Game 1: NYY
Prediction:
Game 2: BOS (If Pedro plays upto 7th innings)
Game 3: BOS
Game 4: BOS (If Curt Schilling's pitching) else NYY
Game 5: NYY
Game 6: BOS
If Curt Shilling's knee doesnt get better then NYY will win game 4
Game 7: BOS (cause Curt Schilling will definitely play this one)

BOS: 4 NYY: 2
BOS: 4 NYY: 3 (If Curt Schilling does not play game 4)
Mussina pitches again at game 5 so they will win. NYY ain't got no pitching line up. Great defence is always better than great Offence. And Boston has both end pretty lined up. Anyways, let's see all ya predictions too.

Bravo Bravo!!! One Red Sox fan have a guts to come out after losing first game. everybody else seems to have gone to cave.

Pedro and you red suckers going to find out WHO'S YOUR DADDY


ubiquitous said "Great defence is always better than great Offence."
>>> dude do you even know what you talking about??? how long have you been watching the game??? do you know why boston red suckers need to change player in the first base and short stop during the late innings coz they are not good fielders. Your own Manny Ramirez topped the list as the worst defensive outfielder

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2004/scorecard/10/13/defense.outfield/index.html

they are 9th in fielding dept in AL. fielding stats:
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/statistics?stat=teamfield&league=al


make sure you know what you talking about.

Yankees got both pitching and batting and oh yeah the WILLPOWER TO WIN unlike you 2nd class baseball citizen past 86 years. Ask AROD, the best shortstop in the league was willing to play 3rd base so Captain DJ2 can continue play short stop positionýý request your GM to hire a good manager. Ex Yankees manager Lou Pinella might be available.This new francona dude is same like grady

if you are red sox fans and have kid(s), please do not torture them making Red Sox fans. They are not going to see Red Sox winning Championship like yourself.

bambino curse is still on ........

LETS GO YANKEES
p.s derek jeter is hott.. yeah he is cocky i know.. but hes allowed!

Go yankees. Yankees helding the Red Sox to one run and winning with 3-1 in the first game explained everything. Wat to go yankees

Yo! AX, Don't give me that links which doesn't say shit about the real team. I can give you hundreds of link saying BOS is better than NYY. Just read this one:
http://msn.foxsports.com/story?contentId=3076020
I know Ramirez ain't a good fielder but our short stop "Cabrera" and Pitching line up is pretty good. The whole game is in the hand of a pitcher thats why i was saying we have a good defence as a pitcher. It was our Offence which was pathetic for these two days. By the way, HOW LONG HAVE YOU WATCHING BASEBALL bro? You said they have a good pitching line up???? damn after mussina... i don't see even a medium ranked pitcher in this line up and you say they the best. Damn!!!! Just cause they were lucky in two games means they are the best. How about Subway series, MET's kicked their ass.. so u say METs are better than YAnkees. See the whole pitching carrer dawg... BOS has it all.. Curt Schilling's knee was another problem.. and our Offence was pathetic this two games... but they ain't done. I know they will fight back in their Crib. And, as you said Derek Jeter as a best Short Stop... so overrated!!! May the best Team win.

Yanks--Whoz your Daddy?

Bosox--You are my Daddy. :(

OK, enough drama lets get to work.

October what???

Given the fact that it was almost certain that Yanks and Sox would make the playoffs; it doesnt matter what they do in September. Like someone said..It doesnt matter how you begin, it matters how you finsih!!

Bosox were owned by the Yanks and thats an understatement.Of Course the BoSox bullpen looks better on paper but guess what they were hammered in the first two games.

This is what BoSox had to to win this series:
--Win game 1&2 with their ace pitchers, which they havent

--Atleast win one from Yanks stadium...and they werent even close..

-- Lieber/Mussina have outdueled PEdro/Schilling..

I dont know how Bosox are gonnna come back and win it all..All i see is Pedro..wearing Pin Stripes next year..

Yanks in game 5 or 6

btw, Houston lost its first game with St. Louis:( 10 -7 :(

Ubiquitous said ýYo! AX, Don't give me that links which doesn't say shit about the real team. I can give you hundreds of link saying BOS is better than NYY. Just read this one:ý
http://msn.foxsports.com/story?contentId=3076020
>>> Bro I gave you the stat link not any garbage link that you posted above. Itýs a fact many is one of the worst outfielder. If you guys didnýt have another worse fielder in the universe aka Ortiz, Manny would be DHing.

You also said ýI know Ramirez ain't a good fielder but our short stop "Cabrera"
>>> Cabrera is a good shortstop but he hardly hits the ball. He is an offensive liability for Red Sox. He won one gold globe in 2000(???) with Expos thatýs all. I will take Nomar's bat over Carbera's glove anytime. Nomar was the heart and soul of that team and you shouldn't diss your farm talent like that.

You said ýand Pitching line up is pretty good. The whole game is in the hand of a pitcher thats why i was saying we have a good defence as a pitcher.ý
>>> I guess you donýt know what differences between fielding and pitching good areý.. I am kinda lost here. Your pitching fields the best??? If thatýs what you talking, bro Mussina is the best that there is he has won 4 gold gloves. If you are talking about pitching only, Red Sox are better than NY Yankees. I told before the season started and I still believe that.


You also said ýBy the way, HOW LONG HAVE YOU WATCHING BASEBALL bro? You said they have a good pitching line up???? damn after mussina... i don't see even a medium ranked pitcher in this line up and you say they the best. Damn!!!! Just cause they were lucky in two games means they are the best.ý
I guess you donýt watch any games beside Red Sox. Leiber won 20 games before the tommy john surgery. Kevin brown is a solid pitcher who won the championship with Florida and still one of the best strikes out pitcher. I am sure you know about El Duque (I wish he could pitch in this series), he beat out red Sox twice at the end of the season. Vazquez is a young prodigy and was in the all star game. Loaiza finished 2nd in cy young ballot last year. Please do some researches before you say anything??? Itýs not that you can say anything if you donýt know.


You said ýSee the whole pitching carrer dawg... BOS has it all.. Curt Schilling's knee was another problem.. and our Offence was pathetic this two games... but they ain't done. I know they will fight back in their Crib.ý
>>> we seen it in last 2 games. As Casey00 bro said their main strength is pitching after they signed Schilling and Foulke. And we own them so far in the series. Schilling and Pedro might end up in Hall of Fame, is that what you talking about??? Fight where, may be you gotta worry about next season since your team will be losing so many players via free agency. It took them almost 10 yrs after their appearance in 1990, hope thatýs not the case after the season ends this weekend :=) I have been hearing Red Sox are better teams than NY Yankees since 99 and we all know who been winning the pennant and the playoffs :=)


you also said ýAnd, as you said Derek Jeter as a best Short Stop... so overrated!!! May the best Team win.ý
>>> stat wise??? I can name you 2-3 players in AL who are better than him. You gotta be complete player like DJ2 to be the best. Ask your ex shortstop Nomar Garciaparra, stats wonýt do all. AROD will be able to answer to you too. He was the complete short stop ever to play the game, but he relinquished the position to DJ2. AROD led the league in HR dept last three years and have 118, 142, and 135 RBIs and still willing to play for 3rd base, the only reason is coz he wants to win that elusive championship.

Bro somewhere you mentioned about the NY Metropolitans. You better off supporting them than the lowly Red Sox. If I am not mistaken Mets have better recent history than the Red Sox. At least they recently appeared in the World Series (2000???) and won it all in 1986 (I am sure you know against who) and it will be easier for you to get to Mets game (1/2 hour drive???) than driving north for 4 looooooooooooooong hours ;)

I could post so many stats but you can check them yourself in www.mlb.com


Casey00 bro said ýI dont know how Bosox are gonnna come back and win it all..All i see is Pedro..wearing Pin Stripes next year.ý
>>> yeah bro, there is slim slim chances of Red Sox winning the series this year. They gotta win 4 out of 5, which is impossible. If Pedro can cut his 80s style Michael Jackson hair cut, Yankees will take him coz we know we can afford him.

Keep on Cracking like a Five-year old who just gotta new Bicycle from his Dad.
Most of the people said we were done when we lost 2 games (0-2) against the A's in the last years Divisional series. Tell me what happened next. well, Yankees have won more World series than any other teams maybe 26 times more than the BoSox. But dude, CoMON tell me ONE OCCassion when the yankees felt so comforable playing against the BOSOX??
Last season::::: I can post the whole recording of that Game 7 and also the whole series if you wish........ and tell you how those Yankees fans were praying for the GOD to help them one more time. Most of the times they were on their toes with eyes wide-open with the face like that of a kid who had just lost his toy. Of course there were up-and down movements for either teams but not in any of those games did any Yankees fan LOOKEd like the WANNA be SMart Ass like above.
ANd even in the two games of the series so far: Game 1: until the beginning of the 7th inning the yankkees people were all cheering... dancing... and guess what happened after the first out. they were quiet and looked so dearly that, I felt like giving them a big Hug. It went on like that until the last out in the top of the 9th.

And same thing in Game 2. They were singing WHo's your Daddy? and again after the 7th inning.... oh well.. read what I had just typed above.

ANd Ax bro In one of the threads you typed: Our Bullpen is not as good as advertised and that it's overrated. You said the Red SOx bullpen got hammered??
I guess you weren't hallucintating when you typedd them out.
I think our bull pen allowed just 4 runs so far. 4 in the first game and 0 In the second game.
Now bro check this out: The Yankees Bull Pen allowed 3 runs in the first game.0 Run in the second game. But how about letting the 2 inherited runners let score in that incredible 7th inning of the 1st game.Now you do your own analysis and tell us which Bull Pen has in fact done better.

I guess you are the one who said Schilling and Pedro got hammered also. I agree with the fact that Schilling got hammered. We all know now why did that happen? But I do not agree with the claim that Pedro got hammered also. whenever you allow 3 runs only, you are helping the team. By any standard that's agood effort and NOne but the Fools will say that Pedro got hammered. He got a very decent outing. it's that homer by Olerud which made the difference in the Ball game. None has to bitch about anything. Both of the games weren't over until the last inning.

Casey00 bro,
did you really expect the Red Sox to win two games at the BRONX? Did the Yankees nation think that way also?? I don't think so. Yankees are expected to win their home games. So far, they won their first two home games. It's not that they had won the whole series.

Like any other teams, the BOSox also expect to win the upcoming home games. Whoever wins the series: the bottom line is that they have to work their ass off. It's easy to CRY, Whine, bark,bitch here in the Web.. but you bet it's a different story when you are in the ball park or simply standing in front of your televison screen. It's one thing to celebrate the victory and another thing to act like stupid. for now let's just wacth the game as a CIviliZEd fan and get entertained. Time will take care of itself.
It's one swing of a bat that makes the difference. We all know it.

I do not want to talk about what teams beat what teams in the past but I will tell that if I buy the fastest car (and best driver) in the world, My car (driver) should win the race every year.

GO SOX go.
Jai Nepal.

Proud bro, you are quoting so many things that i never said. where in the earth I said Yankees starting pitchers are better than Red Sox. Please check Baseball 04 thread and I gave Red SOx upperhand in starting pitching dept.

what i got after reading from your above posting

1st para - we were 0-2 down with A's last year and end o winning 3-2 at the end.
>>>BRO ya talking about 26 time champions NY Yankees not A's

2nd para - last season Red Sox had upperhand in the 7th game. coz Pedro was pitching
>>> After you lose the series you better shut up. what ahppened to your team after Yankees beat them. Manager is lost, heart n soul of the team Nomar is gone.... better pray this time... that aint' going to work anyway.... coz ya ppl can't afford all the free agents you have in the team now......

3rd para - pedro and who's your daddy
>>> pedro knew it. now you Bostonians also know whoz the daddy. LOL this thing is sooo laughable... hope he will clarify after season ends this weekend....

4th para - about the bullpen
>>> ya gotta be crazy to think Bosox got better bullpen than NYYankees. Dude if we only had MO, that would us better. he been doing great job since the first championship in Torre era as a setup and now closer.

5th para - pedro pitched good
>>> I agree. but if he hadn't worried too much about DJ2 trying to steal, he would have pitched even better. never understood about the pitch signal. there was avisit by catcher every time. it was too annoying to be honest. He pitched good but LOST

6th para - about 2 losses in Yankees Stadium
>>> bro, if i were you I would talk to GM theo epstien to hire me as manager. If you know you are going to lose game(s) why do you even send your best pitchers. I am sure you would have send wakefield and Arroyo and save Schilling and Pedro for home game...NO???

7th para - evil empire ???
>>> why not conede bro??? hwat was all that big talk for??? Yankees play by the rule and wins by the rule. BOSS is determined to give the best players to the people of best city in the world which NYers deserve it. if you need lesson send your people to Yankees office.

Bro, is mr. henry selling the team??? i am not in the east coast anymore so don't get to know that much ;)


lotsa typos.... too lazy to check the

Let me be fair.
Boston and Yanks are not too far apart. It is still anybody's game.
They are the top hitting ballclubs with armoured pitching staff.

My friends used to tell me that Yankees pitching ain't that great when they were playing against the Twins. I'd tell them that they are only focusing on Yankees weakness. Think about who is playing against them, they have even greater weakness (Santosa was the only strong link there).

Point is, we focus on mere stats and history while judging on ball clubs. While they are important while you are comparing ball clubs like the Yankees and say, Orioles, they mean very less when clubs like Red Sox and Yankees are playing.

It can be anybody's game still, while Red Sox is loosing 0-2.

That's my thought, this is my wish: GO YANKS!!!! *1918 (couldn't resist).

DWI,
I dunno if u were trying to be funny or u actually dunno the potential Cy Young winner's name, anyway, although yanks are up 2-0, Sox stil have chance to come back, only way they can come back is start using their bats to potential and stop getting pop outs and al, without taking the opposing pitcher deep into the count, Yanks batters did that well against santana, pedro and all, they are patient at the plate and consequently the pitcher has a higher pitch count by 5th inning or so, arroyo will give up runs but Sox have the lineup to match that, Lieber and Moose outperformed Schilling/pedro combination, but arroyo against brown can go either way, yeah he did have a good outing against the twins, ........anyway, what is that stuff about yanks playing by the rule, they all play by the rule, no one is accusing yanksees of beraking rules or anything just because they have gazzillion dollar payroll.
hope the sox can bounce back and make it an exciting series

DWI good to see ya back..... tell ya one thing when it comes to Yankees and Red Sox past and present, Yankees own them. Red Sox better watch out next year, Orioles is going to be awfully good


Unknown said ýanyway, what is that stuff about yanks playing by the rule, they all play by the rule, no one is accusing yanksees of beraking rules or anything just because they have gazzillion dollar payroll.ý

>>> I felt that it was thrown toward me so want to clarify. That was a reply to Ballerýs post. This is what he said earlier ýI do not want to talk about what teams beat what teams in the past but I will tell that if I buy the fastest car (and best driver) in the world, My car (driver) should win the race every year.ý I would have understood if this thing came from Brewers, Royals and Twins fans. But from Red Sox fans??? Come on nowý. You guys are 2nd to us when it comes to payroll and werenýt you trying to get AROD. Too bad Red Sox mgmt werenýt that creative on how to land AROD. Mind you we pay AROD less than what you pay to Manny Ramirez and Jays pays to Delgado.

Fans around the other part of the US donýt deny the fact that you guys also benefit from the NY Yankees. More fans flunked to the game to see their team competing with Yankees. Do you know there is something called revenue sharing??? Where high-revenue teams redistributes it to low-revenue teams... Yankees contributed $60 Millions for revenue-sharing and luxury-tax contribution last season..... Itýs not our fault that there is no caps in Baseball, but BOSS is willing to pay players and luxury tax so NYers can have the best team who will compete every year No wonder I am Yankees fan. Please check out following link why Yankees are good for baseball, itýs a good read.....
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1208/is_9_228/ai_113805500

It will be an interesting game. Rookie vs Veteranýý letýs see if green monster have any magic left for Red Sox fansý..


go YANKEES go.....

Hmm... Not fun to be a Sox fan right now. But, I think we'll be alright when it is all said and done. My prediction:

GAME 3 SOX
GAME 4 SOX
GAME 5 SOX
GAME 6 NY
GAME 7 SOX

BOS over NY 4-3.

B_D.

You got it right Bos_dude. Anyways, this game ain't over yet. AX, What's the deal between a game and a revenue-sharing ? Are u trying to tell us that we should also like Bombers cause of their revenue sharing? man! get real... Why? Cause they get money and they have money so they do it... if any other team has the same amount of revenue they would have done the same. Just buying all the good players don't make a better team. And even gettin' AROD ain't a real deal for yankees, so we are better without him. As you said ... we are paying more to Ramirez cause he is better than overrated AROD. If you think i'm just saying what i want then go look at the stats. Manny ramirez has done more to the BOS team than AROD did to yankees. So, cut the crap. Anyways, i'll let the team shut u up...

He has the history of Crying..so let him cry out LOUD??

1. When did I accuse you of giving the Yankees pitchers an upper hand against the BoSOX? Is it another invention in order to support your weaker arguments.

2. SO you think RedSox are benefitting from the Yankees??? What the hell were you thinking when you typed that line?? don't you know THe RED SOX season had been sold out for almost 2 consecutive Seasons!!!! And how many times did the Yankees play in Fenway?? SO far 21 times in two seasons includingthe playoffs. Then you are telling us during all the other games, we had no fans coming to the Baseball Park. what a DUMB Claim$@*? On the controray don't you realize that the Yankees stadium look more and more full each time the REd SOx visit the Yankees!! So, what does that tell about REVENue?? Yankees owns the REd SOX.... can you tell me how??

3. SO MR. Stenibriener/Joe TORRE was thinking that BOSOX is gonna walk away with 2 wins in the BRONX. And that THEY started Mussina and Leiber against SChilling and Pedro, so that they can win with Brown and someone else at fenway park? Oh then... how about sending a perosnal request to Mr. Sitenbreinber to hire me as your manager such that I can plan on winning the Home games first.

4. Does Allowing 3 runs in 6 innings make someone someone else's DADDY for real?? that way THe REd SOX in fact happens to be MUssina's Daddy? Just Because MO is there don't mean that bullpen is the best. Yeah, I won't put FOulke and MO in the same category but how many times did MO blow save chances against BOSOX this season?? And ask the same question about FOulke against the Yankees>

5. Yeah we know you guys are the Yankees and not A's. Hell we also know you GUys are Yankees and not ANGELS of 2002, or Marlins of 2003, and not even D'backs of 2001.

6. everybody who watch MLB knows that Manny have more offensive production than A-ROD. In what category do you think he is gonna be behind A-RoD. oh. yeah Defense, stolen bases... and what?? gotta think about it. BUt what are the NUMbers that matters the most. Manny had lived upto his expectation and deserves every single penny he is paid for. do you guys really believe A-ROD had given what you guys had been expecting of him. Tell you what A-SOriano's numbers from last season aren't very different from A'RODs this season.

7. Winning 2 games at home doesn't end the season of the opponents. Win 2 games away and then you are in a much better position. Wannak now how, ask the A'S?

Neutral fans know REdSOx and Yankees are not very different from each other. We can talk whatever we want to. Red SOx had entertained us all season long the way the Yankees had entertained you guys.
It's the game of Baseball. SO Chill out.

GO SOX GO.
Jai Nepal

houston is 0 st luis is 2 ...:( today's game got cancelled...

Why you care who win or who lose...

They give nothing to wear, they give nothing to eat...

Prem Charo,
Hawaii.

They give something for excitement, they give something to fight about. Not everythig is for eating or wearing.

Yeah, I actually thought it was Santosa (forgot the name again).

At the beginning of the season, everybody were pounding on the Yanks saying their pitching ain't that strong. I along with few others, were advocating that since not a single ball club has a perfect (atleast 3 starters) pitching staff (except Oakland may be), Yankees have a good shot at winning coz they are one heck of a hitting club. That argument is holding good now in the third game. Red Sox are hitting club as well, but Yanks are pounding on them, with a good pitching backbone (Brown ain't that bad).

Still anybody's game. But Yankee's the name (of the winner, I suck at rhyming).

GO YANKS (achhooo 1918).

PEEPS HOUSTON WOON>>GOO ASTROOSS!! 4 more game to go,,:) dammn clemens was good today, btw, those two homerun's at last was harip too..:) :) :) :) : )