| Red Sox 2007
Posted: 9/2/2007 10:56:56 AM | What an amazing game yesterday! Rookie Clay Bucholz's no hitter was just an amazing experience to have watched!! Everything just fell into place last night and it was beautiful to watch Redsox baseball at its best. The offence was fantastic, the defence was freaking amazing! Pedroia never ceases to amaze me- he's Gold Glove worthy, for sure!
It's games like this that you just never forget, really.
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| Red Sox 2007
Posted: 9/2/2007 2:20:10 PM | | Nice follow up today for Lester. I cast my vote now for starting Ellsbury and Crisp and sitting Drew.... | |
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| Red Sox 2007
Posted: 9/2/2007 9:00:12 PM | Why do they call it a no-hitter even though players on the other team hit the ball, but did not score?...should be called a no-scorer.
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| Red Sox 2007
Posted: 9/2/2007 9:48:10 PM | Why do they call it a no-hitter even though players on the other team hit the ball, but did not score?...should be called a no-scorer.
Quite simply because the team he faced had no basehits of his pitching. It was a not hitter and a no scorer, aka shutout. I don't think a double no-hitter has ever happened in MLB..possibly the minors, college, and I have heard of it in high school..would be an absolute rarity.
GO CLAY!!! Let's just hope he will be able to get another start, considering he was a replacement for a replacement. What are we going to do with this '7 man rotation'? I say lose Schill but..I don't think my view is very popular! | |
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| Red Sox 2007
Posted: 9/2/2007 10:01:48 PM |
Nice follow up today for Lester. I cast my vote now for starting Ellsbury and Crisp and sitting Drew....
Drew and Lugo both need to spend some time in the batting cages. They are slumping bad right now. Both can hit and steal bases, but they aren't performing, so I agree, sit them out for a bit and give Ellsbury a chance. I'm sitting on the fence with Cash still.
As for Clay, woo hoo! That was an amazing game! Leitch from Toronto almost threw a no-hitter too, in his first game in the majors. But he has since settled into a more 'average' performance. I expect the same will happen with Buchholz, although it would be really sweet if he kept throwing the way he did the other day!! | |
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| Red Sox 2007
Posted: 9/3/2007 6:23:57 AM | At least Lugo has had some nice hot streaks and will come through in the clutch periodically. With Drew, it seems the bigger the situation, the more likely he is to strikeout.
I agree somewhat about Cash, but remember that he is a kid that is being thrown in well before anyone intended, due to the injury to Mirabelli. He is doing a more than admirable job at catching Wake. I don't think a lot of people realize what catching a good knuckleballer is like. Remember, too, that we have one of the best defensive catchers in baseball with Tek, and he CAN'T catch Wake. I think Cash will slowly come around. I am sure he has been instructed to concentrate on D, and let the hitting come when it may.
Back to the OF.....When Manny comes back, we could have a Manny/Crisp/Ellsbury OF. Ellsbury has even better speed than Drew and a strong arm (though I'd have to give Drew a small edge in that department). With Crisp and Ellsbury in CF and RF, it allows Tito to set up his OF to lessen the amount of ground Manny needs to cover to the middle, giving the Sox a better overall defensive OF. Ellsbury just looks like he is ready to explode at the plate. He is attacking the ball; something I have yet to see Drew do as a member of the Sox. | |
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| Red Sox 2007
Posted: 9/3/2007 6:29:27 PM | | The yanks win 3 and still can't gain any ground. But right now, the Jays are gaining ground on us this game, we were up by quite a bit, now its 10-8 in the 6th. | |
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| Red Sox 2007
Posted: 9/3/2007 9:08:24 PM | Now 7 again...Yankees suck, Red Sox A.L. East champs. By the way, nice investment on Clemens this year. Couldn't have gotten a 500 record from a minor leaguer at all! Great job Steinbrenner. And Mussina, nice job in relief agains the M's today. And say what you want about blowing a 10-1 lead but the fact remains, Red Sox won so to all you Yankee fans, Bite me!
Oh yeah and stop living in the past. You guys are going to loose A-Rod and have no pitching staff or prospects! | |
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| Red Sox 2007
Posted: 9/9/2007 9:24:02 AM | | Watch those E #'s but dont let them scare you. Also lets refresh on how playoff selection and the wildcard thing works . Anyone? | |
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| Red Sox 2007
Posted: 9/9/2007 3:38:03 PM | Red Sox will have home field all the way if they win the division, including the WS (since the AL won the All Star game). AL winner, if not the Sox, still gets home field.
Beyond that, it goes by best record; but a division winner takes precedence over a wild card. | |
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| Red Sox 2007
Posted: 9/16/2007 6:54:04 PM | Where is everyone?
probably recovering with some Dramamine after these last 2 crazy games with the yanks. All I could think of on Friday was where is Josh Beckett? I guess he was waiting his turn. | |
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| Red Sox 2007
Posted: 9/19/2007 6:37:04 PM | Yankees only 2.5 games back...before today's game.
Yikes, where did that large lead go?
How's your shirts Sox fans? full of sweat i bet. | |
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| Red Sox 2007
Posted: 9/19/2007 7:15:05 PM | TO Blue Jays sweep the division leading Red Sox. Paplebon gives up a grand slam in 2-1 close game in the 9th and the Jays win game 3, 6-1.
OH how there loving the spoiler role in Canada. | |
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| Red Sox 2007
Posted: 9/19/2007 7:58:38 PM | ..........the Yanks are about 2-2 & 1/2 games outta 1st!......!!!
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| Red Sox 2007
Posted: 9/19/2007 8:16:36 PM | ^^^actually with the Blue Jays win and Yankees winning their game, as it stands tonite NY is........
1.5 games back of the Red Sox.
The Jays now play their next 4 against the Yankees. WoW i bet the Red Sox fans are just praying for TO to win. | |
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| Red Sox 2007
Posted: 9/21/2007 4:22:43 PM | It certainly wouldn't break our hearts if the Jays do to NY what they did to US - lol.
They may be a force to be reckoned with next year.
This is the fun, though scary, part of the year for me! Post season will be wild. | |
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| Red Sox 2007
Posted: 9/21/2007 9:51:07 PM | | jays beat yanks in 14th inning!........the sox get a breather!......but they must be schitting bricks right now! | |
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| Red Sox 2007
Posted: 9/22/2007 10:38:26 AM | Thank you BLUE JAYS
Hey....not a problem.....one day we will pay you guys back and take the World Series Championship for ourselves!!!!.....so thank us while you can, one day both you Red Sox and Yankee fans will not be thanking us.... once we get our act together that is lol.
But until then, this race between the Red Sox and Yankees is a close one and same with the Mets and Phillies. I still think that in the last 15 years that the biggest regular season chokes as it relates to loosing a division lead have been, the 1993 San Fransisco Giants when they practically had the NL West division one with 103 wins, but lost it in one game to the Atlanta Braves, who a month earlier didn't appear they would make it. Also the other big one I can think of is 1995 when the California/Anaheim/Los Angelas Angels blew their lead in the AL West allowing the Seattle Mariners to come back and win the division.
I think those two "chokes" were the biggest regular season "chokes" /mess ups/collapses/ shut downs ect in the last 15 or so years, as it relates to giving up a lead in a division.
In fact it was because of the situation in 1993 with the Giants and the Braves that they decided to add the wild card in because it seemed so unfair to the Giants that year that won 103 games, one would think they would have deserved to be in the post season. Had the wild card been in effect that year, they would have been in the post season obviously.
But it seems that many times basbeall is unpredictable. I mean one team that may have played super one night , may play very poorly the other. Or when you think a certain team is going to win everything because they seem so good, then they choke and mess up. It's like every day, every game, every series ect , teams change , and it's like you rarely see the same team on back to back games and serieses, it's like the team you see in one game or one series can totally change and be like a different team the following game or series ect, either for the better or for the worse. Sometimes even within the first inning and the 8 inning of the same game, a team seems like two completely different teams, it's so all over the place , thats what makes baseball fun and at the same time frustrating too. Not to mention the same thing from a regular season over to the post season, and even within the post season there are different dimensions to this, the division series is one, the NLCS is the second and then the World Series is yet another, and in a way the World series is completely on it's own from any of the other play off or regular season serieses because you face a team from the other league and you really have to change your game plan. Not to mention also the differences between playing in a best of 5 game series and best of 7 game series. So many variables and things to consider in baseball, Yogi had it right when he said that 90% of baseball is mental.
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Posted: 9/22/2007 9:35:59 PM | Yes I was at the Rangers game last night and I kept watching the league board. I kept checking the board in left field and saw the Sox beat TB , and the Rangers game was over when the NY/TO game was in the 14th stil 4-4. I had to leave to get the bus from the game, but found out after I got back the Blue Jays won!
Even with the recent skid, the BoSox STILL have the best record in the majors!
And we are officially in the Playoffs now!! woooooooooo!! First team in MLB to make the postseason this year.
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| Red Sox 2007
Posted: 9/23/2007 11:44:46 AM | at Love
Hey....not a problem.....one day we will pay you guys back and take the World Series Championship for ourselves!!!!.....so thank us while you can, one day both you Red Sox and Yankee fans will not be thanking us.... once we get our act together that is lol.
.......keep in mind that the way the Yanks & Sox spend money, .......the AL east will OWNED by either one of these 2 teams for the next 5 years.....so unless the BJ's can win it by some strange fluke, you guys should not hold your breath hoping for a WS .
...whatever money your team has should be spent on 3 things: pitching, pitching and more pitching!........that is probably the only way you may get in the race!
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| Red Sox 2007
Posted: 9/23/2007 9:40:42 PM | If I remember right .... I was in TO back in 95 watching a Sox/Jays series(during Caribana) and as I was walking up the hill past the CN tower towards the then - SkyDome, I looked to my right.. across a parking lot I saw a Nike ad on the side of a 6 or 7 story building with Joe Carter in full stride. On the lower right, it just stated the date and time with the Nike swoosh. That was as simple as it gets.
The Jays have had their moment in the sun and will again.
It's back to 1 1/2 games again... The Yankees have to win tomorrow. As I lay me down to sleep .. I pray Clemens gets bombed and Susan Waldman shuts up forever! :) | |
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| Red Sox 2007
Posted: 9/28/2007 8:47:29 PM | Congratulations to the 2007 American League Eastern Division Champions Boston Red Sox | |
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| Red Sox 2007
Posted: 9/28/2007 9:01:02 PM | WOOOHOOO YES YES YES YES, For the first time since 1997, someone other then the New York Yankees won the American League Eastern Division Championship, and they are the 2007 Boston Red Sox!!
The Philadeplhia Phillies will win the National League East for the first time since 1993 . The Mets choked, but...better luck next season.
So the Red Sox are the American East Champions for the for the for the first time since 1995. Notice 1993, 1995 and in a way 1997 dee ja vu!!!!, Those were the three best years in my life, or near the top anyways lol, I am looking forward to no matter what happens in this post season, I am happy the way things came out as they did now.
With the Red Sox AL Eastern division champions and the Phillies the NL eastern division champions, the post season should be great.
Cleveland is in it to, just like in 1995 and 1997, WOOHOO.
Not that I am superstitious or anything, but I think this is cool how it turned out. | |
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| Red Sox 2007
Posted: 9/29/2007 12:19:44 AM | 1995 actually!
But you have to ask yourself, if the yanks have won the AL east title all those years, where are the WS vics then????? Who's won more in the last 10 years then???
Who cares about 20 years ago, 15 years ago, etc?? Thats historical.
At the moment, the Bosox still have the best record in the majors, tied w/ Cleveland but still no one better.
Now the Sox get to play the Angels for the first time in I dont know how long.
Enuff of that for the mo'.
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As for the NL... just a side kick.... The CUBS....again... Will it be a SOX-CUBS WS?? How sad it will be to see someone lose that!! Even though the Mets didnt make the cut, I still think that in practice and in team depth, they are better than the yankees no matter what the numbers say. The yankees SUCK.
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PS Clay Buchholz is out for the postseason :( | |
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| Red Sox 2007
Posted: 9/29/2007 8:07:15 AM |
1995 actually!
Thats what I said, 1995 was the last time the Boston Red Sox won the American League East Division. It should be a good post season either way that is for sure.
Also the last time the Red Sox and Angels faced off?? just go back 3 years ago to 2004 when the Red Sox Swept the Angels in 3 games. But yeah it will be a great post season.
Who is the odds on favourite to win? | |
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