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I'm going to give the advantage to Boston on the pitching, if only because Wakefield can stand up and throw four or five innings at the drop of a hat.

Not that it matters. Yankees in 6, damnit.

(Two great games last night, though. Wow.)

Fashion update
 

Never heard either of these terms. Are they the same as a "pooch?"

TM

Sox/Yankees
 

Every member of Red Sox Nation was doing a Terry Francona imitation last night - bobbing back and forth like Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man. Big Papi is a very good hitter, very good hitter.

The collective pitching has been amazing, with the exception of the Red Sox in Game 3.

I hope the game gets rained out tonight. I need some sleep. I'm sure the teams, especially the pitching staff, would like a day off too.

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Boston's. They always have Wakefield to just eat up innings. Just don't put him in in extra innings in a Game 7 at Yankee stadium.

Yankees? Pathetic.
World record for stranded runners?
Clutch hitting is gone

TM

Fashion update
 

Since a number of you have questioned.....

FUPA = Fat Upper Pussy Area
Gunt = Gut + Cunt

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Mo blows two saves? Wow.
But four Sox wins in a row
are doubtful, at best.

Yanks in 6.

Britney Spears
 

Or, from Nearly Famous, "To boldly go where many men have gone before..."

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Maybe you should consider moving to Canada.

Increasing hotness, one post at a time
 

Dissent.

Fashion update
 

I am not sure that this is what ABBA is doing here, but I have heard "question" used as a synonym for "ask" a number of times recently. Is this some new linguistic trend I don't know about? Is it even correct? "I questioned him what time it was."

Sleepwalking
 

Apropos of this, NotMe gave much the same explanation as you.

Fashion update
 

I've clearly been working too much. Before you explained this, I thought you were referring to an act of the Congress.

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Doesn't "questioned" imply some authority-derived right to expect an answer? One might question a witness, then, at a break, ask the court reporter if she'd like to go on a date.

Fashion update
 

Do you really want to piss me off today? REALLY!!?????

Fashion update
 

FUPAs should be outlawed, so go ahead and contact your Congressman/Congresswoman.

Fashion update
 

Are you asking him or questioning him?*


*I'm just trying to keep this all straight.

Observation while watching baseball commercials
 

I don't. But I do like the "Always on my mind" jeans commercial. It's like that sneaky guy fools me every time.

Fashion update
 

Exactly.

More Trim, less FUPA.

aV

Fashion update
 

Well, yes, there is the "interrogation" meaning, like you describe. There is also the meaning that implies skepticism: "I question whether she was really able to have sex while asleep." But, it just seems incorrect, or at least archaic, to use "question" as a synonym for "ask." But, I'll say no more about this because I REALLY do not want to get on ABBA'a bad side!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fashion update
 

They would have to pry the FUPA out of Heston's cold dead hands.

Fashion update
 

I'm sorry to inform you, but queen on the throne today is Elizabeth II, not Elizabeth I.

Observation while watching baseball commercials
 

I don't recall either commercial. I can't stand the Emerald Nuts commercials. They're good ('cause now I know what Emerald Nuts are), but incredibly annoying.

Anne
I won't be driving with any Egyptian Navigators .

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I'm not going to blame Mariano for last night. Gordon blew that on his own. You ask too much when you expect Mariano to strike out the side when you bring him in with runners on first and third and no outs. He got out of that while only giving up a sac fly. Wow, indeed.

I think the Yankees re-energize at home. Although, I wonder what Schilling has. I wouldn't put it past Francona to bring Schilling in at 80% because (i) he thinks it will lift the team and (ii) who else is he going to start?

Either way, this is how it should be. A knock-down, drag-out, dirty fucking fight to the end. A sweep would have been great, but a close, hard-fought series is what it's all about.

Thurgreed(besides, I have tickets to Game 7)Marshall

Fashion update
 

What does this mean? That "question" is now a synonym for "ask"? That this happened when Lizzy II ascended to the throne? And shouldn't the above more correctly read "I'm sorry to inform you that the queen on the throne today is Elizabeth II, not Elizabeth I"? I question you what part of speech prerogative is. Has everything been translated into Elven, or is this some other fake language that you are all using?

Observation while watching baseball commercials
 

I also like the one with the guy who goes nocturnal to save on his bill, especially the part where he's taken over a fence by an attacking guard dog. Good times.

Familiarly,
Encouraging Norwegians

Fashion update
 

It'll probably never pass the Senate.

http://www.la4israel.org/images/fat-hillary-clinton.jpg

(I miss Penske. *sniff*)

Fashion update
 

How do you understand the words in that music you listen to?

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Yeah, I know. However, the haiku form doesn't seem to have a whole lot of room for nuance. (The real answer is that the game went on for so freaking long after that that I forgot that Rivera was kind of hung out to dry. I just remember that the run came in while he was on the mound. Sorry, Mariano.)

80% is generous. His tendon is flopping around like a wet noodle. As one of Big Ed's customers put it yesterday, it is an act of faith (in the religious sense) to think that Schilling will give them any quality innings. I wonder if we will we see Derek Lowe or Wakefield before the end of the first.

Pray for rain if you want to see Game 7. And I agree that the heartbreak of almost coming back, instead of being swept, is much more in the Red Sox oeuvre.

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Schilling pitching tonight makes me very nervous. This is not the time of year to be experimenting. Then again, is there anybody else left onthe pitching staff with more than 3 innings in their arm?

The Sox need to raise our hopes before smashing them. That's what it's like being a Sox fan, we come soooooo close and then pffft it's over and we're left mumbling into our plastic cups of Sam Adams little snippets about 'next year', 'lousy umpires' and 'fucking Yankees'.

If we have to lose in the ALCS it better be to the Yankees. Playing the Twins just wouldn't have been the same win or lose. The only way to get this monkey off our back is go through New York. Hopefully Game 6 will be another battle. I'd love to see Game 7, obviously not for the same reason as Thurgreed.

Fashion update
 

My apologies. I did not realize you were rapping.

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Wakefield. But do you continue to leave Varitek in to catch him in a close game?

TM

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Good point. The yankees were inches away from winning the game on 4 passed balls (and a walk, but not really). That would have been a classic Red Sox way to lose.

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If Francona wants to use him for more than an out or two, Mirabelli should catch. I held my breath too often last night.

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Mirabelli should have been in from the first pitch. Mussina owns Varitek. If Wake throws one more knuckle that Varitek drops, Francona gets stoned (and not in a good way).

Why is Damon still leading off?

Why is Bellhorn even playing?

Is Tom Gordon cooked?

It's gonna be fun.

TM

Fashion update
 

Oh please. Question is a totally different word, you catty little freak. It's like an expressing doubt thing. Question doesn't have an object when used like ABBA was using it. You have to ask a person, whereas people were just saying, hey, I don't agree that low-rise pants are flattering to everyone. They weren't asking, "ABBA, are low-rise pants really flattering to everyone?"

You are so stupid with your stirring up of useless dissent. And if you start getting really cold in your office, don't look at me and my new portable heater from Bed Bath & Beyond. I'm sure it's not my thermostat that's making your office cold.

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Yup.
Don't know.
I REALLY don't know, we have several other solid defensive infielders to call on.
Don't know.

Francona played with the lineup all season long, why is he sticking to his guns now?

Yes, it will be fun. How's the weather down there?

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disclaimer: I never faced ML pitching, or played in a baseball playoff game at any level, but how could 2 guys in a row not be able to get a bunt down? Have simple fundamentals become that rare, or was that a fluke. TV guys said Damon was the Sox best bunter- maybe they should stop trying.

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This happens to me all the time. Often, it turns out that both the Mr. and I are asleep, because we'll both wake up sort of in the middle and later accuse each other of nocturnal molestation. So it is entirely unclear who starts it (we both talk (I apparently negotiate in my sleep when I am working enough hours), but neither of us is a sleepwalker). In any event, it has never been so disorienting that we don't happily continue.

Friday Night Lights
 

It was very good. Yay! I saw it last night. Mr. Lunchbox Collector, however, needs to stop living back in the day when he (well, his team) won the state high school football championships. He could relate to the movie a bit too much, I'm afraid. I give the film a B++ Also, if you go to the theater by yourself on a monday night, you are a freak. Particularly if it is only you (the single freak) and Sunny and the Lunchbox collector in the movie theater and you ketp up 4 times and change your seat during the movie.

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Yes, this was pitiful.