HEARTBREAK AGAIN YANKEES BEAT RED SOX, 6-5, ON 11TH-INNING HOMER TO CAPTURE AL PENNANT

The Boston Globe | 17 October 2003 | Dan Shaughnessy

[rs79bm]

Shaughnessy nailed it, as usual. Keep the players, ditch the manager. This wasn't Little's only stupid move of the season. And furthur, who was giving Little advice on the bench, namely his bench coaches? Apparently nobody. It's a shame this team didn't win the East, and even more so of it's game 7 embarrasement.

[jospehm20]

I am glad that the curse lives on.

[capydick]

Babe

Bucky

Buckner

BOONE!!!

[SamAdams76]

Grady Little will be gone by spring - probably by Thanksgiving if the Sox can find a successer right away. He's made some awful decisions and whatever success the team had this year was in spite of him. In the meantime, we have another sad, tragic chapter to add to the Sox lore. I'll have to say that last night's loss was more devastating than the one in 1986. They had that game in the bag.

Did anybody notice Drudge's headline about the game last night getting Fox one of the largest television audiences in history? Boston had an 81 share.

Well you won't be seeing those kind of ratings for the Yankees-Marlins...YAWN...(crickets)

[ladtx]

....HOMER TO CAPTURE AL PENNANT

Who is this Homer and why is he trying to capture Al Pennant?

[RightWhale]

Yankees-Marlins...YAWN...(crickets)

At least there's football

[Mr.Clark]

What a wonderful game, probably the best I've ever seen (I'm 20). Of course, I'm a Yankee fan, can't imagine the heartbreak for the Bostonians. Any suicides reported yet?

[Rummyfan]

For the Red Sox, it's always next year!

Little should have pulled Pedro after the seventh inning.

[Blue Screen of Death]

What do you expect... they are from Boston. The heart of liberalism (there is not a brain of liberalism). I am amazed that they even keep score. I mean, it stands to reason that if one team wins, then one team loses. Now, everyone knows how bad the losing team must feel and what this must do their self esteem.

I think they should score the teams on how diverse they are and how many players came up from hardship to make the big leagues. This would be much more Boston.

[Thor_Hammar]

I say keep the manager and some of the players -- the ones who aren't thugs -- okay so that leave maybe two here in Boston. I say get rid of the fans. What a bunch of crybabies!

[Moby Grape]

Agreed. I'll wager it will be the lowest rated world series in years, if not ever...I know there are plenty of Yankee fans out there, but the rest of the country has had enough of the Yankees in the World Series....The country was excited about the possiblility of teams that had not been there for years going....If the Yankees get down 3 games to 0, there will be a large audience hoping to see them booted, so perhaps one game with a large viewership.

[XRdsRev]

The only reason people outside of Boston were interested in watching this series was to see if the Beantown chokers could finally break their hold on failure and take a step towards ridding their curse.

If it had ended up a Sox Cubs World Series, a good chunk of viewers would have been tuning in, not for great baseball but instead to see who at the end, still remained tagged as Baseball's biggest bad luck franchise.

It would have been like watching a car wreck.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I say get rid of the fans. What a bunch of crybabies!

I haven't shed a tear. Nor have I whined like a liberal. Our team had the Yanks beat. And Torre knew it. He's the one I saw crying like a baby.

Typical Yankee's sycophant-babble.

[housethatruthbuilt]

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[GB]

Nope, it's not liberalism, it's the fact that the Red Sox ... and I was pulling for 'em last night ... have been a bunch of prima donnas and space cadets with the inmates running the asylum for 50 years. Six outs away from the Series and Pedro obviously out of gas? Yank him. I don't care if he's Cy Young reborn. Not the way the Sox's bullpen had been pitching. It's admirable that he wanted to finish. But I always liked Sparky Anderson's approach. It didn't matter who the pitcher was (and he had Seaver on his staff for a few years). He never asked. His philosophy was, "When I come out here, don't say a word, just place the ball in my hand."

[trustandobey]

For a real heartbreak, read the Terri threads

[dead]

The ratings for the series are going to suck, but I don't think it's the Yankees fault.

A Yankees/Cubs series would have had huge ratings - two giant television markets (1 & 3, I believe) and a real David vs. Goliath story going for it.

It's the Marlins that are going to kill the ratings. People in Florida don't even watch the Marlins, so forget about the rest of the nation.