Scottish Red Sox Fan

True that. The turnaround has been amazing. My expectations for this year were very low, thankfully the team had other ideas.

12 months ago would have predicted John Lackey being in this situation and pitching the way he is? Talk about R-E-D-E-M-P-T-I-O-N.

You can't really say enough about the job John Farrell has done this year, it's been fantastic.

I can't believe the average cost of a ticket for tonight's game is $2000(£1,000). That's batshit crazy.

Stick a fork in the Cards, they're done.

I thought it was great to see Sweet Caroline being played at Yankee Stadium and to see the Yankee fans having a bit of fun with it. Strange how tragic events can bring out the best in people. I guess New Yorkers must have a pretty good grasp of how Bostonians feel right now after what happened in 2001.

He's pitching his ass off right now and it's good to see. I think it's still too early to view him as an ace though.

What a lovely start to the season. It was nice to see Victorino and Iglesias get off to such a good start with the bat. It would have been nice if Jon Lester could have gone deeper than 5 innings but his early departure gave us an insight into what the bullpen can do, it looked promising. 1-0 baby! :thumbsup: PS. A cleanly shaven Kevin Youkilis in a Yankee uniform is just wrong.

Bloody hell. Is it really nearly 10 years already? We're gettin old people! When I sit back now and think about the 2004 WS I realise that I remember shockingly little about it! I watched all 4 games and yet my memory of it is very sketchy. The things I remember most are Derek Lowe pitching a gem in Game 4 and obviously I remember the final out. I'm pretty sure that the reason I don't remember so much about that WS is because of the ALCS that preceded it. That was the most dramatic series of baseball that's ever been played, it has to be. The ALCS really took it out of me, I was emotionally drained by the time it was over. There were just so many facets to it. We were playing the Yankees, we went 0-3 down, the games took forever to play, the extra innings, the dramatic comebacks, THE stolen base, Johnny Damon's grand slam. It blows my mind even now when I think back to everything that happened in that series. Somebody said earlier on in this thread that it was like a Hollywood script being enacted in real life and they are right. Games 4, 5 and 6 were not shown on television over here so I had to rely on the radio to listen to the games. I could only just barely get a reception on Armed Forces Radio. I sat up each night till 5-6am listening to the Red Sox claw their way back into that series, run by run and out by out. It was absolutely gripping. When we scored the winning run in Game 5 I was leaping about my living room at around 6am with my walkman in my ear and punching the air. Anyone looking in the window would have thought I'd lost the plot altogether. lol Thankfully Game 7 was shown on the TV over here so I got to see that one. As long as I live I don't think there will ever be a series of baseball to top that one. So the World Series for me got completely overshadowed. Which is a shame because sweeping that Cardinals team 4-0 was no small achievement. If we had done that any other year then I think it would have been talked about more than it has been.

I would say I am generally about a 5. I don't know what you would call that - level headed, a realist, middle of the road........whatever. I try to think positive about the team and I will always talk up the good things they do but I am also not shy about criticising the team if I think they are playing poorly or they make mistakes off the field. I reckon I got as high as a 3 when Terry Francona was here, I felt the team was really good then and every year I felt like winning the WS was a live possibility. At the moment I have probably sunk to about a 7. I just don't know where this current Red Sox team is headed. So if you average that out then it comes to 5. 5 for me.

AL East 1. Tampa Bay Rays 2. NY Yankees 3. Toronto Blue Jays 4. Baltimore Orioles 5. Boston Red Sox I've never felt so bad about a Red Sox team as I do about this one. It's gonna be a rough ride I reckon. AL Centrals Detroit Tigers AL West Los Angeles Angels NL East Washington Nationals NL Central St. Louis Cardinals NL West San Francisco Giants

I think my expectations for the Red Sox heading into 2013 are going to be as low as they were in 2012. I haven't been all that excited by the moves we've made in the off season to be honest. A 4th or 5th place finish wouldn't surprise me in the slightest.

Last year when I watched Bobby V on the TV as an analyst I did not get a good vibe off him at all. Some people in life you just warm to and some people you don't. I can't warm to Bobby V. He comes across to me as smarmy and arrogant so I was pretty horrified when I saw the Red Sox appoint him as manager. He just doesn't strike me as a guy who would be a good leader of men. I could be completely wrong but that's my own personal impression of him. I have to be honest and say that I hope he gets fired at the end of the season. I'm not sure that he will get fired though. I think the ownership might be keen to give him another chance to get it right next year. I miss Tito.

The one in the dress = DAYUMMMMM!! The man who could pull me off of her would be declared King of England.

I'd buy that for a dollar!