9/5 @ Yankees

[Youk Of The Nation]

Just strike out already you f***er.

 

This, but now Ichiro.

[a700hitter]

Sometimes I get the feeling that the Japanese pitchers have too much reverence for Ichiro.

[Youk Of The Nation]

Lyle, you had no chance from the get go.

 

It was like watching a drowning man fight a crocodile by beating it with his shoe. Entertaining and dramatic to watch, but pretty much a foregone conclusion and not really effective.

[BigPapi]

Sometimes I get the feeling that the Japanese pitchers have too much reverence for Ichiro.

 

Looks like it is ab.

[Station 13]

jesus don't walk him

[BigPapi]

Nasty splitter. Christ. Take notes mo.

[jacksonianmarch]

Good game gents. Mo and Joba gagged this one up

[sk7326]

So you mean to tell me that as you watch the whole thing play out as it should have...you are still going to argue the point? Are you Farrell's long lost cousin? By the way...Ueh is up tonight. You want to tell me you wanted to trust this for six outs?

 

Because the Red Sox were lucky enough to have Soriano run into an out - that life turned out as it should have? I am amazed you are arguing to use inferior pitchers for a more important situation. Uehara did the setup job earlier this year quite well - there is no magic in the 9th and the score - just baseball. Farrell has some weird habits at times - treating Uehara like he is good at his job is not one of them.

[NativeBostonian]

Win! Good job Red Sox!

[User Name]

I'm so gay for Koji it's reaching Liberace levels.

 

Oh, and f*** THE YANKEES HAHAHAHA

[BornToRun]

One of the most awesome games of the season. f*** yeah.

[Station 13]

Koji is the king

[Youk Of The Nation]

Yes! This went from laughable win to disheartening loss to dramatic win in about twenty minutes. This game was like a whole season condensed into ten innings. All statements to the contrary and despite the suckitude of the bullpen, this kind of game is why I love the s*** out of baseball.

[a700hitter]

Yes!! Sweet!! This hurts the Yankees much more than if they had simply lost 7-2. We gave away the game and then took it back against their legend.

[NativeBostonian]

Good game gents. Mo and Joba gagged this one up

 

Mo is still king. He's allowed to do that every once in a while.

[jung]

I think Vic just blew Dell off in his way past. I think he is bushed, hurting, dying to get on a trainer's table

[TylerD]

Done baby!!! Barely hang on.... That was ugly but a win over the Yankees is a win!! This team is Rollin!! Keep it up boys.

[Jacoby_Ellsbury]

Another GT without me, another win.

[a700hitter]

Mo is still king. He's allowed to do that every once in a while.

Good riddance to him.

[Brennan]

Wow, nice win but that game took a few years off my life.

[Youk Of The Nation]

Someone find me a football game with this level of excitement. Find me a football game where every single second is a possible turn of fortune. You can't, because in even the closest, most dramatic late-fourth-quarter football games there is ten minutes of stopping play to regroup and mill around like students waiting to go back inside after a fire drill.

 

Baseball is, hands down, the most exciting sport that we have ever created. Nothing will ever come close to the ninth inning of a tied baseball game for sheer, unmitigated terror mingled harmoniously with exhilarating glee.

 

Go Sox. Go baseball. f*** the Yankees!

[sk7326]

The team has terrific spirit - survived a lot of adversity - a lot of it self inflicted. But it's Sox-Yankees. Getting close to tracking magic number time.

[User Name]

Unsurprisingly, no Divinity.

[Bellhorn04]

Unfreakinbelievable. The media is going to christen this as a classic game and it probably was.

[iortiz]

This is the kind of L, that stays for a while. Thanks God we weren't who took it.

 

Oh.. And BTW... DFA Thorton.

[a700hitter]

I think Vic just blew Dell off in his way past. I think he is bushed, hurting, dying to get on a trainer's table

They will need to get him some rest down the stretch to get him healthy for the playoffs.

[BornToRun]

Angels beating up on Price. 5-2 Anaheim.

[Youk Of The Nation]

Holy crap, I can type in Comic Sans? How the hell could I not have noticed this before?!

[jung]

Because the Red Sox were lucky enough to have Soriano run into an out - that life turned out as it should have? I am amazed you are arguing to use inferior pitchers for a more important situation. Uehara did the setup job earlier this year quite well - there is no magic in the 9th and the score - just baseball. Farrell has some weird habits at times - treating Uehara like he is good at his job is not one of them.

 

I'm sorry but you are blind. You saw the thing play out..you saw Ueh struggle to get three outs and you want to commit him to six. At best, Farrell would have been justified in having Ueh go four outs if he had to. He did not have to because Bres did not have to come out and you can't go back and blame the Soriano play. I can just as easily say, the Sox do a poor job of holding runners and the old man never should have been able to steal the base in the first place. Besides Bres was pitching to a LH hitter at the time AND got him out. Staggering...I can see making the argument if the thing did not play out exactly as it should have but continuing to argue the point while not trusting your own eyes is a kind of stubborn I will never understand. So I'm out.

 

By the way, what you don't do is use your "superior" pitch when all he can get you is a tie at best. Using the closer in the ninth on the road is just plain dumb.

Edited September 6, 2013 by jung

[sk7326]

Someone find me a football game with this level of excitement. Find me a football game where every single second is a possible turn of fortune. You can't, because in even the closest, most dramatic late-fourth-quarter football games there is ten minutes of stopping play to regroup and mill around like students waiting to go back inside after a fire drill.

 

Baseball is, hands down, the most exciting sport that we have ever created. Nothing will ever come close to the ninth inning of a tied baseball game for sheer, unmitigated terror mingled harmoniously with exhilarating glee.

 

Go Sox. Go baseball. f*** the Yankees!

 

Well, depends on the game - but yes. If you can't get revved up about tonight or that Rangers-Cardinals Game 6 (or the David Ortiz moment of glory in the 2004 ALCS) ... as Louie Armstrong noted, "if they don't know, you can't teach em"