IcyPatriot

Okay ... Okay ... I just made this thread to vent a little ... relax Icy ... take a deep breathe

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ausbacker

Yankees are bringing some of their best ball against us. We'll need some sort of minor miracle to progress past them if we meet them in the playoffs.

captain insano

these last two games don't mean squat cmom guys. regular season games don't translate to the playoffs. to say the sox need a miracle is a overstatement to say the least. as long as lester is healthy they can get swept this weekend for all i care. its all about the playoffs now.

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scout

I'm reading all the hoopla in the newspaper today about Yankee domination and I'm thinking contrarily. Dice K, who is at best, the third man in the rotation, and most likely fourth, duals the Yanks ace in yesterday's game. If these two teams meet, I'd take the Sox's staff over the Yanks.

Real World

Guys, these games don't matter. The playoffs are an entirely different animal. The one thing I would worry about, is teams running on the Sox catchers. Still though, I'd feel pretty good about having a 1-2 of Lester Beckett in the playoffs, with a good bullpen, and very good defensive team. I still think the Sox are the favorite of the playoff teams. Their offense will be what stops them if they get knocked out, but I don't think that will be an issue.

Scout, he allowed 12 base runners in 7 innings, of a meaningless game. Oh, and without Posada playing. Putting stock in that outing, would be similar to my thinking that Lester can't beat our #4, Joba Chamberlain. I wouldn't ever think that after Friday night's game.

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"A theory that explains everything, explains nothing"

Real World

BTW, how crazy is this about this years season series between the Sox & Yankees.

RIVALRY REVERSAL: After losing the first eight games of the season series, the Yankees have won eight of the last nine games against Boston. The Red Sox lead the season series 9-8. Each team has scored 97 runs.

You go 0-8, or 8-0, depending on your perspective, and then find yourself a game up/down after 17 games. The craziest part for me, is the runs scored. They're both at 97 runs with 1 game remaining. That's just nuts.

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IcyPatriot

The odds to that happening had to bhe similar to winning the lottery ... incredible turn of weird events.

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Real World

Actually Icy, that's the thing with these two teams. I remember a factoid a year or two ago, similar to the one I posted, where the Sox and Yankees were something like 24-24 over their last 48 games, and were 1 run apart in scoring. It was nuts how equal the teams were, over a couple seasons worth of games.

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IcyPatriot

Like I was saying ... this team needed to ramp it up nears seasons end.
Resting Beckett and Lester made sense ... turning the rest of the team down did not.

I had no optimism for this post season ... none.

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captain insano

lmao to funny. how about the dodgers record the last two weeks. go look at there record they were 6 and 7 and now they are moving on. the sox were 4 and 6. give it up already. the last weeks mean zero unless your in a pennant race. anybody with a brain would rest there players after a grueling year. francona has done the same thing in previous years and won the ws.

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