Guest muddy Posted October 29, 2007 Posted October 29, 2007 Congratulations to you SOX fans, great team.great effort THEY MADE THE SERIES SEEM BORING, they were the best team all year. ROCKIES: You be singing that ol Met's tune with us WAIT TIL NEXT YEAR and since the $^&^$&^&I*! Yankees couldnt wait and had to rain on their parade I m taking some time off from discussing thier BS, What Royal A%^%^Holes Quote
Super User roadwarrior Posted October 29, 2007 Super User Posted October 29, 2007 Well Muddy, After a long hiatus, coming back to baseball was a disappointment. Not the Rockies losing, the Sox rock and Denver had a good run. It's the game, the way the sport is set up and run at the professional level: Maybe "Money Can't Buy Me Love," but it buys everything else! Once in a blue moon a team from the "flyover states" may win a series, but otherwise it's Buy a Championship. I'm glad it's football season. Quote
Guest muddy Posted October 30, 2007 Posted October 30, 2007 YO RW: Eventually I hope they get smart like the NFL and get into Revenue Sharingg, The Yankess and Sox and Dodgers and them Mets with all they spend still need the other teams to survive and the disparity gets disheartning at times Quote
nboucher Posted October 30, 2007 Posted October 30, 2007 Well Muddy, After a long hiatus, coming back to baseball was a disappointment. Not the Rockies losing, the Sox rock and Denver had a good run. It's the game, the way the sport is set up and run at the professional level: Maybe "Money Can't Buy Me Love," but it buys everything else! Once in a blue moon a team from the "flyover states" may win a series, but otherwise it's Buy a Championship. I'm glad it's football season. Don't get me wrong. Money makes a huge difference. Matsuzaka, J.D. Drew, Ramirez, Schilling, Beckett, and the rest of the veterans on the Red Sox are raking in big bucks. However, here's what the difference-makers in the World Series are making this year: Dustin Pedroia $380,000 Kevin Youkilis $424,500 Jon Lester $384,000 Jonathan Papelbon $425,500 Then there's Jacoby Ellsbury, who did not appear in enough games during the regular season to officially be classified even as a rookie. He's making less than all of them. Ironic, isn't it?? Quote
Guest muddy Posted October 30, 2007 Posted October 30, 2007 Hey Norm, did you come back to earth yet, Congrarts man, i know you are one long time loyal Sox fan, ain't it sweet 8-) Quote
nboucher Posted October 30, 2007 Posted October 30, 2007 Hey Norm, did you come back to earth yet, Congrarts man, i know you are one long time loyal Sox fan, ain't it sweet 8-) You know it, brother. I could go on at length, but will spare you. By 2004, I'd been going to games at Fenway for 40 years, through the lean early 1960s, then the post-1967 Fenway, when the place started to fill up. I was there for Yaz's last game and Clemens's first 20-strikeout game. I was there in 2004 when the Yankees beat the Sox, 198, to put them ahead 3 games to zip in the ALCS. We know what happened then. 2004 was the big kahuna, and my daughter and I stood along the victory parade route in the rain cheering and cheering. Hard to describe the emotion then, the intense relief and joy. I'll always love that 2004 teamyes, even Pedro, Muddy. This time the feeling is completely different. The same joy, but the lurking suspicion that the Sox would somehow choke just never came up in my mind. I didn't realize that until it was all over, that that inevitability just wasn't there, weighing me down. I like this new feeling much better. Quote
Super User roadwarrior Posted October 30, 2007 Super User Posted October 30, 2007 Congratulations! The Red Sox are a class act. Good luck this weekend, too. You guys got it goin'. Quote
nboucher Posted October 30, 2007 Posted October 30, 2007 Thanks, RW. You're being gracious, being a Rockies fan and all. Quote
Super User senile1 Posted November 1, 2007 Super User Posted November 1, 2007 Well Muddy, After a long hiatus, coming back to baseball was a disappointment. Not the Rockies losing, the Sox rock and Denver had a good run. It's the game, the way the sport is set up and run at the professional level: Maybe "Money Can't Buy Me Love," but it buys everything else! Once in a blue moon a team from the "flyover states" may win a series, but otherwise it's Buy a Championship. I'm glad it's football season. Don't get me wrong. Money makes a huge difference. Matsuzaka, J.D. Drew, Ramirez, Schilling, Beckett, and the rest of the veterans on the Red Sox are raking in big bucks. However, here's what the difference-makers in the World Series are making this year: Dustin Pedroia $380,000 Kevin Youkilis $424,500 Jon Lester $384,000 Jonathan Papelbon $425,500 Then there's Jacoby Ellsbury, who did not appear in enough games during the regular season to officially be classified even as a rookie. He's making less than all of them. Ironic, isn't it?? Ironic, yes, but this doesn't tell the whole story. The low-paid difference makers wouldn't have had a chance in the series to do their stuff without the high-paid performers who made the regular season and the rest of the playoffs so successful for the Red Sox. Place this group of people on a team with less talent and they wouldn't have made it to the World Series. Either way, you can't fault the Red Sox for spending the money if they have it. It would be nice if it were different. Congratulations to the Red Sox and Red Sox fans on a fine season. Quote
Super User Hookemdown. Posted November 3, 2007 Super User Posted November 3, 2007 4 MONTHS TIL SPRING TRAINING I'm going crazy muddy. No baseball for 4 months. I can watch football...but only on the weekends. And I'm not even about to watch basketball Quote
Guest muddy Posted November 3, 2007 Posted November 3, 2007 Hey Hookem: Why don't you give some college hoops a try, pretty exciting game! If not the cheerleading finals are coming up, very athletic Quote
Guest muddy Posted November 6, 2007 Posted November 6, 2007 A rod to the Mets>>>>>>>>>>>In a NY Minute , man I would love to see it Quote
RiskKid. Posted November 7, 2007 Posted November 7, 2007 A rod to the Mets>>>>>>>>>>>In a NY Minute , man I would love to see it Nahhhh....they have all they need with Alou now Quote
RiskKid. Posted November 7, 2007 Posted November 7, 2007 Hey guys, I've been missing for a while......so here's a hats off and belated congratulations to all you chowda heads.....Bosox showed without a doubt they deserved it this year! Quote
Guest muddy Posted November 7, 2007 Posted November 7, 2007 Schilling re signed with Sox, lets see what happens with Arod today : Quote
nboucher Posted November 7, 2007 Posted November 7, 2007 4 MONTHS TIL SPRING TRAINING Don't rush it. Now's the time of year I get to those piles of books that have been getting taller all summer and fallPete Hamill's at the top, Dom! Quote
Guest muddy Posted November 8, 2007 Posted November 8, 2007 enjoy it Norm great read, about the neighborhood i grew up in 8-) Quote
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