Amazing! The Red Sox are going to the world series, first game starts in less than an hour, and not a Red Sox thread to be found.
Your predictions? I predict the Red Sox will win it in 7 games.
Amazing! The Red Sox are going to the world series, first game starts in less than an hour, and not a Red Sox thread to be found.
Your predictions? I predict the Red Sox will win it in 7 games.
B.Howes
Framingham, MA






I'm with you, Bob! Go Sox!
BTW, check out this thread.
Andrew
They aren't underdogs anymore, they already got the monkey off their back and have been good for several years now.
America will root for Colorado this time instead, I think the country is a little tied of Boston sports at the moment and doesn't want them to monopolize the championships for the year.
Go ROCKIES!
:detective:
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The Red Sox are today's Yankees. They disgust me with their pretend notion that they are not all about buying a championship. I hope their 100 million dollar import blows two games for them this series.
Fred Greco
Senior Pastor, Christ Church PCA (Katy, TX)
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Come on, guys, its time to bury the hatchet and move on. Maybe next year the moccasin will be on the other foot and we'll all be routing for the Indians to beat some National League team.
But for now...
Give me a G!
Give me an O!
Give me an S!
Give me an O!
Give me an X!
WHAT'S IT SPELL?
B.Howes
Framingham, MA
Bob, I want the Sox to win. They were the team of my youth and so I always enjoy cheering them on. However, I remain cynical of the whole system. Call me a conspiracy nut but I believe the winner has already been chosen. Last night's game was proof.
The Rockies have been a winning machine, unstoppable. The country wants to see them win. They could easily win in 4 games BUT that wouldn't sell many commercials would it. Hence, the Illuminati or Trilaterals or Skull & Bones or whomever is running the world of power politics determined that the Sox would win the first game, maybe even the second. This will shock everyone and make folks think the Sox can go all the way. Obviously it's going to go 7 games, each team trading wins, and the Rockies will be the victors. It will just sell more commercials this way.
I also think it's obscene the way the powers that be have moved these games to start so late. When I was in middle school, our little 4 room school house stopped and TVs were brought in to each classroom and we watched Yaz, Boomer Scott, Jim Lonborg, Reggie Smith, Kenny Herrelson, Rico Petrocelli, and the rest of the Beantown Bombers ALMOST beat the Cardinals for the Series. It made true and hearty fans. Now it's all about the money and politics.
Signed, a sadder but wiser Red Sox fan. (To be fair, I've never recovered from the jading I incurred from Bill Buckner's error in game 6 of the '86 series. Oh the humanity, arrrrgh.)
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Congrats to the Red Sox for their historic win last night!
FWIW, According to Tony Reinke, John Owen is a big Red Sox fan.
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Andrew
Come on Fred. Yes, the Sox have a 100 million dollar payroll. So what? The Yankees, Mets, Cubs and Angels are there too. Boston is a baseball town. I'm a Met fan but I like Varitek, Schilling and Youkalis.
Oh, and by the Sox winning it just increases the angst of Yankee fans. I love it.
The Sox are exactly like the Yankees. What team could pay $50 millions dollars just to negotiate with a player? The Sox payroll is actually $143 million, which is $30 million more than the next team on the scale (or the entire Marlins payroll). To put it in perspective, Boston's payroll - which does not include the $50million paid to the Japanese - is about the same as the Rockies, Diamondbacks and Indians combined. If you include the money to the Japanese, the Boston payroll this year is $11 more than the Yankees.
Everyone gripes about how the large Yankee payroll ruins baseball, but Boston is just as big a culprit. And yes, the Angels are to blame too. So are the White Sox. This salary issue, and paying stiffs huge sums of money, has ruined baseball.
For the record - even before this season, the Sox and the Yankees disgust me. I would like nothing better than for these payroll monsters to go 50 years without making the playoffs, and their owners losing millions per year.
Fred Greco
Senior Pastor, Christ Church PCA (Katy, TX)
Christ Church Blog
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FWIW, this Canadian is cheering for the Sox. Yes a Canadian baseball fan.
Now let's all go watch some hockey!
Rev. Daniel Kok
Pastor of Grace Reformed Church (URCNA)
Leduc, Alberta CANADA
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MONEY TALKS.
I was surprized by the kill last night. But I am a die hard Cubs fan like my Grandpa. It is a genetic curse.
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Fred - there is no virtue in being a mid to small market team. If the owner of the Marlins had the resources he would spend the money. Same with the Devil Rays, Rockies, Royals etc. I'm a Met fan, not because the Mets do/don't spend money but because I grew up with Seaver, Koosman, Agree, Grote and Harrelson. I'm still a Met fan even though I agree with you that uncontrolled spending has ruined the game for many. But remember - baseball is a business. The large market teams have the regional television deals and can justify their outlandish cash outlays for the A-Rod's of the world.
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I am just amazed that the Sox are winning by touch- downs instead of runs. IF they continue to hit like they are, I will have to change my prediction of Co in 6. How many runs has boston scored in the last 4 games? Like 50?
Bob, get your knife and fork ready, Ill have to treat at Ken;'s in december if the bums win.!!!!
Robert
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Sabathia and Carmona were not able to step up when they needed to. Boston is just a very good team. I've never seen such patient hitters. They sat on pitch after pitch until they got one they could hit, and when they hit them they went far.
Maybe next year. That's what we Cleveland fans always say!
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I think we just got a stolen base. Taco Bell: time to pay up!
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Andrew
Hey, Canadians can watch baseball... Growing up, I used to watch the Vancouver Canadians on CHEK-TV (and/or CBUT), but the gem of my sports TV growing up was Hockey Night in CanadaU.S. announcers STILL can't beat the Canadians in sound commentating. I'm sure I'll never forget the voice of Jim Robson...
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See I told you, Boston has won the first two. I will confess. I was having a beer with my buddy Joe Ratzinger and he said that he had seen Nicholas Carpathia hand a note to one of his lackeys. The note was a list:
1: Sox
2: Sox
3: Rockies
4: Rockies
5: Sox
6: Rockies
7: Rockies
He told the lackey to call Fox News and have them run the headline: "Red Sox Beat Rockies in World Series Nail-Biter" after Game 2.
Both men then got into a black helicopter on silent mode and left. Joe also said that Carpathia's lackey looked suspiciously like Bill Buckner.
Anyway, I'm sorry you have to find out that it's all an illusion. The fix is in.
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As a Met fan I think Bill Buckner is great!Joe also said that Carpathia's lackey looked suspiciously like Bill Buckner.
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I agree. I had good intentions of watching yesterday's game, sat in the recliner (big mistake) around 7:30 and watched TV until gametime. Unfortunately, it was a long, hard day at work and I dozed off before the game started and barely remember getting up sometime later to go to bed.
B.Howes
Framingham, MA






Fever Pitch/Sweet Caroline:
Andrew
I wonder when the Devil will collect the Red Soxs' souls, he obviously brokered a deal with them to break the curse of the Bambino a few years back.
:detective:
Travis Speegle
Redeemer Presbyterian, PCA (Waco, Tx)
Pacific Cross Roads, PCA (Los Angeles, CA)
"When it comes to trustworthy theologians one can usually honor the rule of thumb that the deader the better."-Dr. John Hannah, DTS (of all places)
I should say. I'm shocked! SHOCKED, I say! I can't believe the anti-christ would deceive us like that. Who does he think he is? I'm still looking for a seven game Rockie victory but I'll be happy to settle for a 4-0 Sox win. I just don't get it. There's no way the Illuminati is going to pass up that much revenue.
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It's a sweep!!!! I don't know what to say. What does Hal Lindsay say when he gets it so totally wrong? Oh yeah, apparently my prediction was a year off. Maybe even seven. I forgot to factor that there have been leap years since Israel became of nation again.
I'm running my bible code software right now to see just where things went awry.
Congratulations to the Bosox. They've successfully transferred the curse of the Bambino onto every other team. I'm getting out of the prognostication business.
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All my life (or since I was 12 years old and went to my first game at Fenway Park; I lived 2 blocks away) I've been a Red Sox fan. They brought sports agony to the level of fine art. But now twice in my lifetime I have witnessed the Red Sox win the Series and become World Champions, beyond my wildest dreams. There is no doubt, they are the best of the best right now. Hats off to the Bosox, 2007 World Champs!![]()
Andrew
Congrats on the World Championship for Boston this season!
Just don't forget that the Tribe were the only team that even deserved to be on the same field with the Sox this postseason. They'll be waiting for the Red Sox next season with some experience under their belts this time.
Ryan Barnhart - Pastor of OGBC
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