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  1. Youk Of The Nation
    VA told you guys to win. I'd do it if I were you, don't mess with this chick.
  2. Youk Of The Nation
    I would be in favor of getting rid of all the TV guys and just broadcasting Castiglione simultaneously on the radio and over the TV broadcast.
  3. Youk Of The Nation
    I'm not so sure. I think the Cubs have a very good team, granted, but so did the Mariners when they finished the 2001 season with the most wins of any team since 1906, and they ended up getting steamrolled by the Yankees in 5 games in the ALCS. Postseason history is littered with the failures of regular-season success stories. The Met's rotation looked unstoppable last season, and Kansas City stopped them. The Rockies won an absurd number of games to end the 2007 season, swept through the DS and LCS like they were Spring Training games, and then fell apart completely against the Sox. Guys who went 20-3 or 18-5 in the regular season with a sub-3 ERA get shelled for eight or nine runs in postseason games all the time. I wouldn't start crowning the Cubs with the LCS Championship just yet. They are very good, but in the end, so are the Nats and the Mets, not to mention the Pirates.
  4. Youk Of The Nation
    Goddamn Orioles.
  5. Youk Of The Nation
    So I was looking at MLB.com a little while ago, and noticed something interesting (though not important in the grand scheme of things). In fifteen games between 30 teams today, the Sox and Cardinals are the only teams to score more than 5 runs, on either side. This might change, but the last two games are 1-0 and 2-2 in the 8th inning, so probably not. In fact, today, the Sox scored more runs than any of the other games combined except for the Tigers-Rays and Mets-Brewers games, which equaled the nine runs the Sox scored.
  6. Youk Of The Nation
    Everyone, quick! I need your help! Spudboy has been kidnapped by a British person who is obviously impersonating him online. Let's rescue him!
  7. Youk Of The Nation
    Why aren't the two young kids doing the yardwork?!
  8. Youk Of The Nation
    It was a Saturday afternoon game, and for a lot of us in the Northeast, it was the first relatively nice Saturday afternoon we've had in quite a while. Everyone was probably just busy with weekend stuff. For instance, I used this afternoon to do a lot of yardwork. Weeding, sidewalk edging, I mowed the lawn, picked up the dog crap in the backyard, and cleaned the moss off of the roof of the shed. Exciting stuff!
  9. Youk Of The Nation
    I moved your thread for the reasons stated in the pinned thread at the top of the Talk Sox forum: "A Refresher Course on Talksox Posting Guidelines". "We have three guys whose names begin with "B", that's neat" is not a topic that needs to be created as a separate thread, nor is a complaint about that topic being merged with the Gamethread.
  10. Youk Of The Nation
    Throw strikes. Please?
  11. Youk Of The Nation
    Where is everyone? I've been pulling weeds and edging the sidewalk all afternoon, just came in to check the score, and we have no posts at all with a 4-0 lead an hour and a half into the game? Well, go Sox!
  12. Youk Of The Nation
    As I've mentioned a million times before, if the Sox don't win, I would rather it be a team that hasn't won before, or a team that hasn't won in a long time. I'd prefer the "never before" teams, though, even though it has been so long for the Cubs. Basically, my preferences for a World Series go: Red Sox, Rockies, Pirates, Cubs, almost everyone else, Orioles, Cardinals, cancelled due to natural disaster, Yankees. However, I do love the idea of a World Series in which BOTH teams have never won one before or haven't won one in a while. We had that last year with two teams that last won in the '80s, and that was cool. I guess I wouldn't mind seeing an Guardians-Cubs World Series or even Orioles-Cubs, as long as the Orioles were swept and beaten in each game by at least 5.
  13. Youk Of The Nation
    Bump to keep these in the correct order before I lock it.
  14. Youk Of The Nation
    Oh. Still, Rajai Davis is pretty inoffensive, no?
  15. Youk Of The Nation
    For Lonnie Chisenhall? Don't we usually reserve this sort of vitriol for when the Sox strike out A-Rod or Pierzynski or A-Rod again?
  16. Youk Of The Nation
    I don't want to shock anyone with my opinion, but I have come to the reluctant conclusion that Clay Buchholz is not very good.
  17. Youk Of The Nation
    The best I will hope for from Swihart is not striking out every time he comes up. I already miss Holt.
  18. Youk Of The Nation
    I agree that Shields is pitching below what we know he is capable of, and I would love to see him reunited with Price on the Sox, not only because they would be great, but because it would really rub salt in the wounds of Tampa Bay fans (all six of them). However, you said "right now on this team", and that's more what I was responding to. I wouldn't rather have Shields over those two right now because right now, they are pitching better than he is. That being said, I do believe Shields will improve as the season goes on, and I would love to get him. I just think it can wait until the All-Star Break.
  19. Youk Of The Nation
    Shields pitched like an ace today. Wright has pitched like one basically all season. I can understand wanting Shields over Buchholz or Owens/Kelly/O'Sullivan/Anyone else who has pitched, but over Wright? Over Porcello? Both of those guys have been more dependable this year than Shields, who is pitching in a home park much friendlier to pitchers.
  20. Youk Of The Nation
    Hey, UZR is the statistic that allows us Red Sox fans to take comfort in knowing the truth: That Derek Jeter did not deserve the last few Gold Gloves he won.
  21. Youk Of The Nation
    That was such a great show. There are good shows of other types today, but they really don't make sitcoms like they used to.
  22. Youk Of The Nation
    I imagine Diamondback fans, at least, love the guy as much as Sox fans. Maybe even more in some ways, since Johnson and Schilling brought Arizona their only championship, as opposed to another one. Then again, Arizona's fanbase is quite a bit smaller than the Red Sox fanbase, and therefore not nearly as vocal. However, other than the Sox and D-Backs, I doubt most other fanbases care about him one way or the other. He was a great pitcher, but he was never a household name among every other team's fans like Johnson was, or like Clemens was, or like Kershaw is now. Most fans know who he was, but I doubt a lot of fans outside of the NL West or AL East know exactly how good he was statistically.
  23. Youk Of The Nation
    I would step in here and remind all of you that Yankees fans have been obnoxious on this site since the day it launched, and we have to deal with it up to a certain point, but I am too distracted by the mental image of a thousand parachuted frogs being dropped from an airplane. How funny would that be?
  24. Youk Of The Nation
    Ortiz is the only one I can confidently say I am sure will be on the team. There is no more name-recognized DH in the league, especially given the "farewell tour". Even if he wasn't playing at the level he is, just the fact that this is his last year would likely be enough to get him the votes from everyone except Yankees fans.
  25. Youk Of The Nation
    It looks like he narrowly missed being beaned by a comebacker.
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