ALCS Game 4 : Yankees @ Red Sox (Live Thread)

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=mlbplayoffs&prov=st&type=lgns ^ | 17 Oct 04 | YAHOO

[Neets]

Yankees look for sweep; Astros try to pull even

October 17, 2004 BRISTOL, Connecticut (Ticker) - After a record-breaking rout against the Boston Red Sox in Game Three, the New York Yankees are on the verge of their 40th World Series appearance.

The Yankees - and the two teams combined - set a League Championship Series record for runs scored in a 19-8 rout of the Red Sox on Saturday, taking a three games to none lead. Of the 25 instances when a team has taken such a best-of-seven series lead previously, it has closed out the series in four games 20 times.

The chances of New York advancing to the World Series for the seventh time in nine years are very good considering no baseball team has ever come back from a three-game playoff series deficit. New York will give the ball to Orlando Hernandez, who jumped out to an 8-0 start this year before shoulder problems resulted in a finish of 0-2 with an 8.03 ERA. In his one start against Boston this season, "El Duque" pitched just three innings due to a rain delay.

Boston will pin its survival hopes on 14-game winner Derek Lowe, who was moved up from a potential Game Five start after the Red Sox used scheduled Game Four starter Tim Wakefield out of the bullpen Saturday. Lowe has a career 3.50 ERA in the postseason but was saddled with a 9.28 ERA against New York during the regular season.

[buckeyesrule]

What a horrible week it has been

1. My Braves lose to Astros

2. My Buckeyes have lost 3 straight

3. The Red Sox are about to be sweep (not really a sox fan but just kinda feel sorry for them)

If the Yankees get ahead by a bunch look for the Red Sox fans to get rebellious.

[raccoonradio]

The Curse of Hillary. No World Series championship for
the Stinkees since HRC got elected.

[raccoonradio]

>>My Braves lose to Astros

maybe they'll get a bit luckier if they dump Cox and that silly ah, ah, ah, ah, ahhhhhhh tomahawk chop...

[Neets]

We don't get many Bush ads here in the Socialist Republic of New yawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwk.

[raccoonradio]

We see plenty of Bush and Kerry ads here in Mass.--NH
could go either way and the Boston stations reach up
into the most populated area of NH, the south.

[raccoonradio]

from the Washington Post, 6/11/99: --------------------------------------------- "Are you a big Knicks fan?" Couric asked.

"I'm becoming a big Knicks fan," the first lady responded, laughing.

"More and more every day, huh?" Couric parried.
And then a sleepy-eyed nation collectively hurled.

Later, Clinton asserted that she'd "always been a Yankees fan." Couric correctly challenged her, saying she thought the first lady, a native of Illinois, was a Chicago Cubs fan.

"I am a Cubs fan," Clinton said. "But I needed an American League team . . . so as a young girl, I became very interested and enamored of the Yankees."

If the first lady's campaign advisers are smart, they will urge her to "distance" herself from the Cubs, who haven't won a World Series since, oh, the Mesozoic Era. Even with spectacular slugger Sammy Sosa, the Cubs seem destined to always be "Lovable Losers"--baseball's equivalent of Hubert Humphrey.

[buckeyesrule]

****maybe they'll get a bit luckier if they dump Cox and that silly ah, ah, ah, ah, ahhhhhhh tomahawk chop...***

Nah. I can't really blame this one on Cox. He sent runners alot on the pitches. He bought Smoltz in earlier and he changed the line-up when certain players were hitting (like A. Jones) and others weren't (like M. Giles). I've come to realize that maybe the braves bad luck in post season is because they used to play in Boston so maybe they experience part of the curse as well. (only 1 championship in each city Boston (1914), Milwaukee (1957) and Atlanta (1995).

[NYCVirago]

If the Yankees get ahead by a bunch look for the Red Sox fans to get rebellious.

When the Yankees clinched the ALCS in 1999 at Fenway, Red Sox fans threw trash onto the field. I expect the same tonight, as well as some headhunting by the Red Sox players. Jason Varitek said something in the pre-game presser today about the Red Sox needing to throw inside. :(

[raccoonradio]

13 straight NL East titles. Only 1 WS victory. -- Hey Yankees fans! You and the Yanks #1 fan (see below) RULE! (just kidding...and I thought _politics_ made strange bedfellows...
"Here's to the winners..."

[Mr. Mojo]

Beltran just tied Bonds' record for homers (8) in a single post season, and he did it in fewer games. Man is he impressive.

[NYCVirago]

Please stop posting Hillary pictures, or I'm gonna hit the abuse button on you. It's an obscenity! :)

[NYCVirago]

Beltran just tied Bonds' record for homers (8) in a single post season, and he did it in fewer games. Man is he impressive.

And hopefully, he'll be the Yankees' new centerfielder!

[Mr. Mojo]

Hopefully. ......but I'd still like to keep Bernie around.

[NYCVirago]

Hopefully. ......but I'd still like to keep Bernie around.

I think they'll keep Bernie as DH -- he still has two more years on his contract.

[Mr. Mojo]

Jason Varitek said something in the pre-game presser today about the Red Sox needing to throw inside. :(

Perhaps they're counting on turning this series around emotionally by nailing someone, just as Cornrows/Varitek turned around their regular season by messing with A-Rod.

[raccoonradio]

Red Sox announce new pitcher:
Kerry booed at Fenway: http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004/378dethg.asp

[DianeDePoitiers]

"Hopefully if and when the Yankees win the Hillary curse will continue and they get blown out in the World Series."

Hillary is a carpetbagger. No one here takes her seriously as a Yankee fan. She wouldn't dare show up in Yankee Stadium. She's been caught out in lies - she said when she was little and when she got tired of watching the Cubs she would turn on the Yankee television broadcast - but then it was discovered that there were no television broadcasts in those days.

Rudy Giuliani is the biggest Yankee fan here.

[raccoonradio]

It certainly is... :) Hey, what was that cap she was wearing? :) (I promise, no more HRC pix :) )

[rineaux]

Let me put your mind at ease- John Kerry is no more a Red Sox fan than GWB is a communist

Now that is a TRUE STATEMENT. Heard he can't even name 3 players without making a gaff.

[nutmeg]

Kerry booed at Fenway - July 25, 2004

Thanks for posting this article. We were at Fenway in May and Kerry made an appearance then also. When he was announced a chorus of boos went up, along with a smattering of polite applause. Despite what some FReepers may think, the Red Sox are not "Kerry's team".