TB 3, BOS 1: Tampa advances to World Series

Congratulations to the Tampa Bay Rays. Any baseball fan has to enjoy this story of this young group making it to the biggest stage. Even though Boston did not pull it off again this season like 2004 and 2007 this season was enjoyable.

10/18: Do or Die Pt. II

2008 ALCS Game Six. Victory may seem unlikely, but the Red Sox have not claimed a championship title in the last ninety years without first digging themselves a 1-3 (or worse) hole in the ALCS, and then climbing out of it on their way to a World Series sweep. (The comment behavior is a little funky. Do not worry, when you hit submit, even if it times out for you, the comment went through. Just reload the comments page!)

Fireside Chats #26: Where we hope the real Josh Beckett shows up tonight

There’s never a dull moment when the Red Sox are in the playoffs and there’s never a dull moment on Fireside Chats! Paul and Tim break down the first five games of the ALCS and look forward to Game 6 and hope for a Game 7.
All that and more on Episode #26 of Fireside Chats at MVN!

Beckett takes hill tonight in must-win

Taking the hill tonight is, of course, Josh Beckett. The Beckett taking the hill is most certainly not one that we expected to take the hill this October — this one has a lot of questions surrounding him.

Keys to send the ALCS back to Tampa

The Dice-Man – Evan Brunell

How do we get this series back to Tampa? Let’s not concern ourselves at the moment with the specter of two games in Tampa Bay with [...]

Death of a Nation; Red Sox fans resemble Willy Lohman after game 4 loss.

Note:I am going to post a few rants throughout the day today.
Part 1:

Devastated. I think that
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TB 13, BOS 4: Sox pounded

Tim Wakefield got shelled early and the trend continued as the Tampa Bay Rays now have a 3-1 lead over the Boston Red Sox in the ALCS.
The Rays hitters scored [...]

TB 9, BOS 1: Upton, Baldelli ring out Sox

B. J. Upton and Rocco Baldelli both belted three-run home runs in the Rays 9-1 win over Boston to take a 2-1 lead in the ALCS.
Jon Lester only lasted 5 [...]

10/13: Back at Home

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Oct. 13

GAME 3 – ALCS

2008

Matt Garza (0-1, 7.50 @ Jon Lester (1-0, 0.00)
Fenway Park (Boston, MA)
4:37 PM EDT, TBS

2B Akinori Iwamura

CF Jacoby Ellsbury

CF B.J. Upton

2B Dustin Pedroia

1B Carlos Pena

DH David [...]

Minor line-up change for Sox

Game thread coming around 3ish. Francona is sticking with Jacoby and Kotsay
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