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papelbon covered up that bonehead play.thank God.

f***...what the hell is wrong with renteria!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

whats alarming to me is how cold they have been even at home, and that's what got me worrying. For the life of me I can figure out how come the legion of rookie and scrub type pitchers who we havent seen can shut us down, lately it has been guys we have seen as well...and with our bullpen we cant rely on the starters for long. I love paplebon.

phew!

come on man, dont be so negative...lol

manny's homer was a friggn bomb... way out of the park over the monster, and the stands.

hey guys... i just heard papelbon is up-i hope he is as impressive as his last time out.

remy said it was going to be a 3.5 game lead for the chisox. yes that is a free fall. good point about the 5.5 game lead --and from I have seen the yankee fans were being pretty fatalistic...now, it must be frustrating to win 6 games in row and still not gain much ground. I suppose it all depends on how you look at things. I guess I do get a tad negative at times, and I get mauled for it. But hey, we havent played so well in spetmeber and this isnt the time to slump..just because the delusional knuckleheads (aka..the redsox fan police) in here dont approve it doesnt mean you cant think it or say it. right?

yeah, I should change it--when the sox win this year I'll change it. In the meantime, I'm still worried and wish to God the f***ing yankess would stop winning, that would improve the mood. PS: yes...I live in sarasota and when i joined last year we had the class A sarasota red sox, now its a reds team though.

my name's phil and I am not a chick, the last I looked! I probably should have used the word slump as oppoesed to free fall, far be it from me to say anything on here that might piss off anyone...or get them angry..I hope that everyone can laugh about this and remind me how pessimistic I was--beleive me I dont want us to lose. In talksox land, if you dont agree you're a traitor and not a real fan... you'll get a huge prize if you can change that narrow and immature mind set. I think the delusional hate of the yankee from a lot of people on here creates a strange loss of touch with reality..plus, a lot of the people on here havent suffered as many sox fans have in past years--so they dont know what a fade feels like. Anyway, I hope I'm wrong and that we keep winning. Lats night the bats still were cold and walk off beaning doesnt make me feel any less concerned. But hey--why rock the boat!

yankees are surging, we're slumping, which is not to say we wont turn it around-- WHY IS BEING CONCERNED BEING NEGATIVE.

what are you on speed sizzler?

au contraire.. see the article in the globe today, gabe kapler defines everything that is good about a professional athlete and you cant win championships without the gabe kapler's of this world. I dont care if he is a lifetime 251 hitter, he is balls out all the time...he brings an intangible to all those around him and he does nothing but compete and hard. You want positve from me--here it is...gabe!!

realism ,negativity and being positive often can be confused. I generally think we have a good club, but I am not delusional--this team has some problems -- it is flawed. typical talksox, insult the post-er and not talk about the post. I hope we get it going..that's all.

thats a good point, a very good point. and while I struggle with fending off panic I think we need some.. urgency, and that is a problem I have with terry, and I am not bashing him, but I havent seent that type of managing or line-ups that have a september pennant race feel to them, as opposed to some game in May. The yankee series was a good example, they played it like a playoff series and we played it like it was against royals, and that worries me.

I would love to see youk at first and billy at third, that would be ideal...olerud as back-up. It seems like a no brainer.

thats reassuring because he sure as s*** cant run..

I am feeling doomy and gloomy... a team wide (except DO) slump horrendous bullpen still foulke horrible and an ******* to boot. for all the blather in here about our great schedule we keep losing and the yankees keeping winning. bad managing. fielding like little leaguers on crack. we need to step it up. and soon.

I like jerry remy and think he is pretty darn objective, actually.

my hats off to johnson. that was a tremendous clutch performance and he completely dominated us. congrats empire...you guys desreved thatgame. it was fun to watch, well, fun in a perverse gut wrenching way.

man, we lost today because that big ugly f*** pitched great a game. we're still three up, big deal.. olerud gets a hit and francona is einstein, he doesnt francona is frankenstein. lighten up. let me handle the negativity ---this isnt the right time.

man, I am so sick of this fairweather fan talk regardless of who says it. who f***ing cares. I am as devoted a fan as they come and that's just me. It doesnt bother me what anyone else does. that's their business and who I am to judge what they do with their rooting or cheering? Not everyone can follow a team like we do, and as long as they root for the sox, who cares. There are always going to be poeple that only become fans during the playoffs and who will only root for a winner and they are always going to be people who stick it out no matter what. The bottom line for me is that I have been a sox fan forever, and unlike some fans have suffered through losing season after losing season at the hands of the yankees and everyone else in the american league, and by golly, I spent years waiting to gloat and waiting to have a championship team and if that means taking a few shits on the yankees and their barabaric fan base-then I say so what. Nothing brings me more pleasure than the sox being winners...Nothing brings me more perverse pleasure than seeing the evil empire suffer humilating losses to teams like the devil rays and then internal bickering and name calling that comes with it. I read the new york post to fuel my fire. personally I dont care if your a fairweather fan or a sox lunatic, as long as the sox win and the yankees lose all is right in the world! .

I'm sorry to post again but this article form the Post sheds some light on what we are talking about. How frustarting it must be to be a yankee fan and have so many redsox fans in your house. There always a few yankee fans in fenway but never enough to be too bothersome. But this is funny.. STADIUM NOW BOSTON COLONY September 11, 2005 -- THE BALL looked like it had a shot when it left Derek Jeter's bat, but somewhere high above Yankee Stadium it lost a few feet, began to die, began to tumble back to earth, where Trot Nixon was waiting. Nixon stood a step in front of the right-field wall, a step to the right of the yellow W.B. Mason sign, finally squeezed it. Ballgame. Red Sox 9, Yankees 2. Which is when a strange thing happened: You couldn't hear the first few notes of "New York, New York" (the Liza version, the one they reserve especially for seven-run losses to the Red Sox). You couldn't hear them because there was a deafening spasm of noise spreading through the grandstand now, and just about everywhere you looked inside Yankee Stadium you could see row after row of red shirts, hear chorus after chorus of satisfied cheering. It isn't enough that the Red Sox won Game 7 of last year's ALCS and put an end to whatever metaphysical dominance the Yankees and their fans felt they had over the Sox. It isn't enough that the 5,000 or so Sox fans who scored tickets to that game stayed long and partied loud into that October night. No, now they have become even more emboldened, and they have multiplied wildly. This isn't perception, it is reality: there are more of them now. Time was, finding a visible Red Sox fan inside Yankee Stadium in September was like trying to find a Democrat at a Bush family retreat. And even those who did infiltrate tended to mind their manners unless they were emboldened with a little Anheuser-Busch Courage. Not now. Not anymore. Walking through the concourses at Yankee Stadium during the top of the fourth inning yesterday, there rose a deep, throaty roar from the other side of the walls. Yankee fans scurried to the concession stands to check TV monitors; such a sound could only mean a Yankee had just made a splendid defensive play. Imagine their surprise, then, when they saw this instead: Red Sox first baseman John Olerud trotting around the base paths after smoking a ball into the right field stands off Shawn Chacon, extending the Sox' lead to 3-0. "Why the hell is everyone cheering?" asked a guy in an Alex Rodriguez jersey, and it's a hell of a good question. We have grown used to the sound of Yankees fans engineering hostile takeovers of Shea Stadium during Subway Series. We have even heard the occasional night in the Bronx when Mets fans can out-shout the natives. But Red Sox fans? Here? Next thing you know there'll be dogs and cats . . . living together . . . total chaos . . . "We're running out of games," Derek Jeter said. Yes. Of all the shocks to the system that the Yankees have absorbed since this rivalry was officially turned on its ear, that's the most pressing right now. The Yankees had all kinds of momentum after Friday night's 8-4 victory. Now that looked and felt and sounded like a vintage Yankees-Red Sox game. No insolent interlopers then. No "Two-ooh thousand!" chants then. "No carryover, I told you guys that," Jeter said. "Every day is a new day, a new game. Yesterday means nothing." Apparently not. Not anymore. The Sox fortified their lead in the East yesterday, and deepened the Yankees' wild-card problems, and did so in an atmosphere that was shockingly visitor friendly. "We have no fear of Yankee Stadium," David Ortiz said — which is pretty obvious, because for most of yesterday the Sox enjoyed all the comforts of home there, right down to shoddy Yankee pitching and sloppy Yankee defense. All that was missing was high-speed Internet in the dugout and hi-def TV in the bullpen. How bad have things gotten? George Steinbrenner, who so sportingly kept the lights on for celebrating Sox fans last October, had zero fight left in him as he departed the Stadium yesterday. "Get out of here, guys," he told the assembled Bossophiles. "Leave me alone."

you guys certainly arent out of it, and I am still worried about the yankees. With all your injuries and with a piecemeal staff it is extraordinary to see the yanks only 4 back instead of 12. But with that said the team appears old to me, and not as intimidating as the yankees of the past..hopefully the yankees will be eliminated entirely from the playoffs--and while we are driving towards another championship yankees fans can fight among themselves.. It might be the best thing to happen to the yanks in a long time. there is a lot of dead wood in the bronx..but really what happens to the yankees is inconsequential as long as long as we keep winning.

oh one more thing.because of the PC attempts by the powers that be to eliminate yankeee suck shirts and things like that--is just that PC overkill. I think the rest of the sports world has their own rivalries to worry about but in terms of baseball and in terms of being a sox fan--this is truly a great rivalry and the mere thought of the yankees not making the playoffs with a 200 million dollar payroll brings me such ghoulish pleasure its hard to describe.