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It's not that easy sometimes. Many of the tabs have fallen off and the yellow highlighting has faded.

It was the most exciting finish that I have seen in person since David Ortiz walk off 3 run home run against the Texas Rangers with 2 outs and 2 strikes. My memory told me that CJ Wilson was the victim, but was Otsuka.

LOL! I cant remember.

Yep, this is going down a bad road.

You mean losers from back in the day when one team from each league made the postseason. There were no playoffs, no wild card. You went to the World Series if you finished with the best record in your league. Everyone else went home. There was a 4 team pennant race going into the last day of the season and three teams were still alive on the final day, But for that 1967 team, 2004 never happens, ... at least not in Boston. They were on the verge of leaving town, but the 1967 cardiac kids breathed life into a dead franchise and went on a streak of 17 consecutive winning seasons. It brought baseball back to all of New Rngland.

You are too busy poster shopping.

Did the announcers mention whether Bradley had previously thrown out a runner from third at home plate on a basehit?

i think he was waiting for the runner to clear in front of him.

You never heard of Reggie Smith? He's pretty high up on the list of All Time switch hitting HR hitters. Never heard of George Boomer Scott or Elstin Howard? Never heard of Rico who had the season HR mark for SS for a number of years -- 40? Go study up. The players on that team had better careers than the 2013 squad.

They rehire Ben Cherington who finishes last a record 5 straight seasons. Despair and Civil Unrest grip the City of Boston and Fenway Park is burned to the ground on a massive riot. The once Great wealthy iconic franchise is broke and resettles in Plattsburgh.

At the game mojo and Impossible Dream Golden Anniversary mojo! Go Red Sox!

Did the camera pick him up on the way to the dugout when he popped up? It looked like he was grimacing and holding one of his hands as of it hurt. But then again, my eyes are not that young and I am not that close to the dugout, so he could just have been upset at popping up and he was removing his batting gloves very slowly. I was just wondering if the cameras picked up something. also, for a guy who never used to strike out, he k's qulte a bit now.

They probably wants to ice his leg.

My bad. Benintendi is out of the game.

What happened to Mookie. He was holding his hand and grimacing after he popped out? Young replaced him in RF.

At the game mojo!

And that makes two of us.

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[TABLE] [TR] [TD][/TD] [TD]Baseball is Fun (@flippingbats)[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD=colspan: 2]8/14/17, 10:23 AM WOW. Baseball was made to break your heart, and Rafael Devers just did it to this Yankees fan. (via @JoezMcfLy) pic.twitter.com/3ivcTPwErR [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] A Yankee fan's reaction to Devers' Home Run. A Yankee fan shared this with me.

Wow! Devers hits one to left and one to right field. He has been rushed. Panic move.

An injured sloth?

lol!!

That is an idea that I support .

It isn't a propaganda contest or a popularity contest. It doesn't matter whether anyone pumps up a guy or not. Baseball is results oriented.

Holt is a very useful player who adds value in many way. Farrell's mistake was not playing Holt last night, but trying to force in a RH bat in Young at the expense of Devers' bat.