For Happy Ears
Some topical remarks from RSN bloggers today -
From the The Joy of Sox:
It’s a wonder these brain-dead f**kers are still in first place. God, this team sucks right now. They are painful to watch.
From A Red Sox Fan In Pinstripe Territory:
I’d just like to blame that racist f**king idiot DirtDog once again for running Pedro out of town, causing us to have to watch that fat-head Wells self-destruct and whine and complain and get frustrated and f**k up in September against the Devil Rays.
From Sox Blog on Live Journal:
Bastards….Sorry, just very upset right now. Their playing like fools. Pitching has gone to the toilet. Edgar’s making errors again, Veritek looks tired, Nixon stinks, and…oh wait, I think thats it. So long eastern division title, so close…
But, for the most part, I noticed a lot of Red Sox Blogs out there that have not been updated with entries recently. That’s too bad.
I love it, never really checked the Sox blogs before but from what I’ve read, they seem to forget the baseball part and will just settle for violence against Yankee players and fans.
How happy would you be now if the YGTE* let Pedro, Lowe and Cabrera go?
And to think I was angry about El Duque for a while…
*Young Genius Theo Epstein
Were any of us this bleak after Sunday’s blah loss in Toronto? I don’t think so. Guess old habits die hard.
Well Shaun there were a bunch of people ready to kill Torre. And I thought it didn’t matter, the Red Sox had their ring, now everybody could die happy.
Welcome to our world, Red Sox fans, where every loss is bad and the only good season ends with champagne.
I’m the guy that does A Red Sox Fan In Pinstripe Territory. I’d just like to say that if you read my blog, you’ll see I’ve been optimistic all year (and all of last year). In fact, in the very same post you quote, I mention how the yanks will choke in the end. You saw that O’s game last night, you can’t think the yanks are going anywhere this year.
I guess you learned your “misleading the public” skills from Michael Kay, cuz you’re doing a great job:)
Also, when I refer to “DirtDog,” that’s bostondirtdogs.com, just so people know.
Jere – that’s why I included the link to your entry with my post – so that people could read the whole thing, if they were interested.
I meant no bad intentions in terms of being misleading. Sorry to anyone who took it that way.
I quoted the part that was important with respect to what I wanted to point out – that, last night, RSN was feeling what many Yankees fans felt earlier this year.
“You saw that O’s game last night, you can’t think the yanks are going anywhere this year.”
So based on one game (one game they WON by the way) you have come to the conclusion that the Yanks aren’t going anywhere this year. Huh. That’s interesting. Our rookie pitcher shuts down a pretty good offensive line-up for 8 innings and we win on a walk-off homerun in the 9th from a bench player and that proves that the Yankees aren’t going anywhere this year?
That’s some good logic right there.
So based on one game (one game they WON by the way) you have come to the conclusion that the Yanks aren’t going anywhere this year. Huh. That’s interesting. Our rookie pitcher shuts down a pretty good offensive line-up for 8 innings and we win on a walk-off homerun in the 9th from a bench player and that proves that the Yankees aren’t going anywhere this year?
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You can’t leave as many runners on base as the Yanks have, and expect to win.
Nice run the Pinstripers have put together, but there’s tougher pitching/hitting in the playoffs. TB, Tor & Bal are NOT Ana, Bos, Chi, Cle & Oak.
Boston has tough pitching?
The A’s can hit? Sitto the Chisox?
The only teams that the Yanks should be worried about are Cleveland and the Angels. The other teams can be beat.
Adding on, FWIW, I just got this e-mail from a friend at work who is a Sox fan: “The sox are playing like crap and don’t deserve to make the playoffs. Ortiz and Wakefield are the only players that want to win.” That sure sounds like something that I would have said about NY just a few months ago.
Boston can hit, Oakland and Chicago can pitch.
From the looks of it, if you’re going to be worried about the Indians, you have to be worried about the A’s; their numbers are similar. Slump notwithstanding, the ChiSox pitching is right up there with those two.
Actually, I write every day. At least once.
And after I ranted — and can anyone say that those losses have NOT been painful from a Sox viewpoint? — I reminded everyone that I never stop believing. Not even after ALCS 3. Never have, never will.
A wise man once wrote: “The players come, the players go, we stay.”
Forgot the link. Sorry.
http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/2005/09/on.html
It Is On.
Thanks for the update! Personally, I’m hoping that Kazmir is “on” tonight.
“So based on one game (one game they WON by the way) you have come to the conclusion that the Yanks aren’t going anywhere this year.”
When did I say it was based on that game alone? Show me where. I’ve watched (and rooted against) the yanks every night. My whole life.
Also, JJay, if that game didn’t convince you, did you watch last night?
Jere, when? In your first post to this entry you wrote “You saw that O’s game last night, you can’t think the yanks are going anywhere this year.” I’m pretty sure that’s what JJay was working from.