OT: 2016 Red Sox/MLB Regular Season V - "And down the stretch they come!"
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Dennis Bonvie
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Was it Daniel Cabrera? I know the sox rocked him once or twice but he had good stuff and may have done well in other starts against them, Idk
Edit: just checked, sox absolutely owned him so nvm. Not him
DKH
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My Ortiz take.
If the Sox win the WS he's done.
If they don't we will hear a story John Henry, Werner, Sam Kennedy, Price, will head to the Dominican late November with the sell for one more year. They'll offer him some insane amount and see what happens
With the young players, money, and knowing they'd go into season as one of favorites to win it all 'I'm saying ~ there is a chance.
I do though think it's Red Sox-Cubs
If the Sox win the WS he's done.
If they don't we will hear a story John Henry, Werner, Sam Kennedy, Price, will head to the Dominican late November with the sell for one more year. They'll offer him some insane amount and see what happens
With the young players, money, and knowing they'd go into season as one of favorites to win it all 'I'm saying ~ there is a chance.
I do though think it's Red Sox-Cubs
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CharasLazyWrister
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Wow, that was a nasty strike three pitch by Porcello. Was going straight at the batter and tailed back inside to catch the corner.
JRull86
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CharasLazyWrister
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Wow Pedroia hung in that at bat really well. Hell of a way to shake a mini-slump.
And, the ground ball going an inch foul was pretty lucky.
And, the ground ball going an inch foul was pretty lucky.
Mr Cartmenez
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They thought they got us right where they wanted us with Bases Loaded less than 2 outs and Leon coming up.
What can you say, we are just hot and Pedey is still Pedey MFers.
Edit: Porcello not at his best today, but nonetheless a gutsy performance. His ERA only went up marginally and will likely get number 22 today. He's gotta get the Cy the way the Voters are usually judging.
What can you say, we are just hot and Pedey is still Pedey MFers.
Edit: Porcello not at his best today, but nonetheless a gutsy performance. His ERA only went up marginally and will likely get number 22 today. He's gotta get the Cy the way the Voters are usually judging.
CharasLazyWrister
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Mr Cartmenez
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Hey Farrell, why again does it make sense to keep Porcello out there in this game way beyond the 100 pitch mark? The division is a wrap and HFA is not important enough to put more stress on the arm of our game 1/2 starter.
Edit: Looks like every time we put in the groundball specialist, he gets a long fly out. As long as it works...
Edit: Looks like every time we put in the groundball specialist, he gets a long fly out. As long as it works...
ADifferentTim
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Like this?
I can guarantee Obama would get salty about a Cubs-Red Sox, because it doesn't involve his White Sox.
He always has the 2005 ALDS to dwell on. 
Mr Cartmenez
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Sox officially clinched the playoffs today AND - more importantly - now have a better record than the Indians. If the season ended today, we'd be hosting the Indians.
What a game! These are the ones you only win when you are hot as hell.
What a game! These are the ones you only win when you are hot as hell.
As I listen to Vin call his last night game at Dodger Stadium I am flashing back to late July in 1987 when I first met Vin Scully. For family reasons I needed to be in LA that weekend and I wound up picking up a freelance assignment for NBC on Saturday and WGN-TV on Sunday. I was thrilled because it was the first time I had ever been to Dodger Stadium.
After the Sunday game I went to the Dodgers press cafeteria adjacent to the press box to eat and then found an empty table after getting my tray and starting eating and reading a book I had bought for the flight out west. A few minutes go by and then someone asked if the empty seat at the table was occupied and without looking up I said be my guest and then I looked up and almost fainted - it was Vin Scully.
We wound up chatting for maybe 20-25 minutes and I remember it like it was last week. Some highlights.
First he asked me if I knew a good way out of the stadium without taking the freeway as he was concerned because there was freeway sniper that was causing terror that weekend. I said I'm sorry I am from Boston and don't know LA.
I then noticed he had several sun visors on his tray. Dodger Stadium was celebrating 25 years that season and on this day the promotion was a sun visor with the 25th anniversary logo and he just casually mentioned 'The kids will love these'.
Then we started talking about Boston. I said to him that Red Sox fans thought he was rooting for the Mets in the World Series the previous year and he laughed and said NBC got many letters about me and it split 50/50 as Mets fans thought I was pulling for Boston.
Then I asked him about Braves Field in Boston as I'm not old enough to remember the Braves. He said it was a gloomy ballpark and the huge railroad freight yard just beyond the outfield didn't help but what he remembered most was it was the only city in the National League where blacks did not come out in big numbers to see Jackie Robinson and other black players on the Dodgers. He also called his first no hitter at Braves Field.
Then I showed him the book I was reading which was titled 'Red Sox Reader' and I asked him what baseball books he would recommend. His answer floored me.
He told me that when he leaves the ballpark he leaves the game behind. He said he doesn't read any books about the game because when he is home he doesn't think about work.
We would meet again a few times at Stade Olympique in Montreal and once at Fenway Park and he told me he remembered our first meeting.
I was in Montreal working on one of the worst nights of Vin's career (July 3, 1993) when Don Drysdale died in his sleep at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel and Vin had to inform Dodger fans of his death.
I worked many Expo games as a then small TV truck company in New Hampshire got its first big contract providing the visiting team feed out of Montreal.
That is my Vin Scully story.
After the Sunday game I went to the Dodgers press cafeteria adjacent to the press box to eat and then found an empty table after getting my tray and starting eating and reading a book I had bought for the flight out west. A few minutes go by and then someone asked if the empty seat at the table was occupied and without looking up I said be my guest and then I looked up and almost fainted - it was Vin Scully.
We wound up chatting for maybe 20-25 minutes and I remember it like it was last week. Some highlights.
First he asked me if I knew a good way out of the stadium without taking the freeway as he was concerned because there was freeway sniper that was causing terror that weekend. I said I'm sorry I am from Boston and don't know LA.
I then noticed he had several sun visors on his tray. Dodger Stadium was celebrating 25 years that season and on this day the promotion was a sun visor with the 25th anniversary logo and he just casually mentioned 'The kids will love these'.
Then we started talking about Boston. I said to him that Red Sox fans thought he was rooting for the Mets in the World Series the previous year and he laughed and said NBC got many letters about me and it split 50/50 as Mets fans thought I was pulling for Boston.
Then I asked him about Braves Field in Boston as I'm not old enough to remember the Braves. He said it was a gloomy ballpark and the huge railroad freight yard just beyond the outfield didn't help but what he remembered most was it was the only city in the National League where blacks did not come out in big numbers to see Jackie Robinson and other black players on the Dodgers. He also called his first no hitter at Braves Field.
Then I showed him the book I was reading which was titled 'Red Sox Reader' and I asked him what baseball books he would recommend. His answer floored me.
He told me that when he leaves the ballpark he leaves the game behind. He said he doesn't read any books about the game because when he is home he doesn't think about work.
We would meet again a few times at Stade Olympique in Montreal and once at Fenway Park and he told me he remembered our first meeting.
I was in Montreal working on one of the worst nights of Vin's career (July 3, 1993) when Don Drysdale died in his sleep at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel and Vin had to inform Dodger fans of his death.
I worked many Expo games as a then small TV truck company in New Hampshire got its first big contract providing the visiting team feed out of Montreal.
That is my Vin Scully story.
Holy ****, jose fernandez died in a boating accident
Highly touted guy from the cardinals died last year in an accident and now this
Highly touted guy from the cardinals died last year in an accident and now this
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