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Finally announced the Sox ALDS Game 1 time — 6:30 central on Friday.

(Astros/Cleveland is the day game.)

Personally, I’d rather play the A’s... but it’d potentially be a whole lotta fun to face the MFYs in the playoffs again (for the first time in 14 years).

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Fuck it. Bring on the Yanks.

2004.

On 9/12/2018 at 10:06 PM, NHKeith said:

100 wins for the first time since 1946. Price was ON tonight. Can't wait to see what JD does in the playoffs.

YES!

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World Series Bound. Great series and love that Price got the win. Say what you want about him but he has done whatever Cora has asked of him. Oh and Happy Birthday Skip. 

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Being a Sox fan living in Houston is kinda bittersweet this morning. But I’ll get over it.

Part of me feels like this series was destined to go 7 (or at least back to Boston), but I’ll certainly take the extra rest over whichever NL team they face.

Interesting facts:

Red Sox pitchers to throw 6.0+ innings with 0 walks and 0 runs allowed in a postseason start:

David Price – 2018 ALCS G5 at HOU
John Lackey – 2013 ALCS G3 at DET
Josh Beckett – 2007 ALDS G1 vs. LAA

Price had more strikeouts (9) and allowed fewer hits (3) than the others on that list.

Glad for him. Let’s see some more of that in the World Series.

Shit was rigged, bro! If the strikezone was different through 4! 

 

Fuck it, I hope it’s Mil as a fan. Keep rolling, kids. 

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Objectively, I would hope it's the Brewers as well.  Aside from Braun, they're a likable team and would be fun to see in the WS... but the Dodgers would be more satisfying to beat (and arguably would be the better matchup vs the Sox).

I gotta be honest, there were multiple pitching decisions Cora made over the course of that series that I disagreed with, and they all pretty much worked out, illustrating that I know as much about baseball as I do about politics:  Not a fucking thing.

There is no goddamn way LAD would be a better matchup, none. Come on, son. 

 

Kershaw/Ryu/Buehler/Hill or the 11 dwarfs Mil would spin. 

I don’t give a shit about all those lefties, you don’t want none compared to Mil. 

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I said "arguably"... not saying that I'd make the argument, per se.

 Besides, the Sox can hit lefties with the best of them.  Bring on the Dodgers.  (Or the Brewers, if they can somehow win two straight.)

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I don’t envy Cora’s job in deciding who sits in the NL-hosted games of the World Series.

 

Benny had one helluva ALCS, JBJ was the ALCS MVP, Mookie is soon to be the AL MVP, and JDM hit 43 fucking HRs over the course of the season.

 

Assuming they’re facing the Dodgers and their lefty-heavy rotation, here are the 2018 stats vs LHP for JBJ and Benny:

 

JBJ: .185/.260/.303

Benintendi: .247/.301/.393

 

Jackie is obviously the superior fielder and has the better postseason stats so far, but he’s likely going to be coming off the bench if they play at Dodger Stadium.

 

Yeah, you have to sit JBJ against lefties.  You can't keep Pearce on the bench.

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any word on the start times for the first two games.  I realize if there's a PDT team watching, that may effect things a bit.  But surely, they can settle the first pair of games.  Tuesday and a Wednesday.  You don't want them starting any later than 8:00p in Boston, local time.  I get 5:00p starts for LAD fans, if it comes to that and it probably will, is rough. Maybe 7:30p-CDT at the latest then.  

They just put the graphic up, all games are 6:30 Central except for Game 5 on Sunday, the 28th. That one’s 7 Central. 

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That might be the broadcast start time. First pitch is scheduled for 7:09 central each night (save for Game 5 at 7:15).

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Mookie at 2B? Alex Cora:

“I don’t know man, he already played second during the regular season. There’s always a chance, I guess."

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Man, I love Alex Cora.

https://nesn.com/2018/10/why-alex-cora-believes-astros-cheating-allegations-helped-red-sox-in-alcs/

“I took it the other way around because they openly said that they were playing defense,” Cora said Friday on WEEI’s “Ordway, Merloni $ Fauria” program. “They said they were checking on us if we were stealing signs, or doing something wrong in the dugout. … I took it the other way around. I was like, ‘Paranoia is working for us.’ Like they are panicking. Throughout the series we did a lot of stuff as far as like dummy signs and all this stuff to keep the paranoia going.

“That is part of the game — tipping, stealing signs, relaying pitches and paying attention to details. That is the way I took it. If they feel that way about us, we might as well push the envelope and keep doing a lot of things that are going to make them uncomfortable and you saw it. They kept changing signs and the tempo of the games was awful, but that worked into our advantage, I think.”

I’m sorry, did he say a belly button ring may have caused him to miss playing in the World Series?

He was joking. He had a broken foot awhile back, said he got it roundhouse kicking some home intruders in the head. That’s his thing. 

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Sox players with 4+ hits in a World Series game:

Andrew Benintendi – 2018 Game 1 vs. LAD
Jacoby Ellsbury – 2007 Game 3 at COL (4-for-5)
Wally Moses – 1946 Game 4 vs. STL (4-for-5)

I think they get 1 or 2 at home, and it would be nice to take it all in Fenway. But fuck em, hoping for a sweep.

Mookie being Mookie. 

October 25, 2018 at 11:46p

Game 2 of the World Series on Wednesday night featured some cold weather, with game-time temperatures in the 40s and the night only growing colder in the hours after the Red Sox won, 4-2. 

That provided the context for a truly wonderful gesture from Boston outfielder Mookie Betts ... a gesture that might have gone unrecognized were it not for former Red Sox player and current WEEI host Lou Merloni: 

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Yep, Mookie provided an abundance of hot, fresh meals for members of the local homeless community after helping his team take a 2-0 lead in the World Series. Bostonian Mike Winter even spotted Betts and Betts' cousin helping to set up beforehand.

"I didn't know who they were at first. They had hoodies on," Winter told WEEI. "Next thing I know they are laying out trays of food. Then they're walking around all of Boston Library where there are tons of homeless and telling people there is food around the corner. I walked up and I said, 'Hello,' because we have a mutual friend, and then all the people from the club came out and he just walked away. No pictures. No nothing. None of the homeless even knew who he was, but they were just grateful for what he was doing."

And hey, it might bring him some good karma in Game 3. Back in 2015, Betts told NESN that giving a slice of pizza to a homeless man in New York City helped him put up a two-homer game against the Yankees the next day.

''Me and Blake [Swihart], yesterday, we got to eat, and had [a piece of pizza] left and he said the night before, he had given it to a homeless guy and he hit two home runs,'' Betts said. ''So I had a pizza. So I gave it to a homeless guy and hit two home runs, so maybe, pass it on to the next person.''

As if he needed any more help at the plate.

That killed my liver. Was watching at a bar with some dodgers fans. Left at 2 and by the time I walked home it was over. 

 

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Gonna watch these on loop for the next 17 hours:







ONE MORE.

I know Mitch had a shitty 2nd half, but how amazing does that 2/$13M deal look now as opposed to Hosmer’s garbage? 

Two! Three! Four!
Tessie, Nuff Ced McGreevy shouted
We’re not here to mess around
Boston, you know we love you madly
Hear the crowd roar to your sound
Don’t blame us if we ever doubt you
You know we couldn’t live without you
Tessie, you are the only, only, only
 

Damn what a year. Hope all have a good drink and are celebrating. Fuck the haters, this is the best team in History. 

 

 

Happy for Ian and Mitch. Mitch especially had a great series. And I take back all the bad things I ever said about Price. 

Loved seeing him be the first person running out. 

Cora better win manager of the year. 

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Fun fact:

The Boston Red Sox are the first MLB team to win four World Series Championships in the 21st century.  Crazy, huh?

A small part of me feels terrible for Dave Roberts.  I mean, his stolen base in 2004 is one of the greatest defining moments in Red Sox (I got *this close* to buying a signed print when I was at Fenway in August) history.

12 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:

Damn what a year. Hope all have a good drink and are celebrating. Fuck the haters, this is the best team in History. 

The 1998 Yankees were better.

Fuck the Yankees.  Take that shit elsewhere.  The Sox dominated baseball this year.  Best record in MLB.  Beat the yankees, astros and dodgers to claim the crown.  The dodged no one and we're never really pushed by any opponent.

Now, they return the nucleus of this team for 2019.  Kimbrel, Eovaldi, Pearce, Kelly are key to retain. But I'm getting ahead of myself.  We're champs.  Time to celebrate!!

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Mookie MVP.

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Mookie Betts won the MVP, Gold Glove, Silver Slugger and a World Series title all in the same year. Only other major-leaguer to ever do that is Mike Schmidt in 1980.

That is some impressive shit right there. But did Schmidt bowl a 300 in the same year? 

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His highest game in PBA competition is a 300 game during the World Series of Bowling on November 12, 2017

 

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Oh, and he just had his first kid a couple weeks ago. Not a bad 2018 for him.

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WS MVP Stevie Pearce back on a 1-year deal.

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Per Ken Rosenthal:

Free-agent RHP Nathan Eovaldi in agreement with #RedSox, pending physical, sources tell The Athletic.

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