I am exhausted from the many hours spent watching my Red Sox battle back against impossible odds over the last week. I can’t be the only one. Is this the best series in the history of baseball?
Right now I am watching Schilling pitch his heart out with blood on his ankle and a damaged tendon. The would be goat of the series, and the guy who looked like the worst major league player in history manages a three run home run.
This is the thread where fans of both teams can comment and appreciate great baseball. Go Sox!
Bottom of the eighth, and I just tuned into game Six (who thought we’d get this fah?). Watching that ball bobble down the first base line – shades of Bill Bucknah! – and then the redeption… I’m not much of a baseball fan, but the Sox play with such haaaht! It’s so much fun to watch them asymptotically approach the ultimate win.
Sure, they’ll choke. It’s inevitable. But it’s SO MUCH FUN to watch until then.
It’s too bad the Sox got rid of Nomaaaah, but as a Macross / Robotech fan, I love the fact that the Sox have a guy named “Varitek.”
Little known fact: Veritek can actually transform into guardian and jet modes if the mood should striek hmi.
Oh, and GO SOX! Woo! Making history once by going to game 7 being down 3-0, and making itagain tonight when they win! Knuckle the Hell out of 'em, Wakefield.
I do wish the Sox would start Wakefield. In the first few innings the adrenaline is flowing and the Yankee hitters will likely be way ahead of the knuckleball. I just hope that, whenever he comes in, his floater is working tonight. Now that last night is over I think it is official. This is the best series in baseball history.
It kind of reminds me of the last Super Bowl. After it was over, it was univerally regarded as the best Super Bowl ever, with “everyone” forgetting the fact that the first three quarters were bad to unremarkable.
I just hope the game doesn’t take 6 hours…I’ve got to catch a red-eye back to the East Coast tonight.
I didn’t see anything of games 1-3. I watched game 4 in its entirety, and was thinking that this was one of the worst games ever. Over 3 hours before the 9th inning; nothing but weak grounders and popups. No sparkling defense. No clutch hits. A Boston “rally” would be two walks followed by a double play ball. No bunting, no stealing…NY’s big inning came on an extra base hit followed by 3 dribblers to the infield.
One thing is certain. If the Red Sox had A-Rod at short and Magglio Ordonez in place of Manny this team would not be in the playoffs. Theo would be villified for making an idiotic trade and trying to be Steinbrenner. It would have been a disaster. I was wrong in wanting A-Rod, he would have been wrong for the team, and for all I care the Yankees can have him for the rest of his career.
Mostly because Ordonez would have missed most of the season with that knee injury, and we’d have Millar in left with Ortiz at first instead.
If Rodriguez had produced in Boston, he’d be adulated. If he messed up, he’d get the heat. That’s fair, and it’s only more intense in Boston, not really different. If he ever joined the Sox, forgiveness would take maybe 5 minutes tops - just the way that Pedro’s takedown of Zimmer will be forgiven in NY as soon as he puts on the pinstripes.
Man am I glad Boston never picked A-Rod up. What was he thinking? He definitly deserves to wear a Yankee uniform!
I don’t want to say this, but this could be the year! Think about, if it were a typical year, they never would have made it to game 6. And if they did, the home run would have been a double, A-Hole would be safe, Jeiter would have scored and the Yankees would have won.
Is Curt Schilling risking his career by pushing that ankle like he’s doing? Granted, he’s already somewhat old and already has big money and a World Series ring, so maybe he doesn’t feel like what’s ahead of him is too much. But it really scares me to see someone pitch with blood coming out of his ankle.
If the Red Sox win Game 7, will he have decent time to recover for the World Series? Does that depend on whether or not the NLCS goes 7, or is the World Series schedule already pre-set?
The World Series schedule is always preset. It starts on Saturday, regardless of whether the NLCS goes 6 or 7. So you always want to win your series in 4, and hope your opponent’s series goes 7 with lots of extra innings chewing up their bullpen.
Maybe not - as the team’s Dr. Bill Morgan, whose idea it was, the sutures in his skin stabilized the tendon so that it wouldn’t rub on the bone and further damage the sheath. The blood was superficial, from the suture holes, not from the tendon. “Curt from a car phone”, as Boston radio sports talk listeners know him, only has to make 2 starts in the Series, and maybe only 1, before getting it fixed.
(But I did stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night)
Boy, did the Yankees pull a colossal choke on this one.
In a way it’s a shame Game 7 was an utter dog, being pretty much over by the third inning, or else this would not only have been the best comeback in baseball history, but the best playoff series, ever. (That honor still goes to the 1991 World Series.)
The Red Sox sure tried their best to make it interesting. My paper did not include any discussion as to the strategy behind the Sox pitching change. Does anyone know (a) why Francona pulled Lowe after only 69 pitches and 1-hit ball; and (b) why he put in Pedro?
Was it just to fire up the crowd? The game was getting kinda dull? :smack:
Here’s my theory on the pitching change. Lowe was pitching really well so the boston manager was confident for his abilities in the world series. The game was effectively won at that point so there really wasn’t much point in wearing out his arm. I figure they want Lowe to start an early world series game (game 2 or 3) so that he can also pitch a second game late in the series. He might not have been able to do that if he had gone on to pitch 110 or 120 odd pitches.
Them putting in Pedro…I remember being angry at the time as I’ve lost a bit of confidence in him. My guess is they were confident in his ability to pitch one or two scoreless innings and they were hoping he’d completely shut the Yanks done and demoralize them completely. I don’t think that Pedro would have been in for more than 2 innings even if he shut them down in the 7th.
