“It’s devastating.” Yup. Ridiculous Red Sox Rally Stuns Rays and Everyone Else: Boston 8, Tampa 7
Baseball October 17th. 2008, 9:30am
Seven outs. Seven outs away from the World Series, the potential start of a decade’s worth of contention … dammit.
Though we’ve taken plenty of shots at the Rays all season, we secretly have been rooting heavily for them to eliminate Boston, partially to make this post look prophetic, and also because as a Yankees’ fan, you can never, ever root for the Red Sox in the postseason. But we don’t matter. JD Drew and David Ortiz, whose bats finally awoke late last night against the Rays’ bullpen, do.
As we mentioned yesterday, five years ago on Oct. 16, Aaron Boone beat the Red Sox in Game Seven. In that game, Boston’s manager, Grady Little, essentially lost his job because he left Pedro Martinez on the mound one batter too long. Obviously Tampa’s Joe Maddon isn’t going anywhere soon, but did he yank Kazmir too early?
We’ll leave you with an unsettling choice of words from Carl Crawford: “I just can’t believe what happened tonight. It’s devastating.” Oh, and guess who is pitching Game Six Saturday night at the Trop? Josh Beckett. Though he’s struggled in two postseason starts, he is considered one of the best postseason pitchers in baseball history.
Busy Saturday night, what with UFC, boxing, LSU at Spurrier, Missouri at Texas, and VT at BC. At least Boston’s going to provide everyone with something to watch Sunday night, since nobody’s going to be able to stomach a minute of the Seattle-Tampa shit show on NBC.
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October 17th, 2008 at 9:33 am
2 words: Gabe Gross
October 17th, 2008 at 9:34 am
Lame.
October 17th, 2008 at 9:34 am
Tampa is hopefully to young and naive to get caught up in the bullshit. Just go out and score early on a not 100% Beckett. Keep Gabe Gross out of the state of Florida and tell Balfour he can actually throw a fast ball out of the strikezone and make the batter chase it. Fruckers!
October 17th, 2008 at 9:34 am
Tampa Bo : exactamundo!!
October 17th, 2008 at 9:36 am
Huh?
October 17th, 2008 at 9:36 am
merk. hey, i was born in NY. take it out on my parents
October 17th, 2008 at 9:36 am
I agree BO. Gabe should have caught that Pedroia single and that throw he made to the plate was pitiful.
Carl Crawford was 0-4 last night. He went 5-5 in Game 4. BJ upton is still crushing the ball, but i think he should have caught that ball hit to center late in the game.
that was a great game to watch last night. To witness a comeback like that was surreal.
October 17th, 2008 at 9:37 am
Hey Irish: NOBODY circles the wagons like the Buffa…. wait…there’s someone else. Sorry. Had to say it…
October 17th, 2008 at 9:39 am
and also because as a Yankees’ fan
and also because as a Deadspin fan
/corrected for all Yankee hating posters
October 17th, 2008 at 9:39 am
Plus, without a doubt I’ll be watching the next game on mute. You could basically hear Buck Martinez and Skip Caray jerking eachother off everytime Boston would inch closer. UNLISTENABLE!!
October 17th, 2008 at 9:39 am
Screw baseball. Lets get to the hockey roundup from last night. Ovechkin bitch slapped Malkin all night long. And Double Down Trent Hunter was clutch last night.
October 17th, 2008 at 9:40 am
Even as a Phills fan I can tell you it would be a whole lot cooler if you were a Mets fan.
October 17th, 2008 at 9:42 am
Hinske not on that roster is fucked up but it all makes sense they just signed Gross and when that happens players start to suck momentarily.
October 17th, 2008 at 9:44 am
Lets get to the hockey roundup from last night
come back in May (and I like hockey)
October 17th, 2008 at 9:49 am
Maybe you should’ve watched the other 4 games, as well as the 4 games of the ALDS. Chip Caray hates Boston, and loves making fun of Boston fans.
October 17th, 2008 at 9:49 am
Baseball is just a hobby and doesn’t belong on a sports blog.
October 17th, 2008 at 9:50 am
not to jack this post, but …
http://www.myfoxorlando.com/myfox/pages/News/Politics/Detail;jsessionid=B2736EDEDB771F732B3DFE7566CFB612?contentId=7664724&version=6&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.14.1&sflg=1
seriously????
October 17th, 2008 at 9:51 am
yeah, mags, that was a personal preference. and i started liking baseball i think in 1985 … which is the year mattingly went bananas. but of course i enjoyed strawberry and gooden, too … i have all their rookie cards
October 17th, 2008 at 9:51 am
TBL-Shes not racist but her parents probably are.
October 17th, 2008 at 9:52 am
Fraud City, Population: Rays
October 17th, 2008 at 9:54 am
What?? Your argument is hockey should be prominent on a sports blog rather then baseball…when a team came back from 7 runs with 7 outs left. Really you want to make that argument?
October 17th, 2008 at 9:54 am
@cracker jack : doesn’t mean they don’t want a comeback and a Boston win toe extend the Series. and u caught me, that was the first game of the series and in fact first baseball game i’ve ever watched so shine it up real nice and good!
October 17th, 2008 at 9:55 am
TBL- on a couple occasions we caught you cheering for the Sawx this season. don’t make me go back looking for the posts. I believe Benji will back me up.
October 17th, 2008 at 9:55 am
TBL, you need an intervention. First you introduce these “one-liners”, and then post one that is like 58 lines long and still call it a one-liner. Then you have a link like this that would be perfect material for that format, and you threadjack your own blog post (is that even possible?).
You’re like a little kid with a new toy and you don’t know how all the parts work.
October 17th, 2008 at 9:55 am
Fatty, I’m just saying, Caray sucks, no matter who you’re rooting for.
October 17th, 2008 at 9:56 am
True. Hoping for Red Sox to win 6 from the Rays, leading to a Tampa collapse, and the Yanks’ to get into the postseason via the backdoor.
That was the only hope, really; no shot the REd Sox would have collapsed in the reg season.
October 17th, 2008 at 9:58 am
@St. Bear
I think it is more along the lines of TBL is OCD as hell. He has all his pretty little posts lined up for the day. And you DO NOT want to mess up the order. So if something like this racist McCain lover strikes his fancy he just drops it in and threadjacks his own thread.
October 17th, 2008 at 9:58 am
huh? Had the Rays won all 6 and the Yanks had won their games, the Sox would have had just as good of a chance to miss the playoffs. especially with the Sox/Yanks on the last weekend of the year. I am not following the logic.
October 17th, 2008 at 9:58 am
I’m sorry St. Bear, are you new here?
October 17th, 2008 at 10:01 am
@ cracker : I’m on edge today, forgot to mix baileys in my coffee this morning. Can you say 6-martini lunch today?!
October 17th, 2008 at 10:02 am
@Maggs: we’ll my OCD is butting up against his OCD because this inconsistency is bothering me.
October 17th, 2008 at 10:02 am
Sounds good. I’m going for mojitos at 5.
October 17th, 2008 at 10:04 am
is TBL threadjacking himself more like cannibalism or incest?
October 17th, 2008 at 10:04 am
I didn’t know there was going to be an open bar. And the guy really knew his stuff! He made me a mojito. I don’t think it’s a gay drink. Mo-ji-to…
/Brian’d
October 17th, 2008 at 10:04 am
Sounds good. I’m going for mojitos at 5.
Sounds good. I’m going for mojitos at 10:06 AM.
/corrected for accuracy
October 17th, 2008 at 10:05 am
@fatty - irishcoffee is the perfect start to the day.
October 17th, 2008 at 10:05 am
Especially since the Rays were ahead of the Red Sox so the Yankees had less ground to make up if the Rays had won all the games.
October 17th, 2008 at 10:05 am
I wonder if all those Sox fans were able to fish their pink hats out of the garbage this morning
October 17th, 2008 at 10:07 am
who was the color guy on the broadcast last night? he sounded like a more retarded james woods.
October 17th, 2008 at 10:07 am
I wonder if all those Sox fans were able to fish their pink hats out of the garbage this morning
I wonder if Dickie V was able to pull his balls out of his throat this morning
/equal opportunity for a type of fan you love to hate
October 17th, 2008 at 10:08 am
@ Cousin : honestly! phony-town usa!
@ mizerle06 : and suprisingly a perfect way to end the day as well.
Would my boss be upset if I tap a keg under my desk? I mean if I still do my job is there really a problem! Damn the man!
October 17th, 2008 at 10:11 am
i believe in the final month, the rays had 6 vs. yanks and 6 vs. boston. My hope was that rays went 0-for-12 in those, and continued to collapse.
October 17th, 2008 at 10:19 am
g-g-go on an tire dem arms boys/
Cholly Manuel hoping this thing goes 7
October 17th, 2008 at 10:20 am
Thread jack… Joe the Plumber owes back taxes. Hilarious.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14652.html
October 17th, 2008 at 10:21 am
b-b-b-b-b-but that puts the Sox in the playoffs? sorry, I cannot agree with this.
October 17th, 2008 at 10:21 am
You’d have to start to collapse before you could continue to collapse.
October 17th, 2008 at 10:21 am
Joe the Plumber has now been vetted more than Sarah Palin
October 17th, 2008 at 10:25 am
Joe the Plumber has now been vetted more than Sarah Palin
Can’t wait to see the Gold-dust Twins of Unfair and Unbalanced News, Keith Olbermann and Rachel VanDyke (er Maddow) do their nightly hatchet job over this hot mess
October 17th, 2008 at 10:27 am
anyone see the two candidates roast each other last night? pretty funny stuff. Obama ragged on Fox News and McCain said he could tell Olbermann “right where to stick it”. fantastic
October 17th, 2008 at 10:35 am
Sponge-I was that shit. Its cool that they did that.
October 17th, 2008 at 10:42 am
it was good stuff. shows you all the other shit is just posturing bs. mccain was pretty funny on Letterman as well.
October 17th, 2008 at 10:43 am
@sponge
Heard about it on the radio this AM. The local comedy jocks played some audio clips. I don’t know if they do it every year, but they should. It sort of brings all this boiling point fanatical shit back into perspective. Some of the jokes were actually pretty good. Obabama said he wasn’t a celebrity and said he was so shocked to hear that he was that he spilled his Mocha Latte onto his Fendy man bag or someshit. Pretty good stuff.
October 17th, 2008 at 10:49 am
For those interested in the videos:
McCain
Obama
October 17th, 2008 at 11:05 am
I saw the videos on Larry King last night (he cut to them) and watched Bill Maher (Larry’s guest) do what he always does: trash McCain, Palin and everything Republican, and exhalt Obama. What a surprise!
Never planned on watching LKL, but Dice-K got me over there for that hour-lol