Woefully Premature Red Sox Victory Celebration

For our foreign compadres: Tonight the Boston Red Sox play the New York Yankees in the seventh game of the American League Pennant race. This best-of-seven series was considered complete this past Saturday night, when the Sox were treated like a skinny boy in a prison shower by the Yankees during Game 3. New York's win that night made the series a daunting 3-0. The corks were already a-popping in the Big Apple the next night, when suddenly Sox slugger Dave Ortiz hit a two-run homer to win the game. The thought of Yankees head honcho George Steinbrenner filling his gold-plated commode with a fulsome mixture of sweat, mucus, and half-digested caviar in the game's aftermath is enough to gladden the heart of any baseball fan outside the Bronx.The next night, Ortiz once again wore the laurels. His base hit during the 14th inning drove in the winning run to end the tense standoff at Boston's Fenway Park. Pitcher Kurt Schilling thwarted the New Yorkers on their home turf Tuesday, and suddenly the series stands tied at three. The deciding game is being played tonight.Is this an unprecedented comeback by a team destined for American League victory and a place in the baseball history books? Or is it merely a sadistic tease by a ball club renowned for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory?regards,
Esteban "Medias Rojas" Hambre

There may be few clearly good things, but the NY Yankees losing is one of them. Go Red Sox!I just wish they were playing our low budget but funky Minnesota Twins.Minne Moose Us

Agreed completely.

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He's not dead. He's electroencephalographically challenged.

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when the Sox were treated like a skinny boy in a prison shower by the Yankees during Game 3.

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Can you please just once not refer to Salty in a post?

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The deciding game is being played tonight.

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At least you have that...here they pre-empt perfectly good brain homogenizing TV to broadcast a funny little sport where guys run around a field but when any of them get within about 2 yards of each other they fall to the ground and pretend to be in pain..usually in eye sight of an official...oh yeah once in a while the ball goes in a net on one side of the field..but usually by accident

Each year the Boston Red Sox contrive increasingly diabolical and evil ways to rend the hearts and crush the spirits of their fans who have been patiently waiting since 1918 for their next World Series win. When the blow will come will not be known till it happens. It could come tonight in gut-wrenching manner, or the Sox might win only to compose an even more gory demise in the World Series.A kind and merciful team would have spared us all the anguish and meekly lost game 4 of the ALCS, but that would have been too easy. Where would be the pain in that? No, to give the knife the proper twist they had to win game 4, then they had to win game 5, and then they had to win game 6, thereby bringing Sox fans once more to the precipice.When and how the Sox will deliver the coup de grace can not be known ahead of time. All we can know is that when it's all over, Sox fans will once again have been tantalized, sucked in, and savagely beaten, left with barely a breath to utter the annual refrain, "Wait till next year!"--Percy

That day and that hour knoweth no man.Sigh.

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"If I had to write ten jokes about potholders, I don't think I could do it. But I could write ten jokes about Catholicism in the next twenty minutes. I guess I'm drawn to religion because I can be provocative without harming something people really care about, like their cars."
-George Meyer, Simpsons writer

WOO!WOOOOOO!!!The Yankees have LOST. They are LOSERS. Now they have to cry, and cry, and loudly yell, "Oh no, now we are losers, and the Red Sox have shown us this!" Then they will have to go home to their mansions, and their beautiful wives, and many, many groupies, and cry about what incredible losers they are....that came out wrong.

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"If I had to write ten jokes about potholders, I don't think I could do it. But I could write ten jokes about Catholicism in the next twenty minutes. I guess I'm drawn to religion because I can be provocative without harming something people really care about, like their cars."
-George Meyer, Simpsons writer

The Yankees should be ashamed. They had four opportunities to seal the series and couldn't clinch it. They didn't even bother showing up for Game 7. I'm very glad the Sox could celebrate a pennant victory, not to mention an unprecedented comeback, on the infield at Yankee Stadium.It's not our fault the Yanks didn't want to make it interesting.regards,
Esteban "Shock & Awe" HambreThis message has been edited by MrHambre, 10-21-2004 10:13 AM

Here are records set by the recently concluded ALCS that I know about, maybe there are others:

• No MLB team has ever won three in a row after being down 3-0 in a 7-game playoff series.
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• No MLB team has ever come back to win a 7-game playoff series after being down 3-0.
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• Winning a 7-game playoff series after being down 3-0 has only been done twice before in American professional sports, both in hockey. Once in the 1940s, and again by the Islanders in 1975.
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• The Red Sox have not won an American League pennant-winning playoff game over the Yankees at Yankee Stadium since 1904.

-Percy

Yankees losing proves there is a merciful God!

But the Yankees existing in the first place proves there isn't.It's a funny old world, huh?

(Double post)This message has been edited by Dan Carroll, 10-21-2004 10:33 AM

Boston will win three straight.They will lead until the ninth inning during the next four games.

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

Go Boston! They just won 11 to 9. Ha!

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He's not dead. He's electroencephalographically challenged.

I'm definitely hoping that Boston can win the Series. The Cards have won a few and I like to see things spread around.I was actually hoping that Houston would have won in the National League so we could have had a Massachusetts vs. Texas thing in baseball. Might have added a bit more fun to the Series.I, too, am happy the Yankees lost. I think that at the end of each year, each team's wins should be divided by the their total payroll and the resulting figures should be used to position teams for the playoffs. I wish I had the time to do that and report to everyone which team got the most bang for their buck. It might have been the Twins.Either that, or they could adopt team salary rules like the NFL has so that at the beginning of each season (theoretically) the fans in each baseball city could believe that their team has as good a shot at the title as any other team. For the fans, it ought to be that way.Verzem