I take it you're referring to 1977, 1978, 1996, 1998, 1999, & 2000? Gotta say, I much preferred the lovable fucking moron to the crybaby.Joe.t said:
The Joe.T Memorial Yankees Suck Thread for 2007
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That would be...crybaby hypocrite. Of course if the Yankers were slaughtering the Rockies, someone would super glue his lips to Mr. Hench's ass. Certainly there is a shameless ignorance/denial of the money spent to acquire A-slob, Damon, Clemens and many, many others. Hypocrite heal thyself!
Waaaaaaaawaaaaaaa,
Korbel
Hello Rumples,rumpleforeskiin said:
That would be...crybaby hypocrite. Of course if the Yankers were slaughtering the Rockies, someone would super glue his lips to Mr. Hench's ass. Certainly there is a shameless ignorance/denial of the money spent to acquire A-slob, Damon, Clemens and many, many others. Hypocrite heal thyself!
Waaaaaaaawaaaaaaa,
Korbel
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I wonder how the buttcheeker and Epstien will be celebrating tonight, no doubt that there will be some ass ramming going on tonight.
Whining is soooooo unappealing.Joe.t said:I wonder how the buttcheeker and Epstien will be celebrating tonight, no doubt that there will be some ass ramming going on tonight.
Lester
Hello all,
I thought Lester was superb despite three walks. Great story to see him do so well after not pitching for a while and coming back from his medical issues.
Bravo Lester,
Korbel
Hello all,
I thought Lester was superb despite three walks. Great story to see him do so well after not pitching for a while and coming back from his medical issues.
Bravo Lester,
Korbel
Gone!
Hello all,
A-Slob GONE!!!
A-Slob has opted out of his contract with the Yankers. Mega-Cashman has promised they will not sign him if he did this. How are ya...Joe.t?
Waaawaaa,
Korbel
Hello all,
A-Slob GONE!!!
A-Slob has opted out of his contract with the Yankers. Mega-Cashman has promised they will not sign him if he did this. How are ya...Joe.t?
Waaawaaa,
Korbel
Champions Again!
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Bonjour
Korbel
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Boston Red Sox
2007 WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS!
Only three years Joe.t.
Bonjour
Korbel
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The NEW YORK TIMES!
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/29/sports/baseball/29seriesy.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
By TYLER KEPNER
Published: October 29, 2007
DENVER, Oct. 28 — They have gone from exorcism to coronation in record time. The Boston Red Sox, who fought ghosts for most of the last century, are the premier team of the new millennium.
The Red Sox won their second World Series in four years on Sunday, edging the Colorado Rockies, 4-3, in Game 4 at Coors Field. They are the first team to win multiple championships since 2000, and with a deep payroll and a stable of talented young pitchers, they may be poised for more.
Mike Lowell doubled and homered and was named Most Valuable Player in the Series for hitting .400 with six runs scored and four runs batted in. Jon Lester — who, like Lowell, is a cancer survivor — worked five and two-thirds shutout innings for the victory.
Jonathan Papelbon earned his third save of the series, retiring all five hitters he faced after Garrett Atkins smashed a two-run homer off Hideki Okajima with one out in the eighth.
Jacoby Ellsbury, the rookie who hit .438 in the Series, hauled in a drive by Jamey Carroll at the left field wall for the second out of the ninth. Seth Smith came up next, and Papelbon whipped a 94 mile-an-hour fastball past him for the final out, firing his glove to the sky in triumph.
Catcher Jason Varitek leaped into Papelbon’s arms and raised his index finger high: the Red Sox, again, were No. 1.
Boston has won all eight of its World Series games under Manager Terry Francona, and this sweep was nearly as emphatic as the one in 2004, when the Red Sox never trailed against the St. Louis Cardinals. This time, they trailed for a total of three and a half innings in Game 2.
Their sweep was the first in 80 years to feature victories by four different starting pitchers. The last team to do it? The 1927 Yankees.
That was the Yankees’ second championship with Babe Ruth, whose sale by the Red Sox was said to curse the team until 2004, when Boston upended the Yankees in the championship series en route to the title.
This time, the Red Sox did not even have to go through the Bronx to win. After taking the wild card three times in this decade, they finished in first place in the American League East and the Yankees were bounced in the first round.
“If someone wants to compare us to the Yankees based on winning and results, that’s an incredible standard,” Red Sox General Manager Theo Epstein said. “If they want to compare us to the Yankees in how we do things, that’s a little off-base.”
Like the Yankees, though, the Red Sox figure to be built on young pitching for years to come. Curt Schilling and Tim Wakefield are at the end of their contracts, but Josh Beckett, Daisuke Matsuzaka and Lester are all under 28 years old, and the rookie Clay Buchholz, who threw a no-hitter in September, was not even on the postseason roster.
Boston’s biggest off-season decision in the lineup is whether to re-sign Lowell, who called himself a throw-in in the deal that brought Beckett to Boston two years ago. If Lowell leaves, there is always the chance the Red Sox could pursue Alex Rodriguez, who decided Sunday to opt out of his contract and become a free agent.
The Game 4 pitching matchup was a duel of survivors. Lester fought his way back after off-season treatment for lymphoma, and Colorado’s Aaron Cook once missed almost a year with blood clots in both lungs.
More recently, Cook had been held back by a strained oblique muscle, and his last start was Aug. 10. No pitcher in 52 years had as long a layoff between starts before starting in a World Series.
Cook is a sinkerballer, the kind the Rockies like to cultivate in the thin air, and nine of his first 10 outs came on grounders. But he spent almost all of that time trailing, because the Red Sox grabbed a lead five pitches into the game.
Ellsbury lined Cook’s second pitch into the left field corner for a double, and he scored on a one-out single to right by David Ortiz. Thought to be a liability in the field, Ortiz helped save a run the next inning.
Todd Helton led off the second with a double, taking advantage of the deep gaps here designed to keep home runs down. Garrett Atkins followed with a bouncer to short, and when Julio Lugo threw in the dirt, Ortiz scooped the ball with a flourish for the out. Colorado stranded two in the inning, and one more in the third.
Manny Ramírez misread Kazuo Matsui’s fly ball in that inning, turning it into a one-out double. But Lester struck out Troy Tulowitzki on a slider and then fanned Matt Holliday on a 93 mile-an-hour fastball, pumping his fist at his side as he strode off the mound.
The Red Sox gave Lester another run in the fifth, when Lowell led off with a double to left center and slid home, headfirst, on a single by Varitek. Cook avoided worse damage, and when he fanned Ellsbury to end the inning, he became the first Rockies starter to last five innings in the World Series.
Cook, in fact, bunted for a single in the fifth and followed that with a 1-2-3 sixth inning. But after Lowell’s leadoff homer in the seventh, he gave way to the bullpen after 70 pitches. It was a solid effort, but not as strong as Lester’s.
Lester, who went 4-0 down the stretch, was making his first postseason start; he replaced Wakefield, who missed the Series with a shoulder injury. He had no more strikeouts after Holliday whiffed to end the third, but the bunt single by Cook was the only other hit he allowed.
Francona removed him after a two-out walk in the sixth, and Manny Delcarmen, another homegrown pitcher, struck out Ryan Spilborghs to end the inning. Brad Hawpe homered off Delcarmen in the seventh to cut Boston’s lead to 3-1, but Bobby Kielty lined Brian Fuentes’ first pitch in the eighth over the left field fence to restore the three-run lead.
The Rockies entered the World Series with 21 victories in their previous 22 games, a hot streak unmatched by any pennant winner in history. But the Rockies had eight days off before the World Series started, and they were no match for the Red Sox, who became the third American League team in the last four years to sweep the World Series.
Both Boston championships have been clinched away from Fenway Park, where “Sweet Caroline” plays in the eighth inning of every game. Even without that song in the background here, it was clear that for the Red Sox, a team once defined by a curse, good times never seemed so good.
HUGE CHEERS,
KORBEL...CITIZEN OF THE WORLD CHAMPION RED SOX NATION!
Hello all,
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/29/sports/baseball/29seriesy.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
By TYLER KEPNER
Published: October 29, 2007
DENVER, Oct. 28 — They have gone from exorcism to coronation in record time. The Boston Red Sox, who fought ghosts for most of the last century, are the premier team of the new millennium.
The Red Sox won their second World Series in four years on Sunday, edging the Colorado Rockies, 4-3, in Game 4 at Coors Field. They are the first team to win multiple championships since 2000, and with a deep payroll and a stable of talented young pitchers, they may be poised for more.
Mike Lowell doubled and homered and was named Most Valuable Player in the Series for hitting .400 with six runs scored and four runs batted in. Jon Lester — who, like Lowell, is a cancer survivor — worked five and two-thirds shutout innings for the victory.
Jonathan Papelbon earned his third save of the series, retiring all five hitters he faced after Garrett Atkins smashed a two-run homer off Hideki Okajima with one out in the eighth.
Jacoby Ellsbury, the rookie who hit .438 in the Series, hauled in a drive by Jamey Carroll at the left field wall for the second out of the ninth. Seth Smith came up next, and Papelbon whipped a 94 mile-an-hour fastball past him for the final out, firing his glove to the sky in triumph.
Catcher Jason Varitek leaped into Papelbon’s arms and raised his index finger high: the Red Sox, again, were No. 1.
Boston has won all eight of its World Series games under Manager Terry Francona, and this sweep was nearly as emphatic as the one in 2004, when the Red Sox never trailed against the St. Louis Cardinals. This time, they trailed for a total of three and a half innings in Game 2.
Their sweep was the first in 80 years to feature victories by four different starting pitchers. The last team to do it? The 1927 Yankees.
That was the Yankees’ second championship with Babe Ruth, whose sale by the Red Sox was said to curse the team until 2004, when Boston upended the Yankees in the championship series en route to the title.
This time, the Red Sox did not even have to go through the Bronx to win. After taking the wild card three times in this decade, they finished in first place in the American League East and the Yankees were bounced in the first round.
“If someone wants to compare us to the Yankees based on winning and results, that’s an incredible standard,” Red Sox General Manager Theo Epstein said. “If they want to compare us to the Yankees in how we do things, that’s a little off-base.”
Like the Yankees, though, the Red Sox figure to be built on young pitching for years to come. Curt Schilling and Tim Wakefield are at the end of their contracts, but Josh Beckett, Daisuke Matsuzaka and Lester are all under 28 years old, and the rookie Clay Buchholz, who threw a no-hitter in September, was not even on the postseason roster.
Boston’s biggest off-season decision in the lineup is whether to re-sign Lowell, who called himself a throw-in in the deal that brought Beckett to Boston two years ago. If Lowell leaves, there is always the chance the Red Sox could pursue Alex Rodriguez, who decided Sunday to opt out of his contract and become a free agent.
The Game 4 pitching matchup was a duel of survivors. Lester fought his way back after off-season treatment for lymphoma, and Colorado’s Aaron Cook once missed almost a year with blood clots in both lungs.
More recently, Cook had been held back by a strained oblique muscle, and his last start was Aug. 10. No pitcher in 52 years had as long a layoff between starts before starting in a World Series.
Cook is a sinkerballer, the kind the Rockies like to cultivate in the thin air, and nine of his first 10 outs came on grounders. But he spent almost all of that time trailing, because the Red Sox grabbed a lead five pitches into the game.
Ellsbury lined Cook’s second pitch into the left field corner for a double, and he scored on a one-out single to right by David Ortiz. Thought to be a liability in the field, Ortiz helped save a run the next inning.
Todd Helton led off the second with a double, taking advantage of the deep gaps here designed to keep home runs down. Garrett Atkins followed with a bouncer to short, and when Julio Lugo threw in the dirt, Ortiz scooped the ball with a flourish for the out. Colorado stranded two in the inning, and one more in the third.
Manny Ramírez misread Kazuo Matsui’s fly ball in that inning, turning it into a one-out double. But Lester struck out Troy Tulowitzki on a slider and then fanned Matt Holliday on a 93 mile-an-hour fastball, pumping his fist at his side as he strode off the mound.
The Red Sox gave Lester another run in the fifth, when Lowell led off with a double to left center and slid home, headfirst, on a single by Varitek. Cook avoided worse damage, and when he fanned Ellsbury to end the inning, he became the first Rockies starter to last five innings in the World Series.
Cook, in fact, bunted for a single in the fifth and followed that with a 1-2-3 sixth inning. But after Lowell’s leadoff homer in the seventh, he gave way to the bullpen after 70 pitches. It was a solid effort, but not as strong as Lester’s.
Lester, who went 4-0 down the stretch, was making his first postseason start; he replaced Wakefield, who missed the Series with a shoulder injury. He had no more strikeouts after Holliday whiffed to end the third, but the bunt single by Cook was the only other hit he allowed.
Francona removed him after a two-out walk in the sixth, and Manny Delcarmen, another homegrown pitcher, struck out Ryan Spilborghs to end the inning. Brad Hawpe homered off Delcarmen in the seventh to cut Boston’s lead to 3-1, but Bobby Kielty lined Brian Fuentes’ first pitch in the eighth over the left field fence to restore the three-run lead.
The Rockies entered the World Series with 21 victories in their previous 22 games, a hot streak unmatched by any pennant winner in history. But the Rockies had eight days off before the World Series started, and they were no match for the Red Sox, who became the third American League team in the last four years to sweep the World Series.
Both Boston championships have been clinched away from Fenway Park, where “Sweet Caroline” plays in the eighth inning of every game. Even without that song in the background here, it was clear that for the Red Sox, a team once defined by a curse, good times never seemed so good.
HUGE CHEERS,
KORBEL...CITIZEN OF THE WORLD CHAMPION RED SOX NATION!
In the most boring world series ever, congrats to the Red Sox....thumbs down to Fox
In what was probably the most boring world series ever, congratulations to the Boston Red Sox for winning this year's championship. A big thumbs down for Fox tv & their constant promotion of 'Fox' properties & advertisers throughout the broadcast. Thank god Canadians still could watch the games on Rogers Sportsnet without all the Fox on-air promotions.
In what was probably the most boring world series ever, congratulations to the Boston Red Sox for winning this year's championship. A big thumbs down for Fox tv & their constant promotion of 'Fox' properties & advertisers throughout the broadcast. Thank god Canadians still could watch the games on Rogers Sportsnet without all the Fox on-air promotions.
Lot's of boring Series lately. Last year was no better, 2004 was an anti-climax. For Sox fans, it was quite enjoyable to watch the total domination of the opposition, but for the rest of the planet, there sure wasn't much to see in these 4+ hour games.Doc Holliday said:
Of course, very few kids had to sit through the series, as Fox showed them far too late for the next generation of baseball fans to even watch.
Parity vs Mediocrity
An interesting point - that of "Parity vs Mediocrity". Quality teams with similar records make game-to-game adjustments,creating excitement that comes from back and forth competition. Mediocre teams with similar records produce a series where once a weakness is exposed it is game over.
An interesting point - that of "Parity vs Mediocrity". Quality teams with similar records make game-to-game adjustments,creating excitement that comes from back and forth competition. Mediocre teams with similar records produce a series where once a weakness is exposed it is game over.
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Don't see where Doc ever raised such a point, but even if he had, it wouldn't apply here. What we had was a superior team from a superior league totally dominating a good, but inexperienced, team from a vastly weaker league.eastender said:
Just a guess, but I'd say that there are 4-5 AL teams better than the best NL team.
rumpleforeskiin said:
Right on both counts. I don't recall 'raising a point', and i agree that 4-5 AL teams (maybe even including the Jays) were better than the best NL team. Why did the games last so long? I'd be bored to death & tired as hell by the 5th inning!
Boring
You raised the point of boredom,a function of various elements not being present in a competition. I have adjusted my post accordingly.
Elite teams - example the NFL with NE and Indy, even when playing inferior competition are exciting and create exciting games because the various elements of football come into play.
The NFL has parity which gives greater meaning to superiority and achievement.
Doc Holliday said:Right on both counts. I don't recall 'raising a point', and i agree that 4-5 AL teams (maybe even including the Jays) were better than the best NL team. Why did the games last so long? I'd be bored to death & tired as hell by the 5th inning!
You raised the point of boredom,a function of various elements not being present in a competition. I have adjusted my post accordingly.
Elite teams - example the NFL with NE and Indy, even when playing inferior competition are exciting and create exciting games because the various elements of football come into play.
The NFL has parity which gives greater meaning to superiority and achievement.
Halfway through the season, there are two winless teams, a third that's only beaten one of the winless, four more that have only 2 wins. Two undefeated teams, two more with one loss apiece. I'd hardly call that parity.eastender said:
Parity
16 game season vs 162 game season. Does not allow for time to heal injuries and bounce back to salvage a season like baseball does.
Look at the overall talent level and the number of all-pro quality players on the winless or 1 win teams. Look at the bottom to top / top to bottom, cycle that is very evident in the NFL and lacking in baseball as exemplified by the AL East, Red Sox / Yankees and the rest.
Compare depth by position. The thirty second best running back,left tackle,etc in the NFL can play in the league moving from team to team. The thirtieth best shortstop, centerfielder, catcher, in MLB will yo-yo back and forth between the minors. look at the Nationals and the number of centerfielders they used this year - Nook Logan................ Even the contending teams have stiffs playing regularly - Yankees first base situation.Money couldn't find a solution because there is not enough talent.
rumpleforeskiin said:
16 game season vs 162 game season. Does not allow for time to heal injuries and bounce back to salvage a season like baseball does.
Look at the overall talent level and the number of all-pro quality players on the winless or 1 win teams. Look at the bottom to top / top to bottom, cycle that is very evident in the NFL and lacking in baseball as exemplified by the AL East, Red Sox / Yankees and the rest.
Compare depth by position. The thirty second best running back,left tackle,etc in the NFL can play in the league moving from team to team. The thirtieth best shortstop, centerfielder, catcher, in MLB will yo-yo back and forth between the minors. look at the Nationals and the number of centerfielders they used this year - Nook Logan................ Even the contending teams have stiffs playing regularly - Yankees first base situation.Money couldn't find a solution because there is not enough talent.
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