10/6 ALDS @ Astros

[bosoxmal]

Best thing I can think of at the moment would be seeing David Ortiz in Ft Myers next March! AS MANAGER. tHIS GUY HAS MORE BASEBALL KNOW-HOW, AS WELL AS ENERGY, THAT ANYONE i CAN EVER RECALL!

[illinoisredsox]

what?

 

It's a reference to the 2004 ALCS. Before Game 4 (remember the Yanks led 3-0 at that point), Kevin Millar was good by around to anyone who would listen saying "Don't let us win tonight" and then added they had Schilling and Pedro scheduled for games 5 and 6 and that in "Game 7 anything can happen."

[jad]

Well the Yanks showing like they belong in the playoffs.

 

Except for maybe those two pitches and the 9 runs.

[Kimmi]

what?

 

 

Don't Let Us Win Tonight

[Bellhorn04]

It's a reference to the 2004 ALCS. Before Game 4 (remember the Yanks led 3-0 at that point), Kevin Millar was good by around to anyone who would listen saying "Don't let us win tonight" and then added they had Schilling and Pedro scheduled for games 5 and 6 and that in "Game 7 anything can happen."

 

It's all captured on film for posterity, Millar saying that to Shaughnessy - with a grin on his face! Just incredible. And then he gets the crucial walk off Rivera in the 9th to boot.

[Slasher9]

the best part about yesterday's game was dannycater posts. Good to see you DC

[Northern Star]

 

Don't Let Us Win Tonight

 

Ah, OK.

[Northern Star]

Except for maybe those two pitches and the 9 runs.

 

Except except the 8 runs scored in 2 games, which is exactly twice what we've accomplished.

[Northern Star]

Best thing I can think of at the moment would be seeing David Ortiz in Ft Myers next March! AS MANAGER. tHIS GUY HAS MORE BASEBALL KNOW-HOW, AS WELL AS ENERGY, THAT ANYONE i CAN EVER RECALL!

 

Best thing I can think of at the moment is we win the next three on the way to another World Series title.

[Northern Star]

Yanks up 8-3!

 

But ya didn't, Blanche, ya didn't win the game.

[TylerD]

Day off today. Win the next 2 at home and fluke one out in Houston. I feel good about our chances....................

[a700hitter]

I can't believe that the last hopes for our season rest with Fister.

[Spudboy]

I can't believe that the last hopes for our season rest with Fister.

 

I can understand this yet at this point I have as much or more confidence in Fister as I have for Sale or Pom.

 

Still, this Sox team is not likely to out-hit Houston.

 

Sad.

[dannycater]

hey, hey, slash...always rely on your hottie photos for avatars..time-honored tradition I still see. I'm trying to figure out if anyone remembers last year's dead-walk v. the Guardians. Well, this is dead-walk part deaux. Sox are indeed the Walking Dead.

[dannycater]

Sox are proving every baseball expert right...and that has to be the worst thing about all of this...predictability of both the Astros and the Sox. But all it takes is a home run by a Sox player early in a game and who knows. But that's the hard part---who will step up and homer? Should have happened in Houston. I would have played Holt in game 2 as a gut thing as he is a Texas boy (as is Chris Young). I also would have held on to Price but that's because I knew game 2 was over...by the time they put him in after Calvson SchiSmith, it was at best a waste of his pitching. He could have gone long on Monday with the season on the line...217 million, he should be throwing 4 to 5 innings regardless of his lack of use after injury. Fister, who know. Either he shuts them down or he gets roped in the 1st inning, something that Doug has been doing a lot of this season. You can't fall behind against the Astros. Sox are in no position to come back with the 2 hits, 1 walk and maybe scratch a run offense against the 1 swing and you are down 3-0 Astros.

[Northern Star]

I can't believe that the last hopes for our season rest with Fister.

 

Anyone who seriously thought we were winning this series is a delusional blind homer. I didn't rate us for more than one win, and that was optimistic.

[Northern Star]

I realize they need a day off for travel, but I wish they were playing today, dammit. Rip that band aid right off.

[Youk Of The Nation]

It's all captured on film for posterity, Millar saying that to Shaughnessy - with a grin on his face! Just incredible. And then he gets the crucial walk off Rivera in the 9th to boot.

 

I still marvel when I think about how much a split second matters in this game. Can anyone even imagine what we'd be saying about Tito or Dave Roberts these days if he had gotten thrown out on that steal?

[Bellhorn04]

I still marvel when I think about how much a split second matters in this game. Can anyone even imagine what we'd be saying about Tito or Dave Roberts these days if he had gotten thrown out on that steal?

 

I hear ya. There was also the fateful moment in Game 5 when Tony Clark hit the ground-rule double that would have driven in the series-winning run if it didn't bounce over the wall in the right-field corner.

 

The baseball gods were smiling on us that year, for once.

[Kimmi]

I hear ya. There was also the fateful moment in Game 5 when Tony Clark hit the ground-rule double that would have driven in the series-winning run if it didn't bounce over the wall in the right-field corner.

 

The baseball gods were smiling on us that year, for once.

 

I have often used that play as a perfect example of randomness - The bounce of the ball potentially being the difference between a win and a loss.

[dannycater]

Same thing in the 78 playoff. Piniella playing out of position on RF line, can't see a thing due to blinding sun, but is able to catch a ball on Lynn, then same thing on a hop on Remy base hit, stopping Burleson at 2nd when he could have easily jogged to third. Rice then hits a bomb out that would have scored Burleson for a sac fly and tying run...arggggggggggggggggggggggh

[Bellhorn04]

Same thing in the 78 playoff. Piniella playing out of position on RF line, can't see a thing due to blinding sun, but is able to catch a ball on Lynn, then same thing on a hop on Remy base hit, stopping Burleson at 2nd when he could have easily jogged to third. Rice then hits a bomb out that would have scored Burleson for a sac fly and tying run...arggggggggggggggggggggggh

 

I know, Piniella makes 2 plays in that game he had no right to make...baseball gods were unkind to us that day.

[Kimmi]

Same thing in the 78 playoff. Piniella playing out of position on RF line, can't see a thing due to blinding sun, but is able to catch a ball on Lynn, then same thing on a hop on Remy base hit, stopping Burleson at 2nd when he could have easily jogged to third. Rice then hits a bomb out that would have scored Burleson for a sac fly and tying run...arggggggggggggggggggggggh

 

I was too young to watch (or remember) that series, but things like this happen all the time in baseball. In a short series, randomness (luck) often prevails.