World Series HERE WE COME!

Looking forward to predictions from MB and Jr.

GO SOX!

Weeeeow!

Gotta admit a coupla days ago I thought the Tribe was gonna take it.

Oh, and Junior? Really would love to see a prediction from you about how the Rockies are gonna take the Series. It would add to my comfort going in.

jump on, Joker. Last time I checked the bandwagon you're on lost a couple of wheels, the rest of them are flat and the captain just jumped off.

World Series here we come...sucks I had to watch most of the game in the waiting room for the emergency room last night. Got home after getting a half dozen stiches to watch them clinch.

Congrats on the pennant. Nice to see everybody on the redsox bandwagon again. Sox win and out of the woodwork you guys come.

Congrats again on the pennant. How many you got now?

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I finely figured out who Papelbon reminds me of.

The one that matters.......

How about my Sox? We are going all the way.

So that would be # 40?

Best record in the majors...check
AL East...check
ALDS...check
AL Pennant...check

Next up, World Series Championship...

Ya got any predictions on who the next manager of the yankees will be?

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RED SOX ARE IN THE WORLD SERIES!

Boy, that Papelbon sure can dance! My entire neighborhood was deliriously happy last night -- car horns going off, people screaming in the streets, high-fives with strangers:

BOSTON RED SOX -- 2007 AMERICAN LEAGUE CHAMPIONS

It sure was a great weekend to be a Boston sports fan:

1. The Head of the Charles Regatta with near-perfect conditions.
2. B's throw a shutout on Causeway Street and are 4-2.
3. The college football team down Comm Ave is ranked number 2 in the nation and the smart kids at Harvard can beat those other smart kids from New Jersey.
4. Patriots fry the Fish.

Then the grandaddy of 'em all:

5. Sox put together another comeback and win the ALCS. Matsuzaka and Okajima pitch with honor and the children (Pedroia, Ellsbury, Pap, Youk) will lead them.

Four more wins to go, baby!

I wonder what happened to all those CLEVELAND INDIANS 2007 WORLD SERIES shirts they were selling before Game 5? http://blog.cleveland.com/plaindealer/2007..._in_jinxes.html

They must be a collector's item.

Ahhhh yes, jr and his bandwagon banter...he's nothing if not consistant.

Of course, all teams have a bandwagon effect in some form...in fact we have quite a contrast in baseball bandwagons these days...

Of course we have the Red Sox bandwagon that jr seems to know so much about, it is once again overflowing and nearing 2004 proportions...in fact it is so full one bandwagon is not enough...


Then there is the Rockies bandwagon...all shiney a new but can really seem to find anyone actually on it...


And of course there is the once proud yankee bandwagon...its glory days well in the past and such a sad site to behold, it would seem to be in need of some significant repair...

Brilliant post Einstein. Yes, the Yankee bandwagon was rolling while Lincoln was in office. Did you even look at that pic before you posted it.

Glad you noticed, that's why I picked it...Lincoln was an iconic leader, a symbol of pride if you will, and is this shot has a "his time has passed him by" kind of feel. Anyway, it's just meant to be symbolic, could have used any number of others to illustrate the sad state of affairs in da bronx...here's some other candidates, feel free to jump right up on your favorite...

Just for the record, my original prediction and I predicted Sox in 6. I am working on my prediction and will have it out to all of you in the very near future.

Gotta say I am holdn my breathe

hahahahaha

Nicely Done.

How those all those rooks contributing in BIG WAYS!!

You hit on one of the best things about this team, the home grown talent who came up through Portland...

Manny Delcarmen
Jon Lester
Jonathan Papelbon
Dustin Pedroia
Kevin Youkilis
Jacoby Ellsbury
Josh Beckett (was part of the Marlins system, but still had an outstanding stint with the Sea Dogs)

And let's not forget Curt Schilling. Yes, folks, originally a Red Sox draft pick, dealt away in 1988 as part of the Mike Boddicker deal.

Link of the Day:

http://www.nomaas.org/

I was hoping it was a shrine to Kevin Maas.

Ahhh yes, how could I leave out Schill.

"Let's not forget what my dad did in giving him that opportunity -- and the great team he was handed."
- Hank Steinbrenner talking about Joe Torre

Pot/Kettle/Black

I predict the Red Sox in 4 over the Rockies. I think Ellsbury and Pedroia will have a great series. Also I think Lowell will get the MVP.

I know my counting skills are not as good as junior's, but what happened to the last week worth of pages?

Did someone drive the DeLorean at 88 mph? Issues with the flux-capacitor?

There was a note at the top of the forum on Monday that said they were cutting over to new servers (getting on Boyne's network?) and might loose a week or so worth of posts.

So I guess need to refill the thread with some more
RED SOX ARE WORLD SERIES CHAMPS

A couple of pics from yesterday's celebration in Boston should help spruce up the thread...does Papelbon know how to have fun or what?

Funny. The redsox win the world series and all the posts get erased.

Let the hot stove league begin...

Schilling says he wants to play in Boston but knows he may be gone (light free agent market means he'll probably get a good offer from someone), says the only team he won't consider is the yankees (not sure they want him anyway).

Trade rumor heard this morning on the local sports talk radio...Coco Crisp, Jon Lester and Clay Bucholz to Minn for Johan Santana.

Santana's gonna be wearing Pinstripes next season. And not Colorado pinstripes.

Who would you send over? Hughes, Kennedy and Melky?

2 of the 3. That's the word on the street.

I will almost guarantee Santana in Yankee uniform next year. Also, hearing Scott Rolen to Yanks. A change of scenery might be good for him. Doesnt seem like he and LaRussa could live together any longer.

Also, I am now officially tired of Pap's dancing. OK, enough. It got old real fast. And by the way, Schilling is an a-hole. His blog is pure fantasy.

Schilling=Douchenozzle

Nice, the MBKOD (MonkeyBrook kiss of death)...no way Santana lands in da bronx now.

I hope Pap keeps dancing for as long as he wants, especially if it irritates yankee fans. As for Schilling, I think most people no matter their team affiliation will acknowledge that he ought to keep his yap shut more, but I'd still take him on my team for one more year.

By the way, here's Schilling blog entry from yesterday regarding free agency...call it "pure fantasy" if you want, but it seems pretty innocuous to me, the same stuff every free agent goes through on some level (although for better or worse he puts it out there for all to see)...

Free Agency? Weird.
Oct 30th, 2007 by Curt Schilling

Hard to believe that after 21 years in professional baseball, the first day of free agency would come when I was 40 years old. I’ve not been a free agent for one day of my career before today……

Filing for free agency is weird. I never knew or thought about how it happened. Representing myself I rounded up the legal details and figured out exactly how it works. For the next 15 days I can speak with other teams, and they can contact me, but no details can be discussed. They can only express interest. For the next 15 days the team that remains my first choice, the Sox, have exclusive rights. I guess I’ll find out how closely teams follow rules…..

So this huge thing, free agency, was accomplished by doing the following.

Place a phone call to the MLBPA, tell them you want to become a free agent, hang up.

Weird. Something that can be so life altering was pretty much a 48 second phone call. They file a letter with the commissioners office “A letter of intent” that lists all the players filing that day, and it’s official.

The list of teams that our family has talked over, that we think would be a fit for next year, should we not come back, are pretty much teams in cities we agree would be ok for our last year, and teams I think have a legitimate shot at being in the post season and/or World Series. Teams we didn’t include aren’t for any one reason. There are a million little things that go into this from stadiums to school districts to travel to spring training to etc. etc. etc. but the list represents the teams after Boston that have some of the off the field things that are big to us, plus the potential to go into October next year.

Cleveland, Detroit, Anaheim, New York Mets, Philadelphia, Atlanta, L.A., S.D., Arizona, Chicago Cubs, St. Louis, Milwaukee

Dont get me wrong, I love the dance. I like him and Youk version the best. Youk cant dance, but he is funny.

This whole Yankee manager mess has me in a foul mood. I need to focus on the positive, Halloween with the kids, Giants football and the ski season.

Focus on ski season, boys! It's here.

I'm still soaking in the revelry. Jacoby Ellsbury got his free taco at the Taco Bell at BU. Line snaked out of the door for blocks. When our student worker found out that Jacoby was on campus, she cried. She wants to marry the guy!

wow - not to trash the SR/Boyne IT department, but that's pretty poor execution. We lost, what, 6, 7 pages? Good thing its only a message board. In my line of work, I lose that much data, I get fired and never work in financial services again.

Anyway, carry on. Let's get the Hot Stove warming up. I was home playing Mr Mom today, so I have to catch up on the MLB rumor mill.

The first official player movement of the Hot Stove season has happened...the Atlanta Braves traded shortstop Edgar Renteria to the Detroit Tigers for two prospects, outfielder Gorkys Hernandez and pitcher Jair Jurrjens. I don't know anything about the prospects to comment on the trade, except that does this mean the Red Sox won't have to pay any more of Rent-a-Wreck's salary, or do they just send the checks to Detroit instead of Atlanta?

Did you pick up your SI yet?

Two of our teams on the cover: the World Series champion Boston Red Sox and the Super Bowl favorite New England Patriots. The Celtics were on the cover last week too. My guess is next week, it's Brady on the cover.

Great, if the SI jinx holds true the Sox and Celts will not win anything next year. Brady has already been on the cover this year. They should have put Pap on the cover dressed in bike shorts holding broom and doing the Riverdance. You tube has a number of his greatest dance hits, very amusing.

Sorry, but the Sox officially killed the SI cover jinx this year (not once, but twice)...

SI jinx didn't seem to affect Papelbon. He was on the cover a few weeks ago at the start of the playoffs and now this after winning it all. Papelbon was on Letterman last night. Hilarious! Papi and Ramirez will be on Leno and Conan tomorrow. Yup, the celebrity rounds have begun.

Edit: I posted without seeing Zenny's post. Thanks for the quick and eloquent reply.

Papelbon on Letterman Last Night

He dropped a MF bomb last night

On tap for tomorrow night...Manny on The Tonight Show and Papi on Late Night with Conan.

OK, that was funny. I would take him on the Yanks in a heart beat. From purely an entertaining stance, he is an A+. Not to mention how good of a pitcher he is. Tough not to like the guy, he is having fun and he is really good at what he does. His impersonation of Pappi was real good. Thanks for posting that link.

The guy was a riot when he was pitching for the Sea Dogs a few years back. The morning sports show seemed to have him on for entertainment value alone.

...Of course they also interviewed Craig Hansen about 1,000 times and that didn't work out all that well.

Don't give up on him yet...

Shilling to the Cards? Rumor mill is rampent.

Posada may be a Met next season. He hates the new NYY coach. And Torre with Mattingly will be in LA. What a lousy way to end a season. Out the 1st round, screw Torre and then watch the team run away.

Posada does not hate Girardi. Where did you get this from? Girardi was his mentor for years. No way Posado or Rivera are leaving, according to Cashman signing both is top priority.

Monkeybrook predictions #1 and #2 for the 2008 season.

I might keep a spread sheet

signing them may be Cashman's priority, but staying may not be Rivera's or Posada's priority. Remember, Rivera already said Torre leaving will weigh heavily on his decision. The Yanks might as well blow it all up, let the FA's walk and start over. Well, except for Abreu and his $16m next year.

Add Santana to my prediction list. It should be noted that Free agent predictions are tough to make. Kicky, Rivera is using that as a ploy to get more $$. He has a point in that Mussina got Mo's money last year. In my opinion, the loyalty thing is media and agent hype. Players want money. Why would Mariano or Posada leave, they have been Yankees their entire careers....could you really see either of them in a uniform other than on with the interlocking NY?

Again, just opinions. Please let me know how I do on my predictions.

Is it safe to predict that I will be skiing next weekend? The temperatures look great. Going to put on my boots and watch the Pats.