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Ret10Echo
10-24-2013, 01:52
Game one is in the books. Sox went up early....and had Lights-Out pitching. Way to come out the gate guys.
Go BoSox!
Fenway looks beautiful in October...nice to see the umps get together to make the right call.
Go BoSox !
Trapper John
10-24-2013, 05:59
Boston Strong! :D
woo hoo, one down...keep it up BOSOX...:lifter
Sonofagunny
10-24-2013, 09:17
This sums up my thoughts nicely.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sports/columnists/tim-cowlishaw/20131021-cowlishaw-nightmarish-world-series-pits-cardinal-demons-vs.-ghosts-of-rangers-past.ece
Ret10Echo
10-24-2013, 20:26
Are Errors going to be the defining factor of this series?
Badger52
10-27-2013, 04:59
Are Errors going to be the defining factor of this series?In some ways, it appears so. (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/mlb/news/20131027/world-series-game-3-red-sox-cardinals-obstruction/?sct=hp_t11_a0&eref=sihp) Pretty good summary. But there was some snappy play by both sides as well that gets lost in the "What the...?!" moments. Still, baseball it is.
Go Cardinals.
:munchin
Ret10Echo
10-27-2013, 06:28
If you were looking for an exciting series.....this is becoming that.
Word of the day: Obstructing
craigepo
10-27-2013, 07:04
That was a fun baseball game. Both teams running out of pitchers and pinch hitters in a nine inning ball game, every pitcher throwing mid-90's fastballs...
Obstructing? I can't remember the last time I even thought about the obstructing rule. That was one of the most fun games in the last couple of decades.
Here's a link to a pretty interesting NY Times article on the '46 Series between Boston and St Louis, concerning two US pastors working at the Nuremburg trials. Rather interesting read. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/27/sports/baseball/a-world-away-the-seventh-game-close-at-hand-condemned-nazis.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20131027
Last nights game was great, coupled with the storm making my satellite go in and out. I was worried I wasn't going to be able to watch the end. I'm glad I did, 2 more games to go, hopefully all in St Louis and the Cardinals will get their 12th World Series win!
Ret10Echo
10-28-2013, 07:30
Another good one last night. Regardless of whether or not you are a Cards or Sox fan, it's just good baseball.
The final out a pick-off at first with Beltran as the tying run at the plate... WOW
Game 1 pitching rematch coming up. It will be interesting to see if this remains a pitching duel as the others have, or if the offenses have seen enough to crack the code.
Go BOSOX...
Wow, Jonny Gomes an unlikely World Series hero called on to fill in for Shane Victorino...gotta love this series.
Both teams playing well - pitching has been strong - enough offense to be interesting. MLB is the winner so far.
Go Sox !
This newsletter just got posted with an artical about Jonny Gomes and his combat helmet.
On a late June day at Fenway Park in Boston, Master Sgt. Miguel Chacon was looking on with great pleasure as Red Sox players signed autographs for his three children and dozens of others when he felt something hit him on the side.
Chacon, in uniform, looked down to see a pair of batting gloves, which he assumed that some fan had tossed down to be signed. A moment later, an usher tapped Chacon on the shoulder and told him that it was Red Sox outfielder Jonny Gomes, known for his unwavering support of the U.S. military, who had thrown them over.
Later, he was able to thank Gomes personally for the unsolicited gesture, but Chacon wanted to do more.
So when Lee Cummings, who works at the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environ- mental Medicine at Natick Soldier Systems Center, offered him tickets to the Sept. 15 Red Sox-Yankees game at Fenway, Chacon, the USARIEM senior enlisted advisor, brought along the Advanced Combat Helmet that he had worn in Iraq and a bag of "recruiting goodies."
On a pregame tour of Fenway, Chacon showed the helmet to a club official and told her that he had brought it for Gomes. She es- corted Chacon and fellow USARIEM Soldier Spc. Travis Crook below the stands and to a door outside the Red Sox clubhouse.
“About three minutes later, here comes Jonny Gomes through the door!” Chacon said. “I reached into the bag and I said, ‘This is the helmet that I had in combat.’”
Chacon told Gomes that he wanted him to have it.
“Are you serious? This is cool. This rocks,” Chacon recalled Gomes saying.
“He was just taken by that helmet,” Chacon said. “He loved it. He lit up.”
As they talked, Gomes pulled down his right sock to reveal a tattoo that stretches from his knee to his ankle. The tattoo includes an American flag, the Statue of Liberty, and a target with the date Osama bin Laden was killed.
“I’ve met some players,” said Chacon, but I've never met a player as patriotic as Jonny. Never."
The helmet -- with Chacon’s rank, roster number, blood type, an American flag and a Special Forces sticker on the outside -- has become as much a celebratory icon as the beards worn by the Red Sox, now facing the St. Louis Cardinals in the World Series. Chacon didn’t part with it lightly.
“Things that I’ve taken to combat and back, they have a lot of value to me,” said Chacon, who has set aside the gear for his children to one day A.0009260.1.24give to theirs. “This is the stuff that dad went to war with.
I wanted to give a piece of the battlefield bCahcakcoton’Jsohnenlmy.e”t couldn’t have found a better home than Gomes’ locker.
“It’s an honor to see him wear that,” said Chacon, adding that Gomes, in turn, “hon- ors the military. That’s bigger than anything.
“I’m glad it’s getting them through the battle that they’re battling through right now … to win the World Series.”
craigepo
10-28-2013, 10:52
That was the feel-good story of the day. Even if Gomes did crush that game-winning homer last night.
Fantastic.
While I dislike the home run last night, I have a lot of respect for Gomes after that story.
Ret10Echo
10-29-2013, 01:43
Game five is in the books. Another (unsurprisingly low scoring affair). Seems it came down to control.... Lester was better able to keep his pitches in the right places.
So the American League team takes 2 in the NL park. This has been a great series to watch.
Go BOSOX
Trapper John
10-29-2013, 06:23
Big Papi gets my vote for the Series MVP.
Ret10Echo
10-29-2013, 16:18
Average price..... $1, 860.00
$300.00 bleacher seats.....$1, 100.00
One fan paid $24, 000.00 for two prime , front-row seats
The "Great American Pastime"
craigepo
10-29-2013, 17:02
Big Papi gets my vote for the Series MVP.
He is killing the ball. He has won the series for Boston.
Ret10Echo
10-31-2013, 08:12
And it is done. Congratulations to the Red Sox! :lifter
Trapper J... Looks like your vote counted an Big Papi is the MVP. .688 BA and a .750 OBP. Clutch hits throughout and not always the monster stroke, but what was needed was delivered. AND... he played on the defensive side as well.
Had a road trip scheduled and I was worried I would miss the game...but dialed up an AM station out of Cincy that was broadcasting. Kept that station from start to finish over a 200 mile trip. (Must be the comm guy in me...but there is nothing better than listening to the call of a baseball game on the radio....awesome)
Don't get me wrong, totally happy with the Boston win...but wish a little more of the St. Louis regular-season team had shown up.
Wacha unfolded quickly. Tough spot for a rookie...especially in THAT house.
LOTS of stranded base runners... Thumbs up to John Lackey.. 2002 - 2013 Series wins. That's an impressive stretch for a throwing arm.
Pedroia with an "E"... fortunately that was pitched out of so no scuff marks.
The wild throw/passed ball to first that was an infield hit?
St Louis finally getting to the point where they were just putting Ortiz on.
In this day and age of free agency, it's sad to think that the teams will most likely break-up while the player's stock is high. Unfortunate in my mind coming from a time where my entire youth was around the fact that the same 9 guys got out on the field year after year. (Pudge Fisk, Burleson, Yaz, Petrocelli, Hobson, Evans, Lynn, Rice)
A bright future for St. Louis. They have a big bunch of young studs that they have brought up.
As the Cubs fans say..."Until next year".
R10
Trapper John
10-31-2013, 12:03
Yep, a great series - one for the memory book. I was really happy to see the Flyin Hawaiian redeemed himself at bat. I just love the way he loves the game - a real baseball player from the old school IMO.
Yeah, Ret10Echo, I agree and miss the teams that pretty much stayed the same year after year. Miss those days too. And a well called baseball game on the radio - now that is hard to beat!
Of course the moments like a beat-up Gibson's HR, or Billy Buckner's error at 1st base, or who can forget Curt Schilling's bloody sock? These are visual images that are hard to beat too.
Damn it seems like a long time until pitchers and catchers report. :eek:
greyshade
10-31-2013, 16:27
Booo..
I have never witnessed a batter dominate as much as Ortiz did.
We'll be back next year.
Move over Reggie - IMO Ortiz has now earned the current title Mr. October.
Well played St. Louis - congratulations on a great season.
Boston had one hell of a year and series.
Boston Strong !
:lifter