ALCS Live Thread: Cleveland Indians vs. Boston Red Sox

10-12-07

[GraniteStateConservative]

Game 1 @ BOSTON:

WEATHER:: Forecasts for tonight predict that the rain will cease enough to get the game in, certainly. It should be cloudy, with temperatures dipping to the mid-50s.

Starting Pitchers

C. C. Sabathia (19-7, 3.21 ERA) vs. Josh Beckett (20-7, 3.27 ERA)

Game 1 LINEUPS

1. Grady Sizemore, CF
2. Asdrubal Cabrera, 2B
3. Travis Hafner, DH
4. Victor Martinez, C
5. Ryan Garko, 1B
6. Jhonny Peralta, SS
7. Kenny Lofton, LF
8. Franklin Gutierrez, RF
9. Casey Blake, 3B

1. Dustin Pedroia, 2B
2. Kevin Youkilis, 1B
3. David Ortiz, DH
4. Manny Ramirez, LF
5. Mike Lowell, 3B
6. Bobby Kielty, RF
7. Jason Varitek, C
8. Coco Crisp, CF
9. Julio Lugo, SS

NOTES: This is the first time since the start of the three division era that the two LCS series have each matched the two best records in their league (96-66). Computer baseball sim Imagine Sports/Diamond Mind Baseball ran the 2007 ALCS 1,000 times, and the Red Sox won 59% of the time. If the Red Sox won game 1, they won the series 72.5% of the time, and if Cleveland won, the Indians won 59% of the time.

[ssaftler]

Great service for cheap bux, that MLB Audio. Been a subscriber for the last couple years. Living on the other side of the country, it’s REAL hard to get WRKO or WEEI on my radio.

Last night, though, I got to watch it on Fox’s New York affiliate along with about 100 other Sox fans, flying a trans-con Jet Blue flight from Boston to Oakland. I kinda felt bad for the non-sports fans on the flight...
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Nah, not really!

[warsaw44]

Pap was doing the dance on Fox and I’ll bet his performance will be posted on youtube. You should try to find it as it was funny as all get out!

[UlmoLordOfWaters]

I’ll have to look it up, thanks. Was it your local Fox affiliate? (I’m in Northern California.)

[warsaw44]

The parking around Fenway such as the gas stations and such charge 75.00. A few years ago it was up around 100.00.

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A few years ago the new owners of the Red Sox unveiled a plan for a new park right next to the current park. It looked more like a baseball complex and was quite impressive. They had even incorporated the Green Monster into the plans. Corporate seating was a big feature in the plan. Now, all of this might have changed but I have not heard that. I know the owners have been buying any real estate they can get their hands on in the area.

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due to the scarcity of tickets people end up buying from brokers, scalpers and so on and those prices are pretty hefty. The bleachers can get a little crazy and not exactly kid friendly.

[warsaw44]

Yes it was. Fox Boston.

[warsaw44]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnAH44z4c_Q

Here is a glimpse! I’ll see what else I can find.

[UlmoLordOfWaters]

Thanks! I do appreciate that. Unfortunately, I didn’t get to see anything past the national Fox broadcast.

[GraniteStateConservative]

For those who missed it...

Kevin Millar's 2007 ALCS Game 5 rally/Cowboy Up vid

[warsaw44]

I came up empty trying to find anything else. There were vids of Pap after the Abgeks win but that was it. But maybe something will be loaded in the next few days. It is a must see!

[Hoodlum91]

I found WCVB’s coverage - all celebrations, but Papelbon’s dance is part of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdYjdOJ8niE

[UlmoLordOfWaters]

Thanks! You two made my day!

I just LOVE Pap! The SI cover is hanging in my offce!

I can't wait for Wednesday.

I really need to get back to work ;-).

[Boston Blackie]

Thanks. In the off season we lose zero players to free agency. There is an option on Byrd so we'll need to decide wether to keep him or call up another pitcher from our well stocked farm system.

Byrd may be too radioactive for the team to exercise the option because it looks like his HGH explanation is falling apart.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Living on the other side of the country, it’s REAL hard to get WRKO or WEEI on my radio.

I have the same problem living on the other side of 128. Whatever genius thought the flagship station for the Red Sox should be a 5000 Watt AM candle (on the same frequency as a 50,000 Watt Quebec clear channel station) needs his head examined. Oh yeah, the same geniuses that thought that pissing off the most popular talk show host in New England was great personnel move.

[raccoonradio]

ESPN radio carries the World Series nationally

Boston area: 890 and 1400 (also try 1410 Hartford,
1050 NYC, 790 Prov.). WRKO should have the games
but I think I heard Red Sox network stations are getting
the ESPN feed instead.

WRKO might put games 1 and 6, which fall on Wednesdays,
on WEEI 850 instead (tougher to pick up at my workplace,
and I work nights; games 3 and 4 are on weekends so I’ll
watch them on TV, and I got the night off for game 2)

It’s poss. 680 AND 850 will both carry the games (unless
850 has Exciting Celtics Basketball). I think game 7
of last night’s ALCS was on both frequencies.

[raccoonradio]

"New Fenway" was in the planning stages but any plans to build it were abandoned by the new ownership (they already spent $700 million to buy the team; did they want to spend another $545 mil. or so for a new Fenway?). Neighbors were in NIMBY mode and a group called SAVE FENWAY helped to torpedo it.

Info is at site called ballparks.com. See pic below, an artist's rendition from HOK builders. The current Sox ownership did a lot of renovations to the old park, though. No word on if you still have to crane your neck to see home plate from sections 1-7. "Monster Seats" (and monster prices), right field box seats, "Game on!" bar & restaurant, a courtyard of food vendors (kind of like the street behind Camden Yards?) etc.

Anyway, new Fenway would have looked like this:

[ssaftler]

I have the same problem living on the other side of 128.

And what side of 128 is that? I've been spending a lot of time in the Brockton-Dedham-Needham corridor over the past couple months (dying parent plus house cleanup), and I can't recall having problems with either WRKO or WEEI when driving around.

From inside the house in Brockton, however, reception was pretty spotty, but as long as I can remember, radio reception outside WBZ and the Brockton stations was spotty on AM.

[warsaw44]

RR, any idea what the seating capacity would have been if built?

[warsaw44]

wow - must have been pretty tired when I wrote this - should be MARK BELLHORN.

[#1CTYankee]

...and the Red Sox are going to the World Series!!! Can YOU believe it?!

Well actually yes, I thought the Sox would win if the manager did his job, he almost blew it. Many bad decisions (Not in retrospect, I said so in advance) but the talent came through in spite of some poor decisions.

What is more important, leaving in Dice K so he could quality for a win or winning the game?

In spite of it all I expect another championship, Colorado is a good team but not as good as Cleveland or Boston.

Go Sox!!!

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

Supposedly Kenmore Square has been roped off by the Boston Police. They fear that alcohol might be getting used in mass quantities.

Excessive alcohol use in Kenmore Square after the Red Sox win the pennant? I highly doubt it. I am sure most are heading home to have one more Sunday bible study!

Plus people have to work in the morning. I bet the cask and flagon is empty right now! /sarcasm