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  1. 1986 was the most crushing, but the season was great until game 6. It was 2 crushing defeats. September 2011 was 30 straight days. For me, it was like doing time in the hole.
  2. Yes, because day after day after day, you just knew that the team had no chance of winning in September 2011. The Rays weren't playing great ball. We were just horribly bad. The Sox had the worst September ever. In 1978, Zimmer wore out his guys and they went into an August slump. The Yankees (playing around .700 ball) were white hot while we were slumping. The Sox fell out of first in August, not September is my recollection. The Sox made a comeback in the last couple of weeks coming from about 3 games back to tie the Skanks on the last day. I think the 78 Sox won their last 7 or 8 games to force the playoff game. Losing the playoff game was rough, but living with the pain of a one game playoff loss or a short series loss was easier for me than the 30 day water torture of September 2011. I was nauseous almost every night about an hour before game time, because I knew that we were trotting real garbage to the mound every night.
  3. The timing is very interesting.
  4. I have seen my share of crushing disappointments over 45 years of being a fan, but last year took the cake for prolonged torture and horrible baseball. Nothing that I have witnessed since 1967 prepared me for such a rotten year of baseball. Beginning in 1967, the franchise turned itself around and has had very few sub-.500 seasons since that season. Last year just and the 2011 collapse were groundbreaking in my fandom.
  5. It's funny that you mentioned being pissed off about his improved conditioning when he left Boston. I really was furious when I saw how his body had transformed in that offseason. He went from the Pillsbury Doughboy/Michelin Man look-a-like to Hercules. Now, we know how he made that transformation-- the misremembered roids. My recollection is that Canseco was on the '96 Sox-- Clemens last year. Coincidence? I don't think so.
  6. I think Victorino could use a day off or two, because he is pretty banged up. I never like to sit a guy when he is red hot, and I don't like to sit too many guys on the same day. it would have been ideal to sit one on Sunday and the other on Tuesday, but with Price pitching on Tuesday it would be tough to let either of them sit out that game.
  7. My Reagan imitation usually makes world leaders shudder, but YOTN is tougher than I thought. Okay, you are right-- no politics.
  8. YOTN is getting to be a cranky old guy. LOL!
  9. I thought the discussion in the GT was pretty funny. I particularly enjoyed J_E's threat to conquer TalkSox. It was excellent chain-jerking stuff that was apparently misunderstood.
  10. Epstein the egotist is only in year 2 of his 5 year plan. He needs more time.
  11. Bogarts looks to have good hands, good range,a strong arm and a quick release. There's no reason to move him to 3rd. Drew is a nice player, but he will have to find work elsewhere.
  12. Mr. Gorbachev, reopen the game thread! We've been in Mike Napoli Performance prison long enough.
  13. He has always been a much better hitter right handed than left handed.
  14. Oh I see, the 4 of you were commandeering the GTs. LOL! At least I just call myself King. I don't make any rules. Be damned the 4 of you and your arbitrary dictates. . And when I speak of UN, I stress the first half of that word. Long live J_E's mojo, and as soon as he falls, I will be making a GT.
  15. I wasn't aware of this mojo rule. Are people saying that it is bad mojo to start a GT on an off day? He has the right date on it, so I don't get it. I thought the mojo was limited to the thread starter. We are adding mojo rules? I understand that BTR starts all of his GTs typing with only the pinky finger of his left hand while sitting on the left side of his couch and petting a kitty with his right hand. In the future, ever GT starter should conform to this ritual to maintain the mojo. If you don't have a cat, it will have to suffice that you pet a picture of VA's cat Yaz. Are we all straight on this? The season is on the line.
  16. There was virtually no criticism of Farrell or any Red Sox personnel in this thread. You people are nuts. LOL!! MVP should go to some games and rant at the fans like he does here. He'd end up lumped up, in lock up with mandatory counseling. What a jackass!!
  17. Mo is so revered. His save conversion against us is 78%. Big whoop, plus he is a 1 inning pitcher. f*** him
  18. I don't think he had a chance at that.
  19. That was some kind of wild pitch.
  20. It would be nice to hold them in the 9th and abuse Hughes in the 10th.
  21. Middlebrooks got a popup that carried into the joke of a RF porch for a HR and blown save for Mo!! LOL!!
  22. Lester pitched great today. They didn't hit him hard at all. They took the lead on bloops and bleeders. He had them tamed all day long.
  23. So they use Berry as a pinch runner, but don't send him to steal in 2 ABs?
  24. What a play by the little guy!!
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