Not really OT when you think about it
by Fox 71 on Sep 29, 2011 3:18 AM PDT
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Oh man
I went to sleep when the Yanks were up 7-0 and Saaaaaaaawxxxxx up 3-2 and then I woke up this am with blizzard of emails/text messages.
Aahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
Never have I been so happy with the Yankees losing!
Nestor, I have a confession
I used to root against the Yankees as a matter of course, going back to my earliest memories of baseball, which was Mel Allen calling the beginning of a World Series game as I had to trudge off to kindergarten. It was always the Yankees and the Dodgers, and the Yankees alway won. I rooted for the Dodgers because Duke Snider had a men’s store in Compton, which was right next door to Lynwood where I grew up. That’s a good enough reason, and it stuck with me all my life, then got magnified when Steinbrenner created the Evil Empire.
Then something happened, and it was not your quiet evanglism for Yankeeness. I was happy that the Red Sox pulled off the miracle against the Yankees a few years ago, but that changed the Red Sox and their fans into hideous, repulsive obnoxious people. The Red Sox became, in truth, trOJans. They truly did, in every sense of the word. Everything about the Red Sox automatically became better than anything else. Fenway Park was the only real ball park in the country. I have been there (once), and it is a piece of crap. Sorry, ghosts of Fenway, but the ball park is a piece of crap. The seats are too narrow, the aisles are too narrow, and it is falling apart. Pretty much like the Red Sox pitching staff. I enjoy looking at the Wright Brother airplane, but I don’t want to fly anywhere in it. And that’s just he most obvious part of the obnoxiousness of the Red Sox Nation.
So I now have replaced the Yankees as number two at the top of my most hated franchises list. In terms of professional franchises, it is now just$c* at number one, the Red Sox/Patriots/Celtics/their hockey team at number two, and probably a tie between the Yankees, the Cowboys and the Raiders at number 3.
To paraphrase a great Bruins and a great human being, the events of last night restored a bit of order to the universe. My confession is that henceforth I will root for the Yankees over the Red Sox. And I love Bucky Dent. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that.)
Meh, I am not a diehard Yankees fan
I like them because I despise teams from Boston. I am a Dodger fan first.
How can you dislike the Sox after living in Beantown.
They’ll always have a spot in my sporting life.
Formerly AllHailMightyBruins
I consider the Red Sox a spot on my otherwise clean underwear
It happens as you hit Geezerdom. What you think is going to be just a pleasant farchisimo fools you, and voila – the Red Sox in your drawers.
I was there when they broke the curse, so maybe I had a different experience.
Formerly AllHailMightyBruins
by AHMB on Sep 29, 2011 6:41 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Thats a great point
I can’t even imagine the scene around Ken More Sq. I was there when Peatey took over the Pats. Good times!!!
by Nestor on Sep 30, 2011 4:49 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions
+1
When you play to win, you often do.
sjh
by Class of 66 on Sep 29, 2011 6:19 AM PDT reply actions 1 recs
Stayed up WAAAAY to late flip flopping between the Sox and Rays game.
Boy am I glad I did. What an incredible turn of events in such a short peiod of time. Those games were the essence of sport and, with respect to baseball, where there is no clock, it is not over until is the over. You couldn’t write a book with that much drama, with the Rays comeback coming during the long rain delay of the Sox v. O’s game, then both the O’s and Rays down to their last strike in the bottom of the ninth, and then the walk off hits coming literally four minutes apart. Also, both Dan Johnson’s game tying HR and Longo’s game winning HR were seeds that both barely cleared the fences and barely stayed fair in the extreme left and right corners, respectively, of the ballfield
Fox, I, too, thought of Gibby’s HR in ’88 and last night matched that drama (if you are a Rays fan).
Laugh-out-loud!
this is way better than Gibby’s homer in ’88…. hopefully RN can use this classic moment as a way to fire up the troops! We just need to play to our potential and make plays when necessary. Especially on defense. I hope Graham has an impact this week and our linebackers turn it on! Go Bruins!
I thought about you all last evening, Fox
I was at work, and a couple people had game tracker up on the computers, so I’d hear snippets of the scores. I have no dog in the hunt, but I was really happy when that incredible comeback and turn around occurred, knowing how much you must have been enjoying that one.
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and on another UCLA related baseball note...
UCLA alum Ron Roenicke has his Brewers going against Bauer’s drafters, the D-Backs. I’ve been rooting for Roenicke ever since I met him when he was the Angels’ third base coach, but finding out he was a UCLA alum makes me pull for the Brew Crew even more.
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"Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation."- Michael Jordan
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Watched all the games
at Harry Caray’s bar in Chicago. After a nice deepdish pizza at Lou Malnati’s. Maybe one day I can cheer for the Cubs like that again…
But hey, what do I know. I’m just the 800 lbs bruin in the room.
Good news, brothers and sisters. (Maybe)
I have been told that I am “on the list” to work the Monday Rays – Rangers game. Last two such gigs were as Field Stage Manager, the main duty of which is to cue the plate umpire to start the game. If being “on the list” means I am actually going to be hired, and if I get field stage manager again, I’ll be at the far end of the Rays dugout wearing a Bruin Blue shirt, naturally. (Don’t look too closely, though, because it says “MLB on Fox” on it.)
This is a wonderful gig. If it actually comes to pass.
Well, maybe not.
I just realized that the games are on TBS, not Fox. If I get to work a game, it will be the world series. Rats.
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