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Red Sox haters.
- Thread starter mmbongo
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Today did make 4 losses in a row right? is my math correct? is this thing on?? check one ... two.. check check.. yup. i think that's 4 in a row.
I know the Pads are down 4-2 right now, but, i haven't heard the fat lady yet..
I know the Pads are down 4-2 right now, but, i haven't heard the fat lady yet..
HEY! WHERE DID THE SOX HATERS GO!!?
The Sox Haters club sure has been quiet lately. I wonder why??? BWAAAA HAAA HAAAAA HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!
The Sox Haters club sure has been quiet lately. I wonder why??? BWAAAA HAAA HAAAAA HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!
Dude.....don't get TOO FAR ahead of the curve yet! They still have their post All-Star fade that they haven't faced yet!
The road to the World Series goes through NY, don't gloat TOO much over wins/losses with the Yankees. That's NO guarantee of a World Series championship......it's only June!
History indicates the Yankess will have some effect on post-season play in some way, shape or form. The Red Sox, not so much.
im still here 
i would have watched last nights game but the only team i hate as much as the Red Sox would be the Yankees.
i cant really say much else, i mean my team just lost to the cubbies.
i would have watched last nights game but the only team i hate as much as the Red Sox would be the Yankees.
i cant really say much else, i mean my team just lost to the cubbies.
The Red Sox won the first eight regular season meetings against the Yankees in 2009. Remind me again who won the World Series that year?
well they did just sweep the yankees.
So that's what it's all about then? No need to keep your eyes on the prize then is there?
You sound like you don't have enough confidence in your team to make it all the way to the World Series so, you'll settle for sweeping the Yankees and enjoy it while you can.
What's that saying Red Sox fans coined and are sooooooooo familiar with......."Wait till next year!!!!!" or something like that isn't it?
Great game plan!
I still have a shirt that reads "take your 26 rings and shove them up your a**". Its a bit out of date now. ha.
you sure do read a lot into things. have fun with that.
I still have a shirt that reads "take your 26 rings and shove them up your a**". Its a bit out of date now. ha.
you sure do read a lot into things. have fun with that.
And you as well!
Nope. But the gloaters like to post after every RedSox LOSS, so I will if I want to!
Hey maybe that's why they haven't posted anything in NINE DAYS!!! LOL!!
You've missed the point. The point is not who won more championships, the whole point is that the Sox Haters wrote the Sox off in week 2 and said they wouldn't win over 30 games. They were posting all kinds of junk months ago, so where are they now?
Remind me who blew a 14-game lead in 1978?
We could go round and round until the end of time.
As a Yankees fan, I must say I sort of enjoyed watching the Red Sox come back in 2004. After they won Game 5, I knew it was over. And one of my best friends is a Red Sox fan, so I was happy for him. It was like throwing a bone to a starving dog. We've got 27, you've got two. And, after '04, Red Sox fans lost their raison d'etre. It was rather amusing to talk with some of my Red Sox friends after the euphoria wore off and they realized they had nothing to complain about anymore.
Do you really think that 1978 is the same as 2004? I admire your chutzpah if not your sense of epic collapses.
Gee, thanks, I think.
If your friends are anything like me, they got used to winning (2007 anybody?) and I will admit it is a lot better than crying in my beer.
The whole beautiful loser thing was a little bit real and a little bit opportunistic reporting by Boston Globe sportswriters. Given that 29 teams do not win the World Series every year, the woe-is-me trope is a pretty easy one for fans and sportswriters alike. But its over, you'll adjust. When I was I kid, the Yankees actually did suck. It took me a while to adjust to that.
But maybe you can help me with something - is the Yankee roster the best use of a $207,000,000 or is a chimp throwing darts at a list of numbers and a list of MLB players?
15 M for a the 18th best shortstop in MLB
16.5 M for a 5th starter (6.72 ERA)
13.1 M for a backup catcher/DH?
hitting .215 And before everyone complains about the Sox payroll - it is $43,000,000 less than the Yankee payroll. If the average player makes $5,000,000 and stars make 15 and superstars make 20 - that means the Yankees can feed a team with 4 more stars than the Sox or 3 more superstars. The Royals can field an entire team and win 43% of their games for the difference between the Yankee and Red Sox payroll. Just saying.
No. And 2004 isn't the same as 2009, which I brought up because it's much more relevant to this thread (early-season success not necessarily being a harbinger of anything.) 2004 was historic, and I think it's fitting that after an 86-year wait, the Red Sox didn't just win the championship in some ho-hum way.
The latter. The Yankees' front office lost its way a while back. Those teams that won the title in 1996 and 1998 were the blueprint - a great mix of homegrown talent (Jeter, Posada, Rivera, Pettitte, Williams) and scrappy guys acquired through trade or free agency (O'Neill, Brosius, Martinez, Soho.) The '99 and 2000 teams were still on the mark, despite the addition of Roger Clemens through a trade. But then the Yankees started doing what everyone had been falsely accusing them of doing -- buying high-dollar free agents, starting with Mike Mussina. And that started an eight-year title drought. No coincidence, I don't think (even though it worked for other teams in beating the Yankees -- Arizona in 2001 and Florida in 2003, most notably.) The Yankees' championship teams of the late 90s and 2000 had chemistry, much like the Red Sox of 2004. You can't buy that with payroll.But maybe you can help me with something - is the Yankee roster the best use of a $207,000,000 or is a chimp throwing darts at a list of numbers and a list of MLB players?
STOP MAKING SENSE!
I agree with almost everything you've written.
Johnny Damon helps the chemistry on every team he plays for - he was worth the price.
EDIT - on second thought Damon is probably more in the mold of O'Neill and Martinez than on Mussina and Clemens so it is 100% agreement.
This is not supposed to happen -my core assumptions of the sports world are shaken to their core.
