 wrote:

yeah i know...Boston is such a funny town like that where the teams are expected to support one another. Don't know if you saw or if it was on ESPN but they brought the Bruins in on the Duckboats with the Cup and they all threw out the first pitch. Delayed the start of the game by like 25 mins and almost made us miss our plane...well that and the 16 runs scored.

Yeah, I saw that. So much pomp and pageantry. I love it. That's why we're the greatest sports city in the world. It's like a fraternity, as Mr. Youkilis explained after the game.

i remember when you guys said you'd be happy with one (in any sport), now you act like New Yorkers. it's not only the teams too, it's the fans. my mother-in-law is forever telling me how "cute" or "cool" things are that different players do on/off the field...not being from there and not particularly liking any of the teams or players makes it hard to stomach. Still winning a bunch will make any city act like that. Also Youkilis is a fraternity unto himself.

Cliffy6745

Johnny Abruzzo wrote:

RW81233 wrote:

P.S. - Sat in the SS Pavillion near the LF foul pole on Sunday and it took less than an inning for the first n-bomb to rain down toward the Brewers left fielder. Ahhh Boston you are never gonna change, especially when Pawtucket apparently doubles as a Klan rally ...seriously how many white prospects do the Sox have?

Seriously??? That's fairly shocking. I didn't think Boston was any more racist that Phila but that definitely does not happen here. Actually I think Philly fans subconsiously mock white players much more (Jaws, Schmidt, Burrell). And please don't bring up any QB's, as they are all equally mocked.

But Fenway just said they're the best sports city

RW81233

Johnny Abruzzo wrote:

RW81233 wrote:

P.S. - Sat in the SS Pavillion near the LF foul pole on Sunday and it took less than an inning for the first n-bomb to rain down toward the Brewers left fielder. Ahhh Boston you are never gonna change, especially when Pawtucket apparently doubles as a Klan rally ...seriously how many white prospects do the Sox have?

Seriously??? That's fairly shocking. I didn't think Boston was any more racist that Phila but that definitely does not happen here. Actually I think Philly fans subconsiously mock white players much more (Jaws, Schmidt, Burrell). And please don't bring up any QB's, as they are all equally mocked.

Philly is bad, but with Philly it's more of a class thing I think. Put it this way, I can think of Philly fans saying a lot of nasty shit, and doing mean shit, but never chanting things like "You're not Irish" to their own player (Troy O'Leary), or intentionally mispronouncing a players name - in this case Nyjer Morgan. Plus when I went to get a hot dog, my wife asked for a veggie burger and the guy next to me said he'd been waiting 10 mins to get his wife the same order. He then whispered under his breath to me that this is what you get when N's are working behind the counter. I didn't even know what to respond with there.

FenwayFaithful

Cliffy6745 wrote:

But Fenway just said they're the best sports city

Yeah, and don't forget it Cliffy! BTW Josh Beckett called. He just ran thru all of your hot female friends.

As for the racism, I don't condone it. I despise it actually. It really bothers me that there's still so much of that. But yeah, there'll always be elements of that shit here.

RW81233

that's the crazy part...like a large margin of you hate it, but a significant number doesn't care and that's what sucks.

Cliffy6745

FenwayFaithful wrote:

Cliffy6745 wrote:

But Fenway just said they're the best sports city

Yeah, and don't forget it Cliffy! BTW Josh Beckett called. He just ran thru all of your hot female friends.

As for the racism, I don't condone it. I despise it actually. It really bothers me that there's still so much of that. But yeah, there'll always be elements of that shit here.

hahahah. Good stuff. Apparantely that touched a nerve. I wasn't calling him that literally. Kind of like the Louis CK rant.

Johnny Abruzzo

RW81233 wrote:

Johnny Abruzzo wrote:

RW81233 wrote:

P.S. - Sat in the SS Pavillion near the LF foul pole on Sunday and it took less than an inning for the first n-bomb to rain down toward the Brewers left fielder. Ahhh Boston you are never gonna change, especially when Pawtucket apparently doubles as a Klan rally ...seriously how many white prospects do the Sox have?

Seriously??? That's fairly shocking. I didn't think Boston was any more racist that Phila but that definitely does not happen here. Actually I think Philly fans subconsiously mock white players much more (Jaws, Schmidt, Burrell). And please don't bring up any QB's, as they are all equally mocked.

Philly is bad, but with Philly it's more of a class thing I think. Put it this way, I can think of Philly fans saying a lot of nasty shit, and doing mean shit, but never chanting things like "You're not Irish" to their own player (Troy O'Leary), or intentionally mispronouncing a players name - in this case Nyjer Morgan. Plus when I went to get a hot dog, my wife asked for a veggie burger and the guy next to me said he'd been waiting 10 mins to get his wife the same order. He then whispered under his breath to me that this is what you get when N's are working behind the counter. I didn't even know what to respond with there.

Wow. There's a strong undercurrent in Philly, but it's really not out in the open like that.

How long did the veggie burger take?