OT. Great night Red Sox win World Series and UCONN Men's win!!!

[Scoe]

Giants are lighting the world on fire this year. I think I'll take my 3 SBs since 2000 and say, enjoy snow tubing on Sundays in January.

So are you saying that you have gotten over 18-1

 

[upstater]

So we get a high pick this year

I can't even remember what that feels like. The last time something like that happened to my team was 1993.

 

[upstater]

So are you saying that you have gotten over 18-1

I never get over the losses, but as long as you have more wins than losses, what is there to complain about? As a sports fan, I have nothing to complain about. honestly, I never imagined the Patriots, Sox and UConn would be this good. And I'm talking individually. The fact that they have all been this good over the same 10 to 15 year period is absolutely mind blowing. It's going to end because that's what happens in sports, but it's been 15 years already.

 

[upstater]

dont worry the Giants have 4 superbowls the Pats won't be playing deep into January so relax and oh yeah the Giants own the Pats.

The Giants do own the Pats, but it's 2 games. And, the Patriots WILL be playing deep into January. Just watch. This year's defense is something else even without Wilfork and Mayo.

 

[Scoe]

The Giants do own the Pats, but it's 2 games. And, the Patriots WILL be playing deep into January. Just watch. This year's defense is something else even without Wilfork and Mayo.

Well see, I dont see any team beating the Niners this year, the Pats defense is very good this year but their offense has some issues.

 

[Scoe]

I never get over the losses, but as long as you have more wins than losses, what is there to complain about? As a sports fan, I have nothing to complain about. honestly, I never imagined the Patriots, Sox and UConn would be this good. And I'm talking individually. The fact that they have all been this good over the same 10 to 15 year period is absolutely mind blowing. It's going to end because that's what happens in sports, but it's been 15 years already.

I really dont have much to complain about either NY and Boston are rated the 2 best sports cites by the Sporting News glad im not a Cleveland fan being a Uconn fan doesnt hurt of course .

 

[mauconnfan]

The Sox hatred has warped your brain.

Yeah it's all me Waq, you are perfectly normal with your replies.......oh well on to UConn hoops!

 

[mauconnfan]

Actually it's pretty entertaining the NY Boston hatred here and the sword fight!!! Giants/Pats, Sox/Yanks.......no one is ever wrong here yet no one is right either!!

Except me............

Go Huskies

 

[Husky25]

if your gonna dismiss titles before 1946 then lets dismiss the Sox titles from 1918 and prior to that then, so lets just say the Sox have 3 titles and not 8.

Where exactly did I dismiss titles before 1946? The Celtics are charter members of the NBA. The NBA formed in 1946. The Celtics have won 25% of the total possible NBA titles. 1. Read, 2. Comprehend, 3. Think, 4. Respond. You clearly jumped over steps 2 and 3.

 

[3rdbass]

Celts fan?

Was when Ray Allen was there. I don't really care for the NBA. I do like watching KD though as he is a smooth player.

 

[mauconnfan]

There is no arguing who the best team was this year. I kept waiting for this band of beards to fall apart and run into a stretch I thought was more like their potential. Instead they started pitching and hitting a little better at years end and despite not hitting too well in the playoffs, pitched their butts off and proved to be the best from start to finish. No argument here........

Now the GG's and the potential HOF enshrinement of Papster that's yet another story.......but that is one for later. The Huskies are NOW....ten toes in, no Sox/Yanks BS (unless I see something I need to respond to LOL)

 

[superjohn]

Where exactly did I dismiss titles before 1946? The Celtics are charter members of the NBA. The NBA formed in 1946. The Celtics have won 25% of the total possible NBA titles. 1. Read, 2. Comprehend, 3. Think, 4. Respond. You clearly jumped over steps 2 and 3.

I'm shocked anyone is arguing against the Yankees being the best organization is sports. Besides winning at an alarming rate the Yankees are just iconic from the pinstripes to the NY hat, they've made movies about them, a disease was named after one of their players and they have the some of the most legendary players in the history of sports. The Celtics are no doubt a great organization but the Lakers are on equal footing with them and have had better players throughout their history than the Celtics have. As for the Canadiens, nobody cares about hockey.

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

Well, I guess you're right, they did name a disease after one of their players. Christ, can there be a thread that doesn't become some sort of "I got sand in my vagina" whining?

I'm geeked about the Red Sox. Three rings in my lifetime when I thought maybe I'd never see one. I don't really give a **** about the '27 Yankees right now. The Red Sox are the 2013 champs of baseball. All the "if only Detroit was healthy" and "this other team is better on paper" means squadoosh and is just sour grapes. On to basketball season.

 

[champs99and04]

Putting the Celtics on par with the Yankees is laughable. They've won one title in the last 27 years. They aren't even the best franchise in their own sport.

 

[superjohn]

Putting the Celtics on par with the Yankees is laughable. They've won one title in the last 27 years. They aren't even the best franchise in their own sport.

Agreed, I like the Celtics more than the Lakers but the Lakers are the better franchise.

 

[Husky25]

I'm shocked anyone is arguing against the Yankees being the best organization is sports. Besides winning at an alarming rate the Yankees are just iconic from the pinstripes to the NY hat, they've made movies about them, a disease was named after one of their players and they have the some of the most legendary players in the history of sports. The Celtics are no doubt a great organization but the Lakers are on equal footing with them and have had better players throughout their history than the Celtics have. As for the Canadiens, nobody cares about hockey.

Your premises were faulty and you dared someone to argue them. I did and succeeded.

ALS was named after Lou Gehrig, the man, not the Yankee because it was so rare. It's like Parkinsons or Hodgkins. Given the situation, I'm pretty sure he would have foregone the notoriety in order t o lived 30 more years.

 

[mauconnfan]

Well, I guess you're right, they did name a disease after one of their players. Christ, can there be a thread that doesn't become some sort of "I got sand in my vagina" whining?

I'm geeked about the Red Sox. Three rings in my lifetime when I thought maybe I'd never see one. I don't really give a about the '27 Yankees right now. The Red Sox are the 2013 champs of baseball. All the "if only Detroit was healthy" and "this other team is better on paper" means squadoosh and is just sour grapes. On to basketball season.

As a Yankee fan I don't really give a rats a** about the 27 either. In my lifetime I have 7 (8 if you count '61 when I was 3) but I have 77, 78, 96, 98, 99, 00, 09 which I am very aware of. The biggest misconception of Yankee fans is they use the "We have 27 how many you have?"........As I became a LLer the Yankees sucked, awful 60-70 wins often. I had hero's like Horace Clark, Jake Gibbs, Stan Bahnsen and Steve Whitaker. It took until I was 19 to get a WS title so for the most part during our younger years all of the neighborhood kids came up empty for as title chasers, Yanks rarely were in it after the all star break. I think since I moved to WesMass that perception is something that has bothered me, especially since 2004 when, whether you like it or not, Sox Nation came out of the woodwork. Yankee fans aren't cocky about having 27 but if you call the a**holes they have that to lean on but that's all it is, a crutch and an answer. Why not, they do have them?

Back to this season.......Detroit was probably as close as it got to answering the Sox game to game but you know what, they didn't. With a healthy Cabrera maybe but ultimately as someone mentioned above the Sox bullpen was tons better and help on tight to win that series. Ultimately they were in control all year and while allowing a couple teams to close a little they ran away and hid again leaving even the rays well behind. Hate them as much as i do by looking at their ugly mugs and beards but man, they did play baseball the way it was supposed to be played. Good for them........doubt they could do it again though!! (couldn't help it)

 

[mauconnfan]

Your premises were faulty and you dared someone to argue them. I did and succeeded.

ALS was named after Lou Gehrig, the man, not the Yankee because it was so rare. It's like Parkinsons or Hodgkins. Given the situation, I'm pretty sure he would have foregone the notoriety in order t o lived 30 more years.

You're really arguing that? Wow............

Oh I'm sorry on to UConn!!

 

[Husky25]

Putting the Celtics on par with the Yankees is laughable. They've won one title in the last 27 years. They aren't even the best franchise in their own sport.

You missed the point.

 

[superjohn]

Your premises were faulty and you dared someone to argue them. I did and succeeded.

ALS was named after Lou Gehrig, the man, not the Yankee because it was so rare. It's like Parkinsons or Hodgkins. Given the situation, I'm pretty sure he would have foregone the notoriety in order t o lived 30 more years.

My premise wasn't faulty and all you succeeded at was proving you are clueless. ALS was renamed Lou Gehrig's disease, because it's Lou Gehrig. That's precisely the point the guy was "The Iron Horse" a Yankee legend and one of the biggest legends of the timeperiod. Shows how big the Yankees are when he wasn't even the most legendary player on his own team. Your last sentence I'm not even going to comment on, it's too stupid.

 

[Husky25]

Your premise was that it is inarguable that the Yankees are the best organization in sports. The point of my diatribe was merely to prove that it is indeed arguable. The Yankees may in fact be the best organization. But it is not by any stretch inarguable.

End of discussion.

 

[Sportsman5]

That's hilarious coming from a Boston fan. It's almost as if one of the biggest cheaters in the history of the sport (right up there with A-Rod) didn't hit cleanup for you during your 2004 and 2007 championships. The beloved David Ortiz isn't exactly a model of honor, either - enjoy your championship, but dismissing the accomplishments of the 90's Yankees is ignorant.

Dismissing it is not ignorant. It just so happens that in the mid to late 90s when PED use was rampant in certain club houses that the yankees win 4 out of 5 championships. it is not about singling out one person it is about looking at an organization. the yankees had a chemical competitive advantage unseen before that time and unlikely to be seen again.

 

[superjohn]

Dismissing it is not ignorant. It just so happens that in the mid to late 90s when PED use was rampant in certain club houses that the yankees win 4 out of 5 championships. it is not about singling out one person it is about looking at an organization. the yankees had a chemical competitive advantage unseen before that time and unlikely to be seen again.

Good lord this is ridiculous and completely disingenuous. You do realize that cheating was rampant throughout baseball in the 90's and still is. The Red Sox best player for their first two championships was a cheater and their MVP of this World Series is a cheater.

 

[Husky25]

Good lord this is ridiculous and completely disingenuous. You do realize that cheating was rampant throughout baseball in the 90's and still is. The Red Sox best player for their first two championships was a cheater and their MVP of this World Series is a cheater.

It is impossible to dismiss what the Yankees did on the field in the mid-late 90's

It is also quite impossible to dismiss what the Red Sox did on the field between April and October 30, 2013.

2013 is not about the Yankees.

 

[Sportsman5]

Good lord this is ridiculous and completely disingenuous. You do realize that cheating was rampant throughout baseball in the 90's and still is. The Red Sox best player for their first two championships was a cheater and their MVP of this World Series is a cheater.

you didn't read my post. I blatantly said that it is not about an individual player, but about an organization during a certain time period in comparison to other entire organizations during that same time period. look at the 15 years before and after that time period in comparison to the mid to late 90s. A lot of organizations across baseball and lot of different world series winners from year to year. then look at the mid to late 90s. The original poster I responded to disregarded the redsox win this year saying that the late 90s yankees teams were so dominant that they would have crushed this years redsox team. just explaining to him why they appeared so dominant.

 

[upstater]

There is no arguing who the best team was this year. I kept waiting for this band of beards to fall apart and run into a stretch I thought was more like their potential. Instead they started pitching and hitting a little better at years end and despite not hitting too well in the playoffs, pitched their butts off and proved to be the best from start to finish. No argument here........

Now the GG's and the potential HOF enshrinement of Papster that's yet another story.......but that is one for later. The Huskies are NOW....ten toes in, no Sox/Yanks BS (unless I see something I need to respond to LOL)

On numbers, not HOF, but when you are clutch at the most important moments of the year, when 2 WS titles are largely due to you, then that is BETTER than Ortiz's career regular season. You tack that onto the numbers he put up, and what do you have? I would have said no prior to this postseason, but when you've done it 3 times, it's no fluke.

 

[superjohn]

you didn't read my post. I blatantly said that it is not about an individual player, but about an organization during a certain time period in comparison to other entire organizations during that same time period. look at the 15 years before and after that time period in comparison to the mid to late 90s. A lot of organizations across baseball and lot of different world series winners from year to year. then look at the mid to late 90s. The original poster I responded to disregarded the redsox win this year saying that the late 90s yankees teams were so dominant that they would have crushed this years redsox team. just explaining to him why they appeared so dominant.

Okay so you're not saying the Yankees World Series teams of the 90's had an advantage over the other teams they were playing during that timeperiod? I just want to get this straight, you don't think the Yankees had a chemical competitive advantage over the other teams in the league at that time?

 

[Sportsman5]

Okay so you're not saying the Yankees World Series teams of the 90's had an advantage over the other teams they were playing during that timeperiod? I just want to get this straight, you don't think the Yankees had a chemical competitive advantage over the other teams in the league at that time?

i have been extremely clear about what I am saying. Only a diehard Yankees fan would disagree with me. It is as much of a factor as the fact that the celtics won a ton of championships when there were like 8 teams in the NBA. clearly it is a factor. No way a team wins like the celtics with 30 teams in the league.

 

[Husky25]

i have been extremely clear about what I am saying. Only a diehard Yankees fan would disagree with me. It is as much of a factor as the fact that the celtics won a ton of championships when there were like 8 teams in the NBA. clearly it is a factor. No way a team wins like the celtics with 30 teams in the league.

How dare you make an argument against a Yankee fan's "logic?"

Congratulations to the 2013 Red Sox and Good Luck to the 2013-2014 UConn Huskies.

 

[Sportsman5]

How dare you make an argument against a Yankee fan's "logic?"

Congratulations to the 2013 Red Sox and Good Luck to the 2013-2014 UConn Huskies.

basketball is much more exciting than baseball. We are in for a treat this year.