DC, The Sox look unbeatable with Beckett on that mound; however, the Rockies know they need 1 of these games before going home to Colorado.
Enjoy tonight because the real test for the Sox starts tomorrow.
Shilling is not pitching a "must win" game, and I see Colorado winning game 2.
When they get to Colorado, Dice K will realize the situation at hand and Ortiz will not play that game. Rockies should get game 3 with their fan's cheering them on, but Boston grabs this game by a single run.
Game 4 Leister - Rockies win. (No Ortiz)
Game 5 Beckett - Sox. (Ortiz at first Base.)
Game 6, Boston, Shilling, HUGE GAME - last game Shilling may ever pitch for the Sox............Score 5-5 bottom of the 11th inning 2 out, Drew......SERIES OVAH.
Enjoy tonight because the real test for the Sox starts tomorrow.
Shilling is not pitching a "must win" game, and I see Colorado winning game 2.
When they get to Colorado, Dice K will realize the situation at hand and Ortiz will not play that game. Rockies should get game 3 with their fan's cheering them on, but Boston grabs this game by a single run.
Game 4 Leister - Rockies win. (No Ortiz)
Game 5 Beckett - Sox. (Ortiz at first Base.)
Game 6, Boston, Shilling, HUGE GAME - last game Shilling may ever pitch for the Sox............Score 5-5 bottom of the 11th inning 2 out, Drew......SERIES OVAH.
The crazy thing to me is that the National league is SOOO BAD The tigers should be emberassed from last years implosion I really think if the rockies don't make this a series by at least taking game 3 to be down 2 to 1 and have a glimpse of hope that this is really bad for baseball...... the national league should just play for second place and let the world series be played in the ALCS
It's unbelievable how the choking Rockies gave this must win Game 2 away. The Red Sox almost handed it to them starting an aging Schilling who is nowhere near the pitcher he once was. It would have been so easy to score some runs early, silence the crowd and take this game. Yet one of the better offenses in baseball puts on one of the most embarrassing performances in World Series History in the most important game of their lives.
You didn't have to be a genius to realize that there was tremendous value in betting the Rockies to win this Series as the public highly overestimated these Red Sox. This Boston team is indeed not even close to their 2004 edition and I would still put my money on the Rockies on any given day. But all value accounts for nothing when these pathetic mountain kids beat themselves.
The Indians (while nowhere near the quality of the Rockies imo) had the Sox beat before self imploding and giving it away. At least the Rockies don't even bother to show up but rather self-destruct right away. So the "World Champion" (I bet there is at least 3 nations who have a better one) will be a team that couldn't hit Paul Byrd in the most important game of their season. And I thought it couldn't get any worse than the 2006 Cardinals!
You didn't have to be a genius to realize that there was tremendous value in betting the Rockies to win this Series as the public highly overestimated these Red Sox. This Boston team is indeed not even close to their 2004 edition and I would still put my money on the Rockies on any given day. But all value accounts for nothing when these pathetic mountain kids beat themselves.
The Indians (while nowhere near the quality of the Rockies imo) had the Sox beat before self imploding and giving it away. At least the Rockies don't even bother to show up but rather self-destruct right away. So the "World Champion" (I bet there is at least 3 nations who have a better one) will be a team that couldn't hit Paul Byrd in the most important game of their season. And I thought it couldn't get any worse than the 2006 Cardinals!
I wonder if the series would have played out differently if the Rockies didn't have to sit around for 9 days and wait the ALCS out.
While the Rockies were so hot that they swept away the DBacks, and it took 7 games to finish the ACLS - the wait may not have been avoided, but the rest days were a TV creation.
Momentum in baseball really means something, and if the Rockies don't pull it together or the Sox cool down in the altitude in Colorado, those rest days will be to blame. Someone better figure out a way to keep the delays between the series dates down.
Let's see how the Sox do without a DH and the pitcher taking up a hitter's spot. All the Sox now need is 1 out of 3 games to have the series decided in Fenway.
Still like the Sox to take this thing and will just sit out my ticket for the Sox to win the WS (+300).... until a game that has more meaning develops.
Gl to both sides...........
While the Rockies were so hot that they swept away the DBacks, and it took 7 games to finish the ACLS - the wait may not have been avoided, but the rest days were a TV creation.
Momentum in baseball really means something, and if the Rockies don't pull it together or the Sox cool down in the altitude in Colorado, those rest days will be to blame. Someone better figure out a way to keep the delays between the series dates down.
Let's see how the Sox do without a DH and the pitcher taking up a hitter's spot. All the Sox now need is 1 out of 3 games to have the series decided in Fenway.
Still like the Sox to take this thing and will just sit out my ticket for the Sox to win the WS (+300).... until a game that has more meaning develops.
Gl to both sides...........
Gee, bitter much? You're comparing the Cardinals, who:
a) went 83-79, one of the worst WS records ever, in the league considered markedly inferior,
b) had the road team disadvantage
c) who were big dogs to the Tigers, but won, to a team that:
a) went wire to wire to win its division (which just happen to include the favorite to win it all),
b) finished with the major's best record (via tiebreak),
c) had arguably the game's best starter and closer, one of its best offenses, and the extra home game for a team with one of the game's strongest home field advantage
Nice comparison!
Whether the Rockies come back or not-and I don't discount that possiblitity-those two situations are quite dissimilar, but it appears that you're letting your anger at apparently being on the wrong (rooting or financial) side cloud your judgement. I'm not aware of how the Indians "gave away" the Series, and, even more laughably, where the Rockies "gave away" last night's game. The Indians won 3 games, but unfortunately for them, the rules require that you win 4 to advance, and they were hardly in any of the last three games. As for the Rockies, did they piss away some large lead that I overlooked, or leave the bases loaded 5 times or something? Perhaps you figure that if they hadn't had the tying run picked off in the 8th inning that they were stone cold locks to tie and win the game. A little objectivity, please...:nopityA::youmad::WTF:
It is almost official - THE ROCKIES SUCK.
Hottest team in baseball...........my A$$.
Overestimated Red Sox? You Rockies fans are delusional.
Now we really know that the rockies were lucky to make the series in the first place. The Rockies may win 1 or 2 more games, but watching their pen lose it tonite was just sssssaaaaaddddddddddddddddddd........
Hottest team in baseball...........my A$$.
Overestimated Red Sox? You Rockies fans are delusional.
Now we really know that the rockies were lucky to make the series in the first place. The Rockies may win 1 or 2 more games, but watching their pen lose it tonite was just sssssaaaaaddddddddddddddddddd........
arty:Certainly not bitter Dafinch. I've been complementing my income with sports betting for several years and losing wagers is an obvious part of the business. I made an average wager on the Rockies series win that I don't regret. The St. Louis Blues beating Washington last night won me the same amount the Rockies cost me and I have a German Soccer Match going right now that will win or lose me three times that amount. Not having any personal interest in this series why should I be bitter?
I simply wanted to express my opinion that the quality of MLB is in a steady decline over the last decade. You think it's a coincidence that an American team filled with MLB players (Jeter, ARod, Damon, Derrek Lee, Peavy and Clemens among others) finished last in a group with Japan, Korea and Mexico in this years World Baseball Classics? Or is that explained by the usual excuses like it was too early in the season or they didn't take it serious enough. BTW, the same can be witnessed in the NBA whos players can't even beat teams like Greece or Argentina in international competition anymore.
I won't argue over whether the 2007 Red Sox or the 2006 Cardinals were the inferior team. They may even have been the best teams in their respective years and therefore deserve the championships that they won. But my point is that both of them are average teams at best compared to former MLB standards. Playoff teams in the 80's and 90's had at least three good starters. Then came the 2001 Diamondbacks who won a World Series based on nothing but two great starting pitchers (Schilling in his prime being one of them). Nowadays all you seem to need is one good starting pitcher (Beckett, Carpenter) and guys like Jeff Suppan or an aging Curt Schilling (not taking anything away from the truly outstanding pitcher he once was) look like superstars against pathetic offenses that couldn't hit beach balls if their lives depended on it.
I think we'll have to agree to disagree over there being a "steady decline" in MLB over the last decade. I don't think the US's participation in any kind of world tournament is necessarily a fair reflection of their strength vs the rest of the world-although I readily admit the gap has narrowed-for a couple of reasons: first, the MLB season is, I believe, the longest of any professional league as it is, and most players simply aren't accustomed to being in top form in what was formerly the offseason or early in spring training. Secondly, and more importantly, to pretend that the tournament means as much to the typical MLB player as it does to virtually any of their counterparts is to be naive. I'm not saying it's right, but that's just the way it is, and, narrowing gap nothwithstanding, MLB is the standard by which players all over the world measure themselves by. Comparing the performance of MLB players who play elsewhere is rarely a good measuring stick, since the player in question in almost always past his prime and trying to hang onto the game. Foreign players coming in THIS direction have had a fair amount of success, Itchy-Balls being the most prominent example-but there've been more than a few flops, too-the Yanks signing of I-ROB-U being a prime example. And, for having to pay 50 mill just to have the right to talk to him, I can't say I was overly impressed with Dice K. The Sox may not have two good starters (and, btw, I don't recall any teams having THREE good starters in the time you mentioned, except maybe the Braves, and one WS in a strike shortened year in all those years doesn't exactly bolster your those-were-the-best-of-times argument), but I don't recall too many combos more lethal than Popi and Man Ram (not to mention the team's RBI leader, Lowell), and the team has obviously demonstrated an ability to play their best when they need it the most, a not insignificant quality.
As for your comments about the Rockies and the Sox, don't get me wrong, I picked the Rockies last night and in Game One, and I thought they had a chance. I was wrong. You made it sound, however, as if the Series should've been along the lines of the '98 WS between the Yanks and the Padres-and that the Rocks were the Yanks-but that the Rocks went on some kind of walkabout and donated the Series to the Sox. That's what I mainly took exception to. It's been an entertaining season, and we've had a very competitive era-never before were 7 different WS winners in as many years-a streak that is obviously about to come to an end. One man's parity is another's mediocrity, I guess...
As for your comments about the Rockies and the Sox, don't get me wrong, I picked the Rockies last night and in Game One, and I thought they had a chance. I was wrong. You made it sound, however, as if the Series should've been along the lines of the '98 WS between the Yanks and the Padres-and that the Rocks were the Yanks-but that the Rocks went on some kind of walkabout and donated the Series to the Sox. That's what I mainly took exception to. It's been an entertaining season, and we've had a very competitive era-never before were 7 different WS winners in as many years-a streak that is obviously about to come to an end. One man's parity is another's mediocrity, I guess...
No, This is not 2004,
This is 2007!
THIS TEAM IS BETTER THAN 2004!
Remember Manny taking his time in the loss to CLE in game 4? He knew how good this team is! CLE knew, and now COL knows.
Conrgats! 2007 World Champs Boston Red Sox!
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This is 2007!
THIS TEAM IS BETTER THAN 2004!
Remember Manny taking his time in the loss to CLE in game 4? He knew how good this team is! CLE knew, and now COL knows.
Conrgats! 2007 World Champs Boston Red Sox!
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
