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by **Colonel Angus** » 17 Oct 2007, 06:40

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/st ... ons/071016

by **D'Annunzio** » 17 Oct 2007, 07:15

I'm a pretty big sports fan, so I know that there is NO WAY that I would turn the channel from watching my favorite team in the playoffs to watch Boston Legal. Actually, I wouldn't watch Boston Legal if my only other alternative was to beat off with a fist full of razor blades.

So the two biggest Red Sox fans on the planet a) go to Starbucks to get a coffee during their team's playoff games and b) don't like it when their team is losing, so they turn the channel to watch a shit TV show.

I'm thinking their status as sports fans has been seriously exaggerated.

by **bosux** » 17 Oct 2007, 07:28

D'Annunzio wrote:I'm a pretty big sports fan, so I know that there is NO WAY that I would turn the channel from watching my favorite team in the playoffs to watch Boston Legal. Actually, I wouldn't watch Boston Legal if my only other alternative was to beat off with a fist full of razor blades.

So the two biggest Red Sox fans on the planet a) go to Starbucks to get a coffee during their team's playoff games and b) don't like it when their team is losing, so they turn the channel to watch a shit TV show.

I'm thinking their status as sports fans has been seriously exaggerated.

not just a playoff game, but the clinching game of the first championship in 86 years that would ostensibly allow the president of red sux gaytion to 'die in peace'

sports guy? hardly...

by **WhiteSox** » 17 Oct 2007, 07:41

I love how this team went from being unbeatable, to having flaws all season that he hoped wouldn't show up at the wrong time. I don't seem to remember him ever mentioning any flaws.

Douche.

by **Theny** » 17 Oct 2007, 07:46

In my opinion their biggest flaw seems to be that they don't have any heart at all. That's what you get with all these mercenaries, as the Yankees have found out over the last 6 years.

by **Colonel Angus** » 17 Oct 2007, 07:46

D'Annunzio wrote:I'm a pretty big sports fan, so I know that there is NO WAY that I would turn the channel from watching my favorite team in the playoffs to watch Boston Legal. Actually, I wouldn't watch Boston Legal if my only other alternative was to beat off with a fist full of razor blades.

So the two biggest Red Sox fans on the planet a) go to Starbucks to get a coffee during their team's playoff games and b) don't like it when their team is losing, so they turn the channel to watch a shit TV show.

I'm thinking their status as sports fans has been seriously exaggerated.

My sentiments exactly, only you phrased it better than I would have. When I read the "Boston Legal" part, my first thought was "like father, like son..."

by **jmrosenth** » 17 Oct 2007, 08:30

Wheelhouse

Let's Go Tribe!

by **Colonel Angus** » 17 Oct 2007, 09:15

Meanwhile, we're nearing the three-hour mark, it's the eighth inning and former steroid abuser Rafael Betancourt just came in.

Meanwhile, the ninth inning is playing out exactly like you'd think it would -- with Drew and Crisp set up to make the final two outs against former steroids abuser Rafael Betancourt.

Doesn't Simmons realize that by pointing out Betancourt's cheating he is only angering him and turning him into the Cobra Kai Yankee Betancourt, and that Betancourt's pitching in Game Four was "Eff You" pitching, and that Betancourt walked off the mound with two middle fingers pointed toward the sky?

Kneel before Betancourt.

by **D'Annunzio** » 17 Oct 2007, 09:23

Will Simmons now refer to Rodney Harrison as "Former Steriod Abuser Rodney Harrison"?

by **mrclean** » 17 Oct 2007, 09:24

This seems like a good time to mention there are only five acceptable situations in which Eric Gagne should step on the field tonight: A 12-run blowout; a 20-inning game where the Sox runs out of pitchers; a bench-clearing brawl; at the end of the game ; and if the bullpen catches on fire and he has to jump onto the field to survive. Five and only five.

Was he going to write something more here and just forget?

by **Theny** » 17 Oct 2007, 09:25

mrclean wrote:
This seems like a good time to mention there are only five acceptable situations in which Eric Gagne should step on the field tonight: A 12-run blowout; a 20-inning game where the Sox runs out of pitchers; a bench-clearing brawl; at the end of the game ; and if the bullpen catches on fire and he has to jump onto the field to survive. Five and only five.

Was he going to write something more here and just forget?

Yeah, that was phrased funny. I think he meant after the game was over.

by **Colonel Angus** » 17 Oct 2007, 09:43

Via Deadspin, others are catching on that the Sawx are pretty much just the nouveau Yankees at this point (only without most of the championships):

http://deadspin.com/sports/alcs/its-tru ... 311781.php

by **Freddy Fernandez** » 17 Oct 2007, 09:53

Simmons wrote:9:43: Wearing a playoff beard given to him by one of the Niedermayer Brothers, Casey Blake crushes a homer to start the fifth. 1-0, Indians. That looked suspiciously like the Boone homer from 2003, right down to the trajectory (high and deep) and the location (left field). I just had some 'Nam-like flashbacks. Bad times. Where's my Lipitor?

A homer that was hit high and deep to left field? Wow, what are the odds? It's like the baseball spirits are conspiring against the Red Sox or something.

by **Colonel Angus** » 17 Oct 2007, 09:54

Freddy Fernandez wrote:
Simmons wrote:9:43: Wearing a playoff beard given to him by one of the Niedermayer Brothers, Casey Blake crushes a homer to start the fifth. 1-0, Indians. That looked suspiciously like the Boone homer from 2003, right down to the trajectory (high and deep) and the location (left field). I just had some 'Nam-like flashbacks. Bad times. Where's my Lipitor?

A homer that was hit high and deep to left field? Wow, what are the odds? It's like the baseball spirits are conspiring against the Red Sox or something.

I noticed how similar they were too. The Blake homer was nothing like the shallow grounder homers he usually hits.

by **Gregs Kite** » 17 Oct 2007, 09:57

The Red Sox played last night? Dammit, I was watching the bonus features on the last "Buffy" season. Wish someone woulda told me.

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