|
Welcome to the Talksox Red Sox forum. For full access to all of our features, register for your free account now. Registration allows you to:
- Participate in thousands of threads containing 500,000+ posts by 5,000 members
- Send private messages, share photos, enter contests
- Gain full access to the best Red Sox community on the internet
If you are a current Talksox member, this message will disappear after you log in.
|
Vivid Seats is a great one-stop source for MLB game dates and tickets. Find MLB tickets for all teams including opening day, regular season and playoffs - Red Sox tickets are onsale now, as well as Houston Astros tickets for the entire baseball season.
|
 |
|
10-11-2009, 03:59 PM
|
#1 (permalink)
|
|
Deity
Join Date: Aug 04 2008
Posts: 10,827
|
Shades of the bad old days
Went into the postseason with certain expectations.
Instead, we got fed undiluted crap by everyone who should have been great for us.
*sigh*
Always next year.
The Angels were ridiculously due against anyway. But still, this kind of chokejob is hard to deal with..
The worst of it is, it's probably about to be followed up by the Yankees grinding up Minnesota to make the ALCS themselves.
No I take that back. The VERY WORST of it is going to be anyone who lives within about 500 miles of the state of New York and having to watch and listen to their media for an entire offseason.
__________________
Fight the hate.
|
|
|
|
10-11-2009, 04:00 PM
|
#2 (permalink)
|
|
Administrator
Join Date: Apr 01 2004
Location: Not Boston
Posts: 13,955
|
Re: Shades of the bad old days
It's not a choke, it's just terrible performance. The sox didn't have huge expectations, they weren't up 2-0 only to lose it in game 5. It was just suckitude.
|
|
|
|
|
10-11-2009, 04:02 PM
|
#3 (permalink)
|
|
Legend
Join Date: Oct 30 2006
Location: Huizen, Netherlands
Posts: 7,285
|
Re: Shades of the bad old days
Quote:
Originally Posted by yeszir
It's not a choke, it's just terrible performance. The sox didn't have huge expectations, they weren't up 2-0 only to lose it in game 5. It was just suckitude.
|
This^
Hot stove here we come!
__________________
If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits eighty-eight miles per hour... you're gonna see some serious shit.
|
|
|
|
|
10-11-2009, 04:02 PM
|
#4 (permalink)
|
|
Deity
Join Date: Aug 04 2008
Posts: 10,827
|
Re: Shades of the bad old days
The whole series was a choke. There's no reason you can give why we shouldn't have been competitive in this series.
__________________
Fight the hate.
|
|
|
|
|
10-11-2009, 04:05 PM
|
#5 (permalink)
|
|
Administrator
Join Date: Apr 01 2004
Location: Not Boston
Posts: 13,955
|
Re: Shades of the bad old days
Ahh, I remember this feeling. It's the feeling of being a Red Sox fan.
|
|
|
|
|
10-11-2009, 04:06 PM
|
#6 (permalink)
|
|
Michigan's F'ing Cold
Join Date: Nov 02 2008
Posts: 16,837
|
Re: Shades of the bad old days
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dojji
The whole series was a choke. There's no reason you can give why we shouldn't have been competitive in this series.
|
Next year i suggest you take a bat and go DH so you avoid the "Choking".
This team has been terrible on the road all year.
Just coincidence they lost a competitive first game at home.
|
|
|
|
|
10-11-2009, 04:07 PM
|
#7 (permalink)
|
|
Legend
Join Date: Jun 04 2005
Posts: 7,387
|
Re: Shades of the bad old days
This is different though yeszir. Being a sox fan in the past meant feeling like they didn't stand a chance. This team is too good to be that bad. Too good to be swept.
|
|
|
|
|
10-11-2009, 04:08 PM
|
#8 (permalink)
|
|
Foulke's Half Brother
Join Date: Apr 02 2004
Location: Boston
Posts: 1,685
|
Re: Shades of the bad old days
Our 3 best pitchers didn't get it done, and our offense was dead when it counted. Brutal series start to finish.
__________________
Teddy fuckin' Williams knocks it out of the park! Fenway Park on its feet for Teddy! Fuckin' ballgame! He went yardo on that one, on to fuckin' Lansdowne Street!
-The Bear Jew, Inglourious Basterds
|
|
|
|
|
10-11-2009, 04:08 PM
|
#9 (permalink)
|
|
Legend
Join Date: Jul 30 2008
Posts: 5,701
|
Re: Shades of the bad old days
Doesn't matter. A 3-game sweep is the same as a loss in 5.
__________________
Quote:
Originally Posted by italstallianion
I learned that Jacoby has cojones, among other things.
|
|
|
|
|
|
10-11-2009, 04:08 PM
|
#10 (permalink)
|
|
Administrator
Join Date: Apr 01 2004
Location: Not Boston
Posts: 13,955
|
Re: Shades of the bad old days
Quote:
Originally Posted by example1
This is different though yeszir. Being a sox fan in the past meant feeling like they didn't stand a chance. This team is too good to be that bad. Too good to be swept.
|
I dunno. The worst pain came when you felt like they DID have a chance. 2003 comes to mind. 99 too, especially after that series with Cleveland.
|
|
|
|
|
10-11-2009, 04:09 PM
|
#11 (permalink)
|
|
Legend
Join Date: Jul 17 2005
Location: Montreal, Canada
Posts: 9,936
|
Re: Shades of the bad old days
it surprises me a bit how this team won 95 games with all the shit that went on this season
|
|
|
|
|
10-11-2009, 04:10 PM
|
#12 (permalink)
|
|
Deity
Join Date: Aug 04 2008
Posts: 10,827
|
Re: Shades of the bad old days
The thing I hate is that we started this off with a brutal game (some might say two games) by the umpires.
Losing on our own merits I can take. Having help is another matter
__________________
Fight the hate.
|
|
|
|
|
10-11-2009, 04:10 PM
|
#13 (permalink)
|
|
Administrator
Join Date: Apr 01 2004
Location: Not Boston
Posts: 13,955
|
Re: Shades of the bad old days
Actually, this doesn't sting at all like it used to. After game 1 I felt like they had no shot. And it sucks that Papelbon blew it, but I can't hate him like I hate Grady Little.
|
|
|
|
|
10-11-2009, 04:11 PM
|
#14 (permalink)
|
|
Legend
Join Date: Jun 04 2005
Posts: 7,387
|
Re: Shades of the bad old days
Quote:
Originally Posted by yeszir
I dunno. The worst pain came when you felt like they DID have a chance. 2003 comes to mind. 99 too, especially after that series with Cleveland.
|
I agree. 2003 was the worst. Couldn't be worse. Not technically possible to get worse than that game.
|
|
|
|
|
10-11-2009, 04:11 PM
|
#15 (permalink)
|
|
Deity
Join Date: Aug 04 2008
Posts: 10,827
|
Re: Shades of the bad old days
Nah, Papelbon is still what he always really was, it's just that some of the air is let out of our impression of him.
Very talented pitcher and a franchise caliber closer who had a rough game at literally the worst possible time.
__________________
Fight the hate.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
|
|
|
| Thread Tools |
|
|
| Display Modes |
 Linear Mode
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 08:43 PM.
|
