Rock-eeeez... Come out and play-ay.

Bill:
Like I've been saying, hope they enjoyed that win streak during their 8 day vacation.

 

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Doug:
Welcome to the AL East, bitches.

 

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Bill:
You know, I sensed the Rockies were going to have trouble once I saw that they are one of those "vest" uniform teams. Jeeezus.

 

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Doug:
Yeah, not only a vest but a purple trimmed vest. Are you friggin kidding me? Has no one in Denvah evah of heard of the psychology of color?

 

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Bill:
Seriously. You show up in a purple vest against a dude like Dustin Pedroia and it's like, yeah, he's not only going to take you deep in his first at bat, but he's also going to steal your lunch money and make out with your girlfriend while you watch, Francis.

 

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Doug:
Even I'm still having trouble trying to comprehend the absolute severity of this old school beat down — 9 battahs in a row reached base with 2 outs!? 11 for 15 after two outs through the first five innings!?

 

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Bill:
17 hits. 16 in the first five innings!

 

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Doug:
A World Series record of 8 doubles. An all-time postseason record 7 walks.

 

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Bill:
Fercrissakes even Julio Lead Bat Lugo had 3 hits.

 

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Doug:
Oh, right, and then there's Josh Beckett — Untouchable, unflappable, unbeatable.

 

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Bill:
2/3 IP, 7 ER, 6 H, 1 BB, 1 balk, 94.50 ERA.

 

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Doug:
7.0 IP, 1 ER, 6H, 1BB, 1.29ERA

 

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Doug:
And 30 of his first 32 pitches were 95-97mph fastballs.

 

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Bill:
Facing Beckett in Octobah is a bit different than facing him in June, eh, Roxie?

 

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Doug:
Read it and weep: "In 30 innings this October, Beckett has struck out 35 while walking just two in 30 innings, and his earned run average this October is 1.20 (four earned runs in 30 IP)."

 

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Bill:
And it's not like it's going to get much easiah facing Curt "Braveheart" Schilling tonight along with same balls-to-the-walls Red Sox offense.

 

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Doug:
Get your Bloody Sox on!

 

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Comments

[buckner was framed]

Wow, thanks Bob- and I hear I should always order chili on my nachos del grande, too

[professional hitter]

Yeah, Buck. Wouldn't you know if your brother has a dog? Geez.

[lc]

merideth: that's the best advice I've heard all week.

lc

[buckner was framed]

Hitter, you talkin the girl or the glorified Swiffer in her hands?

[Vivo]

Red Sox: "Throw the ball, bitch."

RonF, that's great.

[professional hitter]

Ha! Take your pick. I say if that dog was a fish I'd throw it back. And this applies to the dragon lady and said Swiffer. Speaking of that ad, it also hammers "Red Dragon Tattoo" from Northampton's own Fountains of Wayne into my head afterwards. I'm fit to be tied.

[Follower of Tito]

RonF and other, re: turning down TV noise supplementing with radio. Out in western Mass, we get an EEI FM affilitate 105.5 - normally it has the WRKO feed, but last night, to my horror was John Miller and...(wait for it)...Joe Morgan. Talk about bad options. I have MLB.com audio, so I fired up the laptop - between a 7 to 10 second delay. Unfortunately, I have not made it to TiVo. May have to heavily self-medicate to achieve hb's yogi-like calm with McCarver (pun perhaps intended).

[Billy Mahty]

I've gotta say, if anything has ever shaken my faith in statistics, it is these Red Sox.

[Follower of Tito]

PH, while I'm a born & raised native of the Paradise City (go Blue Devils!), according to the Wiki, we cannot take credit for Fountains of Wayne - they seem to belong to Berkshire County:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountains_of_Wayne

[bamasoxfan]

Friends,
Wojciechowski's article on ESPN is a must read (Jason Stark's sudden change of tune is noteworthy if for the absurdity of it all . . . he of the "Rockies will win the Series" vibe.)

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?columnist=wojciechowski_gene&id=3078261&sportCat=mlb

(Sorry I am not as savvy as many of you . . . don't know how to link.)

Go Sox.

[Follower of Tito]

Oh, and Jason Stark would like some mustard with that crow, but he did provide one sort of bizarre quote:

Asked to describe what it's like to see those Red Sox hitters stomping into the batter's box, Rockies pitching coach Bob Apodaca put it this way: "[They're] big hairy-chested guys, one after another, who work the count and pounce on your mistakes."

"Jayson, Do You Like Movies About Gladiators?"

[Bob]

Buck is surly and somewhat-lovable today.

SDU, send him a tube of Berocca, too. :))

[professional hitter]

My bad, Tito. I thought Adam and Chris from the band lived there at one point. Maybe they just stopped there for gas. I am a couple years and lines of latitude removed from my 'Hamp days.

[Betsy in Rhode Island]

I'm hearing impaired - deaf in one ear, hearing aid in the other. I use the captions with Remy and Orsillo. I haven't turned captions on for Buckcarver yet but I go to this site daily to check out what I've missed.

Do you think if Ellsbury doesn't hit Coco will be back in the lineup?

[Bob]

Betsy, I'd love to have captions when McCarver is bellowing. I'd imagine they go something like this:

"Third base is the base-thing after second base."

"The Red Sox ae no Yankees when it comes to winning World Series titles in the '20s or late '90s."

"I like pie."

"Sometimes, my dad would use a wood-burning tool on my ass."

[buckner was framed]

and, "You haven't caught anything til you've received it from Big Bob Gibson"

What flavors does the Berocca come in?

[Bob]

Purple.

[Betsy in Rhode Island]

Thanks, Bob. And I'm sure McCarver let you know that Beckett striking out the side and then Pedroia hitting a home run was a good start for the Sox

[Bob]

Buck, here's a pic of my beloved Berocca:

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/7/7b/Berocca.PNG

[professional hitter]

I play that gawd awful Fox montage at the beginning of the coverage last night was a one-time deal. That was akward. I had to leave the room.

[Bob]

Pro Hitter, either I just had a stroke, or you're drunk, or I am.

[vasoxfan]

So the idea of buying some Berocca intrigued me so I went online to find it. I was in the checkout line when I saw the usual people who bought this product also bought that. Well the assocoated product was not something I would associate with Bob.
http://www.allcures.com/shared/product.asp?id=13181&txt=VASOGEN

http://www.allcures.com/shared/product.asp?id=13181&txt=VASOGEN /> Stopped me dead cold!!:)

[Bob]

Thanks, Vaso. My keyboard, and my coffee-scorched nose thank you.

(I DO recommend Berocca though. Really. It's been a life-saver.)

[vasoxfan]

Your welcome. So where do you buy it?

[Bob]

Well, normally, here:

http://aussiecatalog.com/store/item/1k540/Best_Before_Sale/Sale_-_Berocca.html

But SDU is actually getting me a tube or two in Oz, and sending it to my home.

I like SDU. He's nice (even for a lawyer).

[soxdownunder]

//SDU: Berocca. Now. Please.////
They are on their way but I can't see them making it before we wrap this thing up.

What flavors does the Berocca come in?//
//Purple.//

LOL!! Mrs SDU also. There is now also second flavour. Cat's piss yellow.

MMmmmm.

[professional hitter]

Bob, I think it's a combination of all three. It's tough - the beer sloshes all over the place, especially when I pull the bus across train tracks. Actually we are slinging beers down for a Halloween party at work. Gotta love advertising...

[Monty in CA]

thanks a lot Bob! now I know I have something in common w/McCarver...but Im not telling which one.

[buckner was framed]

// Cat's piss yellow.
MMmmmm.//

Sign me up! our best to the missus.

No Kaz today? Or is he still in Appalachia? Wondering if he caught the mention of Eagle Deli's burger challenge during the "up close and personal, get to know the Rockies" segment on Francis. Good thing they shared that info- He wasn't around long enough to find out about him otherwise

[Bob]

Monty, I'm hoping it's pie...

[Bob]

Yeeee… hawww… it’s another episode of Appalachian Emergency Room! Netti and Percy Bo Dance are back again. This time around, Percy has a ceiling fan and a street sign impaled through his skull. But that’s not the worst. Velda Ray Tonkins has a whole can of silly string shoved up his nose while his mom wants one “of those surgeries to tighten up my baby hole.”

Then there’s Perdy Spotly who fell off the roof and landed on his wife’s boob job, exploding the saline out of her chest. To rectify this, they plan on filling them back up at the gas station; they’ve only stopped by the emergency room to steal a car.

Lastly, in comes everyone’s favorite patient, Tyler, who somehow managed to get an “Indian Rain Stick” shoved all the way up his butt. It involved a can of Miracle Whip and an old lady’s frog… don’t ask.

[buckner was framed]

Hey, I thought the beer cart only rolled thru your office on Fridays? LMAO!

[buckner was framed]

Jesus, judging by my # of postings today, I clearly don't have enough to do at work. When did I go into advertising?

[Bob]

I'm sober as an judge, Buck.

("What was she wearing, sir?"

Tube top and a mini skirt."

"Case dismissed!")

[Bob]

See, the thing about advertising is, you get your inspiration from all kinds of sources:

Porn, Sox blogs, porn, beer...

[lc]

Bob, respectfully, I believe you have inspiration confused with dissipation.
lc
go sawhx

[h.i.soxfan]

actually there are i believe, 7 possible ways to reach base safely

[h.b.]

If the Red Sox are just 1/2 as fired up as Bob has been today, tonight's game should be another walk in the park.

[NolaSox]

Lostaholix note: the actor who plays Jin was arrested for a DUI so you know he'll die next season.

And I'm not sure you can say "sober as a judge" here in New Orleans.

[pudge]

I am optimistic, but let's calm down a little. Beckett is the only lights-out stud in our lineup. And yeah, we got 16 hits in the first five innings ... and only one in the next three.

We killed two pitchers, and got shut down by the rest.

I like our chances, I do. But this was a beat down of only two pitchers, and our one extremely solid ace. It gets tougher from here.

Now, if we win tonight behind Schilling, and our bullpen doesn't get exhausted ... well, the Rockies are pretty well screwed. But we need three more, and even if we believe Beckett is unbeatable, that means we need at LEAST one more win out of a non-Beckett, if not two.

Go Schilling!

Go Sox!

GFY!

[Scott]

Well said pudge. They are still picking the Rockies in 5 or 6 here in Denver. They figure they can beat up Schilling and beat Beckett at Coors.

Go Sox!

[soxdownunder]

//I'm sober as an judge, Buck.

("What was she wearing, sir?"

Tube top and a mini skirt."

"Case dismissed!")//

Have you been sitting in the back of my coal face, this week?

[Kaz]

Heya, bucknerWF. I'm around...barely. I was sick all day today and not up for typing much. Got back from the mountains on Monday night. Was a hell of a race at Martinsville (all the NASCAR nuts thought it was boring...well, la-dee-da).

Saw the sandwich and immediately said to my friends "That's an Eagle's Deli burger". About 30-45s later, the TV announces it as such. Yeah, I'm that damn good.

Another Schilling classic coming up tonight. I'll be watching out one eye from my cold medicine-induced haze until I pass out and hopefully get back to work tomorrow.

[buckner was framed]

good to hear, Kaz- feel better. Hopefully the boys will have it wrapped up by the 5th again and you can get some early shut-eye.
Have we ever broken triple digits on comments before?

[Jim in Denver]

Just found a great Sox bar in Denver. The Pour House, on Market, between 14th and 15th, about 7 blocks from Coors Field. It looked like it could have been a bar in Pawtucket for all the Sox/Pats jerseys I saw.

[Kaz]

Interesting, Jim. The Pour House is also a great Boston bar here on Boylston St. Cheap beer, decent eats.

[IkeG]

h.i...
Hit
Walk
HBP
Catcher's interference
Error
Dropped 3rd strike
Fielder's choice
Slap the ball out of Arroyo's hand
...I count 8

[Kaz]

h.b., I found this on boston.com today, just for you: Warriors -Sox movie poster

PS - While I detest directing any traffic to a website called "F*Boston!"...they do have the 23 ways to get to first (as determined by the Baseball HoF and others): http://blog.f-boston.com/2007/08/08/ways-to-get-to-first-base/

[Jay]

Check out this Sox-John Denver parody video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mLh-sXqN9E

[vssoxfan]

I can't Believe mcobvious just told us that after batting baserunning was the most important thing