Red Sox Nation

[Seattle Zack]

Not really a member, but I may have to apply for an honorary guest after this last game.

Sports is such an unpredictable battlefield, the unlikeliest of heroes emerging to keep the drama alive. Watching Schilling pitch tonight, each throw in agony, was amazing. Watching David Ortiz, not one but twice, rescue the Red Sox from the brink of despair (again!) was amazing. Watching Clemens pitch and pitch and pitch last night, when he's old enough to be the father of the rest of the guys on the starting rotation, was amazing.

The drama of sports is undeniable. Let those who don't understand it, or embrace it, mutter their highbrow denials, unwilling to understand the majesty of the contest. Men get it. Whining women or namby-pamby pathetic men who spend their lives reading feminist tracts, watching Oprah or Lifetime will never understand it.

Sure, they're overpaid multimillionaires being paid to chase a ball ... but any man I know would trade his life in a second for that of a major leaguer.

What a game. What a series. Down 3-0, no chance at all, and the Sox come back. Such a constrast of styles. The Yankees, button-down pinstripes, no facial hair allowed. The Evil Empire. The Sox, on the other hand, are a self-described "bunch of idiots." Salsa music blaring in the clubhouse, and their leader, Johnny Damon, looks like a caveman. They even imported a 31-inch dwarf from the Dominican Republic as a mascot. Can you make this stuff up?

Fuck, let's play some baseball. I love game sevens. Go Sox!

 

[Belegon]

I will not say who I want to win tonight, but as a baseball fan whose primary loyalty is to a national league team, let me say I LOVE that these two teams are playing game seven.

The best rivalry in sports. period.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Not really a member, but I may have to apply for an honorary guest after this last game.

Sports is such an unpredictable battlefield, the unlikeliest of heroes emerging to keep the drama alive. Watching Schilling pitch tonight, each throw in agony, was amazing. Watching David Ortiz, not one but twice, rescue the Red Sox from the brink of despair (again!) was amazing. Watching Clemens pitch and pitch and pitch last night, when he's old enough to be the father of the rest of the guys on the starting rotation, was amazing.

The drama of sports is undeniable. Let those who don't understand it, or embrace it, mutter their highbrow denials, unwilling to understand the majesty of the contest. Men get it. Whining women or namby-pamby pathetic men who spend their lives reading feminist tracts, watching Oprah or Lifetime will never understand it.

Sure, they're overpaid multimillionaires being paid to chase a ball ... but any man I know would trade his life in a second for that of a major leaguer.

What a game. What a series. Down 3-0, no chance at all, and the Sox come back. Such a constrast of styles. The Yankees, button-down pinstripes, no facial hair allowed. The Evil Empire. The Sox, on the other hand, are a self-described "bunch of idiots." Salsa music blaring in the clubhouse, and their leader, Johnny Damon, looks like a caveman. They even imported a 31-inch dwarf from the Dominican Republic as a mascot. Can you make this stuff up?

Fuck, let's play some baseball. I love game sevens. Go Sox!

I am inclined to agree with you, Zack, except about Clemens. He is NOT old enough to be Curt Schillin's father.

I am not really a red Sox fan but, like most Americans, I love an underdog. Like many Americans, I figure "ANYBODY but the Yankees!!"

 

[Seattle Zack]

Re: Re: Red Sox Nation

I am inclined to agree with you, Zack, except about Clemens. He is NOT old enough to be Curt Schillin's father.

Hehehe, no I meant anyone else on the Astros' rotation .... now that Petite is off the list.

And that little punk Bronson Arroyo for the Sox (named after Charles Bronson, no less)? A white boy with cornrows and blond highlights? Never mind that he got shelled a couple nights ago, and was shaky tonight, but what greater thrill for a 22 year old than Yankee Stadium for tha ALCS?

I would like to see the Astros make it, just 'cause of the FU to Steinbrenner from Clemens, but those Cards have some mighty big bats.

 

[Seattle Zack]

Are there no men left that want to post about the Red Sox game?

Goddamn, I live nowhere near New England and I still want to set some cars on fire.

Greatest comeback in baseball --- no, sports --- history and ... nothing? No eloquent essays on the rhythimic ebb and flow of baseball? No lyrical nonsense celebrating this game that we call a sport? No jabs at opposing teams? With an opportunity like this, no one to write about it, no effort to elevate your craft? What has this country come to?

This forum sucks. Count me out.

 

[Vincent E]

Well, maybe I am the first boner fide (intentioanl sp) member of Red Sox Nation to post here, so I'll just start with saying it is about damn time that someone took the fucking Yankees to school and humiliated them in their own house. How many more frigging decades were they supposed to get everything going their way. Hey New York; don't worry - there's always next year.

Yes, that is a gloat.

This is Boston's best chance at winning the whole damn thing in a very long time. This team is better than the 1986 squad as this club actually has a bullpen and a deep lineup.

No one in Boston actually talks about curses. The curse talk is mostly sports media crap. The fact is that the Sox and Yank-me's have only been meeting in the post season since 1999. There was that one game playoff in 1978, but in a best of seven Boston would have won. Yeah, that's the ticket.

The real "curse" stuff is in not winning the World Series. To that end, I wnat the Cardinals to win tonight against Houston. Lots of people want to see Clemens come back to Fenway. Fuck that. I want the Cards. There is still some history to be fixed for Boston losses to St. Louie in 1946 and 1967. Besides, St. Louis is a much better basball town than Houston: a longer storied history and hardcore fan base.

A-Rod has lost everywhere he's been, right Zack.

Look up in the sky. It's a bird. It's a plane. It's Georgie-Porgie standing on a ledge of the Empire State Building.

Hey Steinbrenner, aim for the manhole cover...you douchbag!

Yes, that is another gloat.

The Red Sox can win a World Series in the 21st Century before New York does. Let's all hope that this century gets off to the sae successful start for Boston as the last one. It is the following 86 years that were the problem. Shit, Boston was the dominant team in baseball from 1901 to 1918. Let's go Red Sox!

Blieve.

Edited to read: Please cut us some slack, Zack. These fucking games don't end until after midnight back east so that the networks can get your guys on the left coast in prime time for advertising. That Tuesday night game started at 5:00pm our time and ended just before 11:00pm. What the fuck!

It is blatantly unfair that Boston kids who have to go to school the next day miss much of the excitement of the games because the network wnats to show the game to the widest audience for the revenue. Just another reason why the NFL is a better league than MLB - oh yeah, and New England has the defending champs there as well.

Life is good. Now, if I could only get laid.