7/6 v. A's - Nomah's Back

[TheKilo]

JL can't be counted on for anything.

 

Smoltz v. Anderson

 

More importantly:

 

http://theneoteric.net/pix/nomah.jpg

 

Nomah's back!

[Dutchy]

I can't wait to see Smoltz pitch again.

 

P.S. - Isn't it funny that Jimmy Fallon is always cast as a Red Sox fan, even though he likes the Yankees?

[BoSox21]

Nomah: cheer or boo?

[TheKilo]

Cheer without a doubt

[redsoxrules]

I can't wait to see Smoltz pitch again.

 

P.S. - Isn't it funny that Jimmy Fallon is always cast as a Red Sox fan, even though he likes the Yankees?

 

Isn't Fallon a red sox fan?

[Dutchy]

Jimmy Fallon is a HUGE red sox fan

 

Did he jump on the bandwagon? When he was cast for Fever Pitch, he was a huge Yankees fan.

 

http://www.filmstew.com/ShowArticle.aspx?ContentID=11260

[TheKilo]

Jimmy Fallon is a HUGE red sox fan

 

No he isn't. He's a bandwagon fan.

 

http://huggingharoldreynolds.blogspot.com/2007/10/jimmy-fallon-will-eventually-kill-your.html

 

Then I remembered reading this back in 2004 during the Sox run, the Yankee collapse and the abortion know as Fever Pitch.

 

"I was never really serious with one team. I was into the Mets because my Dad worked at IBM where he got free Mets tickets, so I was into the Mets ... then I got to "Saturday Night Live" where my boss has unbelievable N.Y. Yankees tickets, so he invites us to the games. I'm going to all the games, so I might as well root for the team I'm gonna go sit with. I became a Yankees fan for a few years. But now, I gotta say, I'm really rooting for the Red Sox." -Jimmy Fallon

 

 

The first thing lesson in all this is all you need is a pair of premium seats and Fallon is your best friend and a fan of the home team toot-sweet. But let’s dig deeper.

 

Fallon claims he began a Mets fan, so he was about 12 when they won the World Series in 1986. At twelve years old, a kid is into sports but is probably more concerned with touching girl’s boobies or lighting things on fire. But he was still a fan. Since 1986, the Mets have done bump kiss except a few NLCS losses, a World Series appearance (more on that in a second) and a fluky “worst collapse in baseball history.”

 

Fallon’s tenure on SNL ran from 1998-2006, in which he was a Yankee fan till that 2004 quote. So he was “rooting for them” during two World Series victories, two series losses to Arizona and Florida and a couple first round exits. One of those World Series wins was against Fallon’s first team, the New York Mets. When you are putting the kibosh on two teams, one must lose, usually the team you killed for so long (in this case, the Mets.)

 

Don’t believe that theory? Fine, let’s look at 2004 where Fallon’s new-old team (Yankees) lost to his new-new team (Sox) in historic fashion. It would have been a normal loss if Fallon wasn’t filming a movie about being a tortured Sox fan. The premise being his love for a team that always breaks his heart and loses. And we know the baseball god’s love irony so they had to let the Sox win the World Series. Since then? A 2005 ALDS loss to the White Sox and a 2006 playoff no-show last season.

[BoSox21]

Fallon said this in 2004 when promoting Fever Pitch:

 

1. You're a New Yorker starring in a movie about this fanatical Red Sox dude. How did you negotiate those dangerous waters? Pick a side already!

 

Jimmy Fallon: I grew up in Saugerties, upstate NY. I was never really serious with one team. I was into the Mets because my Dad worked at IBM where he got free Mets tickets, so I was into the Mets ... like two games a year. Then I got to "Saturday Night Live" where my boss (Lorne Michaels) has unbelievable New York Yankees tickets, so he invites us to the games. I'm going to all the games, so I might as well root for the team I'm gonna go sit with. I became a Yankees fan for a few years. But now, I gotta say, I'm really rooting for the Red Sox.

 

Doesn't sound like he's a huge fan of any team either way

[Dutchy]

Ah, OK. Still, I find it entertaining that at the time of Nomar on SNL and Fever Pitch, he was a Yankees fan.

[Cocos Disciples]

I will be sporting my Nomar jersey and cheering loudly for sure.

[TheKilo]

1. Jacoby Ellsbury, CF

2. Dustin Pedroia, 2B

3. Kevin Youkils, 3B

4. David Ortiz, DH

5. Jason Bay, LF

6. Jason Varitek, C

7. Rocco Baldelli, RF

8. Nick Green, SS

9. Aaron Bates, 1B

-- John Smoltz, SP

[Dutchy]

1. Jacoby Ellsbury, CF

2. Dustin Pedroia, 2B

3. Kevin Youkils, 3B

4. David Ortiz, DH

5. Jason Bay, LF

6. Jason Varitek, C

7. Rocco Baldelli, RF

8. Nick Green, SS

9. Aaron Bates, 1B

-- John Smoltz, SP

 

Jeff Bailey likely to the DL. I'm hoping Kotsay's OK.

[a700hitter]

The bottom 4 of the lineup stinks.

[VA Sox Fan]

The bottom 4 of the lineup stinks.

 

Ahhhh.....what optimism!

[Dutchy]

The bottom 4 of the lineup stinks.

 

Baldelli's hitting .286/.360/.481. That's better than a lot of team's regulars.

[Dutchy]

Quote of the day from Francona.

 

"There's a lot that goes into a being a really good player that maybe isn't always the fairest," manager Terry Francona said [of Nomar]. "But he's a good kid, and he'll always be a good kid. I hope they give him a great ovation. And then I hope he hits into a double play."

 

http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/extras/extra_bases/2009/07/nomar_is_here.html

[Spudboy]

I'm looking forward to seeing Bates. I'd prefer Kotsay, but he has a sore calf muscle. Certainly not the strongest line-up tonight from appearances. But I think the Sox win with a strong outing from Smoltz.

[Dutchy]

Pedroia scratched from lineup with "family matter"

[VA Sox Fan]

Pedroia scratched from lineup

 

Posted by Nick Cafardo, Globe Staff July 6, 2009 05:46 PM

 

Dustin Pedroia has been scratched from the Sox lineup due to a family matter. We'll have more as we hear it.

[BoSox21]

so Green at 2B and Lugo at SS I guess.....what a disgusting lineup

[Dutchy]

so Green at 2B and Lugo at SS I guess.....what a disgusting lineup

 

Yeah, it sucks. Hopefully everything works out alright with Pedroia's family and he's back soon.

[TheKilo]

LOL wow hope Smoltz has a shutout in him.

[VA Sox Fan]

NEW LINEUP

 

1. Jacoby Ellsbury, CF

2. Julio Lugo, SS

3. Kevin Youkilis, 3B

4. David Ortiz, DH

5. Jason Bay, LF

6. Jason Varitek, C

7. Rocco Baldelli, RF

8. Nick Green, 2B

9. Aaron Bates, 1B

[Dutchy]

LOL wow hope Smoltz has a shutout in him.

 

He better have a lot of strikeouts in him with the defense the Red Sox are gonna be throwing out there.

 

On a completely off topic note, have any of you ever bought a 6-pack and had the cans fall out of the plastic thing that connects them all? I just went down to the store to buy 2 6-packs and a beer fell out of both of them. They didn't pop open and break or anything, it was just annoying. I must have held 100 six packs by the plastic connector thingy and never once has it happened to me, today I get 2-six packs and both of them break. What are the odds?

[Cocos Disciples]

Lol awful lineup. Nomar got a nice ovation in BP.

[whyshoulitellyou]

Pedroia's wife had a baby. So congrats! That's why he's not in the lineup

[Dutchy]

Pedroia's wife had a baby. So congrats! That's why he's not in the lineup

 

OK, phew! I thought something bad may have happened.

[Dipre]

Calling the Lugo error with men on scoring position right now.

[Spudboy]

Game time !

[Dutchy]

Calling the Lugo error with men on scoring position right now.

 

Not sure that's as much a prediction as it is an inevitability.