it's the "i'm seein' RED" world series thread

[atomic charvel guy]

if you had the astros pitching with the cards hitting then the sox would be in trouble. i think the only thing that might stop the sox isthe lack of the dh in the games at st.looey.
sox in 6.

[Soloist1]

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Lowe can bunt like a mother F'er. lol Use Lowe in the pinch hitting situations then pitch him relief. Big Papi will probably be playing first in a few of those games.

[atomic charvel guy]

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i think it is gonna be a great series. i still don't know who i am rooting for yet. it could take a few games.
how psyched are you chris?

[Soloist1]

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Pretty psyched. Couldn't get tickets yesterday. No surprise there. I guess they only had like 1000 per game for the general public. F'ed up if you as me. Basically they give most to season ticket holders. Which I can understand. The the bulk of the rest go to corporate sponsors. Who sell them on ebay for huge somes. So your average fan pretty my gets screwed.

[atomic charvel guy]

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i had season tickets from'75 through '89 and in '76,'77,'78,and'81 we automatically were given the option to buy the playoff and series tickets. of course we did. it's been that way for a long time. if you have some bucks call a broker. i flew home in'96,'98, and'99 and paid $800.00 a ticket for about 9-12th row off of first base.
in 2000 when the mets got in, my price went to $4k per ticket and that was the end of my series trips. 2001 i was a littlle spooked cuz of 9-11 the month before. that was my favorite yankee team, ironic huh, we lost that year.

[~K~]

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Well Big Papi at 1st scares me a bit.. look for defensive moves if the sox have a lead ..but we cant lose that bat .

Anyone think Perdo might get beaned at the plate?

[dinkyjacksonman]

Re: it\'s the \"i\'m seein\' RED\" world series thread

<font color="red"> AEROSMITH frontman Steven Tyler will sing the national anthem at the Fenway Park in Boston on Saturday, October 23 for the first game of the World Series.
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[Soloist1]

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Papi is alright at first Kev. About as good as Millar anyhow. lol Tommy standing room is like $1100 right now. bleachers are $1500 The seats I like are over 3K. I'll watch from home. Where there's beer. lol Because apparently there won't be any around Fenway. Even the bars are going to be banned from selling alcohol from the sounds of it.

[atomic charvel guy]

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no sh1t? wow, no beer and steve tyler singing.
maybe it's aerosmith's fault for the no beer-lol

[atomic charvel guy]

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man, i cannot explain to you how much it still pains me
that we're not in the series. even with all the titles, and world series that i have been to personally. i am so fukkin' irate still-lol

[Soloist1]

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Well this probably won't make you feel any better but I thought it was a pretty funny fictional newspaper article.

Curse of Alfonso Soriano
Will the Yankees ever win the World Series again?
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By Dan Kois

Oct. 21, 2104 | REPUBLIC OF THE BRONX -- Will this be the year the long-suffering fans of the Bronx Yankees finally celebrate a World Series championship? Or will this season end as the last 103 have, with disappointment in Monument Valley? Will the Curse of the Soriano once again take its toll?

The Yankees are set to begin their North American League Divisional Sub-Sectional Playoff series against the Rangers tonight at Torre Field (11:59 p.m., The Network), and for the first time in a long while, the surging Yankees are favored over their fierce rivals from Texas. The Yanks defeated the Rangers in 13 of 19 games this season, and with the addition of Randy Johnson Award winner Reza Sirizi, the Yankees look unbeatable in a short 11-game series.


The Yankees swear to a man that they don't pay attention to the Curse. But as every baseball fan knows, it's been a long, long time since the Yankees won a World Series. The last time the Yanks won it all, the Bronx was part of New York City; Bill Clinton wasn't on the $2,000,000 bill but he was in the White House; and the White House wasn't even on the moon!



It was back in 2000 that the Yankees defeated the New York Mets (now the Brooklyn Hipsters), 4 games to 1, to win their last World Series. The Yanks got to the Series twice more in the next three years and appeared to be a contender for years to come ... but then came The Trade. The team's owner, George Steinbrenner -- a name forever accompanied, in the Bronx, by a ceremonial spitting on the ground -- traded second baseman Alfonso Soriano to the Texas Rangers for shortstop Alex Rodriguez.

Think about it! The Yankees traded away the greatest player in the history of baseball: the all-time home run and batting average champ; the only man ever to hit .500 in a season; the man who revolutionized fielding so much that most fans have no idea there haven't always been three infielders; the three-term U.S. senator from Texas; the president (thanks to the Schwarzenegger Amendment of 2011, of course) who brought peace to the Middle East. And who did they get in return? Alex Rodriguez.

Don't get me wrong. Rodriguez was an excellent third baseman with good pop. But on his first year with the Yankees, his celebrated bungle -- the A-Rod Chop, which snuffed out the Yankees' rally in Game Six of the 2004 American League Championship Series -- became legendary in Curse of the Yankees lore and Rodriguez never lived it down. Desperate to get out of New York but stuck there because no other team could absorb his then-astronomical salary of $22 million, Rodriguez retired in 2006.

Every time despondent members of Yankee Nation get their hopes up, a hanging spitter or a malfunctioning umpire will send the Yanks home yet again. From 2008 to 2022, the Yankees finished second to the Rangers in the American League East-Central race every year. In 2064, the Yankees reached the World Series, only to lose Game 7 to the Milwaukee Brewers when Tim Raines III let a fly ball bounce off his glove over the 650 mark on the center field wall. Mention any of these names to a gloomy Yankees fan and watch him burst into tears: Lucky Kent (2078), Jill Ruckner (2086), BooneClone X-14 (2103).

Could 2104 be the year? Could the Yankees finally overcome their foolish mistakes, the weight of history, and the desperation of their fans to win it all? They're due; in fact, they're overdue. The two teams with the next-longest World Series droughts are the Cubs and the Red Sox, who of course jointly won it all in the famed World Series Tie of 2042. Despite tonight's presidential debate and worldwide Alfonso Soriano Day festivities, the eyes of the world's sports fans will be on Torre Field tonight as a new Yankees team tries to find a way to Reverse the Curse.

Will they pull it off? As they used to say before all air came in pill form, don't hold your breath.

[atomic charvel guy]

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that's funny as hell, but it's missing one last line-
"outside of boston and chicago, the yankees are still unfortunately the team to go the longest without a world series title" [img]/images/graemlins/poke.gif[/img]

[Guest]

Re: it\'s the \"i\'m seein\' RED\" world series thread

Cards don't bean anyone intentionally... Not the Cards' style. We don't play that game. So are we moving the WS thread to this one? What's the point?

Cards in 6, and I guess I'll get nasty with it now.... [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

No beer up there? Can't control yourselves? That would never happen down here, ever...

Oh well, Cards will win, so save yer money on those $3000 tix, go buy a HiDef TV and stay at home...

Pat

[Soloist1]

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I love the part about the malfunctioning umpire. lol Even when they become robotic they are still going to make bad calls. It must have been the Joe West edition.

[Soloist1]

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Pat the entire area around Fenway is one college after the other. For some of the students it's just an excuse to get rowdy. Good point on the HiDef TV Pat. To bad the game won't be on NESN. Stuck with Fox and that a$$hole McCarver. Of course he was a Cardinal so I can see where that is going to go.