Even in Defeat…

Red Sox Nation finds winners.  It works out like this (still funny days later)...

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Long live rivalry.  And Sox fans who taunt hotheaded Yankee relievers so much they flee titty bars in a drunken huff and get pulled over on a DUI.  In NEBRASKA.

WBCN, Tuesday Oct 21st, 6pm

YOPF will be on 104.1 WBCN, The Rock of Boston, today at 6pm, a day later than my normal visit with Toucher and Rich (something about a MNF Pats game or something last night.)  Tune in and get your GFY on.  Also, if you ever want to listen to any of the other mouth-trash I've spewed on their fine station then visit Toucher and Rich's Audio Archive.  It's like Christmas for your ears: presents and candy and fun for everyone!

Enough Already!

The ACL in Pittsburgh '06.  Then the Tyree catch.  Now I'm on the TFB plan in '08.  Seriously, WTF?!

Hey, Football Gods, we got the message loud and clear February 3rd: you don't like cheating of any kind, in any way.  We heard you, TRUST ME!

So what's with all the injuries to the big guys on the team?  You almost ripped my heart out with the TFB ACL on Sept. 7th.  Now you almost rip the defense's heart out with news that Rodney "Human Growth" Harrison is out for the year with a torn quad.

Seriously, WTF?  Is this further punishment?  Are we just taking it mom-style, on the chin, for years of wins?  Is it shit luck?  Are we not allowed to win a game at home without losing a starter on O or D?  If that's the case then Mossman, White Wes, Don't Hold the Mayo, Ready Willing and Vrabel - I'd watch the hell out, dudes.  There might be a greater force, like football injury "Semi-Final Destination" style out there, coming for you...and your legs!

Hey Mr. Meriweather, you been looking pretty good this season.  Well, I hope you're fahkin' ready because you're starting now!  Oh, and it's Philip with one L.

Cheers and Beers, Bob Ryan

Leave it to my favorite Boston sports writer, Bob Ryan, to put the series and season into the perfect perspective.

I hope all you bums, who must feel a little better after the Pats played HULK SMASH! with the Denver Ponies Monday night, read this and feel OK about it all too.

Cheers and beers, Bob.  My, how I'd love to buy you a few and hear some stories.

Question of the Day: Is a Bob Ryan ManCrush acceptable?

We All Liked What We Saw

ROBERT KRAFT - Big win tonight, Tommy.  Big win.

TFB - Yeah.  Denver's D sucks almost as much as tearing two knee ligaments and sitting out the season.

ROBERT KRAFT - That's funny.  Wait, it's not really.

(awkward pause)

ROBERT KRAFT - Maybe this Cosell kid can play after all.

TFB - It's Cassel.  Matt Cassel.

ROBERT KRAFT - Oh, Cassel!  You know I have two of those.  One has a whale pond and a unicorn forest and the other is in the arctic like in "Watchmen".  You should come visit sometime.  We can wrestle polar bears and eat blowfish burgers.

TFB - Sounds great.

(second awkward pause...sound of crowd cheering due to another Denver turnover in the background)

ROBERT KRAFT - How's Jonele?

TFB - It's...she's fine.  And so's the team, sir.

ROBERT KRAFT - Sir is for my father!  Call me RoKr. 

NICE WIN, PATS.  JUST WHAT WE NEEDED.

Manny Ramirez is a Neat Guy!

Manny's response to the Sox losing Game 7 of the ACLS?  "Good."  This after the Sox voted to give Mr. Mefirst a 2/3 playoff share, after they granted his Boras-fueled wish and traded him away into free agency AND payed the remained of his salary so he could play for the Dodgers.  I'm telling you he's a SUPER guy.  Heluva hitter, BETTER PERSON!

Here's the video, courtesy of TMZ and SI's Fan Nation blog.  And I thought I was an asshole.

That Really Sox

I know everyone keeps saying "Hang in there, but this BLOWS!"

Sox fans, there's no denying that getting knocked out of the playoffs.  On the road.  In a Game 7.  Of the ALCS.  To Tampa.  SUCKS.  After the monumental Game 5 comeback, and a well-rounded Game 6 win, it made perfect sense to think, not EXPECT, to think we could be seeing what we've seen a couple times already this decade.  But they still have to play the games, and every other douchebagerrific cliche that Buck Martinez likes to utter.  And the Rays broke from the script, re-wrote history, and now have a chance to go from worst to first PLUS Champs.  Which blows my mind.  But they won, and we lost.  So you tip your cap, wish 'em well, lick your wounds, blah blah blah...HOWEVER, this guy and his stupid mouthpiece and cowbell can lick mah ballz!

And this man-turd can also eat a HUGE bag of broken dicks covered as he is Reason #1 in my new dissertation on why the internet and the information age of sharing the global village are TERRIBLE THINGS!

I'm not ready to dissect the season, analyze every move made and look for people to throw under the bus.  Fuck the microscope we're supposed to put the game and the players and the team under.  It's done.  It sucks, but it's done.  It was a helluva season, a great ALCS with a shitty finish, but all in all a damn fine and fun baseball season.  And as far as Im concerned if you're a Pats fan too then you should be checking the clock soon and often, waiting for the work whistle to blow so you can get your ass home and root on the struggling and beloved footballers of Foxboro.  Save a Time Machine and the ability to make somebody drive in some of the runners the Sox left on in innings 7-9 in Game 7, there's nothing I'd love more thana big fat Pats win tonight.  Like finding $5 in your pocket, surprise sex, and leftover pizza in the fridge you didn't know was there, it'd provide a nice lift.

Hey Matt Cassel - I refuse for this to be the title to your 2008 Patriots biography.  Now LET'S GO PATS!

Kippah & Brades, #2

Game 6 Flood Report

ONE MORE!!!

True to my word in an email to friends about yesterday’s post, I’ll be blogging after every game from here on out, hopefully for another week or so. (That email also featured multiple typos, including a misspelling of TownieNews.com. My publicity director days are numbered.)

I watched the game at Maison Jawff-Man last night. Here are some thoughts from the two of us (his are the funny/insightful ones):

 --I’m not even going to mention TBS’ technical difficulties. I’m not going to talk about the Twilight Zone feeling of tuning in at 7:55 to find a BBC bloopers clip show hosted by Dick Clark and a lady who apparently was on the Hughleys (when did that show air, like 5 years ago?) but who I only remembered from the Fresh Prince of Bel Air. Or the shock of that show ending and an episode of the Steve Harvey show coming on—seriously, I’d rather have Paul Harvey at that point.

I won’t dwell on what it felt like to log on to mlb.com, tbs.com and espn.com and find no mention of whateverthehell was going on (thank you Boston.com for being on top of things). Nope, I won’t even mention how technical difficulties are understandable, but cutting to a crappy re-run that probably 50 people watched when it first aired instead of finding someone, SOMEWHERE to at least do audio-play-by-play and explain what the hell was happening in the most anticipated baseball game since Game 1 of last year’s series or game 6 or 7 of last year’s ALCS is completely inexcusable. (I don’t care if the entire Atlanta TBS headquarters were down, you can’t find a guy with a cellphone at the game to call in to CNN headquarters and broadcast the audio on TBS? I don’t buy it.) Or how glad I was we had a radio to listen to, unlike 700 people at the
Cask 'n Flagon, which must have been bordering on Thunderdome-territory by 8:20 PM. Nope, you won’t hear a peep out of me about any of that.

Five

Wins to go.

Quality innings from Beckett last night.

Number of homers I hope the Sox hit in victory tonight.

And remember the ABC of championship baseball:

ALWAYS  BE  CLOSING

And hey Tampa...if John-ee Les-tah does his thing tonight and the Sox win, there'll still be something special for you...

Coffee is for closers, Tampa.

LET'S GO SOX!