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Sur une autre planète
Il y a des moments, dans notre vie de 'petit' joueur de fléchettes, où on est en pleine forme - on aligne les 100, les doubles rentrent comme par magie - et on se prend à rêver, à se dire : "Mais c'est pas si difficile que ça, les fléchettes - je pourrais jouer avec les pros..."Et puis, un soir, on s'asseoit devant la finale des Championnats du Monde...
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January 04, 2011
Discuss
'Big Game' James
Apparently, ALCS games don't count as big.
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October 18, 2008
(Don't Fear) The Reaper
So it appears there will indeed be more cowbell: Game 6, Saturday night at the Trop.I almost gave up on this game, at around 3.30am, with the Rays up 5-0 and a huge 9am meeting looming large, but I'm glad I didn't, as I got to see nothing less than the second-biggest comeback in postseason history. That's why they play the games, folks - it ain't ever over until it...
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October 17, 2008
Pick your cliché
"Win or go home", "Backs to the wall", "One game at a time". They're all being said, and, as is often the case with clichés, they're all true.The rational me really doesn't know whether this team has what it takes to climb out of the hole they've dug for themselves, but the optimistic anything's-possible-in-baseball me keeps remembering...
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October 16, 2008
"The least marketable skill in America"
If you need to stay loose before the game, may I suggest you check out Batting Stance Guy's 2008 Playoff Red Sox.Genius.(Hat tip: Fire Brand of the American League).
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October 13, 2008
Rant (continued)
MEMOTo: TBSCc: Bud SeligRe: ALCSDear TBS,I know you think these images of kids asleep in the stands are cute, but ask yourselves this question: why are they asleep in the first place?BECAUSE SOME TV BASEBALL MARKETING GENIUS DECIDED THAT THE BEST TIME TO START PLAYOFF GAMES IS AFTER 8PM ET! Way to go, morons...On behalf of future generations of non-fans I'd like to say: "...
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October 12, 2008
He said, he said
Rational Iain: You know, we had no business even being in the 11th inning. Josh Beckett - Commander Kick-Ass himself - gave up 8 earned runs in 4 1/3 innings. It's a miracle we even made it that far.Tired, Grumpy, Been-Up-All-Night, Saw-This-Coming-A-Mile-Off Iain: Hey, go take your cheery, it's-October-baseball disposition and stick it where the sun don't shine.RI: The...
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October 12, 2008
Crystal bollocks
I look at the image above and see eggs; Dan Shaughnessy looks at it and sees chickens, all fully hatched.This article doesn't bother me so much from the "don't jinx the Sox" angle (although, like any baseball fan, that did cross my mind) as it does from the "look at the facts" angle. Shaughnessy compares this Sox team to the '04 team and talks about...
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October 11, 2008
Three wishes
In order:1) Sox sweep the Angels in three.Always the most satisfying outcome of any series. Would allow the Sox to rest up before the next series.2) Sox win in four.Still good. Would allow the Sox to clinch at Fenway and still give them time to rest before the next series.3) Sox in in five.Would have Red Sox Nation biting its nails until Wednesday, but I have to confess - in case...
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October 03, 2008
Damn statistics
The Sox may have defeated the Angels last night, but they can't defeat the stats: (MLB.com)Gentlemen - time to start evening up that ALDS record...
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October 02, 2008
Incomplete
I hate to sit around grumbling after a 13-5, six-HR blowout win in Tampa Bay, but I have a question: am I the only one out there who finds those catwalk home runs extremely frustrating? I know the Sox have been on the wrong end of catwalk plays in the past, so it was nice that Jason Bay's fly ball in the 4th went up there and stayed up there for a home run, but there's just...
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September 16, 2008
All NESN, all the time
Good news just in from MLB.com - the MLB.TV subscription is now going to allow users to choose which feed they watch.First reaction: YEAH!Second reaction: About bloody time! I never understood why, with all the technical capabilities out there, I was forced to watch the home team feed for every game.Third reaction: No more Michael Kay / Ken Harrelson / (insert name of crap announcer...
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September 12, 2008
Mr....April?
The box-score says Papelbon (S, 34), but I'm awarding Masterson the save on this one. Bases loaded, one out - two pitches to A-Rod, double play, inning over.
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August 27, 2008
God: the proof
I hate to rejoice in the misfortune of others, but this is making it hard for me not to.
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August 20, 2008
It ain't over...
After a week of intermittent baseball-watching (I watched games involving the Cubs, the Astros, the Angels, the Brewers, then lost my Internet connection when I finally had the chance the see some Sox games), I managed to sit down and watch some of the Sox-Rangers games last night. With a work day ahead and 400 miles to drive tonight, I called it a day in the top of the fourth, with...
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August 13, 2008
There are others, you know...
Those with good memories might recall a couple of Bill Bryson posts on here a while back. Well, the man is back with a brief appearance.I was on the Eurostar to London the weekend before last, and actually had the time and inclination to sit down a read the Sunday Times (a real, get-your-hands-dirty newspaper, like in the good old days), which is where I came across the article in...
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July 21, 2008
Snapshot, 3.30am
"WTF is Manny doing swinging at the first pi... Oh - two-run game-tying homer. Sweet..."
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July 09, 2008
Pinch hits
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the key word in the term "pinch hitter", "hitter"? Pinch is the situation, but hitting is what you're supposed to be doing.If that is indeed the case, someone needs to talk to Manny, who came in in the 9th, looked at 3 strikes from Rivera without swinging at a single one and went back to his seat in the dugout. Fellow...
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July 07, 2008
Turning gold into lead
Rivera faced four guys in the top of the ninth, giving up the following sequence: single, HBP, RBI single, HBP. Sox down by one, bases loaded, nobody out, and three chances to score. I know how tough the gods of baseball can be, so I wasn't asking for a grand slam. I'd have settled for a sac fly, another HBP, a suicide squeeze, an opposite-field bloop - anything to get at...
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July 06, 2008
Just-in-time management
My internal alarm-clock didn't go off last night, so I didn't join the game until about 3:30 CET. It was already the bottom of the 7th inning, and the Sox were down 3-2. I almost didn't hang in there, but I was awake and unlikely to drop back off to sleep, so I figured what the hell...
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April 25, 2008
Opening Morning
"The game could be played in the middle of the night. They don't care. They want to watch the Red Sox. We're used to that. We have the most passionate fans in the world." Not-so-breaking news: if you're in the Baseball Desert, they're pretty much all in the middle of the night. And Tito's right - I d...
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April 20, 2008
A lucrative sideline
This year we negotiated the amount of bling with David and we compromised.David Ortiz: baseball superstar and bling consultant.
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April 09, 2008
Great minds think alike...
...but not always at the same speed.About two seconds before I clicked on Call of the Green Monster's RSS feed, I had an idea about a blog post on PEDs and Roger Clemens's dog.Of course, COTGM beat me to it.
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February 18, 2008
The only sane response
This whole steroids / PEDs / Mitchell Report thing is one of those situations so depressing that it calls for a radical solution. With that in mind I give you Yanksfan vs. Soxfan's proposal: asterisks...
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February 17, 2008
Nothing to see here, people...keep movin'
If this turns out to be true, all I can say is: thank fuck for that. Maybe now we can all get on with our lives again, and get back to thinking about the serious stuff, like how it's only 15 days, 18 hours and 45 minutes until Pitchers & Catchers?
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February 16, 2008
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