Allow me to reintroduce myself....

[ahhchon]

my name is HOV.... i mean.. wait, it's john.

 

some of you know me, some of you don't. i post very erratically, i'll be on here everyday for a month then i'll be gone for 5 months. there have been many great additions since the oldschool talksox forums and there have been many not so greats.

 

i think it would be nice to just say hi to everyone who doesn't know me.

 

my name is john and i've been a sox fan since i was a child. my first trip to fenway park was when i was 6 and my 2nd trip to fenway was the last game clemens pitched in fenway as a member of the bosox. since then i've been to many many more games. i am a student at northeastern univerisity and i spent 2 years living on commonwealth ave. my pad was a 5 minute walk from fenway and i often spent the summers sitting on the roof with my pals watching the sox game and hearing the HR cheers before the HR was hit on tv.

 

i love the red sox with all my heart, i'm a very passionate poster, i may offend you at times, i may make you laugh, i may not. i am a stat head. ive read baseball prospectus 2004 and 2005 from cover to cover. 2006 is at the post office (finals week, no time to pick it up), moneyball has been one of my favorite baseball books, i think it's a great story.

 

my favorite player is pedro martinez

 

my favorite game was the 1999 alds game 5: nomar had a homer in the 1st inning and had 2 IBB that were both followed by troy o'leary homeruns (one was a grandslam, first in sox posteason history i think) and pedro coming out of the pen throwing 5 innings of PERFECT relief.

 

my favorite pitching performance was kerry woods 20K game. i personally feel that it was the best game every pitched, it should have been a 20K perfect game, the hit was an E5 easily.

 

my least favorite game was obviously game 7 of the 2003 alcs

 

i live in jamaica plains now, i'm still short walk (10 mins) to fenway, i've been to 3 games this year and tonights game was the first game i've missed this season (gross anatomy final tomorrow) and will be at plenty more this summer.

 

well there ya go.. that's me in a nutshell.

 

john

[redsoxrules]

we have a few things in common ,my favorite is pedro and my favorite playoff game was that game 5 too , speaking of wich John, or anyone, were could i find that game 5 to buy? i was also looking for pedro's 17 k performance against the yanks, any idea's?

[ahhchon]

http://www.mlb.com buy the yearly membership to watch mlbtv and you can watch the old games :-D

 

i've seen that game at least 15 times and i've seen the kerry wood game at least 20

 

john

[redsoxrules]

thx, done