No. Go Halos 18-0

Go Sawx. The longer the series goes, the more worn down the opponent will be.

[2] But then they will have momentum…like the Twins.

Not a great start for Kazmir.

High-scoring, Buccholz-deflating game that goes into extra innings with the Angels losing on an obvious blown call on a play where the RS player clearly failed to get the job done.
How about that?

Chess fans waiting for the real game should check out this amazing result.  Non-chess fans wanting to stay awake - don’t click through.

How ‘bout Papelbon coughing up this lead?

There’s lots of guys on the Halo’s who are PITAs but no one I hate.  There’s lots of very good players on Boston, some of whom I “hate.’  Boston’s starters scare me way more then the Halo’s and there’s no comparison between there closers.  If the Yanks winning the WS is a 10, Boston getting eliminated is a 7.  So I don’t root for the Sawx to win this or any game.

6: I’m not a chess fan but I’ve known and played poker with lots of serious chess players and now I’m in my office and there is an A/expert here so what is the amazing result?

Hmmm. Bucholz does seem to be pretty rattled. I hope that this is a sign that he is actually kind of a wimpy pitcher and not that he just ran out of gas.

Flipping between baseball and the Giants game. Oakland fans have to be exacerbated by the way the Raiders have played this year.  It’s sad when the announcer flat out states “I don’t think this is a winnable game for the Raiders, but it would be good for them to get a field goal here.”

FU Juan-we should have traded you to the Pirates

[9] It’s very inside, uhh, non-baseball, but the story is that wunderkind (ok, he’s 19) Magnus Carlsen has (as was announced just before this tournament) been studying in secret with probably-strongest-player-in-history Garry Kasparov and just tore up a very strong field, going 6 wins 4 draws and ending 2.5 points ahead of Topalov, the highest-rated player in the world.  Here he is reportedly tired but making a strong grandmaster look like a patzer.

I don’t root for the Sawx to win this or any game.

I would probably root for them to win their final game of the season, providing it wouldn’t affect the Yankees negatively, and if it would result in them reaching a 1-161 record.

Nah, not even then.

I believe someone stated this several days ago: root for whoever is losing. I agree with it in this instance.

btw, anyone watching the sox game? how did Abreu double on a ground ball to Youkilis?

[16] The ball hit Youkilis glove and goes directly in the stand.

Youkilis kicked a ground ball into the photographers’ well.  Needless to say, home town scorer wouldn’t call it an error.

15 in this instance but I certainly do not want to have to rely on 9th inning magic against Papelbum

Whoa! That’s a big hit. Go Angels…I guess.

Orsillo was a wee-bit too excited on that RBI single by Lowell

Please put one over the monster, Chone.

If the Sox can get their own announcer, can Singleton and Cone call tonight’s game at the Dome?

The only sound I ever enjoy emanating from Fenway….SILENCE

You don’t want Kay and Flaherty, Ted?

Would you risk a double steal here?

Orsillo sounded like he’d swallowed a frog on Ball 4 to Figgins

If the Sox season were to end due to Papelbon blowing a save and taking a loss, that would be an enjoyable experience.

I don’t mind Kay but can’t stand Flaherty.  I wish they would make Cone the everyday color man.  I usually like Leiter also.

28 agree and Papelbum is so depressed he quits baseball and moves to New Zealand to become a sheep farmer.

Let’s face it - Orsillo is a great announcer, actually appreciated by Sox fans (I think). We have no one comparable. Singleton’s nice but not exciting enough

[25] I have this weird thing about preferring good annoncers.

Okay Vladdy…get the Schwanz…

How nice would a slam be by Vlad?

Vlad MOTHERLOVIN Guererro!

Was that a smart move?????  If Fuentes blows this I will never watch another baseball game until 7pm

Who’s the color guy? Did he just say “..as they (Angels) have tied it up here with 2 in the 9th?”

hahahahaha.

Brenly and he’s wrong, I think.

Fuentes does get the benefit of facing the bottom of the Sox lineup.

[30] Baaaaaaaaah.  Baaaaaaaaah.  I could been a contendah, baaaaaaah.

Papelbon was directly involved with the scoring of FIVE runs

Vlad impales Pap.

I was wrong, its 9-1-2 in the 9th. Anyways, earn your money Fuentes, EARN IT!

That was a wonderful, wonderful choke by Pap.  Lovely.  Now let’s see Fuentes cough it up, too, and make it extras.  Or not, and have the Sawx swept.

I did not understand walking Hunter (I said it to my brother before Vlad’s AB) ... Guerrero’s last two months were like his old self this season, I wouldn’t have messed with Mr. contact on everything.  Just seemed very odd to me.

[31] Let’s not get carried away.  He’s better than most, but I think “great” is a bit much.

And that’s Buck Martinez doing color, and making me wish for someone who merely sucks like Brenly.

[46] I can sort of see it.  Set up forces all around and get to go after the guy you don’t have to throw a strike to.

Pap was so proud of having never allowed a post season run.

Pride goes before a fall.

Did anyone else just see the TBS score change for Boston to 7-6??? then 7-7????

Did you guys catch the phantom run scoring on the TBS box?

It’s ovah.

Don’t sound so excited, Don.

Is this the broadcast Angels fans had to watch?

I like it when Papelbon blows Boston’s season.

That’s what Papelbon gets for daring to say he would break M——o’s records.

Papelbon with a very nice -.797 WPA for the game.

My TV must be broken because it appears the best team in baseball and their 12 aces just got swept by a team that they historically OWN.

Pretty quiet at Fenway right about now.

I don’t care if the Angels are a tougher matchup for the Yankees.  Our guys can beat anybody if they play well.  And I just really enjoy watching these putzes get their butts kicked.

I feel kinda bad for SSF, oh well.

That was so awesome…I’m just stunned.  Wow.  Love that Bobbay was in on smacking Schwanz around.  It’s like all of Pap’s peripherals caught up to him in a great vortex of comeuppance.

[50] So I’m looking at the laptop as I type a post, and when I look up my TV says it’s 7-7.  So I said, “When did they tie it?” and my son says, “They didn’t.  Then it changes to 7-6 and I said, “They fixed it.” and my son says, “No, they gave the Red Sox the lead.”  Then it went to 7-7 again and finally back to the real score.  But there’s no pro-Red Sox among the media bias or anything.

19. Posted at 3:06:41 pm on Sunday, October 11, 2009 by bebop

15 in this instance but I certainly do not want to have to rely on 9th inning magic against Papelbum

Those were really good AB’s by Aybar, Figgins and Abreu

Sports Illustrated

Oct. 5, 2009

Clean-shaven, soft-spoken, unhurried, understated and humble, [Rivera] is an organic closer, free of the add-ons and posing and histrionics that so many others have needed or manufactured to deal with the stress of the job. “And he’s even so darn handsome, with those teeth and that smile,” says Red Sox closer Jonathan Papelbon. “Really, we all look up to him, and the way he keeps going, he’s making it hard on me to break his records.”

Makes you appreciate Mariano all the more - in his entire long postseason career, he’s never had a single appearance as bad as this. I think the only time he ever gave up 3 runs was against the Mets - wasn’t it a 3-run opposite field homer to Payton, when the Yanks had a 4 run lead.

Amazing that there were 2 outs and an 0-2 count on the #9 hitter when the rally began.  He completely missed his spot on that 0-2 pitch which allowed Aybar to single.  Just a complete meltdown, wow.

I cant wait til the Sox trade Papelbon a year from now and the media points to this as a reason they couldnt trust him.

And I really cant wait for the season Papelbon has to spend closing out games for the Royals.

[67] I hope that’s the same season Soria pitches teh 8th for the Yankees, with Rivera pushing his saves record ever higher by mastering a new pitch, the “geezerball.”

That made me happy. nice to come back to a Papelbon blow save.