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Boston Red Sox (9x World Series Champions)

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starBUCKS;962890; said:
"It doesn't happen, so who cares? There's always next year. It's not like it's the end of the world." - Manny Ramirez
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Boston Red Sox - Red Sox' Ramirez 'not trying to show anybody up' - The Boston Globe
"We're just going to go have fun and play the game," he said. "That's it. If we go play hard and the thing doesn't come like it's supposed to come, we'll move on. We'll come next year. Why should we panic? We've got a great team. If it doesn't happen, good. We'll come next year and try to do it again.

"We're confident every day. It doesn't matter how things go for you. We're not going to give up. We're just going to go and play the game, like I've said, and move on. If it doesn't happen, so who cares? There's always next year. It's not like the end of the world or something."
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Buckeye513;962985; said:
What are Boston fans like?
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Boston fans don't think this season is over yet and certainly want to win Thursday night. Fans tend to act like losing now is the end of the world.

Just like any other fanbase really and perhaps a bit more intense if anything.....

Think if he'd said something like that pre-2004.....
 
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BuckeyeMike80;962991; said:
Boston fans don't think this season is over yet and certainly want to win Thursday night. Fans tend to act like losing now is the end of the world.

Just like any other fanbase really and perhaps a bit more intense if anything.....

Think if he'd said something like that pre-2004.....
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I wonder if they are getting to a point like 2004 if we win, so be it. If not, we will move on considering only 7 is left from the World Series team. Boston will not throw in the towel, they are a great team and if the powers to be see fit they win tonight then they cross that bridge when it comes for game 6.
 
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espn.com

After a day off, Boston turns to Beckett

CLEVELAND -- Thanks to the new postseason format, there is a day off between Games 4 and 5 of the ALCS, which is convenient. It will allow Boston radio stations ample time to take all the calls from angry Red Sox fans who want manager Terry Francona fired for not starting Josh Beckett in Game 4 on Tuesday night.
Well, probably not all the calls. But if the Red Sox don't come back from a daunting 3-1 deficit to Cleveland, those stations will have all winter to field such calls. Those, along with the requisite calls about oh, how much Boston fans have suffered over the years. After all, has any other team ever gone a long, long time without winning a World Series? (Feel free to jump in on this one, Cleveland fans.)

Continued....
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BuckeyeMike80;962991; said:
Boston fans don't think this season is over yet and certainly want to win Thursday night.
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So do the players. Like he said, they're not going to give up, they're going to go out and play hard and have fun. There isn't anything else they can do. If it doesn't fall their way with their ace on the mound, then 2007 just wasn't Boston's year. If it does fall their way, then they'll go back to Fenway and, you know, play hard and have fun and hope it falls their way again.
Fans tend to act like losing now is the end of the world.
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No, they don't.

If Boston lose this series, I'll be more frustrated with the fact that a 96-win team can't get their 2nd, 3rd, and 4th starters out of the 5th inning than with the loss alone. No one's going to jump out of their window if the Sox lose tonight unless there's a fire.


Also, I had to love Wade fuckin' Boggs talking about Manny's comments on Mike and Mike this morning, saying that there's "no more fight in the dog". Personally, I wish all of our players were "fight-less" to the point that they were hitting .420, you know, like "lazy" Manny is.
 
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If you?re feeling a little queasy about tonight?s do-or-die Game 5 of the ALCS in Cleveland, a look at the Red Sox? track record when losing three of the first four games of a playoff series might make you feel a little better.

Check out these tidbits, provided by the Red Sox in their game notes released to the media:
  • This is the 6th time that the Red Sox have dropped 3 of the 1st 4 games in a best of 7 or best of 9 postseason series. They have come back to win 3 of those previous 5 series.
  • On the 5 previous occasions, Boston is 4-1 in Game 5, the lone defeat coming in the 1999 LCS vs. the Yankees.
  • The Red Sox are the only the team in history to come back from a 3-1 deficit and win a best of 7 ALCS more than once, accomplishing that feat in 1986 against the Angels and 2004 versus the Yankees (they had trailed that series 3-0)?Only one other team in ALCS has done that, the 1985 Royals over Toronto.
  • Boston has an all-time record of 21-11 in games in which it could have been eliminated from a postseason series.
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Happy stats - Extra Bases
 
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Booooo!! Hisssssss!!!!

This one's fresh from Deadspin: The Cleveland Indians have pulled out all the stops to excel in the ALCS. Now that they have a shot and winning the series against the Red Sox, they have basically decided to deliver a low blow to the Sox and to tonight's starting pitcher Josh Beckett in particular. How? By trotting out Josh Beckett's ex-girlfriend, country singer Danielle Peck, to sing the national anthem.
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Bostonist: The Cleveland Indians Might Have a Secret Weapon, and It Isn't Kenny Lofton
 
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