Korean Job Discussion Forums

MANDRL · Joined: 13 Oct 2006 Location: South Korea

As a Dolphins fan, I loathe seeing Red Sox fans happy and cheering. Even though the Rockies are getting pounded right now, I still like them in 6 games. Beckett is just not hittable, so any time he takes the mound in the playoffs they should just give him the 'w' and move to the next game. The Rockies probably have some cobwebs after being off for so many days, if they can pull out game 2, the series in Colorado will be a whole different series. The Rockies are amazing at home. Let's go National League West!

Alyallen · Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 7:28 pm Post subject:

13-1 in the 7th....DAMN Shocked

Go Rox!

*beep* you Sox!

tomwaits · Joined: 05 Feb 2003 Location: PC Bong

So you guys are drinking the coffee watching this in Korea, ?,

I'm a Sox fan but cautiously optimistic now. Rockies were smacking the ball off Beckeett early (not much results of course) but Bosox pitching gets very dodgy from here. Schilling and Dice-K are capable of throwing some real dogs and with no DH in Denver it could be tough.

Might be a classic series despit e the blowout tonite. .

RTeacher how old a Sox fan are you? I lived through the debacles of 78 and 86. (Alarming thought---I must be getting old.) I like them winning though and money is no guarantee of winning.--as the Yankees (and O's and Dodgers and Mets keep proving every year.) I'll take the World Series.

karma police · Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 4:02 am Post subject:

red sucks nation, i'd say! Laughing

Rteacher · Joined: 23 May 2005 Location: Western MA, USA

I graduated from high school in 1967 (the year they lost to the Pirates in a great 7-game Series.)

As a kid, I think I listened (or watched - but they weren't on TV much back then) to practically every Red Sox game over a ten year stretch - even when they played on the west coast ...

I saw Ted Williams hit his last home run at Fenway, and I had a baseball personally autographed by Carl Yastrzemski (which I somehow gave away to my best friend, who later became a sports columnist for a major newspaper ...)

Now, I'm pretty detached - so much so that I wouldn't have minded much if Cleveland made it to the Series this year. (Major Leagues would probably have gotten a lot of airplay again ...)

tomwaits · Joined: 05 Feb 2003 Location: PC Bong

Those no-name bums with the purple uniforms are now toast...

And what TF is Mountain Time anyway.

Good riiddance to rhese no-name jokers.

cbclark4 · Joined: 20 Aug 2006 Location: Masan

Red Sox rally, take 2-0 series lead

BOSTON (AP) - There's more than one way to rough up the Rockies.
Boston's big bats battered them in the World Series opener. Then October ace Curt Schilling and a stingy bullpen shut down Colorado in Game 2.
Relying more on guile than pure gas, Schilling pitched Boston to a 2-1 victory Thursday night and a 2-0 lead in the World Series over the suddenly stagnant Rockies.

"I'm actually ecstatic with the way we're playing," Boston third baseman Mike Lowell said. "We're on the verge of winning a World Series."

Lowell hit a tiebreaking double in the fifth and the Red Sox got 3 2-3 innings of shutout relief from Hideki Okajima and Jonathan Papelbon to win their sixth straight Series game, including a sweep of St. Louis in 2004.

That victory ended an 86-year title drought and set off a wild winter of celebrations all over New England. Two more wins this year and the party's on again.

"This was the Pap-ajima show tonight," Schilling said. "That was just phenomenal to watch."

The Series shifts to spacious Coors Field for Game 3 on Saturday night, when $103 million rookie Daisuke Matsuzaka pitches for Boston against Josh Fogg.

http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/7376962?MSNHPHMA

cbclark4 · Joined: 20 Aug 2006 Location: Masan

Rteacher · Joined: 23 May 2005 Location: Western MA, USA

Yeah, the Red Sox are now every bit as dominating as the Yankees were from 1998 - 2000. They've won 7 straight World Series games (since losing that 7th game heartbreaker to the Mets back in 1986 ...)

Of course, they spend more than the combined payrolls of Colorado and Cleveland combined. They spent $143 million this year - not counting the $50 million they paid just to negotiate with today's winning pitcher, Daisuke Matsuzaka. (The Rockies and Indians combined payroll is $115 million...)

Although many fans expressed their hate for the "damned Yankees", over much of the last century, I think that having a star-studded franchise in the biggest media city was a good thing for the game overall. It was always special when the Yankees came to town, and to actually beat them once in a while was very satisfying achievement.

This is a radical departure from the Sox past history of epic failures, but their present execs want to portray them as nice guys compared to the Yanks' "Evil Empire" ... http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/playoffs2007/columns/story?columnist=bryant_howard&id=3083430