Boston Massacre

AP ^ | 07-06-03 | AP

[Fighting Irish]

Forgive me almighty Freepers.....but this could be the year!

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NEW YORK (AP) -- Boston is halfway to a massacre of its own.

The Red Sox blew out the New York Yankees for the second straight day, hitting three more home runs and getting five shutout innings from Ramiro Mendoza in a 10-2 win Saturday that brought them within two games of the AL East leader.

"Everybody knows we swing the bat," said David Ortiz, who homered twice for the second straight day. "We're not afraid."

[AAABEST]

Top of the morning to you Mike.

Have you gotten any of the emails on the local stuff?

[metesky]

And the prize for Most Deluded Freeper goes to....Fighting Irish!

[JimVT]

Amen, brother.

I'm looking forward to the double coup de grace today and tomorrow.

The only negative thing about the game was the TV sports dodos, McCarver and whoever, who don't know Sosa from Shinola.

Below is my note to FOX news. (I tried to send it to the booth but they weren't accepting any more e-mails. Wonder why?)

Hey Doucy, Lucy and Goosey.....(a little Irish humor there)

I love you guys! You do good work and, in most cases, you really are fair and balanced.

I'm totally frustrated.

FOX got the Red Sox-Yankee game on Saturday, 7/5/03 and those two "sports guys" , McCarver and whoever, ought to be sent back to the farm team.

I've heard better reports when Jim Britt was doing the Red Sox from Cleveland on the ticker tape.

(Call me if you need help with that.)

This game probably interested most red-blooded American males and females in the BOS-NYC megalopolis and many others drawing breath between Caribou, Maine and Key West, Florida...(where all the retirees from Caribou go).

Those two "sportscasters" had me gnawing my teeth with such bon mots as: "Kevin Millar brings a devil-may-care attitude to the game". What the heck does that mean?

One of them said: "Oh, no....I meant Jeter not Garciaparra." Uh, guys....a little homework might have helped.

These two no-talents had an audience, of what, 3 million?, that probably exceeded the number of students that any teacher will reach in a career..................so what do we hear: "TWO things that are important IS!!!!!!........

Ok..we had a President who didn't think oral sex was sex and who needed help with the definition if IS...but come on...............TV people need to work harder to get it right.

Anyway....the Sox kicked butt...so whatever.........but let me put in a word for Sean McDonough and Jerry Remy.

These two guys do a very interesting, humorous and intelligent job of describing ball games.

Please pass the word to somebody who can put them to work MORE often for FOX.

For what it's worth!

[RaceBannon]

Boston Red Sox RULE!!

[Radix]

The Boston Red Sox

 

 

World Series

 

Champions

 

1918

[AAABEST]

I actually only half read this thread, as I was Fighting Irish's screen name on the main board and just wanted to drop in and say hi.

Then I actually read the thread and realized that there are people who actually believe that the Red Sox are going to accomplish something while any NY team is non-extinct.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

You guys still haven't gotten over that ball rolling under Buckner's legs yet have you? Seek therapy.

[Plainsman]

Boston is a dark bastion of liberalism. May it ever lose, at least until its inhabitants stop voting liberal creeps into office.

[ricpic]

Another delusional Yankee hating Yankee pipes up.

You know that you secretly love crying into your beer come September.

But we'll allow you your mid-summer madness.

We all know who's king come Fall !

[be-baw]

Sorry, Fighting Irish, but the curse of the Bambino still looms large.

I agree, however, that Tim McCarver is horrendous...I can't bear to listen to the guy.

[Radix]

That is a very funny post. The Red Sox should lose because Massachusetts is a Liberal state. LoL!

[SamAdams76]

Boston is a dark bastion of liberalism. May it ever lose, at least until its inhabitants stop voting liberal creeps into office.

Yeah, and New York city is such a bastion of conservatism, why they deserve to win the World Series over and over again. If New Englanders were as conservative as New Yorkers, why we'd have Hillary Clinton as president.

[andy58-in-nh]

If New Englanders were as conservative as New Yorkers, why we'd have Hillary Clinton as president.

Nice rejoinder. I'll take my Senator (John Sununu) over either of theirs (Chucky and the Beast) anyday.

And another thing. Someone please tell Roger Clemons that if he were in the National League, he would have been retired for years now, because any one of the times he threw a 95mph fastball at someone's head, his next at-bat would have put him on his fat posterior, for good.

[sushiman]

" Boston is a dark bastion of liberalism. May it ever lose, at least until its inhabitants stop voting liberal creeps into office. "

You have a way with words ...and I agree with you wholeheartedly .

[NonValueAdded]

ping!

[cloud8]

"You guys still haven't gotten over that ball rolling under Buckner's legs yet have you? Seek therapy."

Buckner, schmuckner. We still haven't gotten over that home run by Bucky !^#%$$ Dent!

[b4its2late]

The season is barely half over..... There's plenty of time for this....

[b4its2late]

The Curse of the Bambino

 The inaugural 140-game season of the American League began on April 24, 1901. Boston's team was given the nickname "Americans" to differentiate them from the cross-town National League "Nationals." The press also dubbed them the Somersets, Plymouth Rocks, Collinsmen, Puritans and Pilgrims. Team owner John I. Taylor decided that, for the 1908 season, they would wear white uniforms with red stockings while playing at home. The name Boston Red Sox was born. Boston was the strongest team in the newly founded league, finishing first in six out of their first eighteen seasons. They appeared in five World Series between 1901 and 1918, winning all five.
 
 In 1914, the Red Sox (now owned by Joe Lannin) purchased the contracts of Ernie Shore, Ben Egan and a young pitcher named George Herman Ruth from the minor-league Baltimore Orioles. Ruth went by the nickname "The Babe" or "The Bambino." He was brought up to Boston's major league team on July 11, 1914. That season, he appeared in four games with a 2-1 record. The Babe had eighteen wins for the Red Sox in 1915, and 23 in 1916. Boston won both year's World Series. Baseball writers anointed Ruth as one of the best lefthanders the game had ever known. On October 9, 1916, he pitched a fourteen inning complete game victory over the Brooklyn Dodgers in game two of the World Series.
 
 In 1917, The Bambino led the league in shutouts (nine) and ERA (1.75), with a 24-13 record. Lannin sold the team to Harry Harrison Frazee at the end of 1917. Rosters were being decimated as players left to fight in World War I. Ruth helped by playing in the field (mostly in left) when he was not pitching. Despite batting in only 95 games, he hit the most home runs in the majors. He was on the mound for game one of the 1918 Fall Classic, where he pitched a complete game shut out to beat the Chicago Cubs 1-0. He would also get the win in game four of that series, helping the Red Sox defeat Chicago four games to two. Boston won three championships in The Babe's first four full seasons with the team.
 

 In 1919, The Red Sox and Ruth could not agree on a contract; the Babe settled for $10000 per year (other top players in the league were earning upwards of $15000). In addition to earning only half of what he felt was appropriate, The Babe no longer wanted to pitch; Boston's new owner Harry Frazee and Ruth were not getting along. Babe Ruth hit a record 29 home runs, more than any other major league team. Prior to the 1920 season, Ruth was sold to Colonel Jacob Ruppert's New York Yankees for $100,000, plus a loan collateralized by Fenway Park. Ruth's .376 batting average, 54 home runs and 137 RBIs generated attendance of 1,289,422 fans in his first year with the Yankees. That was the first time in baseball history that a team's home attendance exceeded one million. This led to the construction of Yankee Stadium, "The House That Ruth Built." On July 12, 1921, Ruth broke Roger Conner's record for career home runs when he swatted his 137th off of St. Louis Browns pitcher Dixie Davis.

World Series Championships

New York
Yankees

Boston
Red Sox

1901-1918 (prior to the sale of Babe Ruth)

1903 1912

1915 1916

1918

1919-present (after the sale of Babe Ruth)

1923 1927 1928 1932 1936 1937 1938 1939 1941

1943 1947 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1956 1958

1961 1962 1977 1978 1996 1998 1999 2000

 The Yankees continued to share the Polo Grounds with the New York Giants until 1923 (when Yankee Stadium opened). That year, Ruth (batting .393 with 41 home runs) led the Yankees to their first of a record twenty-six World Series Championships. The Babe hit his last three home runs (numbers 712, 713 and 714), while playing for the Boston Braves, in a game against Pittsburgh on May 25, 1935. He retired eight days later. The Bambino ranks among the best ever in dozens of pitching and hitting records. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, on February 2, 1936, as one of the five charter members. The other four were Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, Christy Mathewson, and Honus Wagner.
 
 Boston has appeared in only four World Series since 1918, losing each one in seven games. Many consider Boston's performance after the departure of Babe Ruth to be attributable to "The Curse of the Bambino."

[b4its2late]

Albert Einstein arrives at a party and introduces himself to the first person he sees and asks, "What is your IQ?"
The man answers, "241."
"That is wonderful!" says Albert. "We will talk about the Grand Unification Theory and the mysteries of the universe. We will have much to discuss!"
Next, Albert introduces himself to a woman and asks, "What is your IQ?"
The lady answers, "144."
"That is great!", says Albert, "We can discuss politics and current affairs. We will have much to discuss!".
Albert then goes to another person and asks, "What is your IQ?"
The person answers, "51."
Albert ponders this for a moment, and then smiles and says,
"GO RED SOX"!!