09/26/10 Sox @ New York.

[The Village Idiot]

And that's your 2010 bullpen.

 

Still, this team--our Sox--are a bunch of tough mother f***ers, much moreso than can ever be said for the weenies in pinstripes.

 

'Night, fellas. Have fun jacking off, jacko!

[Yaz Sideburn]

Magic Number is 1 baby!!

 

i hope you go into hibernation when the yankees are swept by the twins

[MANNYHOF24]

It's a good thing our best pitcher sat in the bullpen while that all happened.

[RedSoxfanforlife305]

Soneone show that clown the strike zone..

[jacksonianmarch]

Goodnight y'all. One more Yankee win or Sox loss ends your season (literally, although figuratively it has been over for awhile).

[The Village Idiot]

i hope you go into hibernation when the yankees are swept by the twins

 

I hope he doesn't so that the situation can be adequately rubbed in his cocky-assed face.

[Yaz Sideburn]

It's a good thing our best pitcher sat in the bullpen while that all happened.

 

i might care if i thought we were still in contention

[RedSoxfanforlife305]

I knew this would happen. Staying up late to see this s***? Goodnight all see you tomorrow. Jacko your still a troll eat s***.

[Yaz Sideburn]

Goodnight y'all. One more Yankee win or Sox loss ends your season (literally' date=' although figuratively it has been over for awhile).[/quote']

 

that might actually sting a little if you hadn't been saying that since spring training

[jacksonianmarch]

i hope you go into hibernation when the yankees are swept by the twins

 

I dont go into hibernation. I typically find something else to do at the end of September, be it a class (I am taking one right now) a game, housechores, or work. The end of September hasnt been drama filled for a long while. I'll be back into this come the first round. Although the way we have been playing, it is certainly possible we make a first round exit. We'll see

[jacksonianmarch]

that might actually sting a little if you hadn't been saying that since spring training

 

And I have been right.

[Yaz Sideburn]

I hope he doesn't so that the situation can be adequately rubbed in his cocky-assed face.

 

the less jackassianmarch the better. i can't remember the last time he actually contributed to a positive baseball discussion. all he does now is come into the game threads when the yankees get a lead and troll

[Yaz Sideburn]

And I have been right.

 

the red sox season was over in spring training? you're definition of right must be different in your alternate reality

 

then again, you also claimed the yankees were a second half team and ranaudo wasn't going to sign with the red sox based on a source you could not disclose at the time

[a700hitter]

The season has been over since the first week of August when Youkilis went down. I'm relieve that it's over. We would have been eliminated before next weekend anyway. It was fun to watch the Yankees sweat a little, but there was no chance of us catching them.

[Will617]

I guess it's kind of fitting that the Sox season ends with a walk-off walk. It seems like the kind of season we've had.

Now all that I care about (in baseball, at least) is the Yankees losing six straight to end their season - 3 to the Sox, 3 to the Twins.

Of course, if the Sox force a tie and win the playoff game to make it to the playoffs. I'd be pretty happy too.

[The Village Idiot]

The Yankees have a healthy line-up (Swisher's ouchie doesn't count...if it does, you have to tack Beltre's hammy onto our list of injuries too) and a healthy rotation now with Pettitte back.

 

The fact that the Red Sox made them squirm at all this weekend, and are still not statistically eliminated, given that literally 1/2 of Boston's starting lineup on opening day has been out for the season for quite some time now speaks volumes about this team's organizational depth, and the character of the guys still standing. (Jacko knows this deep down, but like most Yankees fans, he lacks the ability to ever take the high road.)

 

So no Yankee fan can go on a message board, or to the watercooler in a break room, or wherever, and give a Sox fan any s*** for anything that the Sox have or haven't done this season and have any credibility as a baseball fan. It's as simple as that. What the Sox went through this season is exactly the same as if the Yankees had lost ALL of the following players for 1 month or more this year:

 

Teixeira

Cano

Gardner

Granderson (know he was out early on for about a month)

Posada

Cervelli

AJ Burnett

Phil Hughes

 

Any Yankees fan who thinks the Yankees would have been anywhere near a Wild Card spot if this was their situation this year is, quite literally, sniffing glue. What the Sox pulled off this season in adversity shouldn't be forgotten, but sadly, it will be.

 

I'm proud of what this team has accomplished.

 

All this being said, the bullpen can definitely go f*** itself. They royally f***ed us over this year, and there's no question that the Red Sox would, miraculously, be about 5-8 games up on both the Rays and MFYs if they had not royally f***ed up. Just. Staggering.

 

Go Sox.

[a700hitter]

The fact that the Red Sox made them squirm at all this weekend, and are still not statistically eliminated, given that literally 1/2 of Boston's starting lineup on opening day has been out for the season for quite some time now speaks volumes about this team's organizational depth, and the character of the guys still standing. (Jacko knows this deep down, but like most Yankees fans, he lacks the ability to ever take the high road.)

It speaks volumes about the will to win and hard work of the players. It speaks nothing of the organization beyond that. The FO did a terrible job building a bullpen. It did nothing to fortify a wounded team throughout the season. The idiot third base coach cost us at least 3 wins just by himself, but yet the organization left him there to continue to send slow runners to certain deaths. The team's fundamentals... Well... They had no fundamentals. The Rays are a very fundamentally sound team as are the Yankees.

 

There is almost nothing positive to be taken from this season. This was a season when the Yankees were ripe to be picked off due to an aging roster and a disappointing rotation, but injuries, a horrendous bullpen and other factors conspired such that we never really mounted a serious threat. Our season was fun for 3 weeks during interleague play, but the rest of it was a huge disappointment even when we were healthy. Congrats to the Yanks. They went wire to wire on us (except for (opening day). We were behind them when we were healthy and when we were injured. There are no excuses and there was nothing positive about the season other than the emergence of Buchholz.

 

Next season the Yankees will probably fortify their rotation with Cliff Lee, and they will not be easier to beat. The FO will have to step up their game so we are not looking for excuses again next September. Stop whining Red Sox fans. The Yanks have given their fans the right to gloat.

[jacksonianmarch]

It speaks volumes about the will to win and hard work of the players. It speaks nothing of the organization beyond that. The FO did a terrible job building a bullpen. It did nothing to fortify a wounded team throughout the season. The idiot third base coach cost us at least 3 wins just by himself, but yet the organization left him there to continue to send slow runners to certain deaths. The team's fundamentals... Well... They had no fundamentals. The Rays are a very fundamentally sound team as are the Yankees.

 

There is almost nothing positive to be taken from this season. This was a season when the Yankees were ripe to be picked off due to an aging roster and a disappointing rotation, but injuries, a horrendous bullpen and other factors conspired such that we never really mounted a serious threat. Our season was fun for 3 weeks during interleague play, but the rest of it was a huge disappointment even when we were healthy. Congrats to the Yanks. They went wire to wire on us (except for (opening day). We were behind them when we were healthy and when we were injured. There are no excuses and there was nothing positive about the season other than the emergence of Buchholz.

 

Next season the Yankees will probably fortify their rotation with Cliff Lee, and they will not be easier to beat. The FO will have to step up their game so we are not looking for excuses again next September. Stop whining Red Sox fans. The Yanks have given their fans the right to gloat.

 

The Yankees definitely were ripe for the picking. y228 called it. Our rotation fell on hard times for a 2 month stretch and made us a .500 team. Although I think we may have found our #2 starter come the playoffs. Hughes looked filthy last night

[redsoxrules]

i might care if i thought we were still in contention

 

they would have been if they won this game