-=The Boston Red Sox Thread - 2007 WORLD CHAMPS -

[AKILLA]

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Welcome to the Unofficial Boston Red Sox Thread

This thread is a heaven for all Gaians who are diehard Boston Red Sox fans. Here you can chat about the beloved Red Sox, the players, ol' Fenway Park, etc. and meet other Red Sox fans from across the globe. Just follow the simple rules listed at the bottom and you'll be set to go.

Rules:
1. No spamming, trolling, bumping, etc.
2. Refrain from any kind of anti-Red Sox remarks. If you have nothing good to say about the Red Sox, then do not say it.
3. Follow all of Gaia's ToS (Terms of Service) rules.
4. Do not come in here looking for a fight. Chances are you won't be getting any.
5. Annnnd the most important rule: Have Fun.

RED SOX ROSTER

Poll History:

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Q: Dirty Water or Sweet Carolina?
Results:
Dirty Water - The Standells: 47%
Sweet Carolina - Neil Diamond: 62%
Total Votes: 118

Q: Current Face of the Franchise?
Results:
David Ortiz - 41%
Diasuke Matsuzaka - 12%
Manny Ramirez - 4%
Jonathan Papelbon - 12%
Tim Wakefield - 1%
Jason Varitek - 7%
Curt Schilling - 3%
Josh Beckett - 1%
Other (please specify) - 14%
Total Votes: 63

Q: Who would you take in a race?
Results:
Kevin Youkilis - 47%
Dustin Pedroia - 52%
Total Votes: 76

Q: Who do you prefer to close games?
Results:
Jonathan Papelbon - 76%
Eric Gagne - 23%
Total Votes: 42

Q: Biggest New England Trade?
Results:
Kevin Garnett - 38.6%
Randy Moss - 26.3%
Eric Gagne - 23.7%
Manny Fernandez - 11.4%
Total Votes: 114

Q: Do you prefer Jacoby Ellsbury Or J.D. Drew?
Results:
Jacoby Ellsbury - 54.9%
J.D. Drew - 41.1%
Total Votes: 71

Q: Favorite 2006-2007 Red Sox Moment?
Results:
Mother's Day Miracle - 19.6%
Sox clinching the AL East Championship 8.7%
Buchholz' No-Hitter vs.Orioles - 10.9%
Winning the 2007 WS Championship - 8.7%
Back-to-back-to-back-to-back homers vs. Yanks - 19.6%
Matsuzaka Debut vs. Royals - 2.2%
Curt Schilling's One-Hitter - 4.3%
Manny's Walkoff HR vs. Angels in ALDS - 8.7%
Beckett's Game 5 Domination in ALCS - 17.4%
Total Votes: 46

Q: Is Jim Rice a Hall of Famer?
Results:
Yes, he was a dominant and feared hitter in his era - 33.3%
Yes, he is a borderline candidate - 33.3%
No, he was good, but he had a short career, his defense was questionable, etc. - 33.3%
Total Votes: 15

[Trinitus40]

Congrats on the new thread AKILLA. I think you did a good job making a new thread for the Boston fans on Gaia. Good luck with it.

[AKILLA]

Boston Red Sox History:

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The Boston Red Sox are a Major League Baseball franchise competing in the Eastern Division of the American League. The team's home stadium, Fenway Park, opened on April 20, 1912, making it the oldest major league ballpark still in operation. The Red Sox won the first World Series as the Boston Americans in 1903 against the Pittsburgh Pirates. They won their most recent World Series championship in 2004, after an 86-year interval. The Red Sox are one of two teams in the American League with Sox in their name, the Chicago White Sox being the other.

The New York Yankees are the Red Sox' chief rival; the two clubs enjoy one of the longest-standing rivalries in North American sports.

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World Series Titles (7): 2007 • 2004 • 1918 • 1916 • 1915
1912 • 1903

AL Pennants (12): 2007• 2004 • 1986 • 1975 • 1967
1946 • 1918 • 1916 • 1915
1912 • 1904 • 1903

East Division titles (6): 2007 • 1995 • 1990 • 1988 • 1986
1975

Wild card berths (5): 2005 •2004 • 2003 • 1999
1998

Retired Numbers:

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#1 Bobby Doerr:
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#4 Joe Cronin:
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#8 Carl Yastrzemski:
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#9 Ted Williams:
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#27 Carlton Fisk:
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#42 Jackie Robinson (Retired by Major League Baseball):
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Source: www.Wikipedia.com

[AKILLA]

FENWAY PARK:

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Fenway Park is the home ballpark of the Boston Red Sox baseball club.

Fenway Park opened on April 20, 1912, the same day as Tiger Stadium in Detroit. After that stadium closed in 1999, Fenway became the oldest ballpark still in active use in Major League Baseball.

It is located near, and named for, the Fenway neighborhood in the heart of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It takes its name from a comment by former owner John I. Taylor: "It's in the Fenway section of Boston, isn't it? Then name it Fenway Park."[1]

Fenway Park hosted the 1946, 1961, and 1999 Major League Baseball All-Star Games.

Its opening in 1912 was five days after the sinking of the Titanic.

The Green Monster

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The stadium is most famous for the left field wall called the "Green Monster". Constructed in 1934, the 37-foot, two-inch high wall is 240 feet long, has a 22-foot deep foundation, and was constructed from 30,000 pounds of Toncan iron. Previously, a 23-½-foot tall screen protected cars and pedestrians on Lansdowne Street. However, the screen was replaced after the 2002 season with more seating atop the Green Monster (in an attempt to fit as many seats as possible in Fenway).

The wall measures 310 feet (94.5 m) from home plate down the left field line(See "Duffy's Cliff" wink .

During the 1934 remodeling, the left-field scoreboard was added, and is one of two remaining original manual scoreboards in professional baseball (the other being at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois). Running vertically down the scoreboard, between the columns of out-of-town scores, are the initials "TAY" and "JRY" displayed in Morse code; a memorial to former Red Sox owners Thomas A. Yawkey and Jean R. Yawkey.

The Lone Red Seat

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The lone red seat in the right field bleachers (Section 42, Row 37, Seat 21), signifies the spot where the longest measurable home run ever hit inside Fenway Park landed. Ted Williams hit the home run on June 9, 1946 off Fred Hutchinson of the Detroit Tigers. Williams' bomb was officially measured at 502 feet (153 m) — well beyond "Williamsburg". According to Hit Tracker Online, the ball, if unobstructed, would have flown 520 to 535 feet. [1]

The ball landed near the head of one Joseph A. Boucher, who was supposedly taking a nap at the time, penetrating his large straw hat and hitting him in the head. A confounded Boucher was later quoted in saying "How far away must one sit to be safe in this park? I didn't even get the ball. They say it bounced a dozen rows higher, but after it hit my head, I was no longer interested. I couldn't see the ball. Nobody could. The sun was right in our eyes. All we could do was duck. I'm glad I didn't stand up."

No other player at Fenway Park has ever hit that seat since, although on June 23, 2001 Manny Ramirez hit two home runs; one measuring 463 feet and another one that went 501 feet. David Ortiz has also come close.

Pesky's Pole

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Pesky's Pole is the name for the pole on the right field foul line. The pole was named after Johnny Pesky, a light-hitting shortstop for the Red Sox, who hit some of his six home runs at Fenway Park around the pole but never off the pole (a mere 302 feet from home plate). Pesky and the Red Sox attribute pitcher Mel Parnell with coining the name. The most notable for Pesky is a two-run homer in the eighth inning of the 1946 Opening Day game to win the game. (In his career, Pesky hit 17 home runs.) In similar fashion, Mark Bellhorn hit what proved to be the game-winning home run off of Julian Tavarez, in Game 1 of the 2004 World Series off that pole's screen.

On September 27, 2006, on Pesky's 87th birthday, the Red Sox organization officially dedicated the right field foul pole as Pesky's Pole with a commemorative plaque placed at its base.

Source: www.Wikipedia.com

Citgo Sign

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CITGO decided to dismantle the deteriorating sign in 1983, but the people of Boston came to its rescue. Claiming the sign was an excellent example of urban neon art, and as Boston as baked beans, they stopped the demolition crew. Groups fought to have the sign declared a landmark.

It quickly became clear Bostonians were fond of their sign. CITGO refurbished the sign and, with the flip of a switch, Kenmore Square was bright again in the night sky.

Today the sign still blinks out its message - lifting a name, personality and friendly face high in the Boston sky.

Download a screensaver of the CITGO sign in Kenmore Square.

Want to know more about the famous CITGO sign? Check out the interesting CITGO Sign Facts, and learn more about the man who is known by thousands of Bostonions as the Keeper of the Sign.

Source: www.CITGO.com

[Trinitus40]

I thought that it was Double X that hit the longest HR at Fenway.

[yankeesrules26]

How do you people feel about the Giants interest in Manny?!
Really I can't imagine Manny anywhere else besides Boston and Cleveland.

[AKILLA]

Trinitus40

I thought that it was Double X that hit the longest HR at Fenway.

Nope, it was Williams. However, Foxx did have the most HRs in a single season by a Sox hitter, but of course that was broken this year by David Oritz 3nodding xd

[AKILLA]

yankeesrules26

How do you people feel about the Giants interest in Manny?!
Really I can't imagine Manny anywhere else besides Boston and Cleveland.

Dont know to be honest with you. Its 50/50 for me on this whole Manny trade situation.

Almost all the AL teams have been knocked out. Texas is no longer interested even if they're still in the rumors afterall Epstein likely wanted Young in any deal for Ramirez. Angels seem to be out are all, but out by signing Matthews Jr. it looks like. The NL West coast team seems like the only place Ramirez would land.

The main problem is that who would the Sox get to replace Manny's bat? obviously JD Drew wouldnt really help offensively as Manny has. Plus the Sox could just end up doing what the Yankees did in the Sheffield deal: get three prospects in return. That type of thing is a risk/reward deal.

[Trinitus40]

yankeesrules26

How do you people feel about the Giants interest in Manny?!
Really I can't imagine Manny anywhere else besides Boston and Cleveland.

I wouldn't put it out of the possibility that he gets traded, and almost any team would want him. But, I won't believe him being traded till I see it happen.

[soadshuyin]

yankeesrules26

How do you people feel about the Giants interest in Manny?!
Really I can't imagine Manny anywhere else besides Boston and Cleveland.

I dont know what Id do with myself if we didnt have Manny. Hes just....a staple on the team. Wouldnt seem right to have a season without him here now.

[AKILLA]

BoSox are suppoesly about to sign J.D Drew to a 5-year, 15 million dollar deal pending a physical according to the Boston Globe stressed sweatdrop It really seems to me that the Sox are bidding against themselves, a la Varitek. And if they're willing to go to this length for Drew, why didn't they jump in the Beltran game 2 years ago? This contract for this player makes no sense.

The Red Sox have also offered a contract to Julio Lugo. No suprise there.

[AKILLA]

soadshuyin

yankeesrules26

How do you people feel about the Giants interest in Manny?!
Really I can't imagine Manny anywhere else besides Boston and Cleveland.

I dont know what Id do with myself if we didnt have Manny. Hes just....a staple on the team. Wouldnt seem right to have a season without him here now.

Like I said the fact is that we'd mostlikely get prospects in return and maybe some pitching. That isn't that great if you ask me and right now the Red Sox (as I said) will probably do the whole Sheffield trade. Y'know get prospects in return.

I really hate the idea of batting Papi and Drew back to back. They'll be highly susceptible to LOOGYs and every time Papi gets walked or Drew fails to get a hit, the comparisons to Ramirez will surface.

[gagalooie]

Awesome start!

[soadshuyin]

I havent been keeping up as much on the whole off-season workings of the team. Who else have we been looking into, and who have we lost or given away or whatever other nonsense may have gone on since we finished off the season? Im so lost in the Bruins wormhole its scary.

[Trinitus40]

AKILLA

soadshuyin

yankeesrules26

How do you people feel about the Giants interest in Manny?!
Really I can't imagine Manny anywhere else besides Boston and Cleveland.

I dont know what Id do with myself if we didnt have Manny. Hes just....a staple on the team. Wouldnt seem right to have a season without him here now.

Like I said the fact is that we'd mostlikely get prospects in return and maybe some pitching. That isn't that great if you ask me and right now the Red Sox (as I said) will probably do the whole Sheffield trade. Y'know get prospects in return.

I really hate the idea of batting Papi and Drew back to back. They'll be highly susceptible to LOOGYs and every time Papi gets walked or Drew fails to get a hit, the comparisons to Ramirez will surface.

Bostons best bet would be to bat Drew 5th Manny 4th and Papi 3rd.