2013 MLB World Series

[Ret10Echo]

Game one is in the books. Sox went up early....and had Lights-Out pitching. Way to come out the gate guys.

Go BoSox!

[tonyz]

Fenway looks beautiful in October...nice to see the umps get together to make the right call.

Go BoSox !

[Trapper John]

Boston Strong!

[glebo]

woo hoo, one down...keep it up BOSOX...

[Sonofagunny]

This sums up my thoughts nicely.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sports/col...ngers-past.ece

[Ret10Echo]

Are Errors going to be the defining factor of this series?

[Badger52]

Originally Posted by Ret10Echo

Are Errors going to be the defining factor of this series?

In some ways, it appears so. 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.

[Ret10Echo]

If you were looking for an exciting series.....this is becoming that.

Word of the day: Obstructing

[craigepo]

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/sp...it_th_20131027

[Brian C]

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]

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...

[tonyz]

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 !

[W9er]

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]

That was the feel-good story of the day. Even if Gomes did crush that game-winning homer last night.

Fantastic.

[Brian C]

While I dislike the home run last night, I have a lot of respect for Gomes after that story.