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is it just me or is tim mccarver the most annoying announcer in the history of baseball?

Nice!~

did you hear that schilling was dressed and ready at 8:30am ..i love it.

how many pitches so far this inning like 2?

gabe is up hopefully these guys will say something about it

day-to-day or more serious? I hadnt seen anything ABout him re-injurying it after last night?

PS: I hate tim mccarver

hey guys...quick question, why isnt damon playing??

there is no crying in baseball. poor little mark couldnt handle the booing.. In fact, he did badly beacsue the fans booed him.. You cant play the game without balls. what a little homo...now he isnt talking to his old teammates-I'm glad gabe shared this with the fans. He is 1 for 11, what will happen to him when the yankee fans boo him...? he'll have to come clean wih that sex change operation that he/she had last winter. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

heres a story form the globe about it. In right field, a true seat of power By Dan Shaughnessy, Globe Columnist, 7/5/02 Any way you look at it, the red seat in right is a long way from home. (Globe Staff File Photo/Jim Davis) It sits in a sea of green, a single red chairback in the outer limits of Fenway Park’s right field bleachers. It is Seat 21 in Row 37 of Section 42. It is known simply as the red seat, and it marks the spot where Ted Williams hit the longest home run in Fenway history. Like a fleck of red paint on a lush green canvas, the commemorative chair draws the eye. Someone is almost always sitting in it, even when just a few patrons are in the bleachers. New fans ask about the red seat, and citizens of Red Sox Nation are happy to relay the Fenway folklore. Teddy Ballgame’s mighty clout was struck in the summer of 1946, on a windy, sun-splashed Sunday afternoon in the first inning of the second game of a doubleheader against the Tigers. ‘‘Hell, I can tell you everything about that one,’’ Williams said from his Florida home in 1996. ‘‘I hit it off Fred Hutchinson, who was a tough [righty] who changed speeds good. ‘‘He threw me a changeup and I saw it coming. I picked it up fast and I just whaled into it.’’ Indeed. The ball sailed over the head of right fielder Pat Mullin, then carried beyond the visitors’ bullpen and kept on going. And then it crashed down on top of Joseph A. Boucher’s head. More accurately, it landed on Boucher’s straw hat, puncturing the middle of the fashionable skimmer. Boucher was an Albany construction engineer who kept an apartment on Commonwealth Avenue when he worked in Park Square during the week. He loved baseball and the Red Sox. But sitting more than 30 rows behind the bullpen, he wasn’t expecting to catch any home run balls. Boucher spoke with the Globe’s Harold Kaese after the game and asked: ‘‘How far away must one sit to be safe in this park? I didn’t even get the ball. They say it bounced a dozen rows higher, but after it hit my head, I was no longer interested. I couldn’t see the ball. Nobody could. The sun was right in our eyes. All we could do was duck. I’m glad I didn’t stand up.’’ Boucher went to the first aid room briefly, where he was treated by a doctor. He returned to watch the Sox complete their sweep of the Tigers. The next day’s Globe featured a Page One photo of Boucher holding his hat, his finger stuck through the hole. The caption read, ‘‘BULLSEYE! … ’’ Newspaper accounts claimed Williams’s homer traveled 450 feet, but the Red Sox measured the distance in the mid-1980s and arrived at an official distance of 502 feet — one foot farther than the estimate of Manny Ramirez’s lighttower blast in June 2001. ‘‘I got just the right trajectory,’’ said Williams. ‘‘Jeez, it just kept going. In distance, it was probably as long as I ever hit one.’’ Taking batting practice at Fenway in 1996, mighty Mo Vaughn gazed into the horizon, located the red seat, shook his head, and said, ‘‘Man, they keep moving it up higher every year.’’ No. The left field wall may be moving closer (in 1995 the Green Monster sign was changed to 310 feet from 315) but the red seat is fixed. It just seems farther. ‘‘It’s hard to believe anybody could hit a ball that far,’’ said Vaughn. The bleachers were replaced with chairback seats in 1977 and ’78. In 1984, Sox owner Haywood Sullivan decided to commemorate Williams’s clout by putting a red chairback in the spot where Boucher sat June 9, 1946. If you find yourself sitting in Fenway’s Section 42, Row 37, Seat 21, don’t bother to bring a glove. There was only one man who could hit a ball that far, and he’s no longer with us. This Dan Shaughnessy article originally appeared June 9, 1996;

they were talking about it last night and mentioned that johnny pesky was there on that day.

he could deal drugs probably..

giambi was a man for admitting it and that is whyihe isnt booed with the same enthusiasm as raffy. sheffield, however, is another non-man, or woman, who hasnt amditted to be a cheater like we know he is. Speaking of big names, that brown toothed moron gerbal face gammons really blew another "scoop" what happened to that big name and 50 players..oh well, he's like a weather man no accountability--calls for a storm and its sunny......he just keeps coming up with ******** and his infamous insider info. Probably gets his stories from a hot dog vendor. I cant wait to mop the floor with pinstripes.

for the record, if you're talking about willis reed from the knicks, as opposed to the willis reed that lives in that delusional pea brain yours. and if you're refering to the laker series. It was tied 3-3 and the knicks certainly werent playing bad ball they did however, get crushed without willis in game six and as such needed an inspiration to win. he had a bum knee, not a broken ankle..and he scored 4 points and played 26 or 7 minutes..so just to set the record straight when you are drawing comparison it might help to get more than the guys name correct. It was a great performance but more an emotional one than a tangible impactful and thus not as great as schilling's IMO--whether its the version you stated or the truth. whatever the hell all that has to do with schilling's next start I dont know.

better than he has looked all season..IMO...good location...needs a few mph on the fastball but its getting there. He looked like he was gaining confidence with every pitch, I have been a harsh critic and even I was impressed.

I want to see both of them back.

I thought schilling looked a lot better today and undoubtedly MC will provide us with a list of unbearable stats to prove it. that skinny f*** on the white sox pitched better, though and so what, schilling's is on the road back, he has made me a believer and I might add foulke looked really good as well, he was moving the ball in side and outside hitting the target, good job by both guys. If there was such a thing as a good loss this was it. Plus, this team doesnt give up...3 runs in the ninth..I hate losing but I didnt mind as much today for those reasons.

there are few players in this world who are above reproach--excpet varitek. he might very well be the greatest catcher the redsox have ever had and that includes fisk. He also happens to be the best catcher inbaseball...amd oh by the way he can hit. dont mess with Tek.. That's a criminal offense. I have said some ridiculous things in my time, but questioning Tek's pitch calling ranks up there as the dumbest thing that has ever been said on this web site. Congratulations.

i think the dork hit a f***ing home run?

I'm going to go off topic for a second, because I have liked renteria from the start and have always and am glad he has come around. So I have not been at all off again on again. I am just curious though why that defines a real fan..? I was always under the impression fairweather fans are those that show up when a team is winning and disapppear when a team loses. I am not quite sure why liking, disliking or booing any one guy defines your fan-dom? as I have said before as long as you want the sox to win..who cares what anyone says. I mean I have been extraordinarily vocal about my distaste for kevin millar, but now he is hitting I still dont like him as a player or his big yapper and hijinks...but I cheer if he hits a homerun, how does that make me any less of a fan. For a rare post I am not trying to be argumentative or stir anything up, I promise, but I'm just curious why you all think this way. Historically the fans around this town have been tough, they booed ted williams, Yaz, rice you name it at some point in their careers a lot of very popular players have gotten jeered. so what...?The bottom line is as long as you're a sox fan...you're okay.

can you fit a few more links on there? http://www.yankeessuck is always a fun site. Kevin is making me look foolish, and I love it. When he makes me look stupid (which apparently I to a good job on my own, too) and uneccessarily vindictive that means he's playing well. If he hits a couple of more homers I'll have to dye my hair. Good job kevin, you're turning it around..keep it up.

What is really disturbing is the constant sanctimonious complaining about complaining. Plus, the constant attempts to define what a real fan is..part of being a fan for some of us is liking and dis-liking some players its as simple as that. For others its liking everyone. Big Deal. Stop with the judgemental crap and just state your piece about the particular topic and spare us the lectures. If poeple want to worry about edgars defense fine, that doesnt mean they are less a fan than anyone else. I dont agree with them but i certainly dont think twice about their right to say anything. We all want the sox to win, isnt that the point. some people cheer..some people boo...so what. In this case, however, I have never said a bad word about renteria and probably wont. He is, as my friend sweet chin, says a class act and I respect him enormously. He gets clutch hits..he runs the bases better the most guys, has a few steals and his average has been going up and up all season and he has had a 20+ error season before and is still one of the best SS's in the game. he has tremendous range and gets to balls that most guys wont, and as a result he gets some errors.Big deal, we won right? The comparisons to OC are pointless. Renteria is a much better playere and we are fortunate to have him.

a ROD2212 "yourvery confident going into the playoffs"... given that your team at the moment wouldnt be in the playoffs, dont you think that is tad presumptious?

in fairness, if you read the posts...I said hate kevin millar so sue me...and then made a joke (which I guess is a joke becasue I think its funny but apparently I am quite alone in that) about him being pre-law, which sadly he is.

man, I'm f***ed.. go millar.