Red Sox fans......do you beliiiiiiiieve?????

[Bluebear]

[JohnKleeb]

1. I can always go for the cards

ABY forever.
Orioles fan here btw.

[Endangered Specie]

2. Better train their first base men to catch lazy grounders this time.

[Bluebear]

3. Mientkiewicz needs no training....

Hot glove.

[Davis_X_Machina]

4. !st base now is 2001 Golden Glove winner.

No prob.

[WilliamPitt]

5. God damn bastards grumble grumble

I gave up in July. I was done, out, free. Waiting for the Patriots, at peace with the universe.

And then the fuckers start winning, chop a 10 1/2 game lead by the Yanks to a 2 1/2 lead. They're running away with the Wild Card.

No, I don't believe. But I'm watching. Every game now.

Bastards.

[Bluebear]

6. They know how to lure us don't they.

nt

[JVS]

7. Resist the Sirens' calls, they will destroy you!

Either stuff your ears with wax or bind yourself to the mast. It is too risky.

[zanana]

27. Protect your heart!

I've sworn off Red Sox love. I don't want to hear any more promises. No more broken commitments! In the end, it's unrequited. I won't let them lead me on and break my heart!

[Kathy in Cambridge]

8. Oh no-the Sports Illustrated Jinx!

:scared:

We're now 2 behind the Yanks-their game in NY was postponed due to rain.

[Bluebear]

9. Screw the SI jinx.........

We're going all the way Rosie!

[Kathy in Cambridge]

10. The momentum is amazing

we're ahead 8-2, about to sweep Oakland. Pedro looked good tonight!

On edit: I love that pic!

[WilliamPitt]

12. 8-3, bases loaded, Myers just walked in a run

Kill me.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

17. Noooooo!!!!!!!!!!

Why didn't they put in Mendoza or Foulke?

I'll be mad if they blow it-we can gain 1/2 a game on the Yanks!

[WilliamPitt]

18. We win

8-3, pop fly out.

Yeesh.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

21. They really make ya sweat for a win!

though they have been playing great defense and the pitching has been pretty good too!

[Bluebear]

22. Hey a little dramatic finale never hurt anyone

phew!

[JohnKleeb]

13. we (Balt O's) nearly swept them

but Jorge Julio sucks at closing :grr:, did you like our gift? I know we've done pretty good against you guys this year and its possibly cost you guys some ground but if you guys win the division, it wont matter.

[JohnKleeb]

11. I am telling ya

there has to be someway to curse the yankees. Sigh, I hate them, I am still upset about '96, and upset that Moose went to them, good luck guys, you the twins, whoever is in the west is our only hope for right now. I may prefer the AL to the NL but I hate the yankees so much, I'll root for an NL team in the series.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

15. I'd like to take the Division and not the Wild Card

but we'll see. I always view a winning streak with a healthy dose of skepticism.

[JohnKleeb]

19. If you take the division, you got a better chance of knocking

them out all together, and if that happens, praise jebus.

[WilliamPitt]

20. Two years ago, a man climbed Everest with a Buddhist monk and a Yankee cap

He burned the cap on the top of Everest - no small feat considering there isn't any air up there - and had the monk pray for the success of the Red Sox.

It didn't work.

[JohnKleeb]

23. I herad about that

Sigh, I really hate those bastards. Maybe they'll never get cursed but every so often they have slumps.

[maveric]

14. They had an 8-0 lead tonight. Now its 8-3, Oakland has the bases loaded.

A Slam would make it 8-7. C,mon lets put this baby to bed!

[Bluebear]

16. They gave that new pitcher his debut....

No time to be featuring new kids. Wait your turn and let's put this one down fellows. :)

[In Truth We Trust]

25. Patriots- Superbowl, Red Sox- World Series, Kerry- White House

Ya gotta believe!

[Kathy in Cambridge]

26. I agree-Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[Bluebear]

28. The trifecta!

[Kathy in Cambridge]

24. A Kid who lives in Babe Ruth's old house was hit in the teeth

with a Manny foul ball.

snip


A 16-year-old boy stood up in Section 9, Box 95, Row AA, with hopes of catching the ball. But he wasn't just any teenager. No, this was Lee Gavin, who has lived his entire life in a rambling farmhouse on Dutton Road in Sudbury that is best known to anyone west of Boston as the house where Babe Ruth lived.

On this last night of August, Gavin, a right fielder on his summer league team, positioned himself in the aisle, raised his arms in anticipation of catching his first-ever ball at Fenway Park, and BAM! The ball sliced through his hands and hit him square in the face. The impact punctured his top lip and knocked his two front teeth into a deepening pool of blood on the cement ground.

snip

But on Tuesday night, Ramirez, the team's reigning slugger, may have done it in the same effortless way he swings a bat. Unintentionally, with a simple foul ball, he bloodied the face of a kid who lives in Ruth's house. A better symbol of the Babe this city will never have.

Yesterday, sitting on the front porch of Ruth's house on a bucolic Sudbury street, young Lee was only too happy to be assigned the role of the sacrificial lamb. A junior at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School and a lifelong Boston fan who can quote every batting average on the team, he wore a Red Sox shirt with his name stitched across the back, and held the ball that hit him Tuesday night, smeared with his own blood.

Asked what he thinks of the curse, he nodded his head and said softly, ''I believe in it."

So does he also believe his spilled blood has helped to lift it? At this, he smiled and said, ''I hope so."

As he explains it, ''All I was trying to do was trying to get the ball, and it happened to me of all people. That's a rarity. The whole thing, the Yankees doing so badly, the full moon, me getting hurt."

Many mothers might be distraught at their son's injury due to a baseball that had traveled some 300 feet before plunking him in the mouth. By yesterday, Julie Gavin seemed to have gotten over any distress. Actually, she agreed that her son might have somehow helped his team.

''I'm not sure why he didn't catch it," she said. ''He's a good player. But look at how bad the Yankees lost that night."

Lee's father, Dennis, said he doesn't believe in the curse, but did note that Lee attended Tuesday's game with a friend named Jarrett Lowe, who has a brother named Derrick.

http://www.watchfarscape.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-27973.html

[bigwillq]

29. The SI Curse

Do you believe?