| Author | Message | ||
     Dongalonga |
World Series here we come | ||
| Buellinachinashop |
for a half a billion dollars in payroll, you should been in the WS already. | ||
| Irideabuell |
Sounds like the usual sour grapes to me! The fact is they have a great manager that knows how to work all of the personalities into the betterment of the whole. Joe Torre wouldn't know anything about that. They spend more and lately end up with less. No manager is worth 7.5 mil a year - only in NY. | ||
| Aeholton |
Sounds like the usual sour grapes to me! Sounds like truth to me. Interesting article: http://blog.sportscolumn.com/story/2007/4/9/1367/6 0158 | ||
| Spiderman |
I am not a big fan, or better yet I think Baseball is a boooring sport. But one thing holds true to all sports. Money doesn't buy a team! It may buy you talent, but talent doesn't win games. Look at B.Bonds. He is making a ton or loot but look at his team, the only time you hear about his team (when your out of the teams brodcast area) is when that team comes to your town or when he hits another Homerun. An even better example, the 1980 USA mens hockey team. College kids against the best the USSR had to offer, seasoned, well taken care of hockey vets. Much like your well pampered, high paid sports figures today. I think you know how that story ended, they even made a movie about it. Teams are made by great coaching! | ||
| Bo_sox |
RED SOX for life !!!! Sorry New York fans and in your face Cleveland! A 3-1 lead doesn't mean sh*t when you're invading Fenway Park. I thought we already covered this topic in 2004. As you can tell by my username, I'm a dislocated Red Sox fan for LIFE! And if that bothers you, then stop reading this and go do something else with your LIFE! Go scan the erotic section on Craigslist! Oh, but be carefull your wife is wandering around the house! Just sit back and wait until Wednesday - when Beckett takes the mound and lays an ass whoopin' on the Rockies!!! Sorry Colorado, but this will not be your year!!! | ||
| Spiderman |
sportsmanship all the way!! what class  | ||
| Damnut |
And I live in MA.............. Red Sox, fans turning into what they loathe Mark Kriegel / FOXSports.com Posted: 9 days ago With the exodus under way and the Angels about to be swept at home, a chant went up behind the visitors' dugout: Bos-ton Red Sox. Bos-ton Red Sox. Such a mantra, this hymn without harmony, didn't come as much of a surprise. After all, America has become a Red Sox Nation, Boston now being baseball's biggest draw. Rather, what was stunning about the drone, is how much the droners sounded like Yankees fans. If there really was a Curse, as Red Sox fans like to say, perhaps it came with a codicil: You become what you hate. With the Yankees now vanquished and leaderless, and their principal owner's faculties in question, the Red Sox can no longer be portrayed with much sympathy. The sentimental underpinnings on which the Red Sox Nation was created owed everything to that team in the Bronx. The Red Sox can be underdogs only in relation to the Yankees. But now that notion has perished. The Red Sox are the best team in baseball. They should beat the Cleveland Indians and win the World Series without too much difficulty. Still, it's difficult to root for a team that can pay $14 million per to J.D. Drew, who, by the way, won't even start in Game 1 of the ALCS. According to Opening Day salary figures, the Red Sox began the season as a $143 million enterprise (this excludes the $6 million salary they'd pay a mid-season pickup Eric Gagne). The Indians, by contrast, had a $61 million payroll. That gap — approximately $82 million — is considerably more than the gap between the Red Sox and the Yankees. The Yankees have committed any number of profligate and mercenary acts (the $28 million prorated salary for Roger Clemens comes first to mind, though Jason Giambi and Carl Pavano are up there, too). Still, a good chunk of the Yankee payroll has gone to proven players who never played for another major league team: Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera, Jorge Posada, Hideki Matsui and, in years past, Bernie Williams. The Red Sox, by contrast, have not exactly been models of continuity. Julio Lugo, for example, is their fourth starting shortstop since 2004, when they won the World Series with Orlando Cabrera. Of the 25 players on Boston's World Series roster, only eight remain with the team: Manny Ramirez, David Ortiz, Curt Schilling, Mike Timlin, Jason Varitek, Tim Wakefield, Doug Mirabelli and Kevin Youkilis (who didn't get a World Series at-bat). Of those eight, it bears mention, only two made their big league debuts with Boston. It's been almost five years since Red Sox president Larry Lucchino labeled the Yankees "The Evil Empire." It was a great line, and sportswriters everywhere remain indebted to him. But let's frame its context. His utterance followed the Yankees' signing of Jose Contreras, a move that once again demonstrated the Empire's capacity for expensive folly. Still, one imagines Lucchino vowing it would never happen again. In 2007, the Red Sox outbid everyone, including the Yankees, for the rights to Daisuke Matsuzaka. Those rights came at a price of $51 million. And though that figure is not reflected in the Red Sox payroll, it represents almost 84 percent of the Indians' Opening Day roster budget, which was 23rd in the majors. Then again, Cleveland is almost a big market team compared to the Rockies and the Diamondbacks (25th and 26th in payroll at $54 million and $52 million, respectively). But back to the ALCS, which begins tonight at Fenway Park. Perhaps you shall hear from those venerable voices of Red Sox Nation, Doris Kearns and Stephen King. Or maybe it will be a newcomer, like Kevin Garnett. They will extol the virtues of Boston's baseball team. But what are those, exactly? Save for a withering owner, the Red Sox are not at all unlike their former nemesis. They are an empire of their own now. And if you rooted for the Red Sox because they weren't the Yankees, aren't you now obligated to root for the Indians? Do the math. Add the salaries of C.C. Sabathia, Fausto Carmona, Grady Sizemore, Franklin Guttierrez, Jhonny Peralta, Chris Gomez, Rafael Betancourt, Rafael Perez and Ryan Garko. Now what do you have? About a half million less than J.D. Drew. | ||
| Buellinachinashop |
Hey Nut?, wanna bet on if the Pats can go 16-0? | ||
| Damnut |
Not right now but I will bet on the Nov 4th game with ya............ | ||
| Lake_bueller |
Anybody have tickets for game 4 in Denver? I'm going to be there for the Packers game on Monday night. It would be cool to catch a series game  | ||
| Brumbear |
AAAAHHHHHH Carolina Corner CarversCCRRRRRRAAAAAPPPPPPPPPPPPP well I hate to say I really hate to say this but GO AL beat the national League My hat tastes like SHYTE | ||
| Buellinachinashop |
Alrighty. Done deal Nut. I gotta give the Sox credit. they're hot again. | ||
| Mr_grumpy |
It's half past 3 in the morning here & I'm sitting up watching game 2 live by satellite. I'm a Cards fan so I could care less who wins but I love the game & the sense of occasion. I like the way the Sox play, & I appreciate the determination of the Rockies. After last nights blow-out, hopefully it'll be a good series. | ||
| Gschuette |
StL Cards in 08! | ||
| Crusty |
Hey; how 'bout them Red Sox? | ||
| Irideabuell |
Holy smokes!!! They're too good! God, I hope Lowell is able to stay with the team. He's a great ball player and a super representative of the Red Sox. But, alas, he will probably chase the $$$$ like most of today's big leaguers. | ||
| Buellinachinashop |
7-0 in their last 7 games. That's domination. I hate them, but my hat's off to them. |
