Jon Papelbon is the best baseball thread ever

[caliber66]

why is Lourie trying to fire Joe ?

 

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[tongue-tied lightning]

that's a team I wanna root for, right Bobbob

[bobbob1313]

Wait, you're at FIU and surrounded primarily by fans of teams from the Northeast? I guess the "snowbird" phonemenon has extended beyond retirees and now includes college students? (not that I blame them)

 

Most of the people who live in the dorms are from out of state.

 

that's a team I wanna root for, right Bobbob

 

And hell yes. We have a stupid owner who is too poor to pour money into the team, but our scouting and GM are the best in the league (and it's not even by a small margin. What other organization could field a playoff contender with 15 million dollars in this day and age?), so we are consistently competitive.

 

And, remind me of the last time Cincinnati won a world series. Or made the playoffs.

[Sir Stewart]

Being a Red Sox fan next year is gonna be different. The pink t-shirts won't be around.

[ction]

Being a Red Sox fan next year is gonna be different. The pink t-shirts won't be around.

 

I don't get your homophobic tirade.

[kimalmostpossible]

Being a Red Sox fan next year is gonna be different. The pink t-shirts won't be around.

what does that mean?

[tongue-tied lightning]

Most of the people who live in the dorms are from out of state.

And hell yes. We have a stupid owner who is too poor to pour money into the team, but our scouting and GM are the best in the league (and it's not even by a small margin. What other organization could field a playoff contender with 15 million dollars in this day and age?), so we are consistently competitive.

 

And, remind me of the last time Cincinnati won a world series. Or made the playoffs.

last World Series Reds won was 1990, so I know the pain of having bad owners.

Marge might have been the funniest, but also the worst.

 

Thanks god we finally have a great owner who wants to spend and win.

It's gotta be hard to root for a team that keeps changing every year though ?

[bobbob1313]

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That article was pretty terrible, actually. After the 2003 we lost Pudge to Free Agency, and Derrek Lee to trade. And when was the last time Loria's teams were successful before 2003? Whoever wrote that must think the Marlins have had one owner in their history.

[Reni]

yeah Kevin - I just thought it was an interesting and balanced story.

[bobbob1313]

His name is Dan Uggla. For the record.

 

8 in a row. 2.5 games back of the wild card. I know I'm the only one who cares, and I've probablygotten everyone on the board to hate them, but fuck it, this team is all magical and stuff.

[bjorn_skurj]

I don't know if I'd go as far as to say "magical," but they've got a lot of talent which may or may not develop. And winning two World Serieses in the past 10 years is not too shabby for a franchise not named the New York Yankees. For Boston and the White Sox, it's like, what, two WS wins in the past 86-87 years? Fans of those teams, which for the most part have in their history been run by cretins and mountebanks, really have no truck dissing on the Marlins and their fans.

 

And now, an example of how parody hits the nail on the head sometimes:

 

Yankees

[Oil Can Boyd]

Papi is sick and Manny is still hurting.

Here is tonight's starting line up for the (Red) Sox. Not exactly what you want on your push for the playoffs.

 

Coco Crisp, cf

Alex Cora, ss

Mark Loretta, dh

Kevin Youkilis, 1b

Mike Lowell, 3b

Eric Hinske, rf

Javy Lopez, c

Carlos Pena, 1b

Dustin Pedroia, 2b

Kason Gabbard, p

[caliber66]

Looks like left field's gonna be wide open.

[Oil Can Boyd]

Looks like left field's gonna be wide open.

 

Touche.

Youklis is playing left (rather than sharing it with Pena).

[Sir Stewart]

bjorn, is that Sox-Yankees piece from The Onion?

 

Papi is sick and Manny is still hurting.

Here is tonight's starting line up for the (Red) Sox. Not exactly what you want on your push for the playoffs.

[Oil Can Boyd]

bjorn, is that Sox-Yankees piece from The Onion?

 

I have been watching the Sox long enough to know that they are going to have one last push where they look good for about a week and they get our hopes up before dashing them again.

 

Unless of course Big Papi's irregular heartbeat finishes him for the season ...

[darkstar]

I have been watching the Sox long enough to know that they are going to have one last push where they look good for about a week and they get our hopes up before dashing them again.

 

Unless of course Big Papi's irregular heartbeat finishes him for the season ...

 

 

That's some scarry shit there, the irregular heartbeat thing. I hope he is fine...not just to play again, but in general. Looks like we gotta wait until '07. The houase of cards has fallen down. Injuries, no pitching, no offense right now......that and Manny is on his "Manny Holding Boston Hostage Tour" (as called by The Globe)

 

Ah well.....football is coming up Love the Sawx but any illusion of them going to the post-season and doing well are now shattered

[kimalmostpossible]

That's some scarry shit there, the irregular heartbeat thing. I hope he is fine...not just to play again, but in general. Looks like we gotta wait until '07. The houase of cards has fallen down. Injuries, no pitching, no offense right now......that and Manny is on his "Manny Holding Boston Hostage Tour" (as called by The Globe)

 

Ah well.....football is coming up Love the Sawx but any illusion of them going to the post-season and doing well are now shattered

i blame sean/ction for not putting his baseball cap on his ugly cat avatar like he did last year.

[Sir Stewart]

The Bronson Arroyo trade is the first and only Red Sox transaction I've ever had a problem with. And it effed their season.

[cryptique]

i blame sean/ction for not putting his baseball cap on his ugly cat avatar like he did last year.

I blame ction too.

 

 

Wait. What were we talking about?

[wheelco]

And it effed their season.

And it pushed the Reds up a step to mediocrity

[tongue-tied lightning]

Roxbury MA (AP) - A seven-year-old boy was at the center of a Boston courtroom drama yesterday when he challenged a court ruling over who should have custody of him. The boy has a history of being beaten by his

parents and the judge initially awarded custody to his aunt, in keeping with child custody law and regulations requiring that family unity be maintained to the degree possible.

 

The boy surprised the court when he proclaimed that his aunt beat him more than his parents and he adamantly refused to live with her. When the judge then suggested that he live with his grandparents, the boy cried out that

they also beat him.

 

After considering the remainder of the immediate family and learning that domestic violence was apparently a way of life among them, the judge took the unprecedented step of allowing the boy to propose who should have

custody of him. After two recesses to check legal references and confer with child welfare officials, the judge granted temporary custody to the Boston Red Sox, whom the boy firmly believes is not capable of beating

anyone.

[Sir Stewart]

See you next year, Big Wet Machine.

[tongue-tied lightning]

ha ! a Boston friend sent me that. Looks like the white flag is going up in Beantown.

[MrRain422]

I first heard that joke last year in reference to the Lions. Probably more truth to it with the Lions, but hey, it hurts no matter who it is, if you're a fan.