Good and Bad: Yankees out, Red Sox in
by Scott Christ on Sep 24, 2008 2:52 AM EDT
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Sean Casey, key member of the 2008 Boston Red Sox, celebrates heartily (pictured).
To be fair, Casey is super clutch (.432 career postseason hitter)!
With the playoff clinching of the Red Sox, though, comes the joyful and official elimination of the New York Yankees (note: nothin' doin' at Pinstripe Alley as of this writing).
You take the good, you take the bad, you take 'em both and there you have the facts of life.
It will be somewhat refreshing to see the first postseason since 1993 that does not feature the New York Yankees and their crummy stadium's mystique and aura. (Told ya my niceness about Yankee Stadium couldn't last long.)
I can't hate any team because they're good, though. That's just a loser's mentality, I think. I hate the Yankees because they're the Yankees, and I hate the Red Sox because they're like the sophomore Yankees. But hey! Good job, Red Sox. Way to win games. More than we can say.
Somewhere over the rainbow, y'all.
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That dude was right though
The Twins and Jays are clearly superior teams. And that starting pitching, woof. Collapse is coming any day now! I can feel it!
by Awesome Mike Awesome on Sep 24, 2008 6:05 AM EDT reply actions
Seems the Red Sox prefer to back into the playoffs
Good team, absolutely. But in the past they’d be sitting home come October. The great teams actually win the division more than once every 13 years (or thereabouts).
The Hardy Boys
and the Mystery of the Very Sour Grapes.
by Awesome Mike Awesome on Sep 24, 2008 8:32 AM EDT up reply actions
Congrats on winning your bet.
Kevbo: [to George Sherrill] George, you look a lot like Vin Diesel...
Flatbill: Let's get somethin' straight... Vin Diesel looks like me.
-From "The Making of Orioles Magic"
Wait...
If the Sox getting in is a good thing, then what’s the bad part? The Yankees being out?!?!?! (/sarcasm)
Yeah, I know. Y’all were waiting for an idiot Sox fan to come on and say that. Have at me.
Remember when we were kids and we mixed sodas together and called them "suicides"? It was OK though, because Dr. Pepper was always there.
they'all mighta been
I couldn’t really care less. Oh no the Red Sox put a good team on the field.
"Yesterday I was lying, today I am telling the truth." -- Bob Arum
by Scott Christ on Sep 24, 2008 5:27 PM EDT up reply actions
If unlucky...
Almost everyone else in the playoffs is way ahead of their Pythagorean records, yet the Sox are behind theirs…
Remember when we were kids and we mixed sodas together and called them "suicides"? It was OK though, because Dr. Pepper was always there.
As Craig Kilborn said..
they play them inside boxes in our living rooms.
"I wasn't here for the losing years. But it feels a little like the days with Earl in charge and John Lowenstein smashing birthday cakes in the middle of the clubhouse with a bat." - John "T-Bone" Shelby
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