A moment of absolute honesty from DU Yankee fans: Are you worried?

[WilliamPitt]

As a Sox fan, I am absolutely petrified. This is the perfect setup - the PERFECT setup - for what could be the most cataclysmic let-down in Boston sports history.

I didn't think anything could beat Game 7 last year. Game 7 beat Game 6 in 1986, and Game 6 in 1986 was compared to the Kennedy assassination regarding its impact on the Boston psyche. If the Sox lose tonight, there will be a new #1 in the Pantheon of Woe.

So that's Boston.

Is there fear in the hearts of Yankee fandom? Even a little bit? Your pitching rotation is worse off than ours is, your big hitters aren't hittging, and Boston has already done the impossible, so why not one more night of craziness? If the Yankees lose, it will go down as the biggest collapse in Baseball history.

Are you worried? Be honest.

[deadmessengers]

1. Yes. n/t

[MallRat]

2. I second your thoughts, Will. This Red Sox fan is absolutely terrified.

I have absolutely no feel for what's about to happen tonight. It could be 12-3, Yankees. It could be 3-2, Red Sox. Or anything in between.

I may need a defibrillator on standby tonight.

How about you Yankee fans? Are you feelin' it?

-MR

[DODI]

3. Yes. Don't know if I can watch it tonight. I have thought the Sox

would win it all in 7 after they won Game 4. Sadly, I think I may be right.

[Misunderestimator]

4. Nah... it's all a racket... how many times lately have there been 7 games

...too many... imagine the money that Fox would lose if there was an early blowout. Suckers.

Oh... and my prediction... Yankees!

[sniffa]

12. zzzzzzzzz

[Misunderestimator]

14. Boo!

Wake up!

[sniffa]

17. sorry

but i'd rather watch grass grow

[Misunderestimator]

23. Yes, that is much more interesting than baseball.

[wysi]

5. From another Sox fan...

... I'd tell yankee fans not to worry, things have a way of sorting themselves out. But...

I managed to get home yesterday in time to see the end of the game (around the end of the working day here). Sox leading in the bottom of the 9th in an elimination game, two on, two out, winning run at the plate, and the pitcher (Foulke) starts struggling. Sox fans have seen this played out thousands of times before, we know how it will end. But what shocked me is that Foulke managed to strike the batter out! 'This is not the Sox' I told myself. We'll see tonight.

[Phillycat]

6. My BoSox fan friend (With whom I'm watching) just called to tell me

he threw up. 5 hours before the game. From nerves. This is a guy with an iron constitution, who thinks it's entertaining to eat habanero peppers just to freak people out.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

7. Nope

[kick-ass-bob]

21. then how do you explain the puddle of pee under your chair?

:D

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

25. a fetish

[sniffa]

22. eLitist

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

24. Loser

[sniffa]

28. poser

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

32. freeper

[sniffa]

34. wannabe

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

37. well - I'm all out of ammo here

we'll talk tonight! Ya bastid!

[soothsayer]

8. There's always the curse....! So nobody should worry, it will turn out as

it should. Besides, Boston would hardly know what to do or how to act if they won. Their whole focus is being the anti-yankees, and if the yanks are gone, then what? Tho it would be fun to have a MA vs TX world series...hee hee. Hope MA would SLAUGHTER TX in that case, and again on Nov 2.

[Howardx]

9. dodgers/mariners fan for the sox!

go boston!

[BeyondGeography]

10. Oh yeah. The karmic reckoning is all set up.

Truth be told, in '78 and '03, the Red Sox may have been the better team (not in '99). But some weird shit (Bucky, Grady) always broke our way, and we pulled it out.

This year, when we least expect it, these guys rise from the dead and are on the brink of inflicting a major humiliation on us, one that will be bandied over our heads forever—if it happens. And there's a part of me that sees the beauty of it, to be honest. What better way to bury The Curse than to inflict a historic defeat on the Empire? It makes sense, on a metaphysical level.

That's the scary part.

[nickgutierrez]

11. Yeah.

Even when the Yanks were up 3-0, I didn't feel entirely comfortable with it. Even after they won Game 3 by the final of 19-8, I noticed that they allowed eight runs, just as they gave up 7 runs (?) in game 1.

The Yanks pitching was vulnerable, and I had this feeling like it was only a matter of time before it was exploited. It happened. It might happen again, and it only takes one more for the Yanks to be out of the playoffs.

[Beetwasher]

13. Of Course! Anything Can Happen and I'm Sure It Will!

I give credit where credit is due, the Sox really stuck it to us and we're in a spot and they've got the mo...But taking two in a row at Yankee stadium is next to impossible, so DON'T GET TOO COCKY YOU BASTID!!

The only thing wrong w/ you my friend is that you're Sox fan, other than that, you're an ok guy...

[kcwayne]

15. I am more concerned about the lint in my dryer vent than this game.

[OneBlueSky]

16. not at all . . . here's how I see it . . .

the Yankees are playing at home, have dropped three straight, and have an 86-year record of beating the Sox in October . . . everything in me says that they should win tonight . . . but . . .

if they don't, then they didn't deserve it . . . if they lose this series after being up 3-0, they don't rank up there with the great Yankee teams of the past . . . and it will mark the most spectacular collapse in the history of baseball . . . if that happens, I'll be happy to root for the Red Sox in the Series . . . have a lot of friends up that way who really deserve to see the Sox win it once before they die . . .

should be a good game . . . probably extra innings . . . may the better team win . . . :)

[Deb]

18. Yes and

My Dad is watching from his hospital bed tonight. He's more concerned for the Yankees than the tubes hanging out his body and the medical devices beeping at his bedside.

Good luck Boston, can't think of any other team we'd like to see beat NY. :toast:

[Taverner]

19. You may have dread in the hearts of Sox fans...

But we in California are nothing short of im-fucking-pressed.

Lemme put it this way, after the last three ALCS games, EVERYONE HERE IS A SOX FAN!

GO SOX!!!!!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

33. What conference is California in? (Forgive the newbie)

[Taverner]

36. Well...The A's are in the AL

The Giants are in The NL, the Angels are in the AL and the Dodgers are in the NL. Padres are in the NL too.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

40. This. Does. Not. Make. Sense.

(sucks thumb and goes back to the innocent, metric simplicity of soccer)

[Taverner]

42. Well all the Cali teams are out of the running...

And Most people in Norcal hate the Dodgers and Angels, likewise the Losangelinos hate the Norcal teams. Most people forget that San Diego even fields a Major League team.

And, if you saw the past few games, Boston kicks ASS!!! Most baseball fans have secondary teams - for me its' (1) Giants , (2) A's, (3) Red Sox, (4) Cubs. Oh and I hate the Yankees and any Texas team.

[russian33]

20. Yes, very much so!

If Red Sox win tonite, they absolutely deserve to be in the World Series, because that's a hell of a comeback.

But my Yankees have me on the edge of me seat. Before this series, I was worried about pitching. I have been pleasantly surprised, both Mussina and Lieber did great in both games. However, our bats aren't hitting, and that worries me.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

26. How many foul homeruns were there yesterday?

:grr:

[WilliamPitt]

29. One. From an unlikely source

You're not thinking that wasn't a home run, are you? It hit the fan in the gut.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

30. no I mean hits that went foul that would have been homers

we could not hit last night

[WilliamPitt]

31. Ah. Yeah, I had about 12 myocardial infarctions last night

One for every near-homer.

GFotta give Schilling his due.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

35. I am awed by the man, I must admit

but you bastards have been hitting off my favorite player of all time!
:grr:

[russian33]

43. True...the wind was a big factor yesterday

But what I'm saying is both yesterday and the day before, it was close games 4-4 on Monday and 4-2 yesterday, all they needed is a couple of runs...why oh why must they torture their fans like that!

[maveric]

27. Will, I have a sick feeling of Deja vu, a replay of last year.

Sox have a lead till the Yanks tie it in the 8th and their home field advantage (last ups), decide the pennant in the 11th or 12th.
I try to be positive but I'm a Bostonian that has weathered these storms for over 45 years.

MY dad watched Enos Slaughter take it away in 46.

My dad watched them lose it on the last game of the season in 48 and 49, once to Cleveland and then to the Yanks.

I watched Bob Gibson masterfully take the Sox apart in 67.

I watched the Sox tie game 6 in 75 with a Carbo pinch homer and them Fisks legendary shot to win, only to lose the next day.

I watched Bucky Fuckin Dent hit that ball off Mike Torrez, over the green monster to give the Yanks a lead they would not lose.

I watched in utter HORROR as that ball squibbed through Buckners legs in 86, when a couple of innings earlier they were down TO THE LAST STRIKE to win the whole thing.

I watched game 7 of the ALCS last year when Boone slammed that Wakefield pitch into the seats to give the fuckin Yanks another pennant.

God, I try to be optimistic but there is this sick churning feeling in the pit of my stomach that tells me not to.

[Zorra]

38. I was taken to Yankee Stadium when I was 4 yrs. old and have been

a Yankee (and Mariner) fan since then.

The ancient prophecies say that when the Sandman cometh, but cannot put the children to sleep for 2 nights, and the gulls fly over the green monster of Fenway from the west, and the abomination that causes desolation resides in the White House....when all these occur at one time, the one legged man shall come, and lift the curse from the house of Yaz.

Let me, as a lifetime Yankee fan, take this opportunity to congratulate the Boston Red Sox and their fans on tonight's victory.

Well done.

(Oh, yeah - the Yankees have won the pennant and the WS so many times that it is a little easier to take a loss)

[Redneck Socialist]

39. I think I had about six heart attacks last night.

After game three I had sunk into that all to familiar state of dejected acceptance. Now I'm about to explode with nervous anticipation/dread.

I CAN'T FUCKING STAND IT!

Sorry for the shouting. Somebody hit me in the head and revive me when it's all over please, I beg of you!

[Droopy]

41. BAM!!!!!!!!

:nuke:

See you tomorrow morning.

[Redneck Socialist]

44. Thanks

I needed that. :)

[Jersey Devil]

45. Today is Mickey Mantle's birthday & the ghosts will be everywhere

All the ghosts will be at the Big Ball Orchard in the South Bronx tonight to help him celebrate. Mick will be in centerfield helping Bernie get a little more on his throws. Catfish will be helping the pitchers choose what to throw. Thurman will help Posada stop passed balls. The Great DiMaggio will be positioning the outfield. Roger Maris will be giving Arod tips on hitting. The Iron Horse will be helping Clark stop striking out. And the Old Professor will be on the bench with Joe along with Billy and Miller Huggins.

Am I worried? Certainly! But at the same time I am thinking that this is the perfect setup for Boston fans, another trap for them to fall into, another round of profound suffering for them to endure. If there is to be order in the universe the Sox must lose. :-)

[WilliamPitt]

47. Gotta kick this'un

[bigwillq]

46. I wouldn't be human, if I weren't worried

But it's like a mix of nerves and worry.

I think people are selling the Yanks a bit short.

The Yanks won three straight to open the series so why is it so incredible that the Sox have won three straight?

Yes, I know the Yanks were one game away but the Sox won the season series and to be honest, I think the Sox actually have a better team than the Yankees.

This game is going to be crazy. Another classic in the best rivalry in sports. Game 7-I wouldn't want it any other way.