LOL @ RED SOX

[Traelin]

Someone had to do it.

[g++]

Was a pretty exciting 10 minutes of baseball Ill give it that. Switched over just in time to see longoria hit the homer. As an O's fan thats probably as close as well get the play offs under Angelos.

[Traelin]

Yea, I went to the Rays game last Saturday. Was watching tonight - I'm stunned. As a fan I didn't expect this at the beginning of the season. I was going to be happy with a better than .500 record.

[FNLN]

Honestly wish the O's played this way all year. WTF.

[Sean of the Thread]

Fuck them mother fuckers. ROFL @ $163 million sucksox payroll... Rofl $203 million Spankees payroll.

F'n A Rays do it again in the tough as shit AL east with a $41 million payroll *second lowest in the league btw.

I love my team.

[Xanator]

If making the playoffs is the standard of "doing it" for the Rays and their fans, then congratulations, man. You did it again.

[Parkbandit]

If making the playoffs is the standard of "doing it" for the Rays and their fans, then congratulations, man. You did it again.

You know who didn't do it? The Red Sucks.

Is there a bigger meltdown in the MLB history?

Edited to add: Can't wait for them to blame it on "The Curse".

[Skeeter]

This will be remembered forever. If they had just backed into the playoffs to get slaughtered in the first round nobody would care.

This way they are IMMORTAL!

[Parkbandit]

This will be remembered forever. If they had just backed into the playoffs to get slaughtered in the first round nobody would care.

This way they are IMMORTAL!

The Red Sox are already immortalized by being losers.

[Gravebane525]

You know who didn't do it? The Red Sucks.

Is there a bigger meltdown in the MLB history?

Edited to add: Can't wait for them to blame it on "The Curse".

does every city that has shitty teams or shitty luck have "The Curse"?

I remember all Philly sports teams were saposta be cursed (though the Wings did not seam to be effected at the time).

[Parkbandit]

does every city that has shitty teams or shitty luck have "The Curse"?

I remember all Philly sports teams were saposta be cursed (though the Wings did not seam to be effected at the time).

Like I said before, the Red Sux should thank their lucky stars for The Cubs.. the only team that makes them look less pathetic.

Waa, we could have won if not for the CURSE!!!

[Gravebane525]

for the longest time Philly fans were blaming the curse of William Penn for the lack of a championship in hockey, baseball, football, and I think basketball.

if I remember right Philly sports teams were cursed by the statue of William Penn because he was saposta be the tallest thing in the city and be able to look out over the entire city. I could almost believe in a curse like that... but why would it apply to only sports teams and not curse the whole damn city?

[Showal]

Like I said before, the Red Sux should thank their lucky stars for The Cubs.. the only team that makes them look less pathetic.

Waa, we could have won if not for the CURSE!!!

I agree that this month's performance makes the Sox look pathetic, but really? Losing a 9 game lead in one month is absolutely awful, but the only team that makes the Red Sox look less pathetic are the Cubs? Given the past decade, you really believe that?

[Some Rogue]

You know who didn't do it? The Red Sucks.

Is there a bigger meltdown in the MLB history?


Well in the National League this year....

"The Braves were 10 1/2 games ahead of St. Louis before play on Aug. 26. They were still up by 8 1/2 games on the morning of Sept. 6. Instead of popping champagne for a second straight trip to the playoffs, they became the first team in major league history to squander a lead of at least eight games for a playoff spot in September."

:biggrin:

[Parkbandit]

I agree that this month's performance makes the Sox look pathetic, but really? Losing a 9 game lead in one month is absolutely awful, but the only team that makes the Red Sox look less pathetic are the Cubs? Given the past decade, you really believe that?

Name 2 teams in MLB that are known for being losers.

#1 Cubs
#2 Red Sux

2 World series wins in the past decade will not erase 80+ years of being under "The Curse". This latest meltdown only adds to the legacy of the Boston Red Sux.

[Parkbandit]

Well in the National League this year....

"The Braves were 10 1/2 games ahead of St. Louis before play on Aug. 26. They were still up by 8 1/2 games on the morning of Sept. 6. Instead of popping champagne for a second straight trip to the playoffs, they became the first team in major league history to squander a lead of at least eight games for a playoff spot in September."

:biggrin:

9 games from September 4th is worse.

I'm sure there are a few bigger meltdowns out there.. but not many.

[Stabbyrogue]

Go Cards.

[Liagala]

Someone had to do it.
Fuck you

Fuck them mother fuckers. ROFL @ $163 million sucksox payroll...
Fuck you

You know who didn't do it? The Red Sucks.

Is there a bigger meltdown in the MLB history?

Edited to add: Can't wait for them to blame it on "The Curse".
Fuck you

the only team that makes the Red Sox look less pathetic are the Cubs? Given the past decade, you really believe that?
You're cool

Name 2 teams in MLB that are known for being losers.

#1 Cubs
#2 Red Sux

2 World series wins in the past decade will not erase 80+ years of being under "The Curse". This latest meltdown only adds to the legacy of the Boston Red Sux.
Fuck you, I'm out.

[Some Rogue]

I believe the blame for all of this falls squarely on Lia's shoulders for wearing one of my Cardinals hats out of the house here in Mass.

[Parkbandit]

BALTIMORE - Jon Lester stood in front of a pack of reporters and cameramen, wearing a sharp suit with nowhere to go but home.

Someone asked the Boston Red Sox pitcher what he will remember most about this season, and without hesitation he whispered a one-word answer.

"September."

The Red Sox completed their late-season collapse in horrific and historic fashion Wednesday night, falling out of the playoff chase by allowing two ninth-inning runs in a 4-3 loss to the Baltimore Orioles.

Boston held a nine-game lead in the AL wild-card race after Sept. 3, but a 7-19 September swoon left them tied with Tampa Bay entering the final day of the regular season.

Only minutes after this game ended, the Rays completed their comeback from a 7-0 deficit with an 8-7 win over the New York Yankees in 12 innings.
Boston became the first team to miss the postseason after leading by as many as nine games for a playoff spot entering September, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.

"We'll go down in history as one of the worst collapses in history, so it definitely doesn't feel good to be part of that," left fielder Carl Crawford said. "We had high expectations, and to fall short the way we did is definitely disappointing for us."

Boston's 7-20 record for the month is its worst September since an identical mark in 1952.

"It's just shocking. We should be playing a one-game playoff right now," Lester said. "It's just one of those things. It wasn't meant to be. It wasn't our year."
Even if Tampa Bay lost, the Red Sox faced the prospect of a quick turnaround following a long night at Camden Yards that included a rain delay of 1 hour, 26 minutes in the middle of the seventh inning.

When the rain came, Tampa Bay trailed 7-0. By the time play resumed, the Rays and Yankees were tied at 7 heading into the 10th inning.

The Orioles won it in the ninth against Boston closer Jonathan Papelbon (4-1), who struck out the first two batters before giving up a double to Chris Davis. Nolan Reimold followed with a double to score pinch-runner Kyle Hudson, and Robert Andino completed the comeback with a single to left that a sliding Crawford couldn't glove.

"I was just overthrowing the ball, not really focusing on location," Papelbon said. "I felt great. I felt great all year."

It was only his third blown save of the season and only defeat.

"I don't think is going to define me as a player. I don't think this is going to define this ballclub this year," Papelbon said, his voice breaking. "I don't know about everyone else in this clubhouse, but whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger."

"To walk off, everybody wants to walk off," Andino said. "It's priceless man, you don't have any words for it. Just enjoy it, and there's no tomorrow, so next year."

The same can be said for Boston.

Dustin Pedroia homered for the Red Sox, who went through the entire month of September without winning consecutive games.

"I'm devastated. I'm heartbroken," Pedroia said. "To play hard for 161 games like we have and have it end like this. ... It should not have gone down to the last game of the season to decide if we were going to the postseason."

Pitching on three days' rest, Lester limited the last-place Orioles to two runs and four hits over six gritty innings. But it wasn't enough to prevent the Red Sox from absorbing one final blow.

"We're not very happy right now," manager Terry Francona said. "We needed to take care of business and we didn't."

Boston had several chances to pad a 3-2 lead it took in the fifth inning but was never able to complete the task.

After Pedroia hit a solo homer off Alfredo Simon in the fifth, the Orioles got the potential tying run to third base in the bottom half and in the sixth before Lester worked out of trouble.

In the seventh, Boston's David Ortiz was thrown out trying to stretch a single, and with two outs rookie catcher Ryan Lavanway bounced into a fielder's choice. Lavanway, who homered twice in an 8-7 win Tuesday, went 0 for 5 and stranded nine runners.

The Red Sox blew another chance to increase the lead in the eighth when Marco Scutaro took off from first base on a double by Crawford. But Scutaro stutter-stepped before getting to third and was out at the plate.

In the ninth, Lavanway grounded into a double play with one out and the bases loaded. It was the third time he came to the plate following an intentional walk to Adrian Gonzalez.

About 10 minutes later, Boston's season was done.

"I can guarantee you that everyone in this room will learn from this," Ortiz said. "Trust me, a lot of guys in here will be thinking about what happened for a long time."

The Red Sox went up 1-0 in the third when Mike Aviles walked, took second on a single by Jacoby Ellsbury and scored on a single by Pedroia. Ellsbury's single extended his hitting streak against Baltimore to 36 games, dating to April 2009.

J.J. Hardy hit a two-run homer in the bottom half, only minutes after the scoreboard showed the Yankees increasing their lead over Tampa Bay to 5-0. Hardy's 30th homer followed a leadoff walk to Davis.

Boston pulled even in the fourth when Scutaro doubled, advanced on a groundout and scored on a balk.

http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/44707378/ns/sports-baseball/

Ooooouch.

[Some Rogue]

LOL yeah, The Braves were the worst, for like an hour, with the 8.5 game collapse.

[Traelin]

http://thebiglead.fantasysportsven.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/harold-reynolds-losing-it.gif

Apparently this was Harold Reynolds (on MLB network) after Longoria hit the HR in the 12th.

[AnticorRifling]

Remember a long time ago (yesterday) when Bob was like Red Sox this and Red Sox that?

Bob? Bob where are you? Hello?

[Alfster]

I believe the blame for all of this falls squarely on Lia's shoulders for wearing one of my Cardinals hats out of the house here in Mass.

fk the cardinals.

[Stabbyrogue]

fk the cardinals.


Watch your mouth.

[Gan]

Yes. fk the cards.

[Sean]

Fuck them mother fuckers. ROFL @ $163 million sucksox payroll... Rofl $203 million Spankees payroll.

F'n A Rays do it again in the tough as shit AL east with a $41 million payroll *second lowest in the league btw.

I love my team.

You're really going to sit there and trash talk after making the playoffs because the Yankees let you win a game to piss off Boston? Ok... Enjoy getting beat by Texas.

[Parkbandit]

You're really going to sit there and trash talk after making the playoffs because the Yankees let you win a game to piss off Boston? Ok... Enjoy getting beat by Texas.

Seriously? That's your excuse for the meltdown? "Yankees screwed us AGAIN!!!!!!!!!111111oneoeneondojsdncluidnliabnfaew unfas;jnawdjnas;fjnn"

[Showal]

Seriously? That's your excuse for the meltdown? "Yankees screwed us AGAIN!!!!!!!!!111111oneoeneondojsdncluidnliabnfaew unfas;jnawdjnas;fjnn"

He's a Yankees fan.

[Traelin]

Believe me - after the way the Red Sox have played in September, they would have much rather faced them in the post season if they had to. Tampa's pitching depth is probably the best in the league (Next to Philly).

Girardi was resting his players and primarily his pitchers for the post season which was well within his right. The fate of the Red Sox is their own doing - it's not New York's fault who had this plan set up weeks before they knew all this was going to come to fruition.

If blame belongs to anyone it's the Red Sox, they didn't get it done.

[Androidpk]

Seriously? That's your excuse for the meltdown? "Yankees screwed us AGAIN!!!!!!!!!111111oneoeneondojsdncluidnliabnfaew unfas;jnawdjnas;fjnn"

Pop an aspirin and calm down.

[Parkbandit]

It went clear over your head.. which isn't surprising.

Notice the quotation marks? Yea....

[Sean]

Seriously? That's your excuse for the meltdown? "Yankees screwed us AGAIN!!!!!!!!!111111oneoeneondojsdncluidnliabnfaew unfas;jnawdjnas;fjnn"

First off like other have said I'm a Yankee fan. The Boston meltdown was a month long disaster not just yesterday but if you watched that game and though man the Yankees are trying to win this game, then I just don't know what to tell you.

[Alfster]

Believe me - after the way the Red Sox have played in September, they would have much rather faced them in the post season if they had to. Tampa's pitching depth is probably the best in the league (Next to Philly).


Pretty sure you meant to say the Brewers pitching staff.

[Parkbandit]

First off like other have said I'm a Yankee fan. The Boston meltdown was a month long disaster not just yesterday but if you watched that game and though man the Yankees are trying to win this game, then I just don't know what to tell you.

I went to bed, so I didn't see the end of the game. They were up 7-0 early on... not really sure why they would do that if wanted the Rays to beat them.

But maybe you are right.. maybe the Yankees just didn't want to face the Red Sox in the playoffs, given how many times the Red Sox beat them this year.

[Sean of the Thread]

yup the yankees gave it to us with a monster comeback from a 7-0 to a walk off homer...

Yep that's what happened.

More likely what happened is they were up 7-0 and the team with the best record in baseball was resting it's horses for the playoffs and the Rays took advantage of that. That's the way the game is played.

[Hulkein]

Great night of baseball. LOLd at Sox, Phillies get franchise record in wins and Manuel moves into first for managerial wins for Phillies franchise. Got to see the Rays have a hell of a comeback (hard not to root for them in the AL East vs. two titans of spending).

To the guy talking about curse of Billy Penn re: Philly, they put a replica Billy Penn statute on the top of the Comcast building (tallest building in Phila now) which finished just before we won the WS in 2008. Shit had to be real.

[TheEschaton]

I can't believe this thread has progressed as far as it has without comment on Gravebane spelling "supposed to" as "saposta."

[Sean]

yup the yankees gave it to us with a monster comeback from a 7-0 to a walk off homer...

Yep that's what happened.

More likely what happened is they were up 7-0 and the team with the best record in baseball was resting it's horses for the playoffs and the Rays took advantage of that. That's the way the game is played.

I'll quote your original post instead.


I know you're more intelligent than that.

The yanks did have an outstanding year and they should have considering their payroll. Red Sucks did too considering their payroll until their collapse.

Rays too considering their payroll and the fact they play in the same division as the spanks and sux.

All these idiots yourself included that always have an excuse as to why the Rays won this or that because of the yanks or sox did this or that are really fucking annoying tards. It's the AL East... we deal with it stop the fucking whining already.

If we were in another division the Rays would be stellar compared to competing with what almost $400 million worth of salary as their top rivals compared to their $41 million worth of young talent and comp trades/acquisitions.

At any rate I love the AL East if not just to make fun of the yanks and sox.

Oh I'm sorry I guess you have another word for pulling your starters early, refusing to use your 7-8-9 relievers, using 7 pitchers over 6-2/3 innings while giving up 0 runs to start the game, or letting/having to use scott proctor throw 56 pitches?

[Sean of the Thread]

I'll quote your original post instead.



Oh I'm sorry I guess you have another word for pulling your starters early, refusing to use your 7-8-9 relievers, using 7 pitchers over 6-2/3 innings while giving up 0 runs to start the game, or letting/having to use scott proctor throw 56 pitches?


Yeah the other word is "smart".

That's how the game is played...every team that has nothing to play for today and something to play for tomorrow does it every season. Would be stupid not to eh? Doesn't change the fact that the Rays are a 91 win team in the AL East with the spanks and sux. Tough titties.

Both posts of mine are true.

Yours is basically borderline butt hurt. I'm sorry that the second lowest and youngest payroll team in the league gives your snobby over paid talent shit year in and year out.

[Gravebane525]

I can't believe this thread has progressed as far as it has without comment on Gravebane spelling "supposed to" as "saposta."

what can I say, people are learning my language.

and I did not know about the replica on the Comcast building. its funny it was finished just before someone finally won. I stopped paying attention to sports back when the NHL was on strike. before it I was a diehard Flyers fan, after it there were more people I remembered as flyers playing for the penguins then for the flyers anymore and I lost interest.

[Kembal]

Great night of baseball. LOLd at Sox, Phillies get franchise record in wins and Manuel moves into first for managerial wins for Phillies franchise. Got to see the Rays have a hell of a comeback (hard not to root for them in the AL East vs. two titans of spending).

To the guy talking about curse of Billy Penn re: Philly, they put a replica Billy Penn statute on the top of the Comcast building (tallest building in Phila now) which finished just before we won the WS in 2008. Shit had to be real.

Hell, it probably applied to the college teams in Philly too. I don't recall any of the Big Five winning an NCAA championship in a long time. (I went to Penn.)

[g++]

Hell, it probably applied to the college teams in Philly too. I don't recall any of the Big Five winning an NCAA championship in a long time. (I went to Penn.)

Were you a legend?

[Hulkein]

Hell, it probably applied to the college teams in Philly too. I don't recall any of the Big Five winning an NCAA championship in a long time. (I went to Penn.)

Nova won in 1985, I know Liberty 1 and 2 were completed in the late 80s/early 90s. Not sure if there was a taller building before then. I know there weren't in 1983.

I still hate OK State after they beat St Joe's in the Elite 8 in 2003/4.

[Sean]

Yeah the other word is "smart".

That's how the game is played...every team that has nothing to play for today and something to play for tomorrow does it every season. Would be stupid not to eh? Doesn't change the fact that the Rays are a 91 win team in the AL East with the spanks and sux. Tough titties.

Both posts of mine are true.

Yours is basically borderline butt hurt. I'm sorry that the second lowest and youngest payroll team in the league gives your snobby over paid talent shit year in and year out.

I'm not butt hurt at all my team is still the #1 AL team, your team is lucky to be invited to the table.

[Methais]

does every city that has shitty teams or shitty luck have "The Curse"?

I remember all Philly sports teams were saposta be cursed (though the Wings did not seam to be effected at the time).

I don't think Boston is a cursed city so much as just prone to epic fail when it counts the most.
http://www.boston.com/sports/touching_all_the_bases/COVERNOTAG.jpg

[Gravebane525]

got a chuckle outta this... figured I'd share it

red LOL @ RED SOX 09-29-2011 07:45 PM wUt kin eye sae ppl is am learn to me r 4 read gud. Fuck you're dumb. ~ Anticor

[Latrinsorm]

yup the yankees gave it to us with a monster comeback from a 7-0 to a walk off homer...

Yep that's what happened.

More likely what happened is they were up 7-0 and the team with the best record in baseball was resting it's horses for the playoffs and the Rays took advantage of that. That's the way the game is played.Statistically, you would have expected Scott Proctor to lose the game in the 10th, so... yeah, they pretty much gave it to you.

[Xaerve]

http://www.sportsclubstats.com/MLB/American/ALEastern/Boston_ChanceWillMakePlayoffs.html

[Parkbandit]

Cubs going after Red Sox GM Epstein?

When Theo Epstein took over as general manager of the Boston Red Sox at the age of 28, his team and the Chicago Cubs were the two clubs that had been famously without World Series titles for generations. He managed to bring the Red Sox two titles since then and now the Cubs may be hoping that he can bring them some magic, too.
The Red Sox may be ready to part with Epstein after the Sox dramatically crashed out of the American League wild-card race on the last day of the season.
Cubs owner Tom Ricketts' "admiration for Epstein is no secret," the Chicago Sun-Times reports, and "the Cubs are expected to make a run at him," even though "multiple reports in recent weeks suggested Epstein won't leave his hometown team." However, the Sun-Times also has it that Epstein supposedly told friends that he'd "embrace the challenge" of taking over the Cubs.
Epstein has a contract option that must be exercised by Oct. 8, the Sun-Times notes.

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/rumors/post/Cubs-going-after-Red-Sox-GM-Epstein-?urn=mlb-408959

It's like the Cubs are pissed that the Sox stole some of their choke thunder...