Soxtober

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RED SOX WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Scenes like these never get old for the die hard fan in all of us. My dad may've let a few tears come down when the Sox won it all in 2004- but I still get a bit misty eyed every time those dirt dawgs pile on top of one another.

Aside from the Patriots or Celtics- the Red Sox do something to me. The game of baseball does something to me. The game itself interests me more than any other sport. Sure the other sports are more exciting in a literal sense- but the chess match of baseball is so much more intricate. These are not just two teams playing against one another pounding away- one team scores and then the other team scores. No- there's so much more strategy to baseball. It's the pitcher versus the batter, the pitcher and catcher, the pitcher versus the man on first, the outfielder with the canon for an arm gunning down a guy at the plate.

And in the post season it all has to be perfect. What did the Angels pride themselves in this year? Small ball mixed with great defense. What failed the Angels in the post season? Small ball and defense.

For the Sox- they play in a playoff atmosphere everyday. Boston is the place where fans like you for who you are one day- and then hate you because you haven't produced the next. The players are under constant scrutiny and constant stress. The post season? Easy when you've already been doing it all year long.

The Angels? The Devil Rays who only sell out when the Yankees and Sox are in town? They have nothing. They only play intensity one month out of the year. The Red Sox- and even the Yankees- play in that same intensity starting in May and ending for the most part in October.

So bring it on Rays! Boo Yahhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Doesn't feel a little good to know that the Tampa Bay Rays are going to sell out and have about 80% of the people there cheering for the Red Sox? And, if the Rays lose? The fans they do have will never believe in them again because they're all "pink hats" now that the team is winning!

Oh so much pressure...you know who eats pressure for breakfast?

Yoooooooooooooooouuuuuuuuk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Don't be afraid of Tampa Bay just because they beat a Chicago White Sox team that has the chemical make up of a Boston Red Sox team circa 1995-2001. The problem with the White Sox is that they tried to hard to mix veterans with youngsters. Their veterans are too old (Thome and Griffey?) and their youngsters weren't experienced enough (Ramirez) to carry them through. The Tampa Bay Rays are working on adreniline. I expect this to be a powerful series but the caffine rush for these young Rays will wear off like it does for me every day at 4PM.

I say: Red Sox in 6 Games. I gotta give the Rays some credit.

Also- I say pitch Wakefield in this series! His one and only blunder I can remember in Red Sox post season history is that homer to Aaron Boone in 2003. Other than that he's been brilliant in post season play- and isn't he like 100-0 lifetime at Tropicana field? I won't be surprised if Wakefield doesn't pitch, but it would be fun to see him dominate.