Incredible. A-Rod on tape actually batting that ball away on the tag in the baseline. Incredibly illegal move. He got caught. The Yankees manager should have chewed out A-Rod rather than defend him. The other guy would have at least, in my opinion, made it to second. Instead, the umps took it all away and called that other guy back to first.
Red Sox look like they are beating the curse. Tonight will be the test. Then the Series will be the answer. Sox have to be in top form tonight and fight the hardest they ever have and not back down. They are unbelievable. First team in a playoffs to go from 0-3 to 3-3. Make history tonight, Red Sox.
Yeah,I wondered myself why Jeter was sent back to first when he was already on second when the interference occured...I suppose Lifted up knows the ruling...I don't really blame A-Rod for doing what he did or Torre for arguing...I just didn't like the way the Yankees were inciting the mob...Jeter keeping on giving the safe signal from the dugout as if he were anywhere close to the play...Torre was probably arguing the 'ruling by committee' overruling the first base ump's call...
I didn't know the rule on the A-Rod play, but once I knew it I agreed with the umps.
Congrats, Sox. You've already made history. Good luck tonight. Not that I'm rooting for you, mind you, but dang, these have been some great games. You earned game 7.
this will be the most incredible game 7 ever. Slappin the ball out, for shame and then arguing ... Yankees, you are helping to...reverse the curse!! :D-->
Is this the most amazing 7 games? Im shaking, I havent had a decent nights sleep in a week, I can hardly eat. I think Schillings performance of last night (of course depending on what happenes tonight) is one of those things that legends are made of....that happen once in a generation. His frickin ankle was sewn together for cripesake, he could barely walk..Im proud of this team and what they represent --- and all the useless sports cliches aside, they really have shown unending amounts of heart and character and unselfishness in bringing a whole region and a 'nation' together.
quote: Umps got the call right on A-rod....Yanks are starting to look like a bunch of spoiled crybabies...
The RedSox spent alot of time and energy over last winter trying to acquire A-Rod (or as Bostonians are now referring to him : A-Fraud) I for one am glad that they failed, the Red Sox are amuch better team for it. Although he is undoubtedly talented in 20 something games against the RedSox, -- he has shown a lot of bushness and unprofessionalism that doesnt belong in the game. He is spoiled and a crybaby, and for inciting those classy NY fans -to the point that they had to bring out the riot police---well I'm not sure what they should do.
Still aside from hoping my team gets away from the animals safely tonight--- its game 7, I spent a few hours today actually on the field at Fenway Park (seemed like agood thing to do today) and things dont get much better than this.....
We'll see if any of our pitchers have anything left in about 3 and a half hours
remember um what's his name, robert redford, in that great movie....
you gotta read this:
by Dan Wetzel, Yahoo! Sports
October 20, 2004
quote:NEW YORK – The problem with Curt Schilling's right ankle was a tendon that kept slipping out of place. When it happened – such as in Game 1 of the American League Championship Series – the Boston Red Sox ace was an ineffective pitcher without balance or blast.
So Red Sox doctors went to work Monday. On the eve of Schilling taking the mound in another must-win game, they performed a grotesque procedure, stitching the skin immediately surrounding the tendon to his bone in the hope the tendon wouldn't move no matter how hard he pushed.
Seven innings, one run and a Game 6 masterpiece later, the stitches still held here at Yankee Stadium, just as the Sox held on to defeat New York 4-2 and hope held in New England for a comeback for the ages.
With their backs up against winter, against history, against more heartache, the Red Sox staved off elimination against the New York Yankees for the third time. They are the first team in baseball history to trail a series 3-0 and force a seventh game.
Wednesday, the drama and daring of the ALCS comes to a close the way many thought it would – even if the route to Game 7 was circuitous.
"I guess it was supposed to come to a Game 7," said Yankees manager Joe Torre, whose team is on the verge of an epic collapse usually reserved for the Red Sox.
It was supposed to come because of Schilling, whose heroic medical procedure left his own teammates in awe of his courage and conviction. Playing with blood from the procedure on his socks, Schilling gutted out a meaningful, mesmerizing effort in the face of what must have been nearly unbearable pain.
"I don't think any of us have any idea what he went through to pitch tonight," Red Sox manager Terry Francona said. "For him to go out there and do what he did – you can talk all you want about [the ankle] but his heart is so big. This was amazing."
In the long annals of Red Sox baseball this performance and this sacrifice will go down among the greatest.
With Boston again on the brink of elimination, with its bullpen in tatters from back-to-back extra-inning games and facing a cold, menacing night in its longtime South Bronx house of horrors, it was the moment for a big-time, big-money, big-game pitcher.
And that's exactly what Boston got – 99 pitches of four-hit, no-walk baseball that did more than win a game. Schilling simply demoralized the Yankees with each snuffed-out rally and 1-2-3 inning. He seemed to suck whatever life and hope there was out of the stadium.
The Yankees rallied to threaten against Boston's bend-but-not-break bullpen, but they couldn't overcome the hole Schilling had dug them.
Now it is New York that is wondering if it is cursed, if it will collapse, if it can turn this around. Now it's incredulous Yankees fans throwing beer bottles at umpires. Now it's the Yankees who must deal with apoplectic talk radio callers and riot gear cops to keep the peace.
Schilling, who nearly was pulled after the fifth due to his laboring pain, shrugged off talk of the ankle and cited his faith as getting him through.
"Seven years ago I became a Christian, and tonight God did something amazing for me," he said. "I tried to be as tough as I could and do it my way in Game 1, and I think we all saw how that turned out. I knew I couldn't do this alone. I just prayed for the strength to go out there and compete. He gave me that.
"I can't explain to you what a feeling it was to be out there and feel what I felt."
He later broke into a proud smile.
"I am so freaking proud to be a part of this team. ... This is unbelievable."
This is unbelievable. But this is why Boston is still alive. This is why the emotional core of two cities and a famous 86-year title drought will be tested again. This is why the Red Sox, who had been written off by half their own fans Saturday, were exchanging high fives with a memorial to Babe Ruth looking on.
Where other teams doubt, this team redoubles its efforts. Where other players quit, this team asks, "Why not?" When a player takes a star turn, he would rather talk about the team, not his tendon.
When an ankle gets hurt, a pitcher experiments with bizarre medical procedures if it might, just might, get one more quality start.
The Red Sox have stitched together one of the greatest comebacks in baseball history.
Wednesday they try to finish it by getting another crack at their rabid archrivals.
The gutsy ace they picked up last winter for just this kind of occasion has delivered them to the promise of a second chance at one last game.
Game 7, Yankee Stadium, for all the American League marbles. One more time.
i love him ~ he said:
quote:"I am so freaking proud to be a part of this team. ... This is unbelievable."
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simonzelotes
Umps got the call right on A-rod....Yanks are starting to look like a bunch of spoiled crybabies...
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Count me among those who never would have dreamed there'd be a game seven after that 19-8 debacle...Red Sox have really showed some character...
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excathedra
you know, curt schilling is really something else
i couldn't believe it when i saw the blood
did you read about the medical procedure he went through !!!!
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Wacky Funster
I've been draggin' for 3 days now...totally spaced out...glad tonight is it!!!
Actually, a 4 game sweep is a perfect reward from the anti-bambino gods...dontcha think?
Tonight...we make history!!!!
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Incredible. A-Rod on tape actually batting that ball away on the tag in the baseline. Incredibly illegal move. He got caught. The Yankees manager should have chewed out A-Rod rather than defend him. The other guy would have at least, in my opinion, made it to second. Instead, the umps took it all away and called that other guy back to first.
Red Sox look like they are beating the curse. Tonight will be the test. Then the Series will be the answer. Sox have to be in top form tonight and fight the hardest they ever have and not back down. They are unbelievable. First team in a playoffs to go from 0-3 to 3-3. Make history tonight, Red Sox.
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Yeah,I wondered myself why Jeter was sent back to first when he was already on second when the interference occured...I suppose Lifted up knows the ruling...I don't really blame A-Rod for doing what he did or Torre for arguing...I just didn't like the way the Yankees were inciting the mob...Jeter keeping on giving the safe signal from the dugout as if he were anywhere close to the play...Torre was probably arguing the 'ruling by committee' overruling the first base ump's call...
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I didn't know the rule on the A-Rod play, but once I knew it I agreed with the umps.
Congrats, Sox. You've already made history. Good luck tonight. Not that I'm rooting for you, mind you, but dang, these have been some great games. You earned game 7.
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this will be the most incredible game 7 ever. Slappin the ball out, for shame and then arguing ... Yankees, you are helping to...reverse the curse!!
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Is this the most amazing 7 games? Im shaking, I havent had a decent nights sleep in a week, I can hardly eat. I think Schillings performance of last night (of course depending on what happenes tonight) is one of those things that legends are made of....that happen once in a generation. His frickin ankle was sewn together for cripesake, he could barely walk..Im proud of this team and what they represent --- and all the useless sports cliches aside, they really have shown unending amounts of heart and character and unselfishness in bringing a whole region and a 'nation' together.
The Red Badge Of Courage
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The RedSox spent alot of time and energy over last winter trying to acquire A-Rod (or as Bostonians are now referring to him : A-Fraud) I for one am glad that they failed, the Red Sox are amuch better team for it. Although he is undoubtedly talented in 20 something games against the RedSox, -- he has shown a lot of bushness and unprofessionalism that doesnt belong in the game. He is spoiled and a crybaby, and for inciting those classy NY fans -to the point that they had to bring out the riot police---well I'm not sure what they should do.
Still aside from hoping my team gets away from the animals safely tonight--- its game 7, I spent a few hours today actually on the field at Fenway Park (seemed like agood thing to do today) and things dont get much better than this.....
We'll see if any of our pitchers have anything left in about 3 and a half hours
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remember um what's his name, robert redford, in that great movie....
you gotta read this:
by Dan Wetzel, Yahoo! Sports
October 20, 2004
i love him ~ he said:
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Wow.
Best article I've read on the Red Sox since 1967.
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This is the damndest thing I've ever seen. Bosox are absolutely on fire: Hat's off to you!
If they win (it's 8-1 in the 7th, 2 on, 1 out) I'll be pulling for Boston in the series.
Disappointed? Yeah, of course, but the Yanks will be back.
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mstar:
congrats to the Sox. Well its 8-1 in the 6th, and I think the lights are going out on the Yanks.
Hopefully the Curse of the Bambino will disolve this year.
A really great series, the sox never quit. One for the ages is guess.
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9-3, top of the 8th, 2 out...the suspense is KILLIN me....
10-3, top of the 9th, 2 out... and the hearse is pulling up for the Yankee coffin...
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THEY DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Thanks, PAW!!!
Yup, they did it!!!! The Red Sox after being down 0-3, came back to win 4-3 in 7 games.
I hope they play the St. Louis Cardinals. That would be a replay of 1967 at least. So tomorrow I am rooting for the Cardinals over the Astros.
This is going to be one incredibile World Series.
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Despite being originally from NYC, I really hate the Yankees.
Go Red Sox!
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how does it feel mstar ? how does your Dad feel ?
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eagle i believe god heard you
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Wacky Funster
.....and tonight?....
WE SLEEP!!!!!!!!!!
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