Posted on 10/12/2007 12:34:23 PM PDT by GraniteStateConservative
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.
I’m on 01719 (Boxborough), and I’m shadowed by a hill. My Boston Acoustics radio and automobile receivers are ok most of the time, but ‘RKO is quite marginal around here. Worchester stations are worse.
‘BZ and most FM stations are fine.
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Heads up to Sox fans radio-wise. According to Boston Radio Watch:
“For the World Series, Red Sox Radio Network broadcasts can only go out on WRKO AM 680 or WEEI 850 AM signals. Rest of the network won’t be able to carry the hometown play-by-play meaning that the fans in Metro West won’t be getting Joe Castiglione’s another World Series call on WCRN AM 830’s 50,000 watt signal but will have to rely on WRKO AM’s iffy nighttime signal which battles static and a French-speaking station from Canada after sunset. 890 ESPN will have the national ESPN Radio call of the Fall Classic with Jon Miller and Joe Morgan.”
So in some cases you’ll have to rely on your local
ESPN Radio station. Among them:
WEPN 1050 NYC
WPOP 1410 Hartford
WAMG 890 Dedham
WLLH 1400 Lowell
I believe it’s on 1390/1420/1490 up in the Champlain Valley
etc.
Allegedly Games 1 and 6 will be WEEI only, rest WRKO only
Is there an Internet feed for the home-town call that us Red Sox fans in Chicago can listen to?
Weak teams don’t go 7 games, so after the shock wears off they should be proud. They played their asses off but it wasn’t their year. Good luck next year, except when we play you!
Holy crap. Ping the Red Sox faithful - Tim Wakefield is not going to pitch in ANY of the World Series. He is injured.
GO ROCKIES!
That leaves an open roster spot. My guess is that it gets filled by Julian Tavarez.
Wakefield off WS roster, Lester likely to start Game 4, Ellsbury starts in CF in Game 1
Tim Wakefield met with the media just a few minutes ago to describe the injury to his "posterior shoulder" that will keep him off the World Series roster.Here are some of his comments:
"I really wish I was up here talking about my starting Game 2," Wakefield said. "But unfortunately that's not the case today. After long talks with [Terry Francona] and John Farrell and Theo [Epstein], my health, advice from the doctors, it's not going to happen, unfortunately.
"Could I pitch Game 2? Probably. But are you going to get 100 percent out of Tim Wakefield? I don't know that either, until Tuesday. After that I don't know either, because dealing with this problem that I've had for the past two months, it seems like my recovery time in getting longer and longer, and I just don't think it's fair to the other 24 guys on this team that I go out there and maybe I pitch well and maybe I don't, and then I'm not available for the rest of the series. It's not fair for the rest of the 24 guys in that clubhouse for me to put them through that."
The injury is the same one that kept Wakefield from a start in September and caused him to be left off the ALDS roster."
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The rotation was set for the first three games of the World Series. Josh Beckett gets the Game 1 start. Curt Schilling and Daisuke Matsuzaka will go the next two games.
Terry Francona did not yet name a Game 4 starter, though Jon Lester threw four simulated innings this afternoon, likely in anticipation of making that start in Colorado.
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Jacoby Ellsbury will start in centerfield in Game 1 in place of Coco Crisp. Terry Francona said, in his press availability, that the reason was Crisp's knee, which he banged catching the final out of the American League Championship Series.
Given how Games 2-4 went in the ALCS, we could have used Tavarez. If the WS is a high scoring affair, Tavarez will be valuable. The interesting thing is that the Rox are in love with Tavarez and demanded he be in the Helton trade proposal. Tavarez with his groundball command could be a surprise superstar for us in the Denver games.
Thanks for the post, I saw this a little while ago on ESPN.
Yup, heard it on WEEI on the way home from work. (At 3:15 I scooped you ;-D)
Terry's claim Coco is sore from smashing into the was is either a lie or a convenient excuse.
That was my first thought. Regardless, I'm glad he's starting.
Always knew Wakefield was a team-first kinda guy. I just hope there's room in the organization somewhere when he finally hangs up his spikes. And we see number 49 going to the rafters in the future.
If he’s not walking people he’s never that far out of an inning.
Snyder sucks. Tavarez is trick or treat but I would rather him than Big Bird or Gag-Me.
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