Tag: Red Sox

Championship Series

Do I suck at predicting the outcome of playoff series in baseball? You betcha. Do I care? Nope. Why? Because the one series I picked correctly involved the Red Sox winning. Who gives a toss about the rest of the league when the Red Sox win.

I was 1 of 2 in the wild card games. That is not good. I was 1 of 4 in the Divisional series. That flat out sucks.

I picked the Red Sox over the Rays. Thank the baseball gods I was right.

I picked the A’s over the Tiggers. Nope.
I picked the Pirates over the Cardinals. Nope.
I picked the Braves over the Dodgers. Nope.

That puts me at 2 out of 6. I am wrong 2/3 of the time. Again, who cares so long as the Sox keep winning.

Here are my picks for the League Championship Series.

Boston Red Sox vs Detroit Tigers. Obviously I am picking the Red Sox, but that Tiggers pitching staff scares the holy hell out of me. The only possible chance for Boston is that Detroit had to use their two stud starters in games four and five against Oakland, and maybe there is a chance that we won’t have to face at least one of them twice. Slim chance. Really, no chance. Still, I have faith in the Red Sox. I believe in the beards. The Red Sox will rise to the challenge and take the series, although it’s probably going to be in seven supremely painful games.

St. Louis Cardinals vs Los Angeles Dodgers. I hate the Dodgers. At the same time, I keep finding myself forced to back the Cardinals and while they have come through, they have also let me down. Still… I freakin’ hate the Dodgers. I am going to pick the Cards once again in the hopes of getting a rematch of the 2004, 1967, and 1946 World Series. Sure the Red Sox lost two of those three match ups, but they won the most recent one, and winning this year would even up the history. That would be nice, eh?

Here’s to a Boston/St. Louis World Series… again.

The Red Sox Win!

It took four hours, yet again, and thanks to the assholes at TBS it’s already well into Wednesday morning, but the Red Sox have defeated the Tampa Bay Rays in the ALDS.

They will face whichever team wins the Oakland vs Detroit series. The American League Championship Series will start at Fenway Park.

Apart from the fact that Tampa Bay used NINE pitchers and the game took four hours, yet again, that was an awesome game!

Bring on that Pennant, Red Sox!

Red Sox vs Rays Game Four

Second inning, the Red Sox had bases loaded and no outs…

And they failed to score.

What, me? Worry?

On a side note, I noticed last night that “firm” seems to be John Smoltz’s favorite word. It’s weird though, it’s almost like he doesn’t know what it means and keeps using it in ways that don’t quite make sense. What’s the deal, John. Are you messing with us?

Get ’em Tomorrow

Sure losing to a crapfest like Tampa Bay on a walk off home run in the bottom of the ninth inning is heartbreaking, but it’s only game three.  We still have the lead in the series.  So we beat them in four, or even five.  No biggie.

It’s okay, Red Sox.  Just go out there tomorrow and kick their sorry asses.

 

(pretty please?)

Tie Game

The Red Sox and Rays are tied at three heading into the seventh inning.

I’m not panicking. No really, I’m not. I’m filled with cautious optimism that my Red Sox will regain the lead and win this game.

Okay, maybe I’m panicking a little bit. I’m a Boston sports fan, it’s kinda my job.

Game Three

Tonight at 6:00pm Eastern time… Game three of the ALDS Between the vile, evil, twisted, perverse Tampa Bay Rays and the Heroic, Majestic, Knights in Shining Armor known as the Boston Red Sox.

It’s another great pitching match up with Buchholz going against Cobb (not Ty). If the Red Sox keep playing the way they have been they should be able to win. If the Rays keep making bone head plays in the field, they should continue to lose. Some of the idiot moves in their outfield have me on the verge of wondering if any of them are wearing black socks.

One philosophical question: if the Rays play a home game in the playoffs and there are no fans in the stands to see it, does it really happen? I’m curious to see their attendance today.

Go Red Sox!

Win Win Win

The Red Sox took a 2-0 lead in their ALDS series against Tampa Bay with a 7-4 win tonight. David Ortiz hit two home runs. The second has yet to land.

The Bruins beat the Red Wings 4-1. They are 2-0 on the young season.

Some fat boy got new glasses.

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Win, win, win.

MLB Playoffs

I made my divisional series picks yesterday. Both NL series played game one. Both teams I picked got beaten badly. Pittsburgh got trounced. Ah, can I pick ’em or can I pick ’em? The Cardinals and Pirates are just starting the second inning now. Incredibly, the Cardinals failed to score in the first.

Of course the big deal starts at 3:00. Tampa Bay at Boston in game one. The Rays scare me. Sure, they weren’t all that great down the stretch but they won when they needed to. They also have some awesome starting pitching. Yeah, I’m nervous.

Please, Red Sox, destroy them so that I can stop feeling nervous.

Thanks. Go Red Sox.

Game #163

For the Tampa Bay Rays and the Texas Rangers the 162 game major league baseball season has 163 games. The two teams face off tonight in Texas to break the tie for the second AL wild card slot. The winner then gets to play a second one game playoff, this time against the Cleveland Indians. The winner of that games faces the triumphant, glorious, freakishly bearded, civil war re-enactors knows as the Boston Red Sox.

So as a Boston fan, who do I want to win? Honestly, I don’t know. The Rays’ pitching scares me. I’ve been saying for weeks that I don’t want to face them. Now though, are they in better shape than Texas and their current seven game winning streak, or Cleveland who have also been playing well lately? Tampa Bay is kind of a mess right now. Hell, they almost blew their chance at the post season yesterday by blowing a 7-0 lead to the last place Blue Jays. On top of all that, the Red Sox have dominated the Rays in recent weeks.

I don’t know. I guess I really don’t care who wins today or tomorrow, just so long as they use up their entire bull pen and waste their best starting pitchers, and maybe have the stress of the play in games launch their hitters into terrible slumps. It doesn’t matter who the Red Sox face, so long as the Red Sox win three straight to sweep themselves into the American League Championship Series. I’ll settle for that, for now.