Have a feeling.....Yankees

[ComfortablyLomb]

Re: Have a feeling.....Yankees

As Mike & The Mad Dog said yesterday (as much as it pains me to admit they are right sometimes), if Boston wins Game 1 of their DS it pretty much cures all prior ills.

Yup. Make a good run in the playoffs and nobody will remember the season. Win the division and fall on your face in the playoffs and nobody will remember the season as much as a lousy playoff performance.

[GBrushTWood]

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Oh yeah, every Sox fan would be celebrating if they won the division, but no Sox fan is going to kill themselves if they lost the division.

Now, if they somehow collapsed and had missed the playoffs completely? Suicide rate would be at an all time high in Boston.

I'm pretty surprised by this seemingly prevalent sentiment. The Red Sox had a 14.5 game lead over the Yankees at one point this season. They are on the precipice of completely pissing that away, and people are saying that's not a big deal? Are you guys on drugs?

Whether you like it or not, we as Red Sox fans would be taunted non stop by fans of all other teams if they fail to win the division and fail to do well in the playoffs. This is a massively bad choke job regardless of the circumstances (injuries, law of averages, bad luck, whatever your reasoning may be).

I don't like it any more than you guys, but claiming that it's not a big deal if they do not win the division is similar to an ostrich burying its head in the sand. There's no doubt about that, and I am already hearing a ton of **** talking from non Red Sox fans, and they haven't even fully blown it yet. What has happened in the last two weeks is bad, no matter how you rationalize it.

[ComfortablyLomb]

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It's not my fault that MLB made winning the division a lot less meaningful by introducing the wild card. As I said earlier, I couldn't care less about the division if the Sox just fall on their faces in the playoffs. It's not a consolation, it's worthless. At this point the only thing that matters is seeding. If you want to sit back and care about the division, fine, that's your business but I sure as heck don't care. Just take 1995 as an example, the Sox won the division then and were promptly bounced from the playoffs. Do you get warm and fuzzy inside thinking about that season? I sure don't.

[Stu]

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It's not my fault that MLB made winning the division a lot less meaningful by introducing the wild card. As I said earlier, I couldn't care less about the division if the Sox just fall on their faces in the playoffs. It's not a consolation, it's worthless. At this point the only thing that matters is seeding. If you want to sit back and care about the division, fine, that's your business but I sure as heck don't care. Just take 1995 as an example, the Sox won the division then and were promptly bounced from the playoffs. Do you get warm and fuzzy inside thinking about that season? I sure don't.

Ditto. I could care less if other fans talk **** about the Red Sox. It's par for the course these days. I do care that the Red Sox haven't been playing well but I'm optimistic they'll pull together when (if) they get everyone back near 100% by the end of next week.

[ComfortablyLomb]

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Ditto. I could care less if other fans talk **** about the Red Sox. It's par for the course these days. I do care that the Red Sox haven't been playing well but I'm optimistic they'll pull together when (if) they get everyone back near 100% by the end of next week.

That's what I'm worried about too. They've looked very flat at times recently. Fortunately, getting hot come October fixes all ills.

[rsox]

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One thing that keeps getting overlooked is that the Sox haven't had Manny in the lineup for more than 3 weeks or Youkilis for a week now. When you lose a combined 36 HR's and 187 RBI's from your lineup and replace them with 9 HR's and 35 RBI's you're going to struggle. I love what Ellsbury is doing but he's not Manny Ramirez.

[pistoldill]

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Please god...Yankees...win this ****ing division.

Please god...have the Tigers get hot and win the ****ing wild card.

Can't stand the ******* Sahxz.

[Psyblast]

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Please god...Yankees...win this ****ing division.

Please god...have the Tigers get hot and win the ****ing wild card.

Can't stand the ******* Sahxz.

The Tigers were done a week ago.

[elicoleman]

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Please god...Yankees...win this ****ing division.

Please god...have the Tigers get hot and win the ****ing wild card.

Can't stand the ******* Sahxz.

Red Sox have already clinched a playoff spot...

[pistoldill]

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Thus asking God.


Shows how much I follow this stuff.

[djep]

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Things are looking bleak for the Yanks in the east. I saw that Manny Ramirez played last night so the Sox are picking things back up again. If the Sox manage to hold on, it will be well deserved because they played the best throughout the season.

I'm glad Torre didn't go balls out with the pen last night in an effort to win the division. He could've burned out Vizcaino, Joba or Mariano. I've always thought Torre's handling of the bullpen arms in the past was his biggest weakness as a manager, most notably the way he turned Tom Gordon into a walking corpse for the 2004 playoffs.

I am NOT relishing the prospect of facing CC and Carmona in 4 out of 5 possible games though.

[Beantown]

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Things are looking bleak for the Yanks in the east. I saw that Manny Ramirez played last night so the Sox are picking things back up again. If the Sox manage to hold on, it will be well deserved because they played the best throughout the season.

And they also got Youkilis back, and Okajima is back today.

Should be a fun post-season.

[SPTO]

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And they also got Youkilis back, and Okajima is back today.

Should be a fun post-season.

It'll be interesting to see how Okajima and Dice-K perform in the postseason. They've both faltered a bit down the stretch as this is the first time they've had to carry the load of such a long season AND the pressure of playing in Boston on top of that.

I'm not predicting a meltdown but I don't think they'll be lights out.

[Beantown]

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It'll be interesting to see how Okajima and Dice-K perform in the postseason. They've both faltered a bit down the stretch as this is the first time they've had to carry the load of such a long season AND the pressure of playing in Boston on top of that.

I'm not predicting a meltdown but I don't think they'll be lights out.

No doubt about that, but I'd much rather see Okajima pitching than...pretty much anyone in the Sox bullpen.

[Lintyfresh85]

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ehem.... I believe its time for someone to pay up....

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