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 Posted: 31-Mar-2003 20:05 Post subject: "Closer by committee" - Strike 1 |
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Well, those beloved fellow Red Sox fans know what I'm talking about. Looks like another miserable season is ahead of us. A few more of these and I bet Mr. Theo Epstein will be wishing he spent a few more million on a closer. You know, one that can actually get outs without giving up 5 runs to the ****ing Devil Rays. How pathetic...
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| Posted: 31-Mar-2003 20:12 Post subject: RE: "Closer by committee" - Strike 1 |
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I think Mordel or I could have pitched better then Embree and Fox in the 9th...
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| Posted: 31-Mar-2003 20:20 Post subject: RE: "Closer by committee" - Strike 1 |
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And I think I told you what I would've done with that stinkin' wad of chewing tobacco and wad of gum both Embree and Fox were chewing on. Where the **** is my beer again?!?
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| Posted: 31-Mar-2003 21:38 Post subject: RE: "Closer by committee" - Strike 1 |
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too bad pedro can't pitch a complete game. Maybe they should have timmy wakefield closing again.....
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| Posted: 31-Mar-2003 21:44 Post subject: RE: "Closer by committee" - Strike 1 |
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Yea, I feel your pain brothers. Pour me a beer so I can join you in crying into it.
Look at it this way, at least we don't have to wait until August to have our hopes shattered.
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| Posted: 31-Mar-2003 22:21 Post subject: RE: "Closer by committee" - Strike 1 |
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Hell, i think my ragtag High School team of 11 players could pull of an equal performance. First game's tomorrow and I'm in center field, pray for me 
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| Posted: 01-Apr-2003 07:37 Post subject: RE: "Closer by committee" - Strike 1 |
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Outfield is an good place to watch the game....
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| Posted: 01-Apr-2003 07:53 Post subject: RE: "Closer by committee" - Strike 1 |
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Yeah, maybe we can be out of it by mid-June and I won't have to waste my entire summer and fall watching a team that ain't going nowhere. Hopefully in the end this will just be me whining after a bitter loss, but who knows... 
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| Posted: 01-Apr-2003 10:24 Post subject: RE: "Closer by committee" - Strike 1 |
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It's not just you, it's most of the Bo-Sox fans......
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| Posted: 01-Apr-2003 11:02 Post subject: RE: "Closer by committee" - Strike 1 |
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And I always got mad at my father when I was a lot younger because it always seemed so bitter. He always got so mad when the sox lost and always talked about how they'll never win. Now I know why. It looks like I'm following in my fathers footpaths.
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| Posted: 01-Apr-2003 17:02 Post subject: RE: "Closer by committee" - Strike 1 |
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I don't know...
I'm definitely planning on taking in a live Sox game this year. Mostly because the Red Sox and Fenway are an institution I like to believe in.
I think of the golden age of the Red Sox, when the lineup held the players of my boyhood, Yaz, Fisk, Rice, Lynn. When the Sox went to the World Series back to back. Ancient history I know. You start dwelling on the negative, like Buckner, and it's gonna burn you out and make you bitter.
I can see past the corporate BS, the mega salaries, the prima donna attitudes, because none of that is baseball. I can't tell you how many afternoons I spent tuned to WSBK, TV38 half reading, half watching the game. The sound of the crack of the bat and normal burble of the crowd rising to a roar signalling me to pay attention.
Every state I have ever lived in I have seen someone walking around in a Boston Red Sox hat. Usually it's all beat up and maybe a little faded, but they're wearing it with pride. Even if they're hundreds or even a thousand miles from Boston. Sure, you're a little down in August, but there's always next year. That's what it means to be a Red Sox fan. Posers need not apply.
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| Posted: 01-Apr-2003 20:17 Post subject: RE: "Closer by committee" - Strike 1 |
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if you guys ever get the chance, take the tour of Fenway "Pak". you get to sit in the dugouts (swill and all), walk around the warning track, toss your tennis ball and catch it off the green monster,check out the red seat in center field where "the kid" hit his famous homerun, and go up to the 406 club and the press box, very kewl! Only about $10. my wife has already done the tour 5 times!
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| Posted: 01-Apr-2003 20:19 Post subject: RE: "Closer by committee" - Strike 1 |
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Last time I was at Fenway I sat in that seat...and Mo Vaughn hit a homer in batting practice that went past me. 
And that seat is a VERY long way from home plate...
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| Posted: 01-Apr-2003 20:23 Post subject: RE: "Closer by committee" - Strike 1 |
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mo! so you havn't been in a couple of years then. we should get together with Hardware when he plans his trip, so we could see a game together, and drink some BEER! Of course not too many at the park as their prices are fricken outrageous!
thank goodness they got rid of the trough urinals though....that was just nasty!
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| Posted: 01-Apr-2003 20:29 Post subject: RE: "Closer by committee" - Strike 1 |
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I'm not planning on making a trip to Fenway this year (anything is possible, just not planning for it)...going to be heading to Pawtucket for a couple though 
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