How's that champagne tasting, Donnie Garko?

Mike:
Unbelievable. Yet anothah down 1 games to 3 come from behind trip to the World Series. 1986, 2004, and now, 2007.

 

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Doug:
What a friggin game last night. Ellsbury? Youkilis? Pedroia!?!!? Wow. Wow and wow.

 

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Mike:
Bob Ryan sums up last night perfectly: "It was just about the most tension-filled rout I've ever seen."

 

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Doug:
I can't stop repeating this: The Sox, who became the 11th team to rally from a 3-1 deficit and win a postseason series, humiliated the Indians in every sense to earn the right to host the Colorado Rockies in Game 1 on Wednesday.

 

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Al:
A tip o' the cap to Cleveland, though. They put up a good fight.

 

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Doug:
Did they? Really? I mean sure it's the gentlemanly thing to say, but seriously, how is getting outscored 30-5 in the 3 games you had a chance to clinch a World Series birth somehow a noble rah-rah good fight kinda thing?

 

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Mike:
Someone should have known bettah about those white hankies. You knew no good would come of it.

 

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Doug:
White hankies aside, you know what Cleveland's real problem is?

 

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Doug:
Too many ridiculous beards, that's what.

 

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Doug:
Oh, sure, some of the Sox have facial hair, but it's cool, like Youks Moses-meets-Paul-Bunyan thing and Beckett's mini-vag soul patch …

 

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Doug:
But Cleveland's beards? Gimme a break. If you show up at Fenway looking like you took a wrong turn on the way to a Mt. Holyoke faculty council meeting, then, yeah, you're gonna face "The Collapse".

 

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Al:
I hope the Rockies fans have enjoyed that streak, because it's gonna be a memory come Wednesday night.

 

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Mike:
You know I hope the Sox sweep this thing in 4 for the simple reason that I do not think I can enduah anothah 7 games with Joe Buck and Tim McCahvah.

 

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Doug:
Are you kidding me? I lost a good 10 points off my IQ from last night's game alone.

 

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Doug:
Another 7 game series and it's gonna be fucking Flowers for Algernon.

 

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Comments

[vermonter]

The dynasty seems headed for the toilet. Not hatin', just seems like the truth. The whole Torre thing was bizarre. Wait 'til next year when Torre, Posada, A-Rod, and the Fruit Bat are gone.

Cue cartoon music: Waa waa waa waaaahh...

[soxdownunder]

//My last Berocca fizzed and settled my hangover early this morning (ask SDU about it's magical powers).//

The advertising slogan used to go:

Berocca gives you back your b-b-bounce!

[Bob]

//...b-b-bounce//

Heh. Cool play on words (besides literally giving you back your bounce, Berocca has an overload of B vitamins in it).

It sure came in handy this morning, but it was my last one, so now I have to make a new order from my Australian catalog.

[jen in HI]

"looking like you took a wrong turn on the way to a Mt. Holyoke faculty council meeting". LOL.
The Cleveland beards- very Jake Gyllenhaalish...and he's a Red Sox fan.

[mikeya2k1]

ok ok i was wrong i admit it .... i didnt believe and now we're going to the world series. GO SOX!!! and props to the those who didnt give up.

[soxdownunder]

Hey B-B-Bob, send me your address by email and I'll send you a truckload in grateful consideration for all the laughs we get from your posts and those fine b-b beers, sausages AND ONIONS and 'that hot sriracha' sauce we shared back in back in July.

[NYSoxfan]

NolaSox, get well soon. Natalie, I hear you, sitting at work today like an utter zombie with a shiteating grin Yazbread, this one may not be as sweet as '04, but goddam, I'll take it. And Pinstripe Thunder, blow it out your Bosshole. I'll be in Beantown for Game 2 as an hour in the virtual waiting room finally paid off. This is our century, dammit.

[scottwichmann]

Talk about Bandwagon fans-- This guy I've known professionally for a few years comes up to me at a wedding on saturday talking about "How 'bout those Red Sox?? Do ya think we can do it??" I'm thinking... "Okay, WE?? You've never ever been remotely interested in the Sox before, but whatever, I'll humor you..." I smile cordially, then he starts spouting off to a mutual friend about how he was "At the Stadium in Boston when the ball went through Buckner's legs." I nod and smile and resist the urge to publicly eviscerate him for falsifying his fanhood right there next to the buffet. Maybe next time I'll just hand him a pink Sox hat. Loser. The Dane Cooks of the world are multiplying. Great win last night. I like my champagne on the Rocks. Let's do this thing.

[Mike]

"Oh, sure, some of the Sox have facial hair, but it's cool... But Cleveland's beards? Gimme a break."

Y'know, this is true. I had been growing a full beard, but my girlfriend dared me to shave the beard but keep the moustache just before the ALDS started. Not being one to turn down a dare, particularly from my girlfriend, and double-particularly about hilarious facial hair, I shaved it into a moustache. Obviously, they swept the Angels. Now, by the time Game 1 of the ALCS had begun, I was scruffy to the point of almost-beard to go along w/ the moustache. Clearly, by Game 2, the Baseball Gods considered my playoff moustache a fullgrown playoff beard, and punished us thus severely. To counteract this, no lie, I shaved the beard just before the back-to-back-to-back dingers in Game 4. I took this as a sign, and have since kept the "jus'stache" (just-a-moustache) going strong ever since. Hello, World Series.

[RonF]

louclinton, the way to say that is that you were listening to the radio while the TV was on a delay. Radio doesn't need a delay as long as nobody yells "FUCK" into the booth, but anybody can hold up an obscene sign or pull up their shirt/down their pants as the camera pans the crowd, so they need a delay a lot more.

I figured that if they could just win game 5, they stood a good chance coming home to Fenway. Damned if I wasn't right. The Rox are in trouble.

Yeah, I was thinking "damn, if he hits one we're tied here", but I've been watching the Sox since 1963. This isn't my dad's Sox. Hell, it almost isn't even my Sox. I thought 2004 was the best pitching staff the Sox ever had, but this staff is better. And the playoffs are all about pitching.

[scottwichmann]

'Justache?' I like it. I have one too now, as a matter of fact. My wife thinks it looks Soxy.

[h.i.soxfan]

with his homer; i couldnt help but think that his middle name just changed to indians fans...dustin"effin" pedroia

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