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Wow he looks like Rush Limbaugh after 2 years of fasting and exercise in the hot sun.

"Youk + Doug is way to much for a purely defensive catcher" Too much for any catcher, unless there was one whose offensive capabilities nearly matched those of Ichiro Suzuki's caliber. Let's be real. We all like Varitek, but he is not a star. Yes he's a good, solid player, but his value is being overestimated. Much too much is being made of this. If his head (and his demands) don't shrink to something within reason, then throw him away and get a new one. Concentrate on keeping the real stars on the field in Boston.

Just ran across a pretty cool network of t-shirt sites while checking seach engine listings of my own. "Foulke Yeah" at http://www.foulkeyeah.com "Curse of the Purse" at http://www.arodslapsballs.com They have links to their other offerings at the bottom left of their home pages.

"Manny's catch! I almost forgot about that one.....top left." Taht was the absolute funniest thing I've ever seen in a baseball game; both the incredulous look on Cairo's face and Manny's "bang bang" gesture. I laughed so hard my ribs still hurt the next two days.

Sports Star = Public Figure If he wants to endorse a candidate it is his own business. He can endorse Pee Wee Herman or Tiny Tim for all I care.

"Che" is Che Gueverra. The design mimics that of a long popular t shirt/photo depicting Mr. Gueverra. No need to go into it here, you can do a Google search to find out about him. Even though I am a Sox fan and Johnny Damon fan as well, > THIS ONE is still my favorite Johnny Damon T Shirt.

IN all seriousness, the Red Sox WS win will probably spawn at least 30 to 40 new books on the shelves before Christmas, and a stream of dozens more over the next year.

Back in the early 90's, when I could ill afford it, I had a degenerate habit of spending all my money on baseball cards. The experts said buy Ken Griffey cards, but I bought Manny Ramirez. The stats said buy Frank Thomas cards, but I bought Manny Ramirez. This was even before he had even so much as stepped up to the plate at Jacobs Field for his major league debut. I am a Manny Ramirez fan. Even after his several years with the Red Sox, it still seems surreal to me whenever I see a picture of Manny with a "B" on his cap, or a caption in the newspaper that says "Red Sox slugger Manny Ramirez". I am a Manny Ramirez fan. Johnny Damon, Mark Bellhorn, Curt Schilling, David Ortiz are all deserving of the award. Anybody who cares to add another name or two to that list won't get any argument from me, the Manny Ramirez fan. Give him a pat on the back, a bottle of bubbly, maybe even sing a song for him to commemorate his hitting streak. But the WS MVP award? Take it from me, a Manny Ramirez fan. NO F'ING WAY!

hahaha they have their filters set to block the word "sissy". How ironic from a bunch of A-Broad fans.

In spite of his last few outings, I have no confidence whatsoever in Derek Lowe. It would not surprise me a bit if the Cardinals got spotted 6 or 7 runs before the second out of the second inning.

hehe he does look just like him. One of my neighbor's kids, about 5 years old, looks just like him too. Right down to the freaky hair pile. I call him Manny by accident all the time.

The intelligent New Yorkers are not baseball fans to begin with. The intelligent New Yorkers come to Boston for 8 years (or more) of school. The dregs stay in the sewer.

Yeah and the Cardinals' home stats are pretty scary. It aint over till it's over, and I won't be too comfortable if the Sox can't lock down a third win in the third or fourth game. If the cards were to win 2-of-3 at home, things could start getting a little bit freakay. On a side note, after this year's ALCS, the World Series is an anticlimax. Maybe it's just me, but the excitement just isn't there. The ALCS was bigger than the World Series in more ways than one.

"Get 6 innings from their starters and let the rest of the bullpen close it out" They should try to get 9 innings from their starters. Granted, the Schilling situation is an anomaly, but they should try to get 9 innnings whenever possible. Bullpen bodies there *just in case*. Too many times a game gets blown because somebody who had it UNDER CONTROL got yanked for having "104 pitches", and an unknown variable (a reliever) get thrown in and gets rocked. Let your starter throw another 18 or so if that's what it takes to close the door. These are big men; professional athletes. Make them do what they get paid well to do. If they are in a hurry to get back to the locker to powder their nose and rub skin lotion on their legs, trade them to the Yankees and sign some MEN. In the old days, a good pitcher would pitch 9 innings almost every day. And that's after drinking hard all night! None of this "relax at the spa for 5 days" and "you have a quota of 70 pitches today" girlie-man pansy BS.

Wow. Sure there's plenty of heckling, conjecture, and even a tad bit of mean-spiritedness here. But I've never seen anything like some of those folks over there. Seems like there's a shortage of warm babas and fresh, clean diapers in NYC of late. What part of "Shut Up" did they not understand? They interpreted it as "do a poopie and cry until mommy abandons you on a doorstep".

It may be more interesting to see who they hold on to than who they bring in from elsewhere.

"no one should strike out as much as he does, it's rediculous" Seems to me that the yearly list of strikeout leaders is generally populated by most of the same characters that are on the home run leaders list.

Not criticism for Varitek, but we've already seen that he has much difficulty handling Wakefield's pitching. Gave new meaning to the phrase "balls to the wall". Mirabelli can hit the ball just fine. Even if he was to wiff 6 times in 6 at-bats, the benefit that the Cardinals may derive from several "balls to the wall" with men on base far outweighs the potential liability of one Red Sox player *maybe* striking out a few times. And that is a *maybe*; he may very well deliver a few big hits. There isn't much of a *maybe* about whether some balls would get away with Varitek behind the plate.

Wang Dang!

It's funny that you should mention Ted Nugent. Just a minute ago it had dawned on me who Kevin Millar reminds me of when he's talking to TV reporters. Yep, two totally different personalities, but Millar has the same eyes, the same smirk, the same voice, the same mannerisms, and the same speed-freak cadence to the way he speaks.

Slam-a-lam-a...........SHUT UP!!!!! hahahahaha Yeah, the look on A-Broad's face said it all. :thumbsup:

FWIW, about 4 or 5 weeks ago, when they were talking about "friction" between him and Pedro on one of the local sports talk radio shows, Curt called the on-air listener line and he told them that they don't know what the hell they are talking about, and that they should stop making s*** up. He didn't mince his words or try to play around with being nicey-wicey or politically correct. He just shot straight from the hip and shut them down on their own live radio show. 10 points Curt Schilling.

hehehe Yankee fans are funny. :harhar:

I agree about Dave Roberts. But it seems that they either forgot or didn't know (yeah, right) just what Johnny Damon is about right from the start. He had a reputation for stealing bases more than for anything else. If they don't want to play a running game, fine. But at the very least, whenever he gets on base he should be doing a silly-ass "I'm gonna run, lookie here, boy, I'm gonna run" dance to distract the opposing pitcher.

They're saving it for next season. Too much at stake on both sides right now to squander the opportunity that is at hand. I have never attended a live game myself, as my philosophy has always been "why not enjoy it in the relaxed environment of my own home". But the second that tickets go on sale this year, I'm snapping up a few Boston/New York dates. It will be like four shows for the price of one: Baseball, Hockey, Wrestling, and Jerry Springer all wrapped up into one package.