10/30 World Series game 6 vs St Louis

[Navafan29]

I'm in heaven. Already typed a ton of stuff on MLB.com gameday comments so Idk if I can type another big long thing here, but basically, life is fantastic no matter how bad it is for Sox fans right now.

 

Random:

Ever wonder what "place" each team finished in at the end of a year? This is how every team ranks based on how far they got. Teams that made the playoffs are ranked by how far through the postseason they got before elimination, and teams that didn't are ranked by their regular season record. Teams that got eliminated in the same stage of the playoffs are separated in ranking by their regular season record. The A's are ahead of the Braves even though they have the same regular season record and got eliminated in the same round because the Athletics' ALDS went 5 games whereas the Braves were eliminated in 4. Teams that didn't make the playoffs and had the same record are separated by who had the better run differential. If you think you know all about the 2013 season, pick a team and guess where they ranked, then look at the list to see if you are right:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1. Red Sox

2. Cardinals

3. Tigers

4. Dodgers

5. Athletics

6. Braves

7 Pirates

8. Rays

9. Guardians

10. Reds

11. Rangers

12. Royals

13. Nationals

14. Orioles

15. Yankees

16. Diamondbacks

17. Angels

18. Giants

19. Padres

20. Blue Jays

21. Brewers

22. Rockies

23. Mets

24. Phillies

25. Mariners

26. Cubs

27. Twins

28. White Sox

29. Marlins

30. Astros

Edited October 31, 2013 by Navafan29

[RedSoxfanforlife305]

Where is rsffl

 

Was at a bar watching the game. Some crazy s*** happened there, but I won't go into detail because I don't think anyone cares lol. Tonight has just been perfect. I f***ing love the Red Sox.

[Navafan29]

Was at a bar watching the game. Some crazy s*** happened there, but I won't go into detail because I don't think anyone cares lol. Tonight has just been perfect. I f***ing love the Red Sox.

 

What happened!! Every "where you were when this legendary thing happened" story is interesting.

[Navafan29]

Also, people who don't think Salty should be back are delusional. He's our main catcher and caught like 130 games. It's just that Ross, the best backup catcher in MLB, stole his thunder in the end, lol.

[Whatsinaname]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1. Red Sox

2. Cardinals

3. Tigers

4. Dodgers

5. Athletics

6. Braves

7 Pirates

8. Rays

9. Guardians

10. Reds

11. Rangers

12. Royals

13. Nationals

14. Orioles

15. Yankees

16. Diamondbacks

17. Angels

18. Giants

19. Padres

20. Blue Jays

21. Brewers

22. Rockies

23. Mets

24. Phillies

25. Mariners

26. Cubs

27. Twins

28. White Sox

29. Marlins

30. Astros

 

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[Beaneater]

I would also like to acknowledge the fine contribution by the Cardinals to impoverished children. Soon, a South American village will be inundated with Cardinals World Series Champion shirts, and no one will be forced to wear old burlap again. Plus, hats and towels will be included!

 

Since taking up residence in the Third World, I have been keeping my eyes peeled for these castoffs. I would really like a Red Sox 2003 AL Champions shirt; a Yankees 2004 AL Champions shirt (for the lols); and maybe a 2011 Red Sox Wild Card shirt. I can say that I wouldn't mind finding a Cardinals 2013 World Champions shirt a couple months from now. That would be acceptable too.

[User Name]

Also, people who don't think Salty should be back are delusional. He's our main catcher and caught like 130 games. It's just that Ross, the best backup catcher in MLB, stole his thunder in the end, lol.

 

Please stop.

[Whatsinaname]

Since taking up residence in the Third World, I have been keeping my eyes peeled for these castoffs. I would really like a Red Sox 2003 AL Champions shirt; a Yankees 2004 AL Champions shirt (for the lols); and maybe a 2011 Red Sox Wild Card shirt. I can say that I wouldn't mind finding a Cardinals 2013 World Champions shirt a couple months from now. That would be acceptable too.

 

you can pick up a lovely 2009 Danica Patrick Indy 500 winner shirt for the wife.

[Beaneater]

you can pick up a lovely 2009 Danica Patrick Indy 500 winner shirt for the wife.

 

And a 1-2-3 Kid WWF Heavyweight Champion shirt for Beaneater Jr.!

[Brennan]

http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2013/02/24/hard-get-excited-about-these-red-sox/GQ5hTjgKOg6MI3gxDOJQWJ/story.html

 

 

 

Never listen to a guy who's haircut is 60 years younger than him.

[Palodios]

User Name... I don't know if I missed it, but I was hoping for your catchphrase in this thread.

[Brennan]

Would it be weird if I bought a Lackey shirt?

 

I wish it really did say John Mother f***ing Lackey though

 

Not at all, Lackey is inspirational.

[Palodios]

How pissed do you think their fans are watching Farrell win it all with a division rival?

 

It seems like the Sox will have a target on their heads in the East next year.Toronto will be pissed. The Rays got beat in the playoffs. The Orioles already hate the Sox because of Showalter, and the Yankees are going to realize that the Red Sox are more than an annoying gnat who thinks they are rivals.

[Brennan]

I don't mind the dumbass Cardinal fan racists cause I see racism for what it really is, it says nothing about the race being put down but it says everything about the moron that utters it. We just all have to do our job as parents, grandparents etc., hell I'll just say human beings and make sure that the young people understand how stupid racism is.

 

Sorry for getting off topic, man this team is awesome.

[Brennan]

My cable carrier just left a pre recorded apology on my answering machine saying that they were sorry for the interruption last night. My cable and Internet went out right after the cards squandered their last real chance to get back in the game in the bottom of the seventh. My family was asleep so I got in the family car, turned on the radio to the only game feed I could find and drove to the end of the road to get service on my cell phone so I could watch you guys eat up the joy of watching another amazing championship. This place is like a drug, we have the best of the best here.

[a700hitter]

You're at the game? Glad that you get to experience this! Get off your phone and back to it!

I think that I am the luckiest guy ever. I am still pinching myself. My Blackberry service sucked at Fenway and the battery went dead after my one and only gamethread post.

 

I was visiting my brother in Florida during the ALCS. I was there for the ALCS clincher. The next day I got a text from a good friend asking me if I wanted to go to game 6 of the World Series. I thought he was joking. He has a business associate in Boston that offered him tickets to game 1 or 2, but my friend couldn't make those games. With that, the guy told him that he could have game 6 tickets if it went that far. We had Pavilion seats. It was an unbelievable night capping an unbelievable season. When we won game 4, I was so psyched because there would be a game 6. When we won game 5, I was going out of my mind thinking that I w=could see them win the championship. I wasn't counting my chickens about getting the tickets especially when the prices skyrocketed. I thougt a bigger customer might ask for the tickets or that something else would go wrong. It didn't set in for me until we picked up the tix at a bar in Dorchester at 4pm. The city was in lock down so I drove to my daughter's place in Somerville, parked there and took the T to the game.

 

This was the first season since 1976 that I didn't get to Fenway for a regular season game due various work and personal reasons. Last night was my first and only game this season other than Spring training. Boy did I get lucky!!

 

After we scored the 3 runs on the Victorino hit and Bogaerts lined out to end the inning, I told my friend that I thught Wacha was going to be toast the next inning. I told him that the litmus test would be if Drew got a hit against him, and then bomb-a-rooski!!! Lol!!!

 

My son is almost as lucky as me. Yesterday was his birthday. In 2004 we were at the parade on his birthday. He has a great birthday!!

 

Great season!! Great night!! Soak it all in!! Enjoy it. I am still pinching myself.

 

BTW, every law enforcement officer in New England must have have been around Fenway and Back Bay. Thousands of cops in riot gear all over.

[diego]

Hi guys, I've followed almost the entire Red Sox season and post season, mainly via web (here in Argentina there´s no baseball fans, so MLB games aren´t broadcasted on TV). Hopefully, ESPN covered the ALCS and the World Series, so I could watch the most important games on TV.

It was really amazing for a foreigner Red Sox fan to follow this entire season, and I've really liked reading this forum in a lot of games (and in almost every post-season ones). I haven't written here because of my poor English, but I've always read your topics.

Congratulations, Red Sox fans!! You really deserve it, I'm very happy for you and for the entire Red Sox Nation. I'd really like to be in Boston once in my life and go to a game in Fenway.

 

 

Edited: it's "poor English"; not "fair"...

Edited October 31, 2013 by diego

[SoxSport]

The national media has so much egg on their faces. The Sox pitching staff generally and the starters particularly went head to head with consecutively the Rays staff, considered the best in the East, the Tigers staff, featuring the best rotation in the AL and the Cards staff, considered to have the best rotation in the NL plus the scariest pen in the entire post season....and....out-pitched all of them mainly on the strength of the starting rotation and the closer.

 

In addition, it is not like they just carted their stuff out there night after night and dominated. Lester was able to come to the mound with his best stuff more often than not. Lackey had really good stuff about half the time. Really more times than you would think for a pitching staff that at the end of the day out-dualed the acknowledged best pitching staffs in baseball they had to come out and battle their way through games. That was just an amazing amazing performance and quite possibly the toughest and grittiest performance by a staff and especially a rotation in the post season that I have ever seen. In no way was it the most dominant but it was without question the grittiest I have ever seen. Consider how disrespected they were compared to the competition, how much respect and awe the analysts had for the opponent staffs at every turn and how much pressure they were under to out-pitch those staffs that were shutting down most of the Boston offense every night. I will be real surprised if I ever see anything like it again. I am pretty convinced I have never seen anything like it to this point...maybe the Tigers staff with Rogers that year comes the closest but really..... NOT!!!!

 

Yeah. I think there is some anti-Boston in the "national" sports media. Maybe because they are all based in NY, and NY is the major TV sports market (about 15%; LA is 9%; Boston is about 3%).Boston is a competing market with NY--some overlap. Where I am in the northeast, what you get is a healthy dose of NY teams in all the sports. That's because the TV advertising revenues are higher when NY teams play. It's about money. Even the league channels (MLB,NFL, NBA) focus on NY teams. They also highlight name recognition: it's the Yankees, Dodgers, etc. vs Boston, Philadelphia, etc. As if fans didn't know where the Red Sox and the Phillies play. The two team city bit is a bunch of crap. It's about advertising.

[kapsis21]

I think that I am the luckiest guy ever. I am still pinching myself. My Blackberry service sucked at Fenway and the battery went dead after my one and only gamethread post.

 

I was visiting my brother in Florida during the ALCS. I was there for the ALCS clincher. The next day I got a text from a good friend asking me if I wanted to go to game 6 of the World Series. I thought he was joking. He has a business associate in Boston that offered him tickets to game 1 or 2, but my friend couldn't make those games. With that, the guy told him that he could have game 6 tickets if it went that far. We had Pavilion seats. It was an unbelievable night capping an unbelievable season. When we won game 4, I was so psyched because there would be a game 6. When we won game 5, I was going out of my mind thinking that I w=could see them win the championship. I wasn't counting my chickens about getting the tickets especially when the prices skyrocketed. I thougt a bigger customer might ask for the tickets or that something else would go wrong. It didn't set in for me until we picked up the tix at a bar in Dorchester at 4pm. The city was in lock down so I drove to my daughter's place in Somerville, parked there and took the T to the game.

 

This was the first season since 1976 that I didn't get to Fenway for a regular season game due various work and personal reasons. Last night was my first and only game this season other than Spring training. Boy did I get lucky!!

 

After we scored the 3 runs on the Victorino hit and Bogaerts lined out to end the inning, I told my friend that I thught Wacha was going to be toast the next inning. I told him that the litmus test would be if Drew got a hit against him, and then bomb-a-rooski!!! Lol!!!

 

My son is almost as lucky as me. Yesterday was his birthday. In 2004 we were at the parade on his birthday. He has a great birthday!!

 

Great season!! Great night!! Soak it all in!! Enjoy it. I am still pinching myself.

 

BTW, every law enforcement officer in New England must have have been around Fenway and Back Bay. Thousands of cops in riot gear all over.

 

you are one lucky man!!! Congratulations ..

[jung]

I was thinking a bit about Beltran this morning and the ball he let fall to the warning track in RF last night. As we discussed earlier, if the RFer in Fenway looks over his right shoulder, the wall is actually angling back toward home plate gradually. If he looks over his left shoulder, he has more room. Earlier in series as we know, Beltran got chopped in half by the wall at the bullpen where the wall comes up on the unsuspecting fielder about 5' sooner than he thinks. He did not like that result. But when he turned left last night, he did not seem to realize how much more room there is back in that deep corner. Seemed to have the earlier event burned into his memory banks and had no desire to do battle with that wall down in the game and likely out of it. He just trotted on back, picked up the ball and tossed it back to the infield.

 

Other NL RFer's must be looking at that Fenway RF and thinking about how much of a nightmare that spot really is for anybody that has to play out there.

[mvp 78]

Hi guys, I've followed almost the entire Red Sox season and post season, mainly via web (here in Argentina there´s no baseball fans, so MLB games aren´t broadcasted on TV). Hopefully, ESPN covered the ALCS and the World Series, so I could watch the most important games on TV.

It was really amazing for a foreigner Red Sox fan to follow this entire season, and I've really liked reading this forum in a lot of games (and in almost every post-season ones). I haven't written here because of my poor English, but I've always read your topics.

Congratulations, Red Sox fans!! You really deserve it, I'm very happy for you and for the entire Red Sox Nation. I'd really like to be in Boston once in my life and go to a game in Fenway.

 

 

Edited: it's "poor English"; not "fair"...

 

Your English is great! Give yourself more credit!

 

If I had to write all my posts in French, it wouldn't be anywhere near as good as the post you just made.

[mvp 78]

I was thinking a bit about Beltran this morning and the ball he let fall to the warning track in RF last night. As we discussed earlier, if the RFer in Fenway looks over his right shoulder, the wall is actually angling back toward home plate gradually. If he looks over his left shoulder, he has more room. Earlier in series as we know, Beltran got chopped in half by the wall at the bullpen where the wall comes up on the unsuspecting fielder about 5' sooner than he thinks. He did not like that result. But when he turned left last night, he did not seem to realize how much more room there is back in that deep corner. Seemed to have the earlier event burned into his memory banks and had no desire to do battle with that wall down in the game and likely out of it. He just trotted on back, picked up the ball and tossed it back to the infield.

 

Other NL RFer's must be looking at that Fenway RF and thinking about how much of a nightmare that spot really is for anybody that has to play out there.

 

He didn't make the play because he's old and slow. It had little to do with him judging the distance to the wall.

[jete02fan]

Good Morning Sox fans...congrats on your 2013 WS championship..a win well deserved..Cheers...

[User Name]

We are close to the all-time record for posts in a GT. Let's keep 'em coming.

[Brennan]

Good Morning Sox fans...congrats on your 2013 WS championship..a win well deserved..Cheers...

 

 

 

Thanks Jete!

[Brennan]

Every yankee fan that I know personally (3 of 4 born and bred) has contacted me to check in and given props. Add Jete, Jacko and Yankees228 and there is a bunch of good sports.

[Brennan]

Divinity?

 

Meh..

[Brennan]

I'll pay the good will forward. I have to admit now that despite his gig of being our personal black cloud, Jacko is a rabidly good fan of his own team and a student of the sport. God I never thought I would have to admit that. Now go pack some frigging boxes Jacko.

[Beaneater]

Just watched the video of the Ellsbury rundown. That was pretty pathetic. He was dead to rights twice in that rundown. The last time Adams threw the ball, he was just about on top of Ellsbury, who was already slowing and turning back toward Adams. All Adams has to do is take another step and tag him; instead he throws (low) to Kozma (I think). Then Kozma and the pitcher have him dead to rights and Kozma double pumps when Ellsbury is already almost past the pitcher. Lame-o.

 

Here's an actual question for those of you who watched the game. My understanding was that Wacha's deadliness was due to a mid/upper 90's fastball and a devastating ~87 mph change. Victorino's double was hit off a ~93.5 mph pitch and Drew's HR was off a 91.7 mph pitch, according to pitch f/x. I guess my question is, was the guy running out of gas after an arduous postseason? He did top out at 97.4 mph last night, which is pretty dang fast. But he couldn't muster up extra velocity for Victorino in a crucial situation and he basically threw a nothing pitch to Drew. (Though admittedly there wasn't much reason for him to suspect that Drew was going to jump all over a get-me-over first pitch fastball and hit it almost 400 feet.) Just a bad night for the kid?

[3for10]

I am a Sox fan that lives in Indiana. I have been a fan since I collected baseball cards as a kid with favorite players like Mo Vaughn and Nomar, and Pedro. I've been lucky enough to go through the good times of the last decade and some of the bad, though not as much heartbreak as some of you.

 

Last year opening weekend I took my family to Detroit to watch Beckett get bombed on day 2.. That wasn't cool .. Then finally got out to Fenway for the first time last August. We caught 3 games against the Twins. The Sox lost all 3 games we were there. Ciriaco hit a bomb late in one of them to make it a game, then Aceves quickly gave up his own to kill all hope we would see a win while we were there.. That was tough, as all of last season was... man..

 

This spring we made it down to Ft. Myers for spring break and got to catch the very last day of spring against the Twins again. Honestly don't even remember the score because halfway through the game, as David Ross was coming in from the bullpen, he took the cap right off his head and threw it in my son's lap just before he disappeared into the dugout! Man that was awesome, now my kid is hooked just as I was as a youngster.

 

Then, in June, 3 friends from work and myself made it to Fenway again for a set with the Rangers. One walk-off later from Mr. Ortiz and my friends were all hooked as well.

 

These Boston Red Sox seemed like a magical group from the beginning for me. I just can't believe how fun it was to watch them grind it out all year. There were so many moments from many different players along the way, that made me think this year was bound to end like this. Unbelievable though, how it unfolded.

 

Thanks to the TS board for the comic relief during games, thanks to the team for a great season, and Thank God for Baseball!

 

oh yeah.. you guys pretty much hit the nail on the head with the Midwesterner mullet s*** .. lol awesome.