2007 World Series

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A-ROD IS A FREE AGENT

also, sox win the world series

[vivalaultra 0]

Royce Clayton FINALLY gets a ring.

[Guest NYankees]

Does Gagne get a ring? I think he was the only Red Sox who didn't contribute to the team all year.

[The Niggardly King 0]

You never bring in Fuentes when we still had a chance... never.

 

But I can't really hate the Sox after years of nothing.

[Guest NYankees]

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A-ROD IS A FREE AGENT

also, sox win the world series

 

 

I feel funny for Boston. They win the World Series again and the biggest news in baseball is Arod opting out and who is going to be the Manager for the Yankees.

[Boon 0]

Does Gagne get a ring? I think he was the only Red Sox who didn't contribute to the team all year.

Every team needs a mop-up guy.

[cabbageboy 0]

Yeah I have to say I am flat out sick of hearing about the Yankees. The fact that this series was a dull squash didn't help matters, since the announcers could ramble about NY due to the ponderous series itself.

 

I actually stopped watching baseball before the 1991 playoffs, so I can't comment on that series. The recaps I've read sound thrilling, but somehow I can't put a series with the Twins winning it as the best ever. Maybe it's just that I consider both of those Twins teams sorta bullshit, as in if they didn't have home field either time due to baseball's idiotic rules there's no way they would have won either.

 

It's really impossible to have a really interesting full playoffs at this point, since the division series round is by its very nature tedious and unnecessary. 2001 was the best series I've seen though. The NYC games in particular were just unbelievable and emotional. And to be honest, that series to me had such a perfect ending, as if to say "Yeah, we know NYC has gone through a lot with 9/11, but that doesn't just entitle the Yankees to yet another World Series." Besides, the Diamondbacks had a bunch of veteran guys on that team that I liked. Mark Grace got a ring, baby!

[Edwin MacPhisto 0]

Papelbon brings the Yeah-Uh:

[Boxer 0]

So gee, if Boston wins the Series, Super Bowl and the NBA Championship, I guess the world will get tired of this city soon enough eh?

[KingPK 0]

Papelbon brings the Yeah-Uh:

 

Hello new wallpaper.

[MrRant 0]

I just wanted the damn thing to be over with.

[Boxer 0]

So Boston wins again. They go from being 3rd place, BEHIND the Blue Jays of all teams, to winning it all the next year. Blue Jays are the SUCK.

[KingPK 0]

Holy shit, Jim Leyritz and Michael Chiklis are identical twins.

 

No Jimmy Fallon makes this 20x better by itself.

 

The MLB.com guys are running out of guys to interview so they get TWO TIME WORLD CHAMPION Doug Mirabelli.

Edited October 29, 2007 by KingPK

[Guest Gym Class Fallout]

So Boston wins again. They go from being 3rd place, BEHIND the Blue Jays of all teams, to winning it all the next year. Blue Jays are the SUCK.

So "not finishing behind Toronto due to injuries, unlike last year" is our triumph. Hm.

[Boxer 0]

So Boston wins again. They go from being 3rd place, BEHIND the Blue Jays of all teams, to winning it all the next year. Blue Jays are the SUCK.

So "not finishing behind Toronto due to injuries, unlike last year" is our triumph. Hm.

 

I didn't think of it that way, just a quick pot shot at the Blue Jays. Judging by that logic maybe they'll win it all next year. But that will happen when the Canadian Dollar reaches parity with the American Dollar............. oh wait.

[TheShooter 0]

Does Gagne get a ring? I think he was the only Red Sox who didn't contribute to the team all year.

I moved out of New England earlier this year and really didn't follow the Sox (or baseball in general) this season. It was only during the playoffs that I realized Gagne was on the team. Can somebody explain this one to me? Last I remember he was the lights out closer for LA, and now he's on the Sox and only being used in blowout situations. What happened?

[Boon 0]

Does Gagne get a ring? I think he was the only Red Sox who didn't contribute to the team all year.

I moved out of New England earlier this year and really didn't follow the Sox (or baseball in general) this season. It was only during the playoffs that I realized Gagne was on the team. Can somebody explain this one to me? Last I remember he was the lights out closer for LA, and now he's on the Sox and only being used in blowout situations. What happened?

They picked him up at the deadline in hopes he'd be a great righty set-up man. He was not, and became blowout fodder.

[Cheech Tremendous 0]

I don't want to be come on here and gloat about another Sox WS victory, but I do want to congratulate the team. This was an amazing team to watch this year and it's quite rewarding to see the rise of the FO plan and the "$100 milion development machine." Congrats!

[Mr. S£im Citrus 0]

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I wonder if there are any Red Sox fans here that have that much confidence in their team, that they would have spent thousands of dollars on furniture, with any kind of confidence that they'd get a full rebate?

[Slayer 0]

Back in 1999 a high end electronics store in Kansas City promised refunds on purchases over $400 if the Chiefs shutout their opponent in the game following your purchase.

 

In week 8 the Chiefs beat San Diego 34-0. The loss totaled around a half-million.

[Boon 0]

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachus...iture_for_some/

 

I wonder if there are any Red Sox fans here that have that much confidence in their team, that they would have spent thousands of dollars on furniture, with any kind of confidence that they'd get a full rebate?

Something like 30,000 pieces of furniture were bought under this deal.

[Cheech Tremendous 0]

This Red Sox team isn't half as gritty as the 2004 Idiots. That was just a damn fun team to root for. Half these guys still haven't been fully unwrapped from their cellophane packaging, nobody likes J.D. Drew, Eric Gagne is a walking steroid PSA, and two of their best pitchers don't even speak English. I mean, it was inevitable that they'd be compared with the 2004ers, so it's almost not fair, but this is decidedly less compelling. I'm wary of sounding like a creaky old sportswriter, but there's nothing here that really contributes to the baseball lore, you know? They didn't really dominate the regular season, they didn't make a huge run to get in. They didn't have any sort of flair for the drama, nor did they ever demolish everything in their path like a machine the likes of which we've never seen. They just go about their business and play really well, but never in any transcendent way. It's hard to describe. The team just feels soulless in a weird way: not like a Yankees Evil Empire of hired mercenaries way, though. It's a distinct and altogether new sort of emotional vacancy.

 

 

This seems like an odd sort of thing to say. I don't know if I'm too close to the team to realize that this is the popular sentiment or if Czech is just going on one of his weird rants. As a fan, it was fun to watch 2004, but that team on the whole was bordering on unlikable. You had assclowns like Kevin Millar, Derek Lowe and Johnny Damon mucking up the team and hired mercs with no emotional attachment like Keith Foulke and Orlando Cabrera. The fact that the whole thing was dismantled in a year or so weakened any sort of attachment.

 

This year's team was full of homegrown talent. Everyone loved the Rockies because they had fresh faces that came up in their system, but the Sox threw out Paps, Lester, Buchholz, Ellsbury, Pedroia, Youkilis and MDC. They were the best team in baseball from about mid-April on, steamrolled the Angles, had a dramatic ALCS comeback and then just beat the holy shit out of the NL's best. I thought it was fun to watch even if it was backdropped by a poor playoff tournament overall.

[Guest Gym Class Fallout]

Keith Foulke practically sacrificed his career for that postseason, though, so he's a part of Red Sox lore.

[Cartman 0]

I disagree Cheech. The "Idiots" team was extremely likable, to me anyways. Probably because I am one.

 

This team was also very likable to me for different reasons.

[Slayer 0]

Keith Foulke practically sacrificed his career for that postseason, though, so he's a part of Red Sox lore.

Johnny from Burger King disagrees

[Boon 0]

Keith Foulke practically sacrificed his career for that postseason, though, so he's a part of Red Sox lore.

Johnny from Burger King disagrees

That whole thing sucked. Foulke was the real MVP of that postseason. Dude was untouchable. Now he's a villian.

[CanadianChris 0]

I'd balk at calling Cabrera a hired mercenary. He only came in because they had to get rid of Nomar.

[Cheech Tremendous 0]

Keith Foulke practically sacrificed his career for that postseason, though, so he's a part of Red Sox lore.

Johnny from Burger King disagrees

 

Exactly. I have no problem with Foulke as a person or as a player. That 2004 team won because of him and he left everything on the field in doing so. However, the Burger King line coupled with his miserable 05 and 06 forever ruined his legacy in Boston. He was almost persona non grata by the time he left last season.

[Failed Bridge 0]

I must be one of the few that doesn't hate Keith Foulke. I agree that he basically sacraficed his career to help them win that series (pitching on two torn to shit knees). He should have been the WS MVP and if he ever chooses to walk into some random Boston establishment then I hope they offer him free drinks and a meal.

 

Cabrera wanted to stay and for less than what they ended up paying Renteria. That was just a poor decision on Theo letting him walk.

[Cheech Tremendous 0]

Cabrera wanted to stay and for less than what they ended up paying Renteria. That was just a poor decision on Theo letting him walk.

 

Except for the fact that Renteria was a better player than Cabrera in 2005, and well, every year since then. I don't understand the constant reference to the signing of Renteria as a mistake. The mistake was trading him to Atlanta to be an MVP candidate and paying most of the contract, not signing him.