The Ginger Kid

try not to lob any changeups over the heart of the plate to Morneau like you did to Abreu last week. That's all I ask.

QUOTE (scenario @ Sep 22, 2008 -> 10:38 AM) Just what we need. Another sub-.300 OBP in the lineup. i agree.

he'll be in CF again next year, starting.

I don't know why it is but the twins just seem to know they can beat the sox when it matters. i think they're licking their chops and are going to come out fired up as all hell. Will the sox match that intensity? If so, 2/3, if not, 0.

hmm...I wouldn't mind the '05 junior (.301, 35 HRs)...or even '07 wasn't that bad (.277, 30 HRs). Certainly he's not the player he once was, but even at 38, he still knows how to play baseball. I'd like to see BA out there over Swisher, no doubt, but instead of griffey? maybe in the late innings, with a lead.

great win, but with the way this season has gone i'm convinced the sox will have to play the tigers and win to get to the one game playoff against minny. Nothing has come easy this season - why should it now?

QUOTE (lostfan @ Sep 19, 2008 -> 06:19 PM) Anybody else have their mlb.tv stream f***ing up? Everything else is running at normal speed for me but that. yeah, me too

yes, that's me. and my f***ing dog.

QUOTE (WSoxMatt @ Sep 19, 2008 -> 06:05 PM) The magic number is 8

WOW - sox get some runs with two outs

ozzie needs to threaten greg walker again - worked last time

um...a delay in tampa...in a dome?

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 19, 2008 -> 04:29 PM) Are you sure it's not the damage done from Jerry Owens batting practice today? that's very good

QUOTE (knightni @ Sep 19, 2008 -> 04:23 PM) Hey GingerKid, where was that Griffey quote from? saw it in the daily herald

QUOTE (BlackBetsy @ Sep 19, 2008 -> 04:10 PM) Ummmm...not possible. Magic number is 8, best case is 4 1/2 up with 6 to play and a magic number of 2. by next thursday? check your math

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 19, 2008 -> 03:55 PM) Don't the Twins have a day off on Monday? Thus, we'll see Liriano on Thurs. we will have clinched by then

TB off to a good start

wow - GREAT first day USA!

ben curtis is not clutch

great match going on with phil and kim - 1 up now with 1 to go

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Sep 19, 2008 -> 11:39 AM) We all know from 2005 that it's getting hot at the right time. They just need to get in the playoffs, get that monkey off their back, and let it fly and see what happens. it's funny, i was reading the game summary from yesterday's date in '05, the loss to the tribe on Boone's shot at the cell. Marte was crap and the bats went to bed, kong popped out with the go ahead run on base in the 9th. It was just an overriding sense of DOOM and panic. But once they got that monkey off their back they clicked, as you said. But do you think there is pressure to close it out this season like there was then, when they watched a 15 game lead slip away?

i don't know what else they could say. you can put lipstick on a corpse and it's still a pig. wait...

one of these two teams is going to step up and take this division - i hope last night's 9th inning rally by the twins wasn't the sign that they are the ones to do it. But i'm tired of just rooting for them to lose. If the sox can't beat the royals at the end of the season with the division on the line...f*** it.

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ Sep 19, 2008 -> 06:07 AM) I wish we could run the song "I need a hero" on constant loop every time this thread was opened. That would be awesome. even when the song got annoying that song got annoying the moment it was conceived.

when's the last time we rallied for 8 in the 9th?