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The 2011 Boston Red Sox: This Space for Rent

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Re: The 2011 Boston Red Sox: This Space for Rent

Actually, couldn't (shouldn't?) it only be one? Because if TB beats the Yanks and the Sox lose, they'll be up a game. No way they beat the Rays in a one-game playoff in this free fall if they win the last game against Baltimore.
 
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Yankees lineup 9/28:

Jeter SS, Granderson CF, Teixeira 1B, Cano DH, Rodriguez 3B, Swisher RF, Jones LF, Montero C, Nunez 2B, Betances P

Red Sox lineup 9/28:
Ellsbury CF, Pedroia 2B, Ortiz DH, Gonzalez 1B, Lavarnway C, Drew RF, Scutaro SS, Crawford LF, Aviles 3B, Lester P
 
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Yankees lead the Rays 1-0.
 
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Make that 5-rock now. Teixeira with the grand slam that went halfway to Cancun.
 
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From my friend Joe's Facebook.

Mark Teixeira you beautiful son of a blank... I still hate you.

(Sums up Sox fans attitudes.)
 
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Fat load of good it does. The Sox are blowing it again against a team 30 games out of first place in the biggest game of the year. Typical.
 
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It's 2-2 now, dear. If this holds, the worst you can do is a playoff tomorrow.
 
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Hammer said:
It's 2-2 now, dear. If this holds, the worst you can do is a playoff tomorrow.
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I'm well aware of that. But the chatter in the Red Sox thread is about how the Yankees are beating the Rays. Who gives a flying **** about that game if the Red Sox can't take care of business on their end?
 
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Priceless said:
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I prefer "Girl You Know It's True" myself. :D
 
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yowza. i went to sleep when they pulled the tarp out expecting to watch a playoff game today.

funny that madden was right about the destiny line he threw out when the broken bat single helped then beat the sox couple weeks ago.
 
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I stuck around until the 8th and then called it a night. Saw the TB game get tied up too and could see the writing on the wall (especially since the Yanks were playing with their AAA players by that point). My thoughts:

Too many gutless players on the team. Lackey. Drew. Bedard. Crawford. I don't care how much he's making, send Lackey down to the freakin' minors next year. This team needs more Pedroias and less hired guns.

Francona needs to go. Not that he's a bad guy, but he's a players manager and right now the players need a kick in the ***. That's something he's not going to deliver. They need an Ozzie Guillen type, a manager who will publicly question a player's manhood to the press if he takes a day off everytime he has a hangnail. Also a guy who isn't afraid to bench players to make a statement.

Theo needs to have his wings clipped. The best guys on the team are the home grown talent for the most part (Lester, Pedroia, Ellsbury, Papelbon) while his big free agent aquisitions are killing the team (Lackey, Drew, Crawford, Cameron, DicK - I mean Dice K, etc etc). Half these guys are intimidated by playing here and the rest don't give a $#%^. If this Lavarnway kid is playing well in the minors and clearly not bothered by playing the biggest game of the year, why go out and get Saltalamacchia? Epstein needs to be charged with getting more talent from the draft into the pro's. If he can't do that and chooses to don a gorilla suit again and sneak out the back door, so be it.

Lastly, re-introduce 'roids into the clubhouse. The wimps had more ailments than my 90 year old grandparents. Can you imagine if they actually had to work for a living? Much like Barry Bonds, who went from superhuman strength to an old man overnight as soon as testing became mandatory, clearly these players were relying on something to keep them healthy aside from actually staying in shape. Short of breaking the rules (and frankly with Selig they probably could get away with it) they need a new training staff because they didn't cut it this year.
 
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mookie1995 said:
yowza. i went to sleep when they pulled the tarp out expecting to watch a playoff game today.

funny that madden was right about the destiny line he threw out when the broken bat single helped then beat the sox couple weeks ago.
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I turned it off when Scutaro got thrown out at the plate...I could see what was coming and just didn't want to ruin a night's sleep with the loss being fresh in my mind.

The whole Yanks ahead by 7, rain delay thing was like the baseball gods setting up the Sox for the worst kind of flop...everything was going our way and then literally the skies open up and everything goes the other direction.
 
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pirate said:
I turned it off when Scutaro got thrown out at the plate...I could see what was coming and just didn't want to ruin a night's sleep with the loss being fresh in my mind.

The whole Yanks ahead by 7, rain delay thing was like the baseball gods setting up the Sox for the worst kind of flop...everything was going our way and then literally the skies open up and everything goes the other direction.
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I know! It wasn't just that the Sox lost and the Rays won. It was the Sox winning, then a rain delay and Tampa coming back from losing 7-0 to win it....seriously, it was like a movie script. I gotta say, I admire my Sox....they don't just not make the playoffs. The fail in epic fashion. It's impressive.

Question for those of us that can remember......was this collapse worse than 1978? I think it was. Because even though they choked up a 14 game lead, they won 8 in a row in September to force the playoff game. This was ridiculous. Because when you can't even beat the last place team in your division, that's pretty pathetic.
 
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