SOX
 

Oops I meant Red Sox!

it's ok Miss Tick. my sportsmanship has also been fake LOL. i shake hands and say you all play a good game, ... but i don't mean it! lol

i'm thinking Bulldog and i need to throw a little clean water boston's way. or something like that.

so that's 2 st. louis fans and 2 boston fans.

Soon, i know what you mean. i was pulling for detroit. i am big Prince Fielder fan. that's my big daddy!

make that 3 st. louis fans!

RED SOX ROCK ~~ Detroit is an amazing pitching team ~ ^ 5 to them they were hard to beat nowwwwwww on to the St. Louis Cardinals << a fantastic team. This is not going to be easy ~

somebody has got to shake the cardinals tree! those red sox fans are taking over, hmmph.

i need to post this so that i'll have easy access after each cardinals win haha!
 

<<<~~ loves to cheer for the St. Louis Cardinals.

I read just the other day that they made it into the play-offs.

But.... Where is Betenoir???

Last time the Cardinals were in the play-offs (back in 2011), she
filled me in on the scores, late one night.

I don't keep up much with baseball these days,
but I hope which ever team wins the pennant
will be found playing by all the rules and be found
above-board in all their achievements as a team.

Game 1 is looking good for the Red Sox so far. Wish I was in Fenway.

Lester's pitching...all you could ask for.

Hope their pitching holds up for the series. Don't worry as much about their bats.

No 2007 hat? Too soon after 04?

A 2013 hat would really hit the spot.

What a melt down for the Cards. It's a good thing they can only lose 1 game out of this. The only good thing was Beltran's catch in right field and he hurt a rib. :|

Everything is true to form so far, every team I have rooted for this playoff season has lost, lol.

That's ok.

Number of World Championships:

Yankees 27
Cardinals 11
Red Sox 7

Hah!

Now that's just mean.

And it doesn't change the fact that you root, they lose. Keep up the Sox hating that's all I can say. :tease:

My teams are the Oakland A's (from childhood) and NY Yankees (lived in NY state for 10 years), and I am warming up to the Braves now that I am in the South. However, I actually do root for the Red Sox sometimes, lol, so you are not always safe. Oh god I still remember screaming at the tv for them to take Buckner out against the Mets. True story.

I think this curse is just this year though. My A's and Yanks have won several World Series with me cheering them on.

OMG I laughed so hard when the pitcher called for the fly ball and just let it drop.......geeze if he only had his glove in front of him it would have landed in it.....:jester:

GO RED SOX!!!!!!!

That guy did hit the wall pretty hard I hope he ok also. I sure hated seeing Papi getting robbed of a grand slam.:(

yep. and the old saying goes: offense wins ballgames. defense wins championships.

I'm from New England originally...so yeah, I love that dirty water.

The Sox were amazing last night - they made St. Louis pay for every single mistake they made...just as they did to Detroit and Tampa.

Much of their success is because the Red Sox have a very well balanced team - every bat in the lineup can do damage, every pitcher can have a great game, and their base running is the best in baseball.

It's just Game One, though. Don't light those cigars, pop the champagne, or look for the Duck Boats yet.

I am still laughing at that world series BLOOPER ~

WOW last nights game was a good one. I thought we was going to win it after Big Poppie hit the homerun and we was up by one. I think they should have left Lester in for another inning. Oh well we have this weekend to move ahead <crosses fingers>
I do like good games!!!!!!

I hear ya that is why we killed them the first night <sighs>

At least they didn't walk all over us like we did them the 1st game.:)

my personal opinion is different than what I have read ~ I was very disappointed in the field ~ Lackey gave all he could w. no co operation w/ the exception of Pedroia ~ he ROCKS ~ * I curtsey to the pitching coach of the Cardinals ** Tomorrow night will hopefully be a better outcome ~ disappointed fan ~

It's like they are holding auditions to see who will be the Bill Buckner of the 2013 World Series.

The Sox better plug the holes in their defense. And wake up those bats. They are not on an even pitching playing field with the Cardinals. They have to rely on their strengths. It's not the time to let the 2nd worse team at stealing bases pull double steals on you.

The teams are rather evenly matched it's just that their strengths and weaknesses are in different areas of the game. The team who takes the World Series will be the team who finds a way to ramp up their strengths and cover up their weaknesses.

Last night that wasn't the Red Sox.

Lackey did pretty good balancing the pitching game even though arguably he was not the superior pitcher, but their strengths all but disappeared.

Big Papi
 

I just :cheer: Big Papi

So has anyone heard if Big Papi is going to play 1st base in St. Louis? There is no DH in the National League parks. I agree that defense is critical, but there is no way I would leave him out of the lineup.

I think St. Louis definitely has the edge in pitching, Boston in big money players who come through in the clutch. It should be interesting.

I did just read an article in the Washington Post that quoted Farrell as saying that Ortiz would likely be at first on Friday, and that they would take it from there. It also said he wouldn't put Napoli behind the plate. That is probably the most likely scenario. Napoli has been great in the playoffs too, so it hurts for the Sox to not have both of them in the lineup. They will have a really good pinch hitter to bring in. The article also said Ortiz only played 6 games at first this year. If needed, Game 6 and 7 will be back in Boston, so that's good news for them because they will go back to the DH in those games.

It was great to see Mo Rivera and his family at Fenway last night!

I have always thought the National League has a slight advantage in the World's Series because of the use of, dependency on, the DH or lack there of by the American League. But that's baseball and there are always shifting advantages in any game or series.

hopefully Ortiz will be playing the field cause Napoli cant hit the ball like Ortiz can~

I know nada about baseball and won't even ATTEMPT to contribute here....

but

GO SOX!!!!!! :)

I've been waiting since like what? 2004 to say that....that was the last time I honestly cared about baseball :blush:

Okay is there something about the 2007 World Series win that I don't know about? Cinnamongrrl didn't care about it. Kobi didn't even want a hat. What am I missing here?

It's not like the Red Sox had so many World Series wins we might just accidentally forget about one.

But people don't seem to like the 2007 win.

Apparently Ortiz will be playing first tonight. Hopefully that ends up being the right decision. Although I don't think there really is any other one Farrell could make at this point.

%}{#]*]=+{^{!!!!!!!

To be fair, prior to 2004, some people had been waiting from 1918 to say that ... the curse of the Bambino :)


I'm glad to see the Cardinals leading at this stage. The first ever item of baseball memorabilia that I purchased, about 15 years ago, was the Cardinal's program from the 1931 World Series against the Philadelphia Athletics. I bought it simply due to its beautiful cover which had the Cardinals' logo and an illustration of the Spirit of St Louis (Charles Lindberg's plane on the front).


So, for that fairly random reason alone, I've always had a soft spot for the Cardinals. Combined with my distaste of the Red Sox, I'm certainly hoping the Cardinals win their third World Series in eight years.