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jamman
Oct-20-2004, 8:34am
Tonight's game is likely the biggest in Red Sox history. Will the curse be exorcised??
squeally dan
Oct-20-2004, 8:45am
I'm not exactly a Sox fan, but I really dislike the Yankees and I am for whoever they are playing. They have the largest payroll in baseball, and I'd love to see them lose, especially to their biggest rival.
I thought A-Rod's move last night was very classless. They are looking a little nervous, to try and pull something like that. Cheating and then doing the "What did I do" routine.
Staramouche
Oct-20-2004, 8:58am
It was real hard to play an open session last night AND keep a close eye on the game:D
The Sox took it as our "Going to California" was forced into an overtime jam by a zealous, superstitous Sox fan!
GO RED SOX!!!!
J. Mark Lane
Oct-20-2004, 9:24am
They'll never win four in a row against our home team.
GO YANKS!
(My wife is from Boston, grrrrr.)
Mark
fatt-dad
Oct-20-2004, 9:46am
I thought the Yankees went downhill when George Costanza left the club.
f-d
Spruce
Oct-20-2004, 9:47am
Curt Schilling's outing last night was one of the gutsiest pitching performances I've ever witnessed...
That was a great game...
The beautiful thing about baseball is that you'll see things that have never happened in MLB history. #
This is the first time in baseball history that a team has lost the first 3 games to start a 7 game series, only to come back and force a game 7.
For Boston to actually win game 7 in New York would go a long way towards dismantling the curse, although it would be a shame that they wouldn't have a healthy Schilling for the Series...
It'll be a fun evening..... #
Mando content:
"Take Me Out to the Ballgame" is a up-tempo blast on the mando...
who are these Red Sox ya'll speak of? http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
muzicfreak
Oct-20-2004, 10:01am
I love it!!! GO SOX!!!!!! I was going crazy last night... You don't know tolerence or heart break until you are a Red Sox fan... I'm not getting my hopes up to high but i am glad we made it 7!
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Gary
JD Cowles
Oct-20-2004, 10:06am
if there ever was a year (in the past 87 years)when the red sux should win the alcs it's this year.
BUT THEY WON'T! GO YANKS!
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spruce-don't you love jethros version of take me out to the ball game? [shameless attempt at mando-content]
Lane Pryce
Oct-20-2004, 10:07am
Ditto! http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/coffee.gif Lp
Tommorrow I'm anticipating the Builders forum having a discussion about whether spilled beer is more damaging to varnish or laquer. Ah heck, let's figure out now so we know which mando to grab during the seventh inning stretch.
mandoJeremy
Oct-20-2004, 10:11am
I HATE the Yankees and I am looking forward to seeing them go down today at the hands of the Red Sox!
Just a little mando content...I agree "Take Me Out To The Ball Game" is fun to play and Didn't Chris Thile have baseball related titles for his first two solo albums? So the mandolin and baseball are indeed closely related...and it was fun to watch the wheels fall off the Evil Empire and watch the umps being forced to make the correct calls...hopefully there will be no more "Jeffery Mayer Incidents."
Wando
Oct-20-2004, 10:44am
Mando content: I realized that I am in control of what happens to the Red Sox. It depends on what I'm playing on my mando or bass. My tune selection last night was good, although once or twice I picked the wrong tune (I was being too jazzy when Bernie hit his dinger). I will be warmed up and ready tonight. Go Sox!
Tom C
Oct-20-2004, 11:06am
I'm a Met fan so this was a tough one to root for. I think Houston vs Sox. However, if the Yankees win, it will be the biggest blow to Boston since '86.
yanks fan living in new england- a fascinating experience. hope the yankees win, but either way a great series and shilling (much as i disliked his great performance) is a true baseball hero.
ira
ps- mando content! take me out to the ballgame is fun to do in tremolo the whole way or as a bluesy tune with some bends and slides.
Scott Tichenor
Oct-20-2004, 11:18am
Moderator!
Moderator looking other direction.
As long as no peanuts or beer are spilled OK to continue. After all, Jethro, Sam Bush and Don Stiernberg have recorded "Take Me Out To The Ballgame". But remember, when I start my Tour de France thread next year that'll have most of you scratching your heads saying "what's that?", I'll be quick to point out this thread.
God bless Yaz.
Speaking of baseball, do you think steroids would help me play my mandolin faster? http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif #http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif #http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif
GVD
Tom C
Oct-20-2004, 11:29am
Great thread for exception Scott.
You know Sam is just sitting in front of that TV picking tunes to the <span style='color:red'>St Louis Cards.</span>
Darryl Wolfe
Oct-20-2004, 11:58am
Although not a fan of any particular team, I would like to see the Sox win tonight. I hope my strange method of looking at chances/odds prevails. I always figure that "if it's never been done before" ..then chances are on your side that the streak or whatever is due to be broken.
mandoryan
Oct-20-2004, 12:38pm
Sox all the way baby!!! I am torn with Houston playing though. I would really like to see Clemens and the boys get a Series title. The Red Sox deserve it though. I just hope they don't choke tonight.
Just a little mando content...I agree "Take Me Out To The Ball Game" is fun to play and Didn't Chris Thile have baseball related titles for his first two solo albums? So the mandolin and baseball are indeed closely related...and it was fun to watch the wheels fall off the Evil Empire and watch the umps being forced to make the correct calls...hopefully there will be no more "Jeffery Mayer Incidents."
One of his ancestors was a pro ball player I think. My CD is in the car but I am pretty sure he had a song for him on his Not All Who Wander CD. His first two CD's Leading Off and Stealing Second were baseball inspired.
Bob DeVellis
Oct-20-2004, 1:06pm
Both teams must be thoroughly whipped after the series thus far. Tonight should be very interesting -- maybe too interesting. There have already been a few moments in the AL championship series I didn't think I was going to survive. I'm not the world's most avid sports fan (major understatement) but the Bosox having a shot has definitely gotten my attention big time. I can remember seeing Ted Williams play at Fenway as a kid. Lots of years of hoping. Hey, even if they lose, they've done themselves credit thus far. Actually, same goes for the Yanks. Both teams have played great ball.
JGWoods
Oct-20-2004, 1:17pm
Mando multitasker here- I watch Sox and play mando at the same time, cuts down on hearing the boorish announcers, and, because they run additional advertising between innings you can work on your 3 minute versions of your songs instead of the 2 minute version.
As much as any Red Sox fan wants to win, so many years of never quite getting there allows us to be satisfied as long as the Yankees lose to somebody- so last year had a happy ending.
Would I give up my mandolin to see them win?
nope.
jgwoods
mrmando
Oct-20-2004, 1:24pm
mando contet: I had my mando, fiddle and bodhran with me last night in the Seattle airport, watching the Sox game while waiting for my plane. Another person watching the game turned out to be Scottish fiddling champion Hanneke Cassel (http://www.hannekecassel.com/), on her way home to Boston from a gig!
Baron Collins-Hill
Oct-20-2004, 1:30pm
boy, this was a while back, but has anyone ever heard "take me out to the ball game" by steve goodman. great stuff, he plays mando, mandola, octave, its really cool, but its a pretty old tape ive got. also theres a song on it called talk backwards that is crazyness
dasspunk
Oct-20-2004, 1:47pm
I hate the Yankees but I really hate the sox. I'd give up one of my mandolins if both could loose but since they can't, I'm embarassed to say...
Go Yankees http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif
Cubs 2005!
David Horovitz
Oct-20-2004, 1:52pm
I'll take your A-model, dasspunk!
Go Red Sox! http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif
John Flynn
Oct-20-2004, 1:58pm
So much for the Sox and the Yankees. I say, "Go Cardinals!"
Just BTW, my informal, unscientific content research (including now the Mandolin Cafe') shows that the AL playoffs have been getting a lot more online media coverage than the NL playoffs.
mandodebbie
Oct-20-2004, 2:53pm
Ok, fellas! Enough of this Sox talk. There's ladies present.:)
Cardinal fan here, so I have been too busy
bemoaning our losing three in a row to pay much
attention to the junior league.
However I did catch the end of last nights game and while I don't like either team, I had been leaning towards rooting for the Sox just cuz I dislike the Yanks more. However, when the Yank fans started throwing stuff on the field last night, that sealed the deal. Go Sox!
Here's hoping for an all Red World Series.
Dunno if I'd qualify as a lady, but I definitely ain't no fella, so I say the Sox talk can stay ;)
However I did catch the end of last nights game and while I don't like either team, I had been leaning towards rooting for the Sox just cuz I dislike the Yanks more. #However, when the Yank fans started throwing stuff on the field last night, that sealed the deal. #Go Sox!
Ah yes Yankee fans throwing stuff on the field and acting like idiots because the umps made the right call. But I guess that's OK since they're always the first to proclaim themselves the "Greatest Fans in the World".
GVD
If Sox win, all their mystic will be gone and they will be just like any other team (except Cubs). The fans won't have anybody to get mad at.
jefflester
Oct-20-2004, 3:30pm
... and Didn't Chris Thile have baseball related titles for his first two solo albums?
One of his ancestors was a pro ball player I think. #My CD is in the car but I am pretty sure he had a song for him on his Not All Who Wander CD.
Big Sam Thompson
http://www.thebaseballpage.com/past/pp/thompsonsam/
He held the career home run record until some dude named Babe Ruth broke it. :-)
mando bandage
Oct-20-2004, 4:02pm
In the ALCS, may the team with the most hair win.
In the NLCS, Mando Johnny, I'm with you and the Cards. My wife is from StL. and a fan. Better still, her grandmother, at age 100, used to kick us out of her house when the ballgame came on. With lineage like that in the family, better root for the Cards if they get to the Series as well.
R
Spruce
Oct-20-2004, 5:16pm
EDMUNDS IS MOBBED AT THE PLATE!!!
What a bunch of great baseball games these have been....
handpicked
Oct-20-2004, 6:41pm
Yee-ha....6-0 Sox in the 2nd inning!
fatt-dad
Oct-20-2004, 6:53pm
They're advertising for GM Trucks!
(oh yeah it's now 6-1)
mandoJeremy
Oct-20-2004, 8:45pm
Oh yes, I feel it coming! 9th inning! Oh yeah.
Django Fret
Oct-20-2004, 9:08pm
Red Sox, can’t believe that you won!
Beating Yankees must be so much fun.
Time to call in a hearse?
To cart off that curse?
Just four more wins and it’s done!
mandoJeremy
Oct-20-2004, 9:08pm
Who's YOUR daddy? I am guessing Johnny Damon! Go Sox all the way!
mandoryan
Oct-20-2004, 9:25pm
that's what I'm talking about. Johnny pulls through. Two homers and one a g-slam!!!!!! Yeah....!!!!!
I am stunned. I cannot believe what I just saw on TV. Paradigm shift...
As a long suffering Sox fan I feel like I fallen into an alternative universe.
This will take some time to absorb. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif
Hey Sox fans- I've been documenting last year's ALCS and this year's in the haiku section, putting my Red Sox emotions into verse with mando references.
Please see the latest update and previous entries.
I was at Sunday's game- UNBELIEVABLE!
I'm just blown away.
Neal
Michael Lewis
Oct-20-2004, 11:45pm
What an exciting series!!! Implausible as it seems, the Red Sox beat the Yankees! Or should I say that the Yankees lost to the Red Sox. There was some great baseball played, but there were many missed opportunities on both sides. I hope the World Series is as good. Maybe they will get Chris or Sam to play the national anthem, it could happen. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif
OdnamNool
Oct-21-2004, 2:20am
(mando content): Funny! The latest song I've been workin' on is, "Please Come to Boston." Great tune... Great series...
What are these days coming to when you can't even buy a penant?
And Sox fans, you still need to get by the 'stros or cards.
Boo!
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phynie
Oct-21-2004, 6:05am
woooohoooo! go sox!
Larry Simonson
Oct-21-2004, 6:26am
I picked for 9 innings last night and it seemed the harder I picked, the better the Red Sox did so I encourage every mando player out there to pick like crazy during all the Series games and let us bring a world title to Boston (to go along with our Superbowl title)
Lane Pryce
Oct-21-2004, 7:00am
Curse Busters http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif Lp
J. Mark Lane's quote:
"They'll never win four in a row against our home team.
GO YANKS!"
Never say never!!!!!! Go Sox!!!!!!!!
ChrisWallace
Oct-21-2004, 9:02am
I started the game pickin Turkey in the Straw and I thought that if I changed the tune...the Sox might lose the game. I picked that song for four straight hours last night.
I realize that may be indicative of a problem but, hey...anything to help the cause!! http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif
GO SOX!!!
ronlane3
Oct-21-2004, 9:08am
hmmmm, seems that the Yanks fans got aweful quiet. or is it just me?
fatt-dad
Oct-21-2004, 9:39am
(so chriswallace lives alone) I tried playing through the game also, but alas, there was too much complaining to hear what I was noodlin through.
Spruce
Oct-21-2004, 9:45am
"hmmmm, seems that the Yanks fans got aweful quiet."
Three outs away from a sweep of their arch-rivals, and they wind up losing the series at home...
Mount Steinbrenner is gonna blow any second now... http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif
mandoryan
Oct-21-2004, 10:19am
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mandopete
Oct-21-2004, 11:02am
God bless Yaz.
I was at Berklee College of Music in 1975 when the greatest World Series set of all time was played between the Red Sox and the Cincinatti Reds. #The college dormitory is spitting distance from Fenway Park and I recall vividly the cheering as the Sox won game 6.
Since that time almost 30 years ago I've endured the collapse of 1978, the Bill Buckner incident in 1986 and a drought of 18 years to get to where we are right now. #Those others here who have endured understand this as do all who belong to Red Sox Nation.
God Bless The Spendlid Splinter
God Bless Pudge
.....and Bruce Hurst and Dewey and Jim Rice and Freddy Lynn and Needle Nose.
Tom C
Oct-21-2004, 11:16am
Even with the Buckner incident, the Mets should not have even made it that close. They were the best team that year that was in a slump come the WS.
-Also the cockiest where they physically beatup on the opponents. -Remember Ray Knight sliding into 3rd and Eric Davis nudged him and Knight just popped hin one? Or when a pitcher beaned a batter and Stawberry charged the mound from the dugout? Plus don't forget that they choked allowing 3 hits in a row before theBukner vaporlock. -Fate. Sox still will lose this year. It's in their blood. Who wants to bet a pac rim mando?
yoods
Oct-21-2004, 11:55am
Mando content: "On the Road to Boston" or "Road to Boston".
It was interesting last night to watch Jeter's face ticks lessened as the night went on. He knew the 1918 Babe curse was fading as the innings went by. The Sox passed the Yanks FINALLY when it counted.
mandroid
Oct-21-2004, 12:08pm
Boston v. Houston in 04? [insert analogy here] http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif
J. Mark Lane
Oct-21-2004, 1:07pm
J. Mark Lane's quote:
"They'll never win four in a row against our home team.
GO YANKS!" #
Never say never!!!!!! #Go Sox!!!!!!!!
<grumble>
Last night, even before the game, when I came home my 28 month old daughter ran to the door to greet me, and while it is usually "Hi Daddy!", last night she said "Daddy, Go Red Sox!" What? "No, sweety, Go Yankees!" Puzzled, she looks up and says, "YOU say Go Yankees, I say Go Red Sox" (actually "Go Ressoks"). My child has been corrupted.
My wife, who taught her this nonsense, now will *not* shut up. She even came to my office today, walked in and announced to everyone "Go Red Sox!"
Anyone know a good divorce lawyer?
<grumble>
Mark
Mark,
I'll take it that the college fund is now being considered for the purchase of a new mando? :-)
J. Mark Lane
Oct-21-2004, 1:59pm
Yeah, my daughter's food money is going to that, too. That oughta teach her....
Mark
mad dawg
Oct-21-2004, 2:15pm
They still have four more games to win before the curse is officially lifted, but I hope they do it.
(But just wait until next year, when the upstart A's finally get out of the first round!)
ronlane3
Oct-21-2004, 2:57pm
Okay Mark, I'll back off that is punishment enough having your daughter pick on you like that.
Karen Kay
Oct-21-2004, 4:03pm
In the immortal words of Sammy Bush:
Hey Ozzie.................!!!!
TheNaivePicker
Oct-21-2004, 4:18pm
Ahh Yes,The series. Exciting thing it was. The Red Socks won. Yay.
Frankly, I didnt want the Yankees to win. But Thats just me. lol. I didnt get to watch the game though, I was too busy watching that New Series on ABC, Lost. Man that show is starting to give me the creeps, Im hooked. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
#I was also browsing around CMT and MTV. Im was watching Laguna Beach and Kristen was mad at Steven for going to a fashion show with Lauren... and so Kristen is totally crushing on this other dude. #http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif
Oh the horror.
yanks fan in boston here. bummed with the loss, decided shilling should play football instead of baseball (aren't you supposed to take a week off for a hangnail in baseball?), impressed with the intensity of the series through six, amazed at the lack of clutch hit and pitch in the 7th. overall, oh well...its just a game! mando wise- last night gave me an excuse to practice (rare during the past week).
John Flynn
Oct-21-2004, 6:55pm
I am surprised no one has mentioned the tunes "Boston Boy" and "Goodbye Girls, I'm Goin' to Boston."
ShaneJ
Oct-21-2004, 7:24pm
Not at Busch Stadium right now, Johnny? Dang! I'm watching on TV. I like the Cards, but I gotta root for the Stros. A Texas vs. Boston World Series seems fitting this year.
Woohoo!!!! What a great NLCS. Here's to hoping the curse of the Bambino is not over http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif
mandoJeremy
Oct-21-2004, 8:29pm
I am still pulling for the Sox overall but I was impressed to see the Cards win (only because Sam loves them!). Sox all the way though!
Professor PT
Oct-21-2004, 9:12pm
I'm not a big sports fan, but man, I hate the Yankees. I'm so thrilled they were beat by Boston. I grew up as a Cubs fan, so I know what it's like to root for a losing team. I still remember in fifth grade when I wore my new Cubs cap and matching jacket with the logo on the front, and an eighth grader yelled out, "Hey kid, Cubs suck!" Now if only the Cubbies could pull through for me...last year was depressing.
What a shame of what happened to that girl getting shot by police projectile.
Why do people riot and get crazy after a big win? It happens in almost every city but never, ever happens here in NY. -Go Cards
Come on St Louis. Wouldn't that be great to see them win 4 straight now?
Boo....
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mandoJeremy
Oct-27-2004, 9:47am
I call a sweep by the Sox! Go Sox!
Staramouche
Oct-27-2004, 9:49am
The Power of BABE Compels You.....The power of Babe compels you...the power of babe compels you.....
Is it getting cold in here?
I'm a Met fan so I'm used to rooting for <s>losers</s> underdogs.
TeleMark
Oct-27-2004, 1:24pm
Come on St Louis. Wouldn't that be great to see them win 4 straight now?
Boo....
No chance! I've been wearing my Sox cap and pickin' Boston Boy every game, and they haven't lost! It must be me!!!
TeleMark
David Landgraf
Oct-27-2004, 1:32pm
Well I've been wearin' my Card's cap and playing "Meet me in St. Louis" and that hasn't helped a BIT! Go Cards......at least let the Sox win it at home.
Almost time to see if the Cards are through or not. BTW, go Sox!
mandoJeremy
Oct-27-2004, 8:45pm
That's what I'm talking about!!!!!!!! Can you say sweep to end it all? And yes there are Red Sox fans here in North Carolina! Just loving it! Can you say domination?
Scott Tichenor
Oct-27-2004, 8:49pm
SOX!
J. Mark Lane
Oct-27-2004, 8:57pm
I would say a word that sounds a lot like that, but has a "u" in the middle.
Mark
jasona
Oct-27-2004, 10:35pm
Well, now that the Sox have won it again, can the Cubbies' turn be far behind?
Congrats Boston! Some amazing baseball was played this October.
(Now if only the NHL strike would get resolved *grumbles*)
The curse has been lifted.....
mandopete
Oct-28-2004, 7:19am
...and one picture is worth 1000 words.
JD Cowles
Oct-28-2004, 11:37am
i wonder how many of those free agents will be wearing pinstripes next year...
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well, 86 more years..... #http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
mandroid
Oct-29-2004, 11:42pm
They gonna let the Bambino R.I.P. , now?
put down that wooden stake Mr Harker!
OdnamNool
Oct-30-2004, 3:20am
AHA! #For once...for once... #I saw it!
That plucky-Pete-disappearing-technique... I just wish I would've caught the (in)famous one... #Flash it to me one of these times! #Heh heh...
jmcgann
Mar-06-2006, 9:14am
OK- let's do it again! Even if the Yankees have Damon- they have Bellhorn too http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif
We live in interesting times! http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/blues.gif
I hope Damon is a bust, Big unit shrivels, Jeter floundlers, Sheffield slumps, Then I will not mind so much when they keep making the back pages.
It's utterly how rediculous how much ball players get paid. Even very medioca players make 5 million a year. Like my Metzies, Carlos Beltran, lifetime .270 hitter, a solid player, but no way a superstar makes 12 million a year. Wagner who averages 90 innings a year will end up getting $100,00 per inning.And the worst they are and less they pitch they get paid more per inning. What a life. So if you catch a valuble ball hold out for $$ at all costs. I used to like this game but watching so many loosers make so much money is frustrating. doen with my ranting. A lot of nice mandos can be had for a fraction of what these clowns make.