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Boston does it....
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yeah
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Lazarus said:
Ask NT, I keep saying that if Wood and Prior are healthy next year and Sosa repeats his history of run ins with managers, I don't see anybody beating the Cubs.
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Lazarus said:
Which will be immediatly followed by floods, comets, meteors and locusts.
😉 😀 😛
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AfrigginMazing!
Who would have thought?
Congrats to the Sox.
Appeared they were the hungry team this year and the Cards turned into the Yankees.......thinking that all they had to do was show up and the game was won.
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Who would have thought?
Congrats to the Sox.
Appeared they were the hungry team this year and the Cards turned into the Yankees.......thinking that all they had to do was show up and the game was won.
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Congrats to the Sox and its fans, you deserve it, and long overdue. But having said that, I just have one thing to say:
1 curse is dead (the Bambino)
1 remains (the goat)
dunno about you, but I cannot wait til Spring Training
1 curse is dead (the Bambino)
1 remains (the goat)
dunno about you, but I cannot wait til Spring Training
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njjen3953 said:They have hunky Johnny Damon AND a goat?
GO RED SOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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The Chicago Cubs have some curse that revolves around the Goat. No goat in Boston. Sorry Jen, you will just have to settle for your Johnny D. you will have to supply your OWN goat.😛
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the World Champion Boston Red Sox...
They're having the parade in Boston on Saturday. A million people are supposed to show up. Gonna be a great party...
There are Yankee idiots walking around here today talking about how the Cards were lying down. They would know what that is...they did such a magnificent job of it last year against the Florida Marlins.
And, as far as who's anyone's daddy is, I would venture to say that two years ago this October, the Yankees met their daddy. They wore bright red uniforms and bitchslapped the Yanks from foul line to foul line, yet didn't do enough of a good job of convincing that bozo Brian Cashman that he needed more left handed pitching. Yes, there are other morons masquerading as General Managers besides Dan Duquette. I think Cashman finally got the message.
I'm so happy about the Red Sox, I can't help but review in my mind all the failures from my lifetime, and how it all has eroded away since last night. Schilling had a point dedicating all of this to the Calvin Schiraldis of the world, but I'd also like to include the likes of Dom DiMaggio, Bobby Doerr, Johnny Pesky, Frank Malzone, Don Schwall, Tony Conigliaro, Yaz, George Scott, Rick Burleson, Jim Rice, Fred Lynn, Spike Owen, Marty Barrett, the original Pudge, and Bruce Hurst. This is for them, too.
They're having the parade in Boston on Saturday. A million people are supposed to show up. Gonna be a great party...
There are Yankee idiots walking around here today talking about how the Cards were lying down. They would know what that is...they did such a magnificent job of it last year against the Florida Marlins.
And, as far as who's anyone's daddy is, I would venture to say that two years ago this October, the Yankees met their daddy. They wore bright red uniforms and bitchslapped the Yanks from foul line to foul line, yet didn't do enough of a good job of convincing that bozo Brian Cashman that he needed more left handed pitching. Yes, there are other morons masquerading as General Managers besides Dan Duquette. I think Cashman finally got the message.
I'm so happy about the Red Sox, I can't help but review in my mind all the failures from my lifetime, and how it all has eroded away since last night. Schilling had a point dedicating all of this to the Calvin Schiraldis of the world, but I'd also like to include the likes of Dom DiMaggio, Bobby Doerr, Johnny Pesky, Frank Malzone, Don Schwall, Tony Conigliaro, Yaz, George Scott, Rick Burleson, Jim Rice, Fred Lynn, Spike Owen, Marty Barrett, the original Pudge, and Bruce Hurst. This is for them, too.
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If five million show up, you might have a volume crisis on your hands 😀
I'm so glad we're not gonna hear talk of curses. It's the talk of idiots.
The whole 'curse' thing snowballed because of some Boston press guy named Dan Shaughnessy, who wrote a book called "The Curse of the Bambino". It was a tongue in cheek book that was taken seriously by people who really should've known better. Maybe not, though. These are the same kind of people who hide behind bilko doors, waiting for little green men from Area 51 to come knocking on their doors, fiddle about too much with Rosary beads, and cover themselves in garlic so that Tom Cruise doesn't appear in their bedrooms at night. Curse indeed!
I remember the Boston clubs back in the 70s. They had a devastating attack, even more concentrated than the present one, and it certainly seemed to everyone, even the rosary and garlic crowd, that Boston would come home with a championship. No one knew that the last one had come in 1918. During the '75 series, the onus was on Cincinnati to win the damn thing to prove to the world that they were a credible club, and win they did, their own first championship since 1940. Everyone figured that Boston would win one, and soon. Of course, Bucky Dent inflicted wounds that took the franchise years to recover from. It was then that the outside world (the world outside New England and the Maritime provinces) started to wonder if there was anything wrong.
It was the Bill Buckner play that really got the snowball rolling. Boston's a very rough town to play in. Had it been New York, or even Philadelphia, you'd find a way to suck it up, or toss the cookies out. Bill Buckner, a player with ballot considerations at the least, a much coveted star performer with whom Boston would never even have made the post season in 1986, got run out of town, and given a scarlet letter to wear for the rest of his life. He's still bitter. Can't figure out why.
So, "The Curse of the Bambino" got out, and everyone embraced this moronic myth (a myth equal to 'because of our actions in Iraq, the world is a safer place'), and it was this that actually kept the Red Sox from winning in previous years. It's bad enough that the Yankees stand in your way to greater glory, but it's even harder to deal with the Media, who make it their point, every day, to question your manhood and make money off of it.
Well, they finally did it. They cowboyed up, and did it. So, no more stupid talk about curses. There are no curses. Just incompetence.
I'm so glad we're not gonna hear talk of curses. It's the talk of idiots.
The whole 'curse' thing snowballed because of some Boston press guy named Dan Shaughnessy, who wrote a book called "The Curse of the Bambino". It was a tongue in cheek book that was taken seriously by people who really should've known better. Maybe not, though. These are the same kind of people who hide behind bilko doors, waiting for little green men from Area 51 to come knocking on their doors, fiddle about too much with Rosary beads, and cover themselves in garlic so that Tom Cruise doesn't appear in their bedrooms at night. Curse indeed!
I remember the Boston clubs back in the 70s. They had a devastating attack, even more concentrated than the present one, and it certainly seemed to everyone, even the rosary and garlic crowd, that Boston would come home with a championship. No one knew that the last one had come in 1918. During the '75 series, the onus was on Cincinnati to win the damn thing to prove to the world that they were a credible club, and win they did, their own first championship since 1940. Everyone figured that Boston would win one, and soon. Of course, Bucky Dent inflicted wounds that took the franchise years to recover from. It was then that the outside world (the world outside New England and the Maritime provinces) started to wonder if there was anything wrong.
It was the Bill Buckner play that really got the snowball rolling. Boston's a very rough town to play in. Had it been New York, or even Philadelphia, you'd find a way to suck it up, or toss the cookies out. Bill Buckner, a player with ballot considerations at the least, a much coveted star performer with whom Boston would never even have made the post season in 1986, got run out of town, and given a scarlet letter to wear for the rest of his life. He's still bitter. Can't figure out why.
So, "The Curse of the Bambino" got out, and everyone embraced this moronic myth (a myth equal to 'because of our actions in Iraq, the world is a safer place'), and it was this that actually kept the Red Sox from winning in previous years. It's bad enough that the Yankees stand in your way to greater glory, but it's even harder to deal with the Media, who make it their point, every day, to question your manhood and make money off of it.
Well, they finally did it. They cowboyed up, and did it. So, no more stupid talk about curses. There are no curses. Just incompetence.
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And not just that, Knox, but it seems the media have gone crazy with this ball and ran with it. If you think the media coverage is intense now, just wait unitl the Cubs finally win one. But seriously speaking, everyone- the fans, media, have all gone overboard. After all, its only a game, and we act like its religion. Sad, indeed
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Actually, Natural, you have a point. This might lead to the Political board, and I don't wanna do that, but it all might speak of a hole in the American Soul that Hollywood and the News Media have such a sway on our lives, filling it with all style and no real substance. This has been going on for years, but it's never more apparent than it is now. It's the stuff of Science Fiction, become real in our lives. This will really kick us all in the ass with a Size 12 construction type steel toe on Tuesday.
It's not the effect on our lives that's important, it's the theatrics. And that's terrible.
However, Natural, I also wish to point out the effect something like a successful baseball team has on the area that it plays in. Like the Cubs, the Red Sox, the Cards. People and pundits like to downplay it, but it's really there.
No one outside of New York really knows or understands the damage done to the local economy, the civic pride, the psyche by the departure of the Dodgers and Giants to California. For decades afterwards, Brooklyn became a morgue occupied by several million inhabitants, dominated by sadness and blight, because Walter O'Malley felt he didn't have the koo yons to do battle with Robert Moses over a new ballpark. The success or failure of a baseball team, or a football team, or whatever, has a very real effect on the community.
That three million people (three million people!!!) came out to hail the Sox today speaks of that. I guess it shows how we live vicariously.
It's not the effect on our lives that's important, it's the theatrics. And that's terrible.
However, Natural, I also wish to point out the effect something like a successful baseball team has on the area that it plays in. Like the Cubs, the Red Sox, the Cards. People and pundits like to downplay it, but it's really there.
No one outside of New York really knows or understands the damage done to the local economy, the civic pride, the psyche by the departure of the Dodgers and Giants to California. For decades afterwards, Brooklyn became a morgue occupied by several million inhabitants, dominated by sadness and blight, because Walter O'Malley felt he didn't have the koo yons to do battle with Robert Moses over a new ballpark. The success or failure of a baseball team, or a football team, or whatever, has a very real effect on the community.
That three million people (three million people!!!) came out to hail the Sox today speaks of that. I guess it shows how we live vicariously.
