[rominer]

I just f**ked up the damn 2-tuner deal. Wanted to record NESN, watch TBS, had it all on pause while on the phone with the east coast...it all went to hell.

Hmm...much like it did for the Angels. Maybe they do have some legitimate L.A. connection.

[Jack Hayden]

This win comes to you courtesy of Aggressive Angels Baserunning. Running into stupid outs: a sure path to victory.

[Big Dog Dan]

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[SFFM38]

jbelushi, on Oct 7 2008, 12:03 AM, said:

[

and a couple of scotches for you mate

here we go again

I haven't found that beer kind. I know its in Austrilla. has anyone seen this kind in boston area?

http://www.tooheysnew.com.au/images/supercoolheader.jpg MAN This LOOKS GOOD!!!!!!!

This post has been edited by Edmund Dantes: 07 October 2008 - 07:10 AM

[jbelushi]

SFFM38, on Oct 7 2008, 03:25 PM, said:

I haven't found that beer kind. I know its in Austrilla. has anyone seen this kind in boston area?
MAN This LOOKS GOOD!!!!!!!

its tooheys new,its a new south wales drop, the best drop in the world, and please if you know where it can be bought please let me know

This post has been edited by Edmund Dantes: 07 October 2008 - 07:11 AM

[SFFM38]

jbelushi, where are you at? still in Sydney? would love to travel to Sydney espically that beach picture you have in your avatar.

[jbelushi]

SFFM38, on Oct 7 2008, 03:36 PM, said:

jbelushi, where are you at? still in Sydney? would love to travel to Sydney espically that beach picture you have in your avatar.

yeah sydney mate, but i need to know where to get the home brew for when i get my ass over there

and, your welcome here anytime, free room and board to all red sox supporters

yes its a one of many beautiful beaches

[bobgeorge]

My postgame article: http://www.bossports...filename=081007

Being here in California I hate to see the Angels lose, but when it's the Red Sox that doesn't matter. The Angels fought well but have worse of a time getting clutch hits than the Sox do. Aybar was the hero last night and the goat tonight, that's just the way things go. We beat a very good Angels team and we all should be proud.

Now on to Tampa Bay. Jeez. By next week I predict we will hate this team more than the Yankees. Over-under on beanball wars: four? This will be a grudge series. There is no feel good story in TB, their fans suck, their stadium sucks, and I hope that most of the fans this weekend at the Trop will be yelling "Let's Go Red Sox!!!"

Bob G

[RedSoxAnni]

 LA Angels						  ab  r  h  2b  3b  hr  rbi  w  k  avg.
 Figgins, Chone 3b					4  0  2   0   0   0	0  0  0  .333
 Anderson, Garret lf				  4  0  0   0   0   0	0  0  1  .158
 Teixeira, Mark 1b					2  1  0   0   0   0	0  2  1  .467
 Guerrero, Vladimir dh				3  1  0   0   0   0	0  1  0  .467
 Hunter, Torii cf					 4  0  1   0   0   0	2  0  1  .389
 Napoli, Mike c					   3  0  0   0   0   0	0  1  0  .250
 Rivera, Juan rf					  3  0  1   0   0   0	0  0  0  .125
  Morales, Kendry ph				  1  0  1   1   0   0	0  0  0  .500
  Willits, Reggie pr-rf			   0  0  0   0   0   0	0  0  0  .000
 Kendrick, Howie 2b				   3  0  0   0   0   0	0  0  1  .118
 Aybar, Erick ss					  4  0  1   0   0   0	0  0  0  .111
  Totals							 31  2  6   1   0   0	2  4  4 
 
  Boston							 ab  r  h  2b  3b  hr  rbi  w  k  avg.
 Ellsbury, Jacoby cf				  4  0  0   0   0   0	1  0  0  .333
 Pedroia, Dustin 2b				   4  0  1   1   0   0	1  0  0  .059
 Ortiz, David dh					  4  0  1   0   0   0	0  0  1  .235
 Youkilis, Kevin 3b				   4  0  0   0   0   0	0  0  2  .222
 Drew, J.D. rf						4  0  1   0   0   0	0  0  1  .286
 Bay, Jason lf						3  1  2   1   0   0	0  1  0  .412
 Kotsay, Mark 1b					  4  1  1   0   0   0	0  0  0  .300
 Lowrie, Jed ss					   4  0  2   0   0   0	1  0  0  .364
 Varitek, Jason c					 3  1  1   0   0   0	0  0  0  .214
  Totals							 34  3  9   2   0   0	3  1  4 
 
  LA Angels		 0 0 0  0 0 0  0 2 0  --  2
  Boston			0 0 0  0 2 0  0 0 1  --  3
 
	 E_C.Figgins. LOB_LA Angels 7, Boston 6. 2B_K.Morales, D.Pedroia, J.Bay. 
 S_H.Kendrick. CS_R.Willits. GIDP_J.Ellsbury, M.Kotsay. DP_LA Angels 2 
 (H.Kendrick, E.Aybar and M.Teixeira), (E.Aybar and M.Teixeira).
 
  LA Angels				   IP	  H  R ER BB SO  HR  PC-ST   ERA
 Lackey, John				  7	  7  2  2  1  1   0  96-56  2.63
 Shields, Scot (L 0-1)	   1 2-3	2  1  1  0  3   0  25-17  4.76
 
  Boston					  IP	  H  R ER BB SO  HR  PC-ST   ERA
 Lester, Jon				   7	  4  0  0  2  4   0 109-69  0.00
 Okajima, Hideki			  2-3	 0  1  1  1  0   0   13-6  6.75
 Masterson, Justin (B 1)	  2-3	 2  1  0  1  0   0  23-14  2.25
 Delcarmen, Manny (W 1-0)	 2-3	 0  0  0  0  0   0	5-3  0.00
 
 PB_J.Varitek.
 T_2:50. A_38,785.

[Malzone64]

bobgeorge, on Oct 6 2008, 10:16 PM, said:

My postgame article: http://www.bossports...filename=081007

Being here in California I hate to see the Angels lose, but when it's the Red Sox that doesn't matter.

Bob G

Well, being in NorCal, I have nooooo problem with the Angels losing. I do, however, like Scioscia as a manager, not as much as I like Francona, but he's one of the best. This year's Angels team could have mailed it in after game 2, but didn't. Back to NorCal, I'm looking forward to a WS down the road with Jon Lester starting against Tim Lincecum. Of course, a bazillion other things have to get improved for the Giants before that will happen. Now spear the Rays!

[WesternCorrespondent]

According to that article that's over at ESPN/MLB.com there's a lot of pissed-off Angels players, about being squeezed on pitches and on that botched suicide squeeze play.

Tough. Scioscia knows the umpires got it right, he's not bitching as much as his players (thank gawd Varitek performed the rundown perfectly...he could have screwed it up by throwing to Lowrie covering the bag). And from my point of view as a slightly more neutral Red Sox fan (with my Mariner affiliations), NEITHER team got an obvious benefit from the home plate umpire throughout this series. I think whoever was behind the plate in each game was equally bad (or good) for both teams.

The Angels' defense let them down. I thought the Red Sox played exceptionally well in the field -- and it's about time. Over the past 25 years I've seen some pretty awful defensive Red Sox teams -- if they weren't bad up the middle, one or another or most of their outfield was a minus defensively.

I sorta hope it's a Red Sox-Dodgers World Series, and Manny's defense proves to be the Dodgers' demise.

[Manny's PS2]

Manny's ps2, on Oct 6 2008, 03:56 PM, said:

Good, freeze those LA lalas out. (I don't know what a lala is)

Big game for Lester, and I'm betting Pdroia breaks out of the slump. I have the Sox winning 5-2. I'm not to be denied the pleasure of quoting this post tomorrow, after the sox win 5-2. So bank on a win, and bank on it being 5-2.

Damn!

Oh well, I was half right!

As for the Angels, they just need about 80 years in between WS victories with the occaisional smack down by the sox mixed in and we'll be their Yankees (from 1918-2004).

Oh and Lackey? SUCK IT.

"[On Sunday] they scored on a pop fly they called a hit, which is a joke," said Lackey, referring to a popup that was misplayed into three runs. "[On Monday], they score on a broken-bat ground ball and a fly ball anywhere else in America [except in Fenway Park]. And [Pedroia's] fist-pumping on second like he did something great."

This post has been edited by Manny's ps2: 07 October 2008 - 10:34 AM

[W.A. Cummings]

Malzone64, on Oct 7 2008, 10:50 AM, said:

Well, being in NorCal, I have nooooo problem with the Angels losing. I do, however, like Scioscia as a manager, not as much as I like Francona, but he's one of the best. This year's Angels team could have mailed it in after game 2, but didn't. Back to NorCal, I'm looking forward to a WS down the road with Jon Lester starting against Tim Lincecum. Of course, a bazillion other things have to get improved for the Giants before that will happen. Now spear the Rays!

Why would the Angels have mailed it in after game 2? "We won 100 games this year, but we just lost two close ones, so let's stop trying." No matter who their manager was they weren't about to mail in game 3.

Not that I think Scioscia is a terrible manager, I can see the line of reasoning for the squeeze play there, but I would guess that there was an element of small ball hubris involved.

[gluttonforpunishment]

Random thoughts on this series:

John Lackey is a whiny ass bitch.

The Angels are all whiny ass bitches.

Buck Martinez and Chip Caray should really apply for the Angels announcing duties.

Kevin Youkilis looks like Yukon Cornelius from "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer".

Chone Figgins can't even spell his own name correctly.

Craig Sager is without a doubt the worst dressed man in America.

Mike Lowell is one of the toughest bastards in baseball, I'm surprised he was able to go as long as he did.

10pm start times suck for those of us on the east coast that have to get up and actually go to work the next day.

Torii Hunter has two I's in his name but the two on his head couldn't see that Kendrick wasn't gonna make a move for that pop-up.

[Malzone64]

W.A. Cummings, on Oct 7 2008, 08:50 AM, said:

Why would the Angels have mailed it in after game 2? "We won 100 games this year, but we just lost two close ones, so let's stop trying." No matter who their manager was they weren't about to mail in game 3.

Not that I think Scioscia is a terrible manager, I can see the line of reasoning for the squeeze play there, but I would guess that there was an element of small ball hubris involved.

OK, I always ask 'who does that?' when a commentator says something like "he never gives up on an at bat", or a "team mailed it in", but how about what happened to the Angels last year? As soon as Ortiz and Manny went deep on them in game 3, they sure looked like they sulked, if not gave up. This year, losing two in your home park and then going to a park where the home team is very hard to beat, if a team ever is going to be severely discouraged, maybe a few players go out and hit some Boston night spots the night before and play like shite...it happens.

Off topic, whole I'm here, people that can't get EEI, NESN, whatever, there are a lot of people calling into the Jim Rome show (for those that can stand him) about the game. Funny hearing Orange County people actually pissed off about something. Too bad Rome has 3 guests calling in also, all re football. That may divert the baseball slant to the show.

[rominer]

bobgeorge, on Oct 6 2008, 10:16 PM, said:

Being here in California I hate to see the Angels lose

Malzone64, on Oct 7 2008, 07:50 AM, said:

Well, being in NorCal, I have nooooo problem with the Angels losing.

Yeah. I don't get this at all. I'm here in the heart of what the Angels claim is their territory, and I'm thrilled to see them lose. Not just to the Red Sox, but anytime (with some obvious exceptions).

I guess bob likes his neighbors better than I do. Or is more willing to call himself a Californian. Or is just wired differently (which is probably a healthy thing).

I'm loving the "the better team didn't win" crap coming from the Angels. Hey, they might even be right. As long as you're willing to discount every meaningful statistic in every phase of the game.

[Malzone64]

rominer, on Oct 7 2008, 10:23 AM, said:

Yeah. I don't get this at all. I'm here in the heart of what the Angels claim is their territory, and I'm thrilled to see them lose. Not just to the Red Sox, but anytime (with some obvious exceptions).

I guess bob likes his neighbors better than I do. Or is more willing to call himself a Californian. Or is just wired differently (which is probably a healthy thing).

I'm loving the "the better team didn't win" crap coming from the Angels. Hey, they might even be right. As long as you're willing to discount every meaningful statistic in every phase of the game.

Lackey was priceless. I'm actually a bad loser too and I don't really blame him except don't tell me the Angels are better. Too bad they didn't go at it like Reggie and Billy years ago. Bonds/Kent, Zambrano/Barrett were a couple other very entertaining dugout fights. Manny/Youks? :unsure:

[WesternCorrespondent]

You didn't hear that "better team didn't win" crap out of the Mariners or their fans in 2001. Sure, we were very VERY disappointed, but I think everyone realized the Yankees had the Mariners' number (translation: they spent more money on advance scouting) for the second year running, and the Mariners DID have some obvious weaknesses that were exploited.

Nah, you heard that "better team didn't win" endlessly from ESPN/Fox etc. etc. analysts, for several years in fact. Sometimes I hate how these sports news organizations run a subject into the ground.

Now, at least, the Angels can be that "better team didn't win" topic of conversation.