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Why the Red Sox will win it all! A Reaffirmation!

Posted on 10/21/2004 5:23:17 AM PDT by Shortwave

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To: Shortwave
Wonder if given a choice would JFKerry New England supporters, choose to have JFKerry win the election or the Red Sox's win the World Series????
21 posted on 10/21/2004 6:37:32 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: Shortwave

We have got to keep Kerry away from Fenway! We want to break the curse and he looks like a curse. We are doomed if he shows up.


22 posted on 10/21/2004 6:42:35 AM PDT by Andy'smom
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To: Hermann the Cherusker

You'd have to ask Mitch "the wild thing" Williams. :)


23 posted on 10/21/2004 6:54:28 AM PDT by xp38
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To: Galtoid
Then, the Series will mirror the election: Texas vs MA. Should be a hoot.

Let me not jinx the 'Stros by committing the sin of presumption, to tempt an insulted Deity.......(and He should be plenty insulted by the offering at the top of the thread!).......

But I share your opinion. Tex-uss and Tax-a-chew-setts have some unfinished business.

Like a Civil War. And Reconstruction.

And the slight matter of John Quincy Adams keeping Texas out of the Union all by hisself, for ten years! Ten years while Texas -- God's own country, we just live on it -- was pressed sore between Kiowas and Comanches on one side, and Santa Anna on the other.

And Roger Clemens.

And Prohibition. (It was their idea!)

And people trying to trash marriage.

And Demmy-crats!!!

Man, do we have issues with Taxachusetts!

(Gotta win a game first in St. Louis, though -- and they'll be tough!)

24 posted on 10/21/2004 6:54:59 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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To: dfwgator
Go Astros!

It's a good thing for the Sox that Pettit is on the DL. They'll still have to deal with the Rocket at least once in the World Series - after he shuts down the Cards today

25 posted on 10/21/2004 6:59:31 AM PDT by tx_eggman ("There is no safety for honest men but by believing all possible evil of evil men." --Edmund Burke)
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To: Hatteras
I like Johnny Damon, I really do. But every time I hear someone mention his looks, he's described as a closer resemblance to Charles Manson, not Jesus Christ.

I swear he looks like he has three "Y" chromosomes. If I get to grow old and gray and see it happen, I bet all his children down to the third generation are male -- and half of them hirsute wild men with two or three "Y" chromosomes apiece, themselves.

Damon is so hairy, he could strip naked and still look like he's wearing burlap cloak. Or floor-length chinchilla.

26 posted on 10/21/2004 7:01:28 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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To: Shortwave

Man it's gonna be tough to root for boston if they end up playing houston. Ya know, with sKerry being from Mass and GW being from Texas, this is going to get played up big time.


27 posted on 10/21/2004 7:08:02 AM PDT by bjmorris
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To: tx_eggman
They'll still have to deal with the Rocket at least once in the World Series - after he shuts down the Cards today.

Guarding against presumption again -- thanx for the vote, and yeah, the Sox will face Rocket at least twice. I figure he'll pitch Games 2 (on three days' rest), 5 (on four days' rest), and 7 (on three days' rest). If they started him on a regular rotation, it'd be Games 3 and 6 only -- and if they do that, they might not get to Game 6.

The Astros really, really hurt themselves last night, with that late relief situation that cost them the game. They needed to rest Clemens for Saturday and Game 1.

Houston's got Ozwalt, who can pitch well (20 wins in regulation good enough?), and this Brandon Backe rookie who combined with Lidge to one-hit the Cards a couple of days ago. Asides from them and the closer, Lidge, the rest of the rotation and bullpen are unreliable to disastrous. Two or three of the guys are up and down -- good game one day, wheels falling off five days later.

If the Red Sox win it, it'll be because the Astros bullpen did their usual middle-innings El Foldo. They got super-tough for some reason yesterday, I was amazed they were able to hold the Cards scoreless for eight (!) innings after the starter got chased.

Here's a clue for Cardinals and Red Sox fans: If you see Dan Miceli appear on the mound for the Astros ...... You Win.

I was telling some Houston cops at a cheap diner last night that Miceli is like that little white goat in Jurassic Park. Whenever you see him, you know what's going to happen next.

28 posted on 10/21/2004 7:23:47 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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To: Hebrews 11:6
Well I do beleive that there were a few occasions that a goat was brought onto the ball field and even allowed to watch the game. Maybe they did not trace his lineage to the original goat that got the boot from the park because of his offensive smell! ;o)
29 posted on 10/21/2004 8:10:15 AM PDT by Jackie-O
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To: Hatteras
He's a great player, but I was thinking last night, when I saw him with his cap off, he has almost a Neanderthal look.
30 posted on 10/21/2004 8:11:57 AM PDT by Jackie-O
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To: Hebrews 11:6

P.S. I think a statue of George Herman is an excellent idea!


31 posted on 10/21/2004 8:14:04 AM PDT by Jackie-O
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To: Necrovore
Blah! Go Astros!

Yes indeed ... Go Astros!!

32 posted on 10/21/2004 8:17:42 AM PDT by girlscout
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To: Shortwave

Pullease. The greatest World Series in years would be one where the two scruffiest and scrappiest teams of major league baseball would duke it out -- the Astros and the Red Sox. Both red teams by the way. I'm an Astros fan -- been one since they were the Colt 45s. They're due. More so even than the Sox.


33 posted on 10/21/2004 8:23:34 AM PDT by Cooltouch
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To: Shortwave

bumper stickers seen around here:

W.W.J.D.D.
What Would Johnny Damon do

(Oh, I don't know, maybe a grand slam and a 2 run HR
to win the pennant?)


34 posted on 10/21/2004 8:59:53 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: Just mythoughts

I'd think even Kerry supporters would choose the Sox over Lurch (and for that matter, can we call them Kerry
supporters? They don't support him. They're just anti-Bush.
Again, ask your liberal friends to tell you why they're
voting FOR Kerry. "Don't say, 'Oh, he's better than
Bush. Don't mention Bush at all. Just tell me why you are
FOR Kerry."

If you don't stand _for_ something...you'll fall for anything.


35 posted on 10/21/2004 9:03:23 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: Shortwave

From the Wikipedia entry for Johnny Damon:



Damon gained some notoriety for the prominent beard and long, uncut hairstyle he brought with him to spring training in the 2004 season, contrasting with his previously clean-cut appearance. His new look, probably coupled with the runaway success of the recently-released Mel Gibson film, The Passion of the Christ, inspired fans and sportswriters to draw good-natured comparisons between his appearance and that of Jesus Christ. Fans with center-field seats at Fenway Park began showing up with fake beards and wigs to support their favorite center-fielder. Even Bronson Arroyo was seen with a t-shirt that read 'What curse?, We got Jesus on our side'.

On May 21, 2004, Johnny shaved his beard in a charity event sponsored by the Gillette razor company. The proceeds from the event went to benefit literacy programs in conjunction with the Boston public library.

As a part of his exercise routine, Johnny admits to pursuing cars from one end of his block to the other on foot. "I live on a street (in the Orlando area) where the speed limit is 25 miles an hour and the police enforce it. At night I'd wait out there and when a car came by I would race the car home, so I think I can go at least 25 miles an hour. I scared some of the people, seeing a caveman racing after cars," said Damon in a Providence newspaper article early in 2004.


36 posted on 10/21/2004 9:05:51 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: raccoonradio

Sure would love to run an ad to the JFKerry voters choose one or the other.....

A Houston vs Boston sounds even more appealing, even though I am a Cards fan.


37 posted on 10/21/2004 9:11:20 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: GraniteStateConservative

Humor ping for your BoSox list...


38 posted on 10/21/2004 4:32:07 PM PDT by nutmeg ("The DemocRATic party...has been hijacked by a confederacy of gangsters..." - Pat Caddell, 11/27/00)
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