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0 for 3??? Then I take it you can tell me about his other two children and where they strayed.....if, in fact, they did. Let me know. If that turns out to be true I will issue a mea culpa. If not I expect you to stand down.

I'm saying some times no matter what parents do their kids turn out rotten. That's what happened with Jerry's son Jared. Now if you have some proof that Remy and his wife were lousy parents and were responsible for their son's downfall please enlighten me. If you don't I'd like to give Jerry and his wife the benefit of the doubt instead of hurling what may be false and scurrilous accusations against them.

I'm afraid ignorance can sometimes run pretty deep Pal. I remember hearing and reading that you never put a father's sins on the backs of his children. Well I think the reverse is true. He tried his best and his son turned sour. It wasn't Jerry who induced him to become a druggie and maybe a murderer. Those people giving Remy all this hatred should take a chill pill and then take a good look in the mirror, and for what it's worth I'm elated that Jerry is back with Don Orsillo to do the Red Sox games on TV. I think they work very well together when I see them on my computer screen and they help make the games enjoyable. They're not sickening homers like Hawk Harrelsond of the other Sox but in their own way you can tell they live and die with the Red Sox.

mvp was pretty much correct on that iortiz. Actually Vasquez isn't a totally crappy hitter; he has shown some improvement there, but Swihart projects as a potentially solid hitter for both average and improving and developing power. I got to watch a film clip on Sawxheads on him after he signed and as an old has-been baseball coach I was very deeply impressed with his bat control, his ability to stay inside the ball and his ability to hit down on the high pitches and use the whole field on pitches away from him. He was an outstanding high school hitter. As for Javier, he could still make the team as second catcher and it wouldn't surprise me on days when they want to let Swihart DH or play some other position that he could get enough action to keep him sharp. Nice to know we have two good catchers in our system.

iortiz, I met VA Fan at Fort Myers in 2007 and truth be told she is an attractive woman. Nothing lacking there, but I think we should all now move on. Let's now move on as you suggest and see if we can just have some fun here. Frankly, though I can also be argumentative, I really hate getting into pissing contests with my fellow posters. It leaves me filling miserable when it is over.

It can be a lot of things that cemented a Red Sox fan to his team. It could be just a simple thing as attending a game one summer afternoon at Fenway Park, and it could be the whole '86 season in your case, a pretty damn successful season if you look at the whole package, and it could be what happened in 2004 when it seemed there were a lot of new converts to the cause. But no matter what the reason was I think I'm standing on pretty firm ground when I say that right now, this very minute, there is no greater feeling for any baseball fan unless your team is the Red Sox. Right now this is hyperion for us.

Thank you my friend......and some wonder why you, 700 and I are buds. How about mutual respect and a genuine liking for one another.

No on that. I'm the old man of the crowd but I would prefer to be called The Dean just on age alone. At least so far I've some humorous retorts. Can be just call it a truce and move on. Baseball is creeping up on us thank God and that I what I feel we should be zeroing in on.

Pin---just because I dislike the Yankees has nothing to do with how I feel about you. You're a total class act in my book. Glad you post here and glad to see Jacko here as well. If you notice not all Red Sox fans act like a happy family at times around here, but when it comes to the Red Sox we do tend to draw together.

Stubborn my ass VA. I have a point of view and I defend it, and I also respect the opinions of others until they get nasty and personal with me. Then I go after them with everything I have only to hear them complain that I went too far. Screw them. Agree or disagree with as you or others wish but don't get personal because I will get personal right back. Now if we all remember that we can have peace on this board. As for the alliance you talk about, iortiz, 700 and Sox Sport and I have just hit it off from the start, pretty much like you mvp and User have.

NO he's not. He comes out with sarcastic and nasty posts simply to try and embarrass others and make himself look good, and for the record VA I think you have a blind spot for the guy. If you read his nasty missive to both Ted and I you could see for yourself---even if you don't want to. When he stops iortiz, 700, Sox Sport and I will stop too. There is no reason for him to act like a total jackass.

Well if you never learn anything else about the Yankees you learned the main facet of their persona. They are a bunch of treacherous lying bastards.

What I do remember about 1986 was that out here in So. Cal the Angels were talked up as a team that could actually go all the way in their 26th year while the Dodgers were in deep s*** and barely missed finished last in the NL West. The press out here were saying the Red Sox might be the only team to stand in their way. That's how it turned out to be. In the NL, the Mets were considered the class of the league so seeing the LA press was right and that the teams expected to win won and met in the WS.

Papelbon probably thought after 2012 that his old team had hit the skids and wouldn't be relevant for a number of years. He was had the right idea but had the wrong team in mind. It was his Phillies team that stumbled and bumbled through the 2013 season and don't look anything but a year older with a bunch of declining players and bloated contracts dragging them down like an anchor. I believe he wants out of Philly in the worst way because he knows his team has little chance to go anywhere this year. They're old and their numbers are down and many of them have become the walking wounded. He also knows the Red Sox want no part of him so his parachute might be if the Yankees decide to spend more money......on him.

Anyone out there think the Blue Jays could made a dramatic turnaround as we did last season? I don't mean going all the way and winning the WS but we have to keep in mind pundits were saying at this time last year that Toronto with their upgrades were the team to beat in the AL East. Our division is much more balanced that some people think it is and as we showed in 2013 teams can go from the outhouse to the penthouse in one swoop. I think it is possible that any one of the five teams in the AL East could sweep the prize and my one worry about the Red Sox, save from staying healthy, is whether there will be a let down this season and a loss of the hungry attitude they showed last season.

You know BSN, I've had it in for the Yankees since I was seven years old and since I'm in my early 70's you know that's helluva long time to despise a team. True the Yankees have been a great team for most of the past century and I have to give them that, albeit reluctantly, but truth be told, I know deep in my bones that they have also blessed with the gods of fate smiling on them, some of the most amazing luck and good fortune a team could have. It is high time for them to feel the heel of the anvil and start suffering like so many other teams have and that is what I was referring to with Palodios. Let them eat some dirt for a couple of decades and have their noses in our butts. I don't think that's too much to ask, is it?

Can you believe those two dorks Ted? I'm reading their snarky and stupid remarks with my mouth open in near shock as I read those flat dishwatery utterances. And, of course, mvp's lodge brother has to weigh in with some stupidity of his own. It means I have to read something the guy said but at least I have him on ignore in all other cases so my contact with that obese dweeb is almost non-existent. I think the other guy is just a down and out miserable person; there is no other excuse for his miserable and nasty comments. I'm thinking the ignore button on that guy as well.

I'll second that with extreme favorable bias Ted. I know full well that Vin Scully is the headmaster of all baseball announcers so this isn't a knock on him because he works solo, but for my money Don Orsillo and Jerry Remy are as good a duo on the TV broadcasts as any I've heard over the years. They interact very well and they both know the game. Great to have Jerry back.

That smart aleck remark was beneath even you. If you would get your head out of your ass for a minute you could have surmised that there was nothing for me to get joyful about the '86 ALCS for the damn simple reason I wasn't a Red Sox fan in 1986. Perhaps I shouldn't have been surprised by your tasteless blurb because you are a miserable and unhappy person.

They spent that money Pal because we won the World Series....I am convinced of that, and that is why I am now convinced there must be no slacking off on our part. The Red Sox have to be as relentless as they were in 2013 and if anything more determined to take care of the Yankees. I know Jacko Pin and others are exceptions to the rule but there are lots of fans of that club that are a pack of entitled spoiled front runners and to see them flee like rats if and when they fall apart will be music to our ears. Unfortunately for them they have an aged team, they lost their ninth inning slam dunk artist as well as their best player. I will tell you this, though and mark my words. We beat them for the AL East Title or the American League Championship this coming season they will once again spend themselves into a druken stupor. With them it's always WS Title or bust. We must bust them.

IOSS--here's a semi-quick vignette. I am a supreme Dodger hater who lives in a strong Dodger neighborhood in Arcadia, Calif, and when I got back after our Red Sox won the pennant and then the World Series I was ready to light into all the Bums fans around here until I noticed that every one of them---EVERYONE OF THEM were rooting for us in the World Series. They simply hated the Cardinals. I guess a lot of s*** went down when the played St. Louis in the NLCS. Contrast that with Angels fans. I don't know one who was rooting for us. Angels fans hate the Red Sox with a passion and for my 37 year old son-in-law it goes back to 1986's ALCS when the Red Sox rallied from being down 3-1. Combine that with 2004, 2007 and 2008, even their win over us in 2009's ALDS has not staunched their dislike of our team. That includes Scott's three brothers and their wives, his father and mother and most of their friends. They see me in Red Sox regalia, and they see me in nothing else most of the time, and you can see the sneers and even some spittle leaking from their mouths. So I guess, if there is a moral to this it depends on whose ax is getting gored. We do have something over the fans of all the other teams.....In the last ten seasons only one team has one three World Series and that is our ball club.

Why indeed Ted? Look, you and others know I've been a Red Sox fan for only 13 and a half years, but I have become an ardent and passionate one to the point of being called a psychotic by some of my friends in my neighborhood, but I know enough about our team that I don't know why anyone would want to reminisce about 1986 or even 1975. OK, '67 was the beginning of Red Sox Nation and that was a mini version of what 2013 became for us---a pennant totally unexpected after 21 years of disappointment and rot, but those other two? What we should all be reveling in IMHO are 2004, 2007, and 2013, for our own edification, pleasure and benefit but also for those million of Red Sox fans who never had the pleasure of seeing their beloved team win the big enchilada. Even if I had been a Red Sox fan before 2000 what the hell would 1986 mean to me? Nothing about disappointment. Forget that and move on.

You're taking the "glass is half full and not half empty" and go even farther and say the glass is three-fourths full. Nothing wrong with that, and as I said to Palodios, if the Red Sox could rally themselves and have another World Series victory celebration this year the Yankees would be ready to turn on the gas and commit hari kari. The outline you gave is very possible and with good health and good seasons from most of our players it can be done. I really would love to see the Yankees reacting if we could win two in a row. It would be suicide watch in the Bronx.

I feel your anger, frustration and can tell you I feel the same way. We can do something about this Pal but it would take a complete Red Sox team effort to do it---and it could be more easily said than done. IT WOULD BE TO GO ALL OUT THIS YEAR AND ONCE AGAIN WIN THE WORLD SERIES. I would guarantee you the Yankees would be totally discombobulated and it would be them angry and frustrated and would make them spend themselves into bankruptcy. The worm has turned my friend. Whether you or anyone wants to believe it or not, the Yankees now react to what we do, not the other way around and 2013 drove them to the wall. If we could just pull it off I think Con Edison might be inclined to turn the gas off in the South Bronx come late this coming October.

I could tell you about it from my vantage point in 1986 but I promised VA Fan that I would refrain from saying anything about that year and making her sick to her stomach. You might ask her about it. She might be willing to tell you....AND THEN DUCK!!!!!!!!