Hey everyone!

Nice, WaKe.

Hi everyone.

Hey

WaKe!

Hi all!

WaKe

(by the way, hi all)

Hey everyone!

Wake v. Lee.

I hope Wake is ON tonight. Last night was such a frustrating game. Clutch offense anyone?

Someone threw a rock at my windshield on the way home (I'm assuming since there wasn't a truck or anything near me). So, lucky me, gets to replace yet ANOTHER window on my jeep. /whine

Go Sox!

Wake just threw a pitch that was the same MPH as Pap's uniform number.

I love knuckleballs.

Jules, that sucks. Was it a Tampa fan? I used to say Yankee fan, but since my last night in Tampa when I have a nasty bruise from one, now I think Tampa.

So basically it would be really cool if we could manage to give Lee his third loss of the season.

Hello.

I'm sorry about your windshield jules. People can be so rude sometimes. Like why would someone randomly throw a rock at someone's car?

Yay, Pleats!!!!!

Karen, it does suck! I'm guessing at someone throwing it, but it had to come from somewhere and it was at least one inch in diameter. Weird. I'm annoyed because I just replaced a side window because some freak broke into my jeep. That's a whole lot of shoes I could have gotten! grrrrrrr...

Anyone else think of Jimmy Choo shoes when they hear Choo's name?

Hi all. Nice to see that Pedey showed up tonight at least!

(For those of you keeping track at home, I STILL DON'T KNOW IF I HAVE A NEW JOB OR NOT.)

I do Karen! Sorry about the windshield Jules

That sucks Jenny! Hopefully you'll hear something soon!

Hey everyone!

You guys, when they just flipped from the old video of Johnny Pesky to the current game, I got like full body chills.
It was kinda fantastic.

WaKKe

Looks like leather to me. Gotta love those Bob's ads.

I think "swing early and often" should be the plan against Lee.

And thanks Mac for pointing out my mental error.

I am looking forward to seeing Pesky getting his number retired. He's adorable! I'm a newer Sox fan (as of 2003), but I do love the history and tradition of the Sox.

Well, $170 would've gotten me a real nice pair of boots, but nooooooo...I get to buy a new windshield. That's all the whining I'll do. Promise ;-)

jenny, good luck!

You're welcome, Ian.

jenny - I hope you find out about the job soon! And good luck!

Thanks, all. ;D

It's just been one of those days.

I don't think the ownership should have changed the qualifications to have your number retired personally.

I do think it's a great honor to do Pesky's first though.

Marte... ouch. Ouch ouch. That looks painful.

Someone tell Jerry that was his left leg

Oww that looks like it hurts a lot.

Ouch. I hope he's not seriously injured.

WAH? Totally out.

He was clearly out

OUT. SO OUT.

He was definitely out! The Mayor knows.

Stoned fishy was definitely out.

Yanks up 1-0 bottom 2.

Rays up 5-2 top 9.

Looking more and more like the wild card folks

Wake says, "Screw the defense, I'll do this myself."

See ya'll later...off to my daughter's volleyball game.

Go Sox!

Finally. WaKKKe.

what's up with Johnny Bench doing Harry Caray?

... That was mildly surreal.

Papi!!!

I think Papi is sensing October baseball!

Papi!

YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUK can do it

YOUUUK!

YOUK!!!!!!!!!!

YOUUKKKK! I knew that was a homer before it even got to the wall.

Freaking Kevin Youkilis. How was Boston ever Boston without that guy ... ?!

Missed the excitement, had to turn down sound to talk on phone.

Tampa Bay's magic number to clinch AL East title is 3 games

Rays won 5-4. Yanks winning 2-0 in the bottom of the fourth.

Friggin Fishy.

Dammit Fishy.

Not cool at all boys!

WHAT IS UP WITH OUR DEFENSE TONIGHT.

UGH

This is not pretty

I left the room for a second and I see the score's now 3-2. WTF happened?

Aww, biscuits.

This might call for cupcakes and ice cream. D:

That defense, guys? Not gonna cut it in October. Would you like to get to October? Please to be playing like it. Thanks. (Hearts.)

p.s. I miss Mikey Lowell. Youkie would've had that grounder at first. (Sorry, The Mayor.)

What happened? I went to the kitchen to clean up dinner, and they got 4.

Same I have no idea what happened. I went to get the phone and all hell broke loose.

This might call for cupcakes and ice cream. D:

More like a shot of Jager and a few beers..

Count me in on someone who missed what happened.

that's a 14-game hitting streak. NOW GET THESE RUNS IN PLEATS

Ells gets some of the cupcakes.

Jacoby!!

Ells!

Jacoco!

Pedey!

Thank you for listening Pleats. MVP MVP MVP MVP

PEDIE!!!!!!!!!!!!

PEDROIA THE DESTROYA!!!!

Yes!!!!

He has MVP written all over him.

Pedie can have cupcakes, too.

Yes! The band is playing!!!

DUSTIN [instert middle name here] PEDROIA...I love you.

Always great to see the bullpen band.

I love the bullpen band.

his middle name is Luis

Angie - Pedey's middle name is Luis. ;D

Oh, thanks Ian!

Bay!

Bayu-tiful

NEW GUY!!!

JBAY!!!

NEW GUY!!!!

And jenny.

CUPCAKES FOR EVERYONE!

Jed's cupcakes are on hold until he gets a hit.

Jager bombs for everyone!!!!

I'll keep Jed's cupcakes in the tupperware. They'll stay fresh.

Mmm: WaKKKKKKey.

WaKKKKKKe!

Nice and clean, Wakey. Jenny likey.

Skanks still up 2-0 - bottom 6th

Darn DP.

Does anyone else think Carroll the second baseman is a little freaky looking? He has this crazy look in his eyes all the time.

Coco!

*crickets*

Come on MDC

Woah-- there are little ads in the corner? When did those start?

C'mon, MDC. GET THE OUT.

Rock & fire here, Manny Del. C'mon, kiddo.

MDC> NOW GET THE OUT

Please end this, soon.

Okajima coming in with runners on base. Everybody start crossing everything and anything possible

Definitely praying.

Yanks now up 3-0

Ian's just the bearer of bad news tonight

(is that spelled right?)

Oki scares me

Short version please -- I just spent TWO HOURS on a damn gas line. Great way to celebrate my birthday, NOT. Haven't had dinner, haven't gotten on mlb.tv.

2 hrs to get freaking gas?? OMG that sucks.

Happy birthday

Ecl, yeah I talked to my aunt earlier she said it is like that in Atlanta.

Happy birthday, Ecl! (It's a big one... fun fun way to spend a birthday.)

Youk went deep, Joco rules the world, Lee's ERA exploded a bit... oh and the first base ump majorly screwed up a call and Cash got an undeserved error. And Stoned Fishy still sucks.

MDC loaded the bases and Okajima's in for him now.

Am I missing anything?

ecl - HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

There is almost no gas supply here, Kim. Just a handful of stations at any one time. It totally sucks. And it got pretty scary -- lots of bad behavior, police called to the scene, etc.

Yeah!

Liza - You're missing the part about New Guy.

Thank you Okajima. Now i can uncross the 7 parts of my body that were crossed.

Thank you Youk.

Liza,

Pedey double & Bay single to drive in a couple more runs.

Thank you thank you thank you.

Happy birthday ECL!

Thank you for not letting those runners score, Okie. And Youk.

ecl, that just sucks. It's so weird because up here prices are down and not a shortage anywhere. I can't believe they need to get police involved. People suck.

Thank y'all about my birthday. I wish I didn't miss most of the game, but didn't feel like getting gas could wait until tomorrow. Fortunately, I'll be home and rarin' to go tomorrow evening.

Happy Birthday ecl!!

Happy Birthday ecl! I'm sorry about the gas though.

Kim, there have been multiple police involvements at gas stations since this shortage started in earnest. The rudeness I witnessed tonight was just astonishing.

Ecl, Happy Birthday. I didn't realize the gas shortage was going north. We don't have a problem in town, cause most people don't want to pay 4.15 anyways, so they go to surrounding towns, so they have the problem. My mom's in Ohio, she said they have no problem, she had no clue.

Thank you, everybody! I grabbed some fast food because I'm too exhausted and hungry to cook. The folks on my floor at work threw a big Italian lunch for me and another September birthday person. Enough food for an army, really wonderful.

Karen, it's the Southeast in general. And for whatever reason, it's especially bad in WNC despite two major interstates running through here.

Hi y'all--and happy birthday, ecl!

(I'm stuck working on other stuff tonight, so only peeks at the Sox tonight!)

Yippee! Masterson is in. He doesn't scare me.

Gonna gobble down this greasy food, in case I'm quiet for a few...

Happy Birthday, Faith!

(Did you hear that Red Sox? Please win! Thank you!)

pull the fucking string mr umpire

Have a seat, Franklin. Nice pitch, J-Mast.

Skanks 3-1 top 8

Crap.

I'm starving.

Please, Justin, Please.

I fed the kids before hauling them all to hockey practice but I forgot to eat.

Thanks Jenny, and yes, a win would be nice on my birthday. Then they can do it again tomorrow and the rest of the week when I have time to watch the games.

I'm so sad....

http://tinyurl.com/4mulhb

Come on Lopez.

Paps, please fix this.

We need the scary eye Paps to show up tonight. No runs!!!!

Haha Ian. I'm restraining myself from saying...anything...further.

Ughh bases loaded.

Ian, I wondered when he would come out, Finally.

I was just trying to inject some humor here with the stressful situation.

Ian, I never would have guessed... It was such a shocker!

C'mon, Pap. GET THE OUT.

Phew

if fc were here she would killed me for not talking baseball.

PAPELBON YOU ROCK.

JAM WRIGGLED FREE FROM! GLEEE!

or killed me for talking at all.

GREAT JOB PAPELBONER

PAP!

THANK YOU, PAP. YOU ARE AWESOME.

Thank you Paps.

:::wipes burger grease from hands:::

GREAT JOB, PAPS!

Phew. Thank you Pap

Someone had better get on base in this inning...I need a Coco fix.

Jed is having some issues...

:::I just got queso on my keyboard:::

(meant to say)

:::wipes queso from keyboard:::

Jed, I am withholding your cupcakes.

Get a hit

:::wipes giant queso blob from t-shirt:::

AC! Battle!

Long at bat for Cora

Blue Jays had bases loaded with 2 outs in the bottom of the 8th and didn't score a dang run.

Joba the hut struck out Over/Underbay for the third out on a full count.

A couple (or 7) insurance runs would be nice.

3-1 top 9 still btw

That was a great AB by Cora.

UH CORA

What the hell was that?

Oops. I used text speak.

that should have said 3-1 top 9 by the way.

and what the f was that AC.

Dammit, Alex! That was STUPID!

Ugh.

It was a craptacular (to quote my oldest child) hit and run attempt

And that sucked.

Dammit.

Good idea Cora, but stealing only works if you don't get caught. Hint hint.

Three up, three down here Sox defense. C'MON.

Let's go Red Sox!

clap.

clap.

clap.
clap.
clap.

(AC got rung up on a busted hit-and-run.)

Come on Paps.

Paps. Be a papelboner.

C'mon, BonBon. Make the SCARY FACE.

Oh, BONBON. ::swoons::

One down.

Paps- do itttt.

Hahahaaaaa, Paps. Good work on Choo!

Two more Pap, two more.

PAPELBONKK

HOOOOOO!

Two down.

He's throwing fire.

Papel KK!

:::jumps up and down wildly:::

Come on, Paps!

Post season here we come!

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

POSTSEASON HERE WE COME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And we're back to the PLAYOFFS!!!!!!!!!

WOOHOO!!!!!!!!

We going to the show

Oh, maaaaaan, I'm tearing UP!

I'm sooo happy!

WIN!!!!

HELL YES! OCTOBER, HERE WE COME!!!!!!!!!

Congrats to all- Look at all those cute hugs. Papelbonkker I love you. LOVE LOVE LOVE.

It's so beautiful--little Pedey's trying to get on top of the pile!

And take that MFY!!!

Thank you Paps, and thank you Sox. THERE'S my birthday present!!!

Haha. That should say "Mac."

Yes!! Here we come postseason!!!

And we got Lee's third loss

Aww! Massive Ells and AC hug!

Very happy. Too busy watching to type sooner.

Awww, Jacora love. Hee.

Papi has the goggles on already!

DUSTY!

And Wakey is smiling huge!

ecl - Now that's one great birthday present.

Papi is expecting champagne.

May I take a moment to say to the Yankees...

"BYE BYE! Grab the golf clubs and head to florida!!"

WE
ARE
IN!!!

Wohoo October baseball!!! And against Cliff Lee!!!

Big favor to ask: could we get some post-game video? I have mlbtv and am missing out on all the fun.

I envy those of you who will get to see the clubhouse celebration on NESN (I doubt mlb.tv will show more than they just showed). Ian...? :::ahem:::

I love Red Sox HUGS!

By the way--there will be film available for those of us not able to see the party live on NESN, right? Right?

Pretty please with Papelbon and Beckett on top?

Now I want Nesn, for footage. It stinks being out of state.

I kept track of the game online and right now I'm celebrating with a margarita.

Of course!

Haha....I'm not the only one begging for postgame video!

My celebration posts last year were epic. I'll do the same this year.

My dad just called- I'm visiting him this weekend and he may have tickets for the game on sunday!!

Texy - A huge THANKS in advance! You rock.

Oooooh, Avery, I'm jealous!

Texy- THANK YOU! ECL- I just don't know if I can give up the time for classes- but I desperately want to go.

Texas Gal- Thanks in advance!

Avery- I am so. jealous.

Let me just add one more WHOOOO!!! before I go.

some people forgot their googles.

NESN just said that this is the first time in 13 years the Yanks haven't made the playoffs.

TG: Thank you, thank you, thank you! (Does Papajig of Happiness!)
Avery: Hope the boys get you a win to close out the season!

that's great. their soaking the bullpen cop

How can you forget your goggle??? They covering the bullpen security dude with champagne!

Aww! Clubhouse cop celebration!

Thank you SO MUCH in advance, TG!

That sounds about right, Kim.

Ian, I take it there are a bunch of wet Sox in the clubhouse. Hee...

Paps is partying on the field. Dropkick Murphy's anyone?

John Henry's calm voice with DKMs blaring in the background. I love it.

I love DKM

This celebration sounds great - can't wait to see the video. Thanks TG!!

Heidi is soaked!

Heidi's just slightly wet right now. and by slightly i mean completely soaked.

Sounds like a celebration post for me to bookmark and savor over and over...

party's on the field again now.

Youk and future stepson running around on the field = too cute.

There are BABY SOX ON THE FIELD.

I bet that ballpark is ROCKING right about now!

I love the kids. I love Lowell spraying the crowd. This rocks.

Which baby Sox are out there?

Late comment: Ian is probably enjoying Heidi's condition, right?

Almost the entire team is out on the field right now.

Youk's fiancee's son is there, MDC was holding some kid...

Future little Youk and baby Delcarmen. So far. The night is young.

nah she had a NESN raincoat on. Plus I think Amalie Benjamin is much better looking.

What the hell is Paps doing with 3rd base?

Papelbon has stolen a base and gave it to a dude in the crowd.

Oh, Paps. He just picked up third base and handed it to some fan.

He gave it to some dude in the crowd. That rocks.

Papelbon just gave a fan third base.

Hahaha. PAP IS AWESOME.

Pedey is double fisted.

we need a little Papelbon dancing dang it all

But are the baby Sox in Sox ONESIES? Beaker really needs to provide Sox onesies for all the littl'uns. . . .

I am so jealous of nesn people. Wbztv.com usually has good footage along with nesn, that's why I will be watching tomorrow.

...what is Lowrie doing?

It appears he gave away second is now about to give away first base

I firmly, firmly disagree. Papelbon dancing was special to 2007. If he does it again, it's rehash. We need something new for '08.

Awwww, baby Delcarmen. That's a cute kid, no doubt. Ian, I agree about Amalie being better looking.

Paps, that is too funny!

He's giving away all the bases. Too funny.

Why is Terry dry?

Ughh I really wanna watch this now.

Liza - I'm NESN-less. What did Jed do?

Josh is instructing various people to take pictures with him. First Lester, then Tek, then Lester and Tek... and Papelbon jumps in uninvited.

It... appeared he was shoving his ass in teammates' faces? Did I miss something?

awww josh gave his girl a kiss. and dang she's short.

Tito's dry because he's smart. Plus don't fuck with the Tito.

Masterson sneaking in on the Wake interview

Yikes, that's a lot to shove in someone's face. He's got a big butt.

Masterson is such a goof.

Masterson's also almost a head taller than Kathryn Tappen.

and wakefield repayed the favor

i should say repaid.

Ian that was funny. Enough beers and everyone gets goofy.

Little Timlin makes an appearance. And Baby Lugo.

now there's a little lugo out there

Oh, Ecl, Lugo and BabyLugo are on the field.

Masterson is tall like a giraffe. And just as gangly.

I hope there is tonsss of video. I'm looking forward to tomorrow!

and little coco's

I've been waiting for a commercial to stop my dvr and start getting it together.

Ian seriously I love you. LOVE LOVE LOVE.

Wait, lemme guess - Ian is snaking my celebration video posts, too?

Paps actually sounds intelligent right now. Tribulations... big word!

I love you too TEXY. Your videos last year were insaneeee.
Its been a year?

I did them last year too didn't I????

TC: If you've ever had champagne in your eyes, it stings.
I Don't Believe It It's Jim Rice: No... I had champagne in my mouth.

Ian, that golf picture rocks.

Awww. MDC is so cute with the kids.

To quote Don "Jonathan Papelbon give away night."

You mean toddler Lugo? I think he's about 3 now.

I want to see Coco's kids! I think there are two, right?

Papi is no dummy, Kim. He probably uses lots of big words when he does interviews in Spanish.

Yeah, toddler Lugo. Whatever. Still little. And yep, two of Coco's kids. They look exactly like him.

who's leaving comments with my name on them.

And i didn't do videos last year. Texy your videos will always come first in my book.

Faith, Paps not Papi!

Theo has some serious razor burn issues.

I knew Coco's daughter looks like him -- haven't seen his son. And yeah, toddler Lugo is still little, you're right!

Is the one and only D'Angelo anywhere in sight?

Ah, Kim -- sorry! I'm reading too fast and multitasking. Yeah, I'm not used to big words from Paps either. Hahaaaa...

Jim Rice cracks me up. "Why Manny why aren't you happy with $160M?"

My florida sports channel just showed some clips of them celebrating. Not long enough though.

Oh, Manny. I hope you're happy, Scott Boras.

There's your commercial, Ian.

Are they recounting the Manny saga now?

I'm still fascinated by what Jed was doing earlier...

Nope, they were just commenting on getting rid of Nomar and then doing well and then getting rid of Manny and doing well and then Jim Rice asked "Why Manny? Why aren't you happy with $160m?"

what commercial? I got up. couldn't hold it any longer.

Liza- What was he doing?

If I understood correctly, Jed shoved his butt in Masterson's face?

HAH. That I'd like to see. Oh rookies.

Sean Casey talks 10000 miles an hour.

Casey's take on what it takes to win the world series "We've just gotta keep throwing the ball and catching it." Umm... duh.

That is what it looked like (about Jed). I want to see it again. (So thanks in advance, TG!)

Oh, Sean? I think you might be forgetting something important, like, oh, maybe HITTING?

I need to be sensible and get to bed, folks. Gotta hit the ground running tomorrow. I *do* have a short day at work thanks to a dentist appointment, so will be able to relax a bit at the end of the day. Ta ta for now, will read any lingering postgameage tomorrow, and I am *SO* looking forward to the videos (thanks much, Texy!).

Bye, ecl. And again, happy birthday!

Things appear to be winding down as far as coverage of the celebration

To quote Josh Beckett - "I feel GREAT!!!!"

Oh God - that Beckett/Lowell/Lester interview moment -

::speechless::

That was amazing.

What am I saying?

THIS IS AMAZING.

jenny - Beckett, Mikey and Jon were interviewed? What'd they say?

jenny what did they say? the spunkanator or something like that.

Beckett seemed quite pleased with his quip about "First team to win eleven!" Lowell said Jonny's no-hitter was his favorite moment of the season. Jon came wandering in and dumped more beer on Beckett and Lowell, who were standing there with their arms around each other. They did a lot of beaming at each other. GOOD TIMES.

jenny: No offense to Zambrano, but Lester's no-no was THE feel-good moment of the season. . . .

jenny - That? Is awesome. I cannot wait for the footage.

Anyone still here?

Just wanted to say: I been sprayed with post season champagne - and it was so good, so good.

fc - ROCK!

Fc - that is awesome.

Oh btw, Rays scored 6 runs in the 8th inning to win 7-5. Screw it, they can have the division as long as we get the WS.

fc - That is epically awesome.

Loved Pap giving away the bases. Tht guy's brain is a mystery.

And did I say: POSTSEASON BABY

fc, I am so, so jealous. You are so, so lucky.