What They’re Saying: ALCS Game 4
by Texy
2008 October 15 at 12:06 pm
The other teams had their turn at this. Now, staring up at 3-1 deficit, it’s our turn. A sample smattering of chatter about the Sox from the guys on the other our side of the field.
Surviving Grady:
By all accounts, we are dead. Roadkill. Scragglers whose pitchers can’t hold any lead that our dismal offense might get lucky enough to conjure. Lame duck champions who are hours away from having to surrender the trophy we’d fought so hard to reclaim. Every time the Rays hit the ball, it finds a gap, the wall, or Mass Ave. Every time we hit the ball, when we actually do hit the ball, it finds a glove. None of this bodes well for our chances to take three straight.Which means it’s time to turn it on.
You know, like we did after that embarrassment in game three of the 2004 ALCS. Or after last year’s postseason meltdowns against the Indians. We do our best work when it’s win or go home. And all of a sudden, it’s win or go home.
We choose to go to the moon and fall behind in the ALCS and these othah things not because they are easy, but because they are hahd.
The last 16 times that an ALCS went to 3 games to 1 in the series, 12 times the team with the 3-1 advantage has gone on to win the series. Three times the other team has reeled off three straight wins to take the series. The 16th time is this season’s playoff scenario.The three teams to pull off the unlikely three-game heist of the ALCS you ask?
The Red Sox…all three times. In 1986, 2004 and then last season after falling down by a 3-1 deficit to the Cleveland Indians.
Which 90’s dance song best describes Game 4?
* “Run Away” by Real McCoy. [I can't watch this.]
* “I like to move it” by Reel 2 Real. [Stampede to the exits.]
* “Dreams (Will Come Alive)” by 2 Brothers on the 4th Floor. [Nightmares manifest.]
* I hate dance music. I hate the 90s. I hate Jason Varitek. I hate Tim Wakefield. I hate life.
How about some 70s/80s songs to describe Game 4 (and 3):
“Are we Ourselves?” because you aren’t playing like it.
Another night of TBS announcers might make me “Psycho Killer.”
“Do you recall” that “We Are the Champions,” boys. Play like it’s “Urgent” and that you are “Hungry like a Wolf” to take this series back. Fenway is not “The Land of Confusion,” so cut the “Cold as Ice” crap, put the Rays in the “Line of Fire” and win.
signed,
“Lunatic Fringe”
(according to my husband)
Works with Top 10 on itunes too. :)
C’mon Sox, be “Fearless”!
“So What” if it’s 1-3, you’ve been down there before. It was just as bad in 04 and 07 and both times you’ve come back!
You can do “Whatever you Like”, but at least show some of the passion you’ve had before! Don’t let the Rays trample all over our home turf. You’ve “Gotta be Somebody”, and let’s get Kazmir out of there by the third.
Game 4? Over.
For Game 5, I say we reach back to Funkadelic’s (SHIT, GODDAMN) GET OFF YOUR ASS AND JAM. Or, how about a little Momma Said Knock You Out (”Don’t call it a comeback..”).
If the umps screw us on calls, I say we start screaming Henry Rollins’ “Liar” at them.
I hope the Sox are like feeling The Hungry Wolf. (That’s X, kiddies, not Duran Duran.) As for me, I’ll spend the next 22 hours with the Bravery’s “Believe” on continual play in my head (and fuck the Rays for using that song).
I think I better have a chaperone tomorrow to make sure I don’t get into a street fight.