Me and A Buddy Loaded Up On Boston Tonight I Bet $5,000 He Bet $10,000 And For Kicks We Both Bet $500 Each on the Over.Well as We all know its 5-2 Boston Going to Bottom 8th and The Total is 7.5 So Before The Inning Mike Says Damn I hope The Yankees Score a Run to Put It over and Sure Enough When Jeter Doubled with 1 Out, Mike and I were Both Actually Rooting For Bernie Williams To Get a Hit and Put the Game Over And We Actually Hollared And High Fived when the Yankees Scored You talk About Greedy SO Ends Up We Win The $500 and I lose $5,000 and He Loses $10,000 On Boston, What a Sad Sad World For Cubs and Boston Fans as Both Managers Dusty and Grady Threw These Games I Hope they meet each other Tomorrow some Where and Swap Out if you know what I mean.As For Me I deserved To Lose To Sit there and Have the Nerve to Pull for the Yankees to Score to Put it over for a Measly $500! I Really Need a Good Ass-Kicking!!
Alan,
While I certainly feel your pain here - to say you deserve a butt whoopin for rooting for another run is just plain silly. Do you mean to suggest that if you hadn't rooted for this extra run, it wouldn't have happened, and the Sox wooda won??? I could be wrong, but I doubt that you got that kind of power.
While I certainly feel your pain here - to say you deserve a butt whoopin for rooting for another run is just plain silly. Do you mean to suggest that if you hadn't rooted for this extra run, it wouldn't have happened, and the Sox wooda won??? I could be wrong, but I doubt that you got that kind of power.
I did the SAME exact thing. Had the over, and was hoping for the red sox to make it go over, but was excited to see it go over when Jeter did it. Although was not too happy to see my larger wager on the SOX lose and the 2 other parlays with the sox tied to the over and sox RL tied to the over lose!
Better luck next time to us both, and everyone else. Pedro had the oppertunity to close the door, but failed and I blame the loss on no one else. Not Grady little, not the Curse. Pedro is the only one to blame for what happened. He even said it himself. He has to be one of the top 2 or 3 pitchers in the past 10 years, if not the best. He had the chance and blew it.
Better luck next time to us both, and everyone else. Pedro had the oppertunity to close the door, but failed and I blame the loss on no one else. Not Grady little, not the Curse. Pedro is the only one to blame for what happened. He even said it himself. He has to be one of the top 2 or 3 pitchers in the past 10 years, if not the best. He had the chance and blew it.
If you don't think Grade-E Little didn't fail miserably in game 7 then you weren't watching the game...Martinez never should have come out to start the 8th inning and at a minimum should have been gone once Jeter doubled..the man was spent,done, over...Grade-E's got 2 relievers (arguably 3) that have been lights-out for several games now and he doesn't use them til it's too late..and then to compund the fracture he puts soft-toss Wakefield in there just because he won his 2 starts; does that justify putting him in instead of either staying with Timlin or bringing in Williamson?...does Boone pull (or even touch) Timlin or Williamson in that situation?..Not a chance...Grade-E might be a nice guy that the players like playing for but he failed the strategy test big-time.
no offense tommy, but if you "really doubt anyone said yank Martinez in the eighth" you weren't in Boston where anyone who's seen him pitch all year knew full well the guy was toast at that point and had to come out...and if u honestly believe that Wakefield could have pitched 10 shutout innings in that situation I've got some swamp land you might be interested in...Timlin and Williamson had been untouchable for several games in a row...that's why they should have been the first options to come in (or in Timlin's case, to stay in) and not the flutterballer.
Peter Gammons said to day on weei radio in Boston that Grad-E will never manage another game in Boston...People on talk radio wanted to cut his balls off with a busted clam shell.All he had to do was follow the script, by bringing in Timilin for 1 inning and Williamson to close like he did the entire playoffs and if it blew up nobody would have blamed him.....Timlin retired like 28 straight batters in the playoffs and Williamson never got into an 11 inning game when his stuff was electric most of the playoffs.
