Comments on: Ben Shapiro – Satellite Humanity

By: Al Swearengen

Al Swearengen — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 03:49:34 +0000

Colorado!!! The Rockies are for real this year. I’m doubting the staying power of the Dodgers…still haven’t had a close up look at San Diego, but we’re playing them starting tomorrow night. Arizona was impressive, but the Rockies lineup is scary.

I’d love to live in Denver or around there…$5 tickets on the street prior to the ballgame…I was stupid and spent $40+ on tickets for the first two games of the series when I was there, bought them online months prior. If only you could do that at Fenway!

Must have been fun to watch. Seeing the air blow out of the Yankees after that winning streak is a great thing.

By: napoleon15.blogspot.com

napoleon15.blogspot.com — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 23:01:19 +0000

Rockies sweep Yankees! Boston’s 10 game cushion is now 10 1/2 games!

By: napoleon15.blogspot.com

napoleon15.blogspot.com — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 04:22:37 +0000

Yeah, the Sox slaughtered the Braves. Here’s hoping they keep rolling and the Yankees keep losing; I was getting kinda worried the last few weeks.

By: Al Swearengen

Al Swearengen — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 04:05:26 +0000

That was perfect! 10 game cushion leading into the trip out west. I was watching the first 2 innings while my boys were still up, and it was amazing. They intentionally walked Varitek to get to Coco, and he blasts one into the seats in right field to make it 5-0 in the first. Big Poppy launches one into the same place in the 2nd to make it 7-0…too easy.

Colorado took 2-3 from the Sox in Fenway…that lineup is dangerous. If a Rockies starter keeps it close into the 7th, they’ve always got a chance to win.

By: napoleon15.blogspot.com

napoleon15.blogspot.com — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 03:56:05 +0000

How about the Rockies’ victory over the Evil Empire tonight? Cool, huh? Now, fortunately, they’ve undone the harm they did to the Red Sox by beating them last week.

By: caveat bettor

caveat bettor — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 21:22:47 +0000

I’ll just stick to baseball right now, and venture that Damon, Cabrera, Ramirez, Ortiz, Varitek, Nixon was the strongest lineups in Bosox history (and don’t forget batting champ Mueller in the 9-hole). Maybe none of them rise up to Vaughn, Rice, Yaz, Williams …, but take those 7 hitters and there’s some offensive dynamite.

Roberts’ speed, along with Damon & Cabrera, is a significant factor, but we agree–its good offense.

By: Al Swearengen

Al Swearengen — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 18:22:18 +0000

That Red Sox theory didn’t work out so well for nearly 100 years. It was only until we actually had a good defense, pitching and speed, that the championship became an obtainable goal. The green monster dictated for decades, a policy that insisted on abandoning common universal traits shared by championship teams in baseball, like the ability to play small ball, turn a double play, and steal a base.

This analogy fits in well with Israel’s strategy over the past 4 decades. Ignoring the natural aspects of the game that makes a team great, and instead thinking that by loading up the lineup with big bats, eventually the competition will succumb.

Both the Red Sox and Israel have been guilty of treating their respective missions in a way that reminds me of Lennie and the puppies from ‘Of Mice and Men’. One after another, those puppies end up dead, and Lennie can’t seem to understand why.

By: caveat bettor

caveat bettor — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:10:21 +0000

Nasser et al sowed these seeds in the Six Day War. The palestinians are still left with his geographic tab.

As any good Red Sox fan knows, a good defense is a good offense.