Prospect Primer

A good primer before the season. Baseball America says we have the 2nd best farm system in baseball(shocker), but here's a quick writeup and overview of it. Might wanna write down some of the names, as you are sure to see them in a big league Sox uni this summer.

Baseball America Top Red Sox Prospects

Currently Drinking: A nice hot Latte

Boston's painful fall

The city of Boston just can not catch a break in the sports world.

ESPN Page 2: Caple: Beantown Blues

*Thanks to the Horne for his find- now if we could just get him writing some posts

Dog Day Afternoon

But this one did not star Al Pacino. No, this Dog Day belonged in the hands of the MSU football and basketball players. Much more so on the gridiron than the hardwood though.

#22 Alabama arrived early yesterday morning to face one of only three teams in the SEC that hasn't been ranked this year, us. This Mississippi State Bulldog team has looked better and better every game this season though, won big games against giant killers Auburn and Kentucky, and was coming off a by week of what I'm sure was colossal walrus sized work outs.

By 11:05 AM, Davis Wade Stadium (pictured above) was at a new school record capacity of 56,188 and nearly one out of three people had a cowbell in hand. There would be no cries for more cowbell this day.

In an immediate disappointment, freshman QB Wesley Carroll threw an interception on his first attempt, not only turning the ball over to the Tide in our territory but quelling Carroll's quest for the NCAA freshman record for most attempts without an INT of which he was just two shy. Our namesake shining through, the Bulldog Defense held Bama to a field goal and got the ball back in our hands.

After two more FG by Bama and only one from State, Alabama fought it's way to inside the MSU 10 yard line where a touchdown seemed imminent. After two battles at the line trying to run the ball into the end zone, a third down call for a throw led to the day's game changing play. Bama's QB is rushed and scrambling, and in his attempt not to be sacked, hurls the ball into the end zone and into the waiting arms of a Bulldog defense-man. With one good block, the ball is returned 100+ yards for a TD and the lead after the extra point. And this was all with less than 20 seconds in the half.

Coming out after halftime, the dawgs were rejuvenated. Allowing only one more field goal from Alabama and tacking on an offensive touchdown, the Bulldogs finished the final drive of the game with a sack that had been brewing all day, to let time expire.

Bama fans sure were proud of their million dollar coach, but our Alabama alumni coach, for the second year in a row, knew what it took to take Saban down.

Go Dawgs!
and not to let our basketball team go unnoticed
Go Dawgs!

the World Series in 50 seconds

It was fast. It was painless(for the Sox). And it was oh-so-glorious. We now sum up the last leg of the 2007 Red Sox Championship run...

I am sure Trevor will have a season recap soon. I'll give my thoughts when I have no more work to do (read: mid-December).

-RBDS1

Papelbon is my hero (and I wish my boyfriend)

Okay so not really my boyfriend, but I love him as much as any heterosexual can love another heterosexual.

Dice isn't bad either, and Beckett is the ALCS MVP, and I wish Schilling was my biological father.

Red Sox are going to the World Series for the second time in four years. Papelbon (a MSU grad) got the save in game 7 of the ALCS against the Cleveland Indians and life couldn't be better. I pretty much have a crush on Jonathan, he's so goofy, so country, and such a damn fine game closer. He came in for a full six outs (for the first time this year) and he destroyed them, with noted help from our outfield (Coco Crisp and Jacoby "the Kid" Ellsbury).

Its funny how a sport I had nothing but disdain for is now my favorite sport to keep up with and by far evokes the most emotion. I yell, I clap, I curse, and I love it.

Back from a 3-1 deficit to win 3 games in a row to win the ALCS at home in front of the best fans in any sport in the best town in all sports (you want to argue that?? Red Sox, Patriots, BC, and the Celtics).

It's 11:30pm local time, I have class in the morning, I just cracked a beer, and am probably going to have a few more.

Long live baseball

Go Sox


*you like the pic? that's our dry erase board, home to all RedBullDawgSox sports

Currently Drinking: Samuel Adams Cream Stout

ALCS Game 5 live blog

• I am now a profound supporter of replay support for Major League Baseball. Manny hits a two run home run in the 3rd inning and its ruled A SINGLE!? -T
  
• Beckett comes after the bottom of the 3rd striking out two of three -T
  
• The ground rules for Jacobs field may say that hitting the yellow line is a homer, but seriously, all umpires present actually saw that little piece of material fly up? Yeh. Right. -H
• Okay, so maybe it hit the wall. Seems like different ground rules in different parks is something the commentators would do well to acknowledge. -T
• ...especially Tim "Fountain of all Baseball Knowledge" McCarver -H
• 10 GIDP in this series. That's pathetic. -T
• Beckett is settled. 40 pitches thru 4 -T
• For those of us in Mississippi tonight: local news, for the love of Allah, make the "Storm Weather Watch Forecast Team Radar Tracker 5" ticker about 20 font sizes smaller. -H
• And we've been watching Severe Weather News instead of the game for a whole inning. Well we've been watching Gameday on Horne's computer, going to try and Slingbox the game directly from Boston -T
• Had to watch our baseloaded out via Gameday. Trevor not happy. Titan angry! - T
• I love Beckett. Besides the actual one (Paps), Beck's is a bulldog and you better take him serious -T
• How many times are we going to have a missed play due to a glancing blow off the webbing? -T
  
• Here's a shoutout to my bro Will. Because of the numerous and timely Weather updates, we've got the computer out and watching my brother's Slingbox via the tv. You can't stop us, evil weather Gods!!! - H
• Beckett. Damn. -T
• YOUK! -T
• Do Grady's ladies like seeing his face in the dirt and no baseball in his glove, cus I do -T
• Sizemore does not = Crisp/Ellsbury -H
• Single most inconsistent ump. Ever. Of all-time. In the history of the world. -T
• 10 Ks -T
• 20-to-1 odds we see Papelbon this game. I'm just sayin. -H
• Perez "Hilton" throws the ball to right field instead of the short stop. E1 -T
• Lugo makes a perfect 3rd baseline bunt to advance the runners, and makes the single. Based Juiced -T
• Perez going back to bench "jail" Get it? Like Paris Hilton? -T
• PASSBALL. No DoublePlay. 5-1 (I think that's the first time we've actually said the score) -T
• 2 walks. Papi to bat with bases load...
• sac fly 7-1 -T
• If Beckett doesn't come back in the 9th, he has 11 Ks and was still hitting 96mph after 100 pitches -T
• Paps is lights out. 2 Wins Away.

I know it's not the most precise live blog ever, but hey we didn't have all night to just write, we had a game to watch.

Go Sox

Who Is Worse?

Henig or Gagne

Really, which is worse? That's all I got.