Boon

Red Sox had no business winning that game, leaving over a dozen men on and Manny getting tossed in the second. But the prospects delivered, some tough ABs late and patience, and they steal one from Texas. Crazy game.

I'd say 2-4 are the funniest, 5 is the most interesting.

I agree that Jim can be really sad; when he showed the ring to the camera, you could just see the whole relationship blowing up in his face in a hurry. I feel like the show has two focuses, Michael and Jim/Pam. They will continue to fuck with Jim and Pam until the show ends. I don't watch a lot of television, but the only sitcom I've seen really get away from the primary love interest for any length of time is Scrubs (seasons 4-7), and even they're starting to fuck with it again.

This begs the question, would you rather watch a 9-inning marathon with shitty pitching and mound visits or a 22-inning marathon of offensive ineptitude?

Pretty good episode tonight. Cox with Sam and The Janitorial were solid. I'll have a hard time buying the entire hospital rallying around Kelso considering he's evil to every single person there. Anyone else getting a little bothered with the forward and backward references they've been making this season? They're just not subtle with the "Remember when this happened two weeks ago?" or the "This is going to happen next week" writing. It's a little annoying. Trust the audience to be smart enough to remember what happened and guess what's coming. The only people left watching are the die-hard fans anyway.

Shay Laren Loves Her Wii It's nothing too spectacular.

To lend some credence to your Josh Smith argument, I'd give Tom Thibodeau more credit than Kevin Garnett for the Celtics D. Garnett may be able to influence the likes of Rondo, Perkins and Tony Allen, but Pierce, Ray and Posey have been around long enough to not need KG to motivate them. Thibodeau has done wonders getting those guys to buy into that defense.

How does Joe Borowski still have a job as a major league closer?

This wasn't unbearably condescending enough. Go revise it so it is. One good turn deserves another, buddy. They start late because they're nationally showcased. Boston and New York are two of the biggest media markets and have by far the largest fan bases. Hence, put it on later Sunday night to make more money nationally. Baseball isn't going to move the start time up to accommodate the east coast when they know those two cities will be watching until the last pitch regardless. I agree they should be cutting down on mound visits, time between pitches, hitter time outs, etc. But those things aren't nearly as responsible for the lengths of the game as you and Al are arguing. The lengths of game one and two were not bad at all. Good hitting met bad pitching in game three. Sprinkle in some terrible ESPN hype and you have a four hour game. It's really that simple.

While I agree the three minutes Molina spent talking to Hughes were wasteful, I hardly consider them detrimental to the pace of the game when it's well on its way to 4+ hours. Grinding out at bats is boring. Late-game strategy is preceded by 2-3 sure outs. We've heard all these arguments before. They're just different games. Are we really turning this into NL vs. AL again? Watch the type of game you like and don't bother with the other if it's such an annoyance. I'm sorry every game can't be an extra-inning event won on check-swing RBIs and throwing errors, fellas.

You're not missing anything.

This series has been pretty good by Sox/Yanks standards in regards to length. Wang dealing in game one, Beckett in game two kept those games short. If they're not your teams, and you don't enjoy seeing good hitting pick apart bad pitching, you probably haven't enjoyed most of the games from the past five years. Saying "baseball can be so much better" is pretty one-sided. It's just a different kind of game. There's a lot of other baseball to watch if you don't want to commit the time.

The 2003 and 2004 ALCS were the pinnacle. I don't think we'll ever get the kind of drama that those series provided again. Now it's just two good teams whose fanbases and ownership really hate each other (well, we know Hank Steinbrenner's feelings anyway). Aye. For me, the most interesting part of comparing the Sox and Yankees are watching them use more homegrown talent. The payrolls are still obscenely high, but the youth movements are fun.

What a nifty little pick-up Sean Casey has been.

Anybody following the Ortiz jersey/Yankee stadium story? Nice move by the Yankees after they dug it up- they're sending it to be auctioned off for the Jimmy Fund.

The "raw audio" captured from the event is fun.

But it's the GREATEST RIVALRY IN SPORTS!!!!!!

Ditto. I hate when that shit happens. It was clearly something about JD and Elliot.

Haverhill is a shithole. I grew up in Plaistow and have family there. It's terrible. We now return you to your regularly scheduled cyber-sex/tranny discussion.

Returning with new Office next week.

That was my thought, too.

I only recognized about three of those women. The WWE Divas are such a clusterfuck.

I was gone for a few days. What the fuck is going on with this board?