2008 ALCS Post Game 6 Open Thread

Hart Brachen:
Last night I realized the the word which perfectly describes the Red Sox in the ALCS is brinkmanship,

 

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Hart Brachen:
That is "the technique or practice of maneuvering a dangerous situation to the limits of tolerance or safety in order to secure the greatest advantage."

 

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Hart Brachen:
Sounds about right, huh?

 

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Comments

[louclinton]

Is it me, or are those mo' hawks starting to look a little silly?

lc

[Daubie]

Indeed.

[h.b.]

Heh.

BTW Kaz pointed out that comments were not showing up to yesterday's strip after Pudge's.

Seems Pudge's comment was #50 and, unknown to me, TypePad made a config change in September such that any comments after #50 get paginated into a new set, i.e, 1-50, 51-100, 101-150 etc.

I need to put in a code snippet that will allow you to access the comments beyond #50.

[david]

Apparently, the first rule of defeating the post-2003 Red Sox in the playoffs is to never put the Red Sox on the edge of defeat.

[yazbread]

Catch-22.

[yazbread]

Catch-22.

[pudge]

h.b., no comments need be posted after mine.

When I say Rays, you say Choke! Rays! Choke! Rays! Choke!

[h.b.]

The code snip worked on the comments >50.

But the archives are still jacked. Lots of little off season tweaks still to make... all in good time.

[Primitive Screwhead]

Beckett holds on.
JV breaks out of his slump at the right time.
YOUUUUUKK!!!
Papi is swinging well.

Game 7 belongs to the Sox.

[redmiller1]

Fun game last night, and looking forward to ALCS game 7.

The Soxaholix chat via Gabby worked well, too. Decided to try it while TBS was um... *confused* (yeah, that's it.) And stuck around for the rest of the game with a core group of fellow Soxaholix.

Thanks h.b.!

[TheNaturalMevs]

Huge game tonight. Stop by for the liveblog.

http://www.diamondhoggers.com/2008/10/its-only-biggest-game-in-tampa-bay-rays.html

[da kine]

You guys are welcome. I wore a Varitek shirt in order to allow him to break out of his slump and he did. I know correlation does not equal causation, but I think it is pretty obvious that I had something to do with yesterday's win.

[Dale021]

Lester is the best
man to start in game seven.
Will Rays mime Cleveland?

Dale

[jhammo]

rays fans hanging heads
Upton can't do it alone
Garza, meet Lester

[jhammo]

ALCS done
Tampa left to lick their wounds
Sox again in 4

[jhammo]

season long no fold
whoa young upstarts not so fast
thought you had it, eh?

[Primitive Screwhead]

da kine,

I've been wearing my Papi jersey every game for the same reason. ;-)

[scott12xu]

"Last night I realized the the word..."
Either that's a typo or it's a subtle way of saying...

"This is the day [night]

Your [Red Sox fans'] life will surely change...!"

[da kine]

[insert image of Nelson from the Simpsons]

Ha Ha!

[birthofasoxfan97]

Kennedy was the master of brinkmanship and where was he from? Yes, that's right, Rays. Say it again. Say "Boston."

[vasoxfan]

Damn- we had our shot

[louclinton]

That was an unsatisfactory outcome

lc

[yazbread]

Garza pitched lights out tonight. Tonight followed the season to a T. Good pitching and the bats never really came alive. Should be an interesting off season.

[Daubie]

dirtdogs has it right - let's blow up this lineup and move on. thanks manny for that extra twenty mil.

[Genghis Ortiz]

Disappointing but great season...more easily said after 2004 & 2007.

Playoff Sox missed Mike Lowell as much as Manny.

Go get Vlad Guerrero please. And if head office fucks with Papi, I'm burning all Sox attire...

[Kaz]

Ugh.

At least we have the Pats to watch now.

UGH.

[Scott]

Who will Joe Buck & McCarver. "root" for in the WS while "calling" the games? Two underdogs might make their heads explode. We can only hope.

Yes, they did have their chances.

[soxdownunder]

Sad sad sad. Missed the whole of game 7 to work commitments - stupid international dateline - stupid sun and earth rotation. A great season again by the boys; ups and downs, highs and lows. Lowell's injury may have been the difference but credit to the stupid Rays.

God I love baseball.