My Red Sox won the season opener at Yankee Stadium 8-2!
It's always a good day when the Sox win, it's a great day when they beat the Yankees!
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Showing posts with label Yankees SUCK. Show all posts
Opening Day 2013
THE RED SOX CLINCH!!!!
My Red Sox Clinched the American League Eastern Division title Friday night with a win over the Minnesota Twins! They still needed one more win (or Yankee LOSS) to clinch it. After the game was over, they put the Yankee game on the Jumbotron at Fenway Park and thousands of fans stayed to watch the conclusion of that game.
The Yankees were leading the Orioles 9-6 with two out in the bottom of the 9th inning. The bases were loaded and former Red Sox outfielder Jay Payton hit a bases clearing triple (off Mariano Rivera) to tie the game and send it to extra innings. With the bases loaded in the bottom of the 10th, Melvin Mora bunted home the winning run!
The thousands of fans left at Fenway went nuts and celebrated with the team as the Red Sox won their first AL East title since 1995.
IT'S PLAYOFF TIME, GO RED SOX!!!
(yankees suck!)
Hats off to the Yankees
I have got to hand it to the Yankees. They have played .750 baseball since July 9 going 48-24 in that time frame. I thought they were dead and buried but they slugged their way back into the race.
All the way back to Second Place.
It will be a fun playoff season.
My Red Sox still have the best pitching in the game and....
THE YANKEES SUCK!
J.D. Drew SUCKS
J.D. Drew, in case you don't know, is the right fielder for the Boston Red Sox. He will make $14 million a year for the next five years. He was coveted by Boston General Manager Theo Epstein for some bizarre reason, probably because Theo values on base percentage guys and J.D. Drew has a good career OBP.
One problem though: J.D. Drew SUCKS. He seems to have no heart and he certainly has no bat. Almost 50% of his at bats result in weak ground balls to the right side. When he gets up to the plate with men on base in a key situation, he tries to work the walk. He has had many key go ahead runs on base and not taken the bat off his shoulder! YOU HAVE TO PUT THE BALL IN PLAY J.D!
I don't know if he will cease to suck in the future, but for now HE REALLY SUCKS! He'd look good in a Yankees uniform (they suck too).
Please take my "How much does J.D. Drew Suck" poll.
Sox Yankees: Does it even count?
The Red Sox are coming off a 4 game sweep of the Chicago White Sox in which they out scored the White Sox 46 to 7! The Yankees didn't fare as well in Detroit over the weekend losing 3 out of 4 (including last night 16-0 shellacking at the hands of the Tigers) and trailing the Red Sox in the AL East by 8 games.
Tonight the rested Red Sox are in the Bronx after a day off to face a beaten and travel weary Yankees squad for a 3 game set that may decide the AL East here and now. Worst case scenario: the Yanks sweep the Sox and the Sox STILL LEAD by 5 games!
Sorry Yankees, not this year. It's time to start talking about the "magic number." (Now 24)
Did I mention the Yankees Suck?
The Silence is Deafening
Tonight we have the Red Sox vs. Yankees in New York. This is normally a big rivalry, but the shine is off it just a bit this week. My Boston Red Sox have the best record in baseball. They have combined good starting pitching and timely hitting with a bit of luck and appear to be running away with the A.L. East.
Toronto was done the minute B.J. Ryan went in for surgery.
Baltimore is Baltimore.
The Devil Rays are the Devil Rays.
That leaves us with the Yankees, ten and a half games out. Their "best line-up in baseball" (I said that) has gone silent. Their starting pitching staff is snake bit with bad luck, nagging injuries, lack of intestinal fortitude (Pavano) and age. Their bullpen is overused, mishandled and ineffective. Their closer looks toasted. Their manager is on the chopping block. Their G.M. should be arrested for fraud. Their fans, normally boastful and vocal, are SILENT.
Actually, its kind of nice.
Sox and Yanks
*****UPDATE LATE FRIDAY NIGHT*****
Yankees Should have prayed for rain, SOX WIN 11-4! Lugo leads Sox to Victory as Yankees pitching sinks deeper into the muck.
*****UPDATE SATURDAY EVENING*****
Yankees end 7 game LOSING streak. Yankees win 3-0. Posada takes Wakefield Deep as Yankees find some pitching-FINALLY! I can hear the New Yorkers boasting already....betcha this game counts in New York too.
*****UPDATE SUNDAY EVENING*****
Papi, Cora, Manny all Power Sox. Hideki Okajima masterful in relief and Papelbon closes the door. THE RED SOX WIN 7-4. Yankees have lost 7 of 8 and they are reeling. When will Mattingly take over?
Fresh off a weekend sweep and a 2-2 week against AL East opponents Toronto and Baltimore, the Sox roll into Yankee Stadium for another match up with their arch rivals who have lost 6 straight.
Last week, the Sox capitalized on both Toronto and New York's pitching woes by taking 5 out of 6 against their American League East opponents. That's what good teams do-step on their opponents' necks when they are down. Last season's edition of the Red Sox did not do that-it is an encouraging sign that they are winning these games when they are supposed to.
Yankee fan scuttlebutt after the sweep was one of contrition. Most Yankee fans were singing the loser's lament of "yeah, but its still early." I have news for you: THESE GAMES COUNT IN THE STANDINGS and winning them is important. (watch how important the games will become in New York if the Yankees win two out of three or better this weekend!)
The Sox are firing on all cylinders and the Yankees remind me of the Red Sox of the late 1970's: a lot of offensive power coupled with a shaky and poorly handled pitching staff. We all know how that formula worked for the Sox. If I were a Yankee fan, I'd be very concerned. Even if the Yankees manage to get a front line starter (Roger?) by the trading deadline, the bullpen is filled with a bunch of unreliable stiffs who will continue to give it up in the late innings, and that doesn't even include Andy Petit. Mariano Rivera may be the best closer ever, but the Sox have had his number for 3 or 4 years now.
The Sox pitching staff still the best in the AL and the Yankees are still the most potent line up in all of baseball. Power vs. Power. Bottom line-good pitching wins in the long run. Steinbrenner will be frothing at the mouth if the Yanks can't take 2 of 3 this weekend.
Key points: Can the Yanks Capitlalize on facing the bottom of the Sox rotation? will Torre panic again? Can the Sox bullpen staff maintain their winning ways? Can the Sox get 5 homeruns in a row off New York's "stiff du jour?" Will A-Fraud or Rivera get get booed by the ever so gentle and fair New York fans? Even though A-Fraud is having a historic season at the plate, his teamates aint picking it up.
GO RED SOX!!
Sox vs. Yanks
Power vs. Power.
The Best Pitching Team vs. the Best Hitting Team.
A classic rivalry.
A baseball weekend.
It's the Battle for the AL East lead. It will be fun.
Let the games begin....
***Update Friday Night***
MariaNO! The Red Sox WIN 7-6!!!
***Update Saturday Evening***
Big Papi Strikes Again and Papelbon Closes the door! The Red Sox Win 7-5!!!
***Update Sunday Evening***
BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM! Home Run Barrage! The Red Sox Win 7-6!!!
SOX SWEEP YANKEES-Out pitched, out powered, out played.
Soggy Sox
I wait and wait and wait all winter for the baseball season to start and what happens?
Rain. Rain is keeping my Little Leaguers off the practice field and its messing with the Major League Schedule as well. Cleveland and Seatle are going to be playing double headers for the entire month of August!
My Red Sox have missed a few games due to the weather, but they are really looking good. The starting pitching is shaping up to be everything as advertised. Schilling has been Schilling after his crappy start on opening day, Beckett is 3-0, Dice-K looks like the real deal and Wakefield is "eating up innings" while confounding opposing batters. Tavares has practically been a non factor due to the weather-he's missed a couple of starts. Papelbon continues to be the 800 pound Gorilla.
The Sox starting pitching has been excellent-the best in the AL with a 2.72 (4.06 AL average) team ERA and a .210 batting average against. Even Dice-K and Wakefield's losses were good efforts 3 and 2 runs given up respectively-the Sox just ran into better pitchers on those nights.
Toronto and New York, the biggest threats to the Sox in the AL East, are banged up. The Sox will face a Blue Jays team this week without B.J. Ryan and Troy Glauss and the Yankees are busy scouring the high schools for pitchers to patch up their battered staff.
The Sox could put some real distance between the Jays and the Yanks this week and that would be a good thing.
The best news is they can't get rained out in Toronto!
And of course......
Hot Wheels
Kevin from Horizon Technology pulled up in this stylin' Mercedes today-he must be selling the heck out of the hardware over there! Kevin is one of my new "regulars" and likes to chat about youth coaching (he's a football guy) and all the silliness that goes on at his workplace.
Apparently the sales crew over there has a lot of fun goofing around and joking with each other.
Since it is Opening Day for the Red Sox, Kevin decided to celebrate with 2 "all around" dogs!
Another Hot Dog Story
golfwidow said...
So one day, I said to my husband, "You never take me anywhere nice to eat anymore."
He said, "What are you talking about? We just went to Olive Garden."
I said, "I'm only going to say this one more time ..."
Anyway, I shouldn't have looked the gift horse in the mouth.
He took me to Doogie's. Home of the World's Longest Hot Dog.
I ate about a quarter of it, went back to it once and tried again, but then I lost interest in it after that and the other twelve inches went to waste, because bigger is not necessarily better. However, I can now cross the longest hot dog in the world off my life-list.
I think my husband thinks this is going to get him off the hook, datewise, but I still would like to dress up and go eat where the decor does not include any signs that say, "Red Sox Fans Welcomed. Yankees Fans Tolerated."
Post your Hot Dog Story!
Who do you call when your windshield's busted?
For those of you who live in New England, the ubiquitous jingle in my title is probably so drilled into your brain that you began singing it as you read the it! When I did this last weekend, my son started singing the song!
Today, Scott from Giant Glass came by and fixed me up good as new!
He even managed to chow down on a couple of dogs when he was done. He said he's sat in some of the company seats at Fenway Park; the owner of Giant Glass has seats right behind home plate!
The funny thing is, breaking a car window is no big deal. If more things in life were as easy and painless as getting your auto glass replaced, the world would be a much better place. All I had to do was make a phone call. The folks at Giant Glass did the rest! They take care of all the insurance paperwork, show up just about anywhere when they say they will and they do their job well; I don't even have to pay anything. No hassle at all! Thanks, and I'll be more careful next time!
Now if I could only get some seats behind home plate at Fenway.....
My Site has a head cold!
Nurse Betty over at Flatline Web Design checked out the Hot Dog Truck for functionality of the design. Unfortunatly she was checking me out when I was revamping my page design :o( That's like being asked to cough right after a vasectomy!
Thanks Nurse Betty!
High Times at The Hot Dog Truck
Today was a gorgeous day, 70 degrees and the hot dog lovers are coming out of the woodwork!
This lovely Red Sox fan was havin' a good day!
Here's another happy Sox fan with "Red Sox" spelled in Japanese on his shirt. (Further translation found the shirt to say "My mother dresses me funny"). This guy's buddy is a former Hot Dog Man from Worcester. I guess that makes me "the Hot Dog Man's Hot Dog Man!"
Fred from Coldwell Banker is a hard core, year 'round regular. Here he is enjoying his standard "two all around brown" dogs. Fred owes me about $320.00 for STRAWS! (Straws are 8 bucks at the Hot Dog Truck and he never pays). Fred is going to be PO'd when he sees this picture!
Here's Fred's lunch: YUMMY!
The good weather means the folks at BOSE finally crawl out of their cubes and come on down for hot dogs. BOSE World HQ is right around the corner from my truck. When the picnic tables are out, they conduct meetings there! This guy bravely takes a bite out of a chili dog for the camera. I must say people look pretty goofy eating hot dogs!
These two guys (also from BOSE) are regulars but they tend not to venture out on the REALLY COLD days. The guy on the right gets two RED and WHITE dogs (Ketchup and Mayo). There really is no good explanation why someone would put ketchup and mayo on a hot dog-there must be some trauma in his childhood manifesting itself by ruining good hot dogs with KETCHUP!
The guy on the left switches it up a lot-sometimes going for a burger, sometimes dogs. Today he got two BLONDS (Chili, Onion and Mustard). This hot dog name is courtesy of a gal from LA who suggested that name here (she's sooo naughty!) Many people who work at BOSE are also musicians and guy on the left is too. He's in a Grateful Dead
Two with Mustard- to go
This guy-two with brown mustard-comes by a lot. Likes to talk Red Sox. He likes the Papelbon move too. I'd say it was 95% in favor of Papelbon going to the bullpen at the Hot Dog Truck today.
There were some Yankee fans on Boston talk radio today knocking the move. When questioned, they didn't want to talk about Mussina or Petitte or the fact that Carl Pavano is their opening day starter! One Yankee fan actually admitted that he was a closet Red Sox fan since he moved to the area. He claimed he likes going to the "bawl game" and he likes to go to Fenway-he even admitted to OWNING A RED SOX CAP! I sure as hell wouldn't buy a Yankees hat!
The Sox open a week from today! Woo Hoo!
800 Pound Gorilla
Last week the Red Sox announced that Jonathan Papelbon will once again be the closer for the team.
Pap is saying all the right things: "This is something that I've decided that I want to do for the rest of my career and chase records, and, hopefully, make the Hall of Fame and do [some] special things in the game that maybe no other closer has ever done before." Sounds confident, eh?
He should be. Papelbon's 0.92 ERA was the eighth lowest in Major League history among pitchers with at least 50 innings. It was the best ERA put forth by a closer since eventual Hall of Famer Dennis Eckerlsley's Cy Young and MVP season of 1992. Papelbon held opponents to a .167 batting average, second lowest in the Majors in 2006 and tied for the best in Red Sox history. If he can keep his shoulder healthy, his "return" to the closer's role is very good news.
He was the equivalent of the 800 pound gorilla last year. He basically did what he wanted to when he wanted to do it.
Pap even gave Mariano Rivera some props. "He's kind of the man that, to everybody who is a closer now, he's like the 'Godfather,'" Papelbon said. "He understands that we're going to be going after him. I think what he's done for the role of a closer and for the game of baseball has been a big thing. Like I said man, he's like the 'Godfather.'"
Papelbon has a better starting staff than Rivera does this year; the Red Sox have the best starting rotation in baseball and now they have the 800 pound gorilla to shut things down in the 9th. The move solidifies the whole Sox staff and will have American League hitters dreading the 9th inning when they play the Red Sox.
I can't wait for the first showdown between the Gorilla and the Godfather. Yankee fans will be going bannanas. My money's on the gorilla.
Under Construction New Template!
As you can see, my page design has changed! I got my new 3 column template from Template Panic HERE.
I will be customizing over the weekend and soon the usual array of nonsense will be back!
Manny Gets Grilled
Manny Ramirez of the Boston Red Sox put his gas grill up for sale yesterday on eBay! Read the story HERE.
At the end of the article is this : "I'm just here to play the game and enjoy it," Ramirez told the Globe. "[I enjoy] my life. All the things that I do I enjoy. I'm not here to talk to [the media]. I'm here to play the game. That's me, you know. The same. Everywhere I go is the same."
The guy takes a lot of heat from the media, largely because he doesn't talk to them so they have to invent stuff.
LAY OFF MANNY! And pass the barbeque sauce....
For Battle of Bloggers
I go to a site called Blog Explosion to have the Hot Dog Truck "battle" other blogs. Basically you match up against another blog and people vote on which Blog they like the best. The winner wins credits and basically feels good about themselves.
I have developed a set of criteria on how I vote in these battles:
I'll vote for a blog if it:
makes me laugh;
gives me new news or information I'm interested in;
has pictures of attractive, scantily clad (even nekkid) women;
informs me about a new way to make a buck online;
rants intelligently about any sort of scam or injustice;
is about hot dogs;
has cool pictures;
has a cool layout;
has heartfelt personal stories that are well written; and
has pictures of attractive, scantily clad (even nekkid) women
I won't vote for a blog if it:
has detailed information about American Idol-if I gave a crap, I'd just watch the flippin show;
is about the New York Yankees-the Yankees Suck;
has mommies complaining about their children-I have five kids, your life sounds like a friggin vacation to me;
hasn't been updated recently-if you have time to set up battles maybe you ought to try and post something new, maybe some pictures of attractive, scantily clad (even nekkid) women;
takes FOREVER to load-come ON, get a new host please;
has the words "loose" and "lose" or "looser" and "loser" confused or misspelled- don't get me started;
is clearly written by a teenager-if I want that kind of drama and angst I'll read my daughter's diary;
is a blog that consistently kicks my ass in Blog Battles-this causes a conundrum sometimes because the blogs with scantily clad (even nekkid) women usually kick my ass;
attempts to preach or lecture at me-I have a wife, an ex wife and I go to church on Sundays- 'nuff said; and
it is about the New York Yankees-did I mention they suck?
If both blogs in the battle suck:
I choose the one with the less offensive color scheme unless both blogs are about the Yankees in which case I'll just go back to the Battle Page without voting.
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