Boston Red Sox are 2007 World Series Champions

ss:

since the jays and boston are in ALE...if the jays could not win (there is always next year) i'd rather boston win than the yankees

;)

I would go for an EXPANSION team over the Yanks...

ugh!

but seriously, you're a Jay's fan? wow. that takes resolve, I bet! :)

ss:

and not to mention the redskins

yeah yeah... another perennial no-shows:)

yes, as a former resident of DC I can vouch for that. yikes... and are you a Hawks fan or something just so you've got a trifecta?

nah!

raptors

and though not a fan...in the leafs we have the mother/father of all perennial losers

;)

LOL...

awww... don't mention ice hockey. I miss Caps games. And I really miss when the Bruins used to have a great team. And let's not forget the season that never was....

see, I am such a big sports fan! so tell me, why is it that I can't get with cricket?

I was still living in Boston when the Sox won in 2004. It was incredible. Go Sox!

ss:

will answer your query if you answer mine in the same vein

i cannot get a feel for hockey:(

OK, I will admit something bad... I like hockey only for a few small reasons... the greatest of which is that they have the BEST fights... have you seen a game where they clear the benches? I cannot watch hockey on TV, but in person it's great. the players are always such brawlers! :)

cricket bores me to tears. it seems so slow to me.. there is no rhythm I can hook onto!

"american" football, hockey, basketball, and (yawn) baseball...There is only one truly 'beautiful game'.

temporal-

do you not find the name "redskins" offensive? why not call the next expansion team the "niggers" or "spics" or "chinks"?...only in america

bob, don't use racial slurs on my post dude...

and we were not talking about the names of teams joker... we were nicely talking about sports... so take your politics and your agenda the @*#^@(# outta my thread.

bob:

if you have the time and motivation take this up with NFL

;)

ss:

likewise baseball use to have the same effect;)

then sat down with a friend and watched a few games where he showed me the finer points of the game

yes I can see where baseball might bore someone, but the games are shorter than cricket :))

and now that I know all the minutia of cricket I am still not wild about it. tell me something to make me at least like it, can't you?

smallsquirrel

the racial terms were used in a context to show the hypocrisy of American and Canadian (the CFL's Edmonton Eskimos) society that permits sports teams to use nicknames that denigrate the Aboriginal/ First Nations peoples. Why is it acceptable to use "redskins" or "blackhawks" AND not acceptable to use the names that I mentioned above!? All of which, by the way, (as a real Indian) I find repulsive.
clearly I have offended you by writing these names. but you accept the use of (a highly offensive) word like "redskin"- why?

temporal

the people that find these nicknames offensive have tried to persuade the NFL to force the 'skins to change their name, but to no avail.

I don't condone them at all and I do find them offensive. but I just don't want to get into it here. it's a blog about the sox, and partially about other sports. I just did not want it to get political. you assumed both temporal and I supported the names and we don't, we are just talking sports.

not everything has to be political and I felt you came on here looking for a fight when this was just about baseball. if you find baseball boring then why in hell did you read the post to begin with?

ss:

do you like or play chess? a good bowler bowling to a good batsman is a fluid chess match

focus on a good bowler...does not matter which team

evaluate and discern him the same way you'd an all star pitcher

curve ball, fast ball, sinking ball...

run up, grip, fluidity and grace of the delivery action, where the ball ends on the pitch....full short, yorker, in swinger, out swinger, reverse swinger, chinaman, googly, leg break, off break, yorker

then

there are pitches...slow and dead where the ball does not bounce in the sub continent (with a couple of exceptions)... the bouncy pitches of south africa

then

back to the same bowler...see the poetry in his run-up...see what he does to adjust

adjust to the pitch, the weather, the playing condition...

and

the batsman he is facing

a smart bowler like the recently retired mcgrath is a veritable chess player...he knows the condition of the pitch, the weather and he plays chess with the batsman's mind to get his wicket

i could write in the same vein from a batsman's vantage

:)

I was in Boston when the RedSox won in 2004. My office was in a building right across fenway at kenmore square. I don't follow baseball at all but it was hard not to celebrate that night, it was crazy!

ss:

thanks

so you will give this a try?

ss:

thanks

so you will give this a try?