Flash Sprots Update

For many in the Boston area, baseball is not just a game, it's a way of life. Boston Backbay has suddenly come alive this evening with the screams and chears of crazed Red Sox fans as Trot Nixon hit the home run in the 11th inning which won the game for the Sox, 2-1, against the Oakland Athletics. "He's my hero," one Boston local exclaimed. Now the screams subside into honkey horns and screaching tires, the music of Boston.
The mob of fans slowly make their way out of Backbay, leaving it once again to Kenmore locals and college students. The Red Sox have two more games to win before they go to the American League Championships, and from their the World Series. "They are going to win," says a fan. Will their be a World Series at Fenway this year? There seems to be no doubt about it in the minds of these steadfast Massachusetts fans.

*note:the final score was 3-1, not 2-1, as confirmed by ESPN.com this morning

*sigh*

I bet the Red sox are going to have to play the Yankees for the American League Championships. . . As it stands right now, the Yankees have the highest win rankings, and then Oakland and then Boston, if Boston beats out Oakland by winning these next two games, its Red Sox vs. Yankees. My god, there is going to be rioting in the streets.

me mate in St Louis says he wants the sox and cubs to play< I ask why he said they need it. what ever that means.

If the Sox do wind up playing against the Yanks for the American League Championships, they're going to lose. I just want to see some blood.

Although I have to admit it be really cool to have a world series five blocks away. I just don't think the Red Sox can pull it off though.

I called me mate in st louis he says his cards are out go sox go cubs. he is a good mate we drank together in scotland years ago this guy is a gamer been allover old like real old servied in french leagon in 50 something pro solder. great mate.

Well, I'll be....I am from St. Louis (grew up there but do not live there anymore) and my dad is Scottish. His mum was a nurse in WW1....lived to be 103.

Go Cardinals!!!!!! 😉

LOL


RED SOX WON!!!! YEAH BABY!!! HOLY butter!!! THEY PLAY THE YANKS WEDNESDAY IN NEW YORK!!!!

God man, we were all listening to the game on the radio. . . Sox led the game 4-3 at the bottom of the ninth. . . They finally go the last guy out with three strikes and a ball, THE BASES WERE LOADED. Wow. . . What a rush. . . We were all holding like red charms, and my friend Amanda was pacing back and forth with every lucky object she had. We made a makeshift cross for her out of Q-tips. Then we all ran screaming into the street, and so did everybody else... And then down the street passed the streaking peope head on into the cars who were maddly beaping and chearing and so was everyone... All the way to Fenway, about five blocks away. butter, there were SO MANY PEOPLE THERE... And we were all climbing on top of roofs and signs and billboards... The guys on the builboards lit a Yankees shirt on fire and then his own pants (he took them off). Every one was screaming either "LET'S GO RED SOX" or "YANKEES SUCK". It was treetrunking amazing. And then they started flipping cars over. They flipped this one white car over an kicked in the windows and then started jumping on top of it. And also an SUV. . . And then the riot police showed up. They made a circle around the white car. The SUV started leaking gas, and the fire trucks came. At this point my friends and I decided to retreat and go back home. The guy who was streaking was still pacing the streets naked, actually he just was standing on his door step completely naked and we were like yeah baby!!! OH MAN, I'VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS BEFORE!!! Now I know why everybody comes away a Red Sox fan if they go to college here. I still think they have no chance of beating the Yanks, but it would be pretty treetrunkin awesome of if they did. I can't imagine the riot then; although I'm pretty sure there'd be one if they lost too.

WOOOOHOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! LET'S GO SOX!!!!

Jake in St louis told me baseball is what we call rounders. so I under stand a little. Like freebird he is a big cardinals fan. I think freebird like it because there a lot of bird names of teams.

Absolutely James! 😉

Frenzied fans lose control: Cars kicked, overturned on streets of Fenway

by Jennifer Rosinski
Tuesday, October 7, 2003








Euphoria turned destructive around the streets of Fenway Park last night as hundreds of Red Sox fans - frenzied over the team's nail-biting 4-3 win over Oakland to reach the American League Championship Series against the Yankees - stopped traffic, jumping on parked cars, moving taxis and overturning at least one car.


Outside the Cask 'n' Flagon, Robin Milch and another woman tried in vain to haul much larger men off what used to be a fairly new Mitsubishi Lancer. She called police as fans romped the car's roof in, kicked in windows and tore off its mirrors.

``This is ridiculous. I don't see why you have to destroy property to have fun,'' Milch said as a horde of other fans jumped on passing cabs, rocking the vehicles back and forth to the dismay of the drivers. ``They're terrorizing these cab drivers for no reason. It just doesn't make sense.''

Around the corner on Lansdowne Street, the crowd overturned a Volkswagen. Beer bottles rained down from rooftops, where some rowdy fans had managed to clamber up. Others celebrated from perches on billboards around Fenway.

``It's the curse of the Bambino,'' said one cop, donning his riot gear on Brookline Avenue. ``The fun is over.''

A group of college-aged men chased down a passing firetruck, leaping onto it for a celebratory ride.

``I'm from Washington, D.C., and they don't get excited like this over playoff games,'' said Joe Drake, in town visiting a college buddy and caught in the chaos. ``I guess we don't have a lot of natives that have been waiting their whole lives for this, but this is beyond me.''

Earlier, as the clutch ninth inning played out on the TVs in Boston Billiards, fans booed each ball thrown by Scott Williamson. Then they chanted for his reliever, Derek Lowe, whose game-winning strikeout with the bases loaded sent the screaming crowd clambering onto tables.

But Dave Robinson of South Boston, overcome with emotion, shot outside quickly with two buddies for a smoke.

``I need a cigarette bad,'' Robinson said. ``It was getting tense in there.''

I wish I could find some pictures. . .

sounds like a manchester united game.

LOL... Wow... Last night the Sox kicked the Yankies asses in Yankie Stadium. . . The Red Sox won like 5-2 I think... And the Cubs creamed the Marlins 12-3... What kind of a stupid name is Marlins for a sports team anyway?

you must be pisces to play on the team.
freebird I have been to St Louis, but if your mother lived to 103 and was in wwII hold old must you be 80 or 90 I lov older women. I liked St Louis it seems like a nice place to live, Me mate jake is an old mate also he is maybe 50 or 45 or 60 not sure but he lives in a place called the west end do you know it?

Hahahaha... See... We do have more behaved riots at BU than in other schools round here...

Email from Dean:

"During the recent Major League baseball playoffs, Boston University students exercised commendable civility and respect for each other,property, our community, and our neighbors. I applaud your orderly and responsible reactions to an exciting divisional series ending."

Then he went on to say if you do break the law, we're not sheltering you. LOL.... And then they invited everyone "If you are a fan of the Boston Red Sox, the New York Yankees, or baseball" to watch the play off games on the big screen tv in the union center... with hot dogs and popcorn served... hehe... You know, it probably wasn't smart on their part to get the yankee fans and the red socks fans in the same room. 😛 Wild, sooo wild.

haha... yankees won... hmmm... I can't to see what happens saturday. Pedro better be pitching this time. Lowe's to bipolar.

I'M INCREDIBLY PISSED. DAMN IT. YANKEES ONE IN THE ELEVENTH INNING. AND WHAT'S WORSE IS I HAD TO HAVE A WHERE IS THIS RELATIONSHIP GOING CONVERSATION IN THE MIDDLE OF THE GAME. THAT IS THE ABLSOLUTE WORST TIME EVER. I'M JUST GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. DISAPOINTMENT IS NOT A STRONG ENOUGH WORD. THIS IS ALL TIM'S FAULT DAMN HIM, IF IT WASN'T FOR HIM I'D STILL BE A YANKEES FAN. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. . . STUPID SCORPIO. . . AND NICK, WHAT THE HELL WAS HE THINKING? I KNOW HE'S NOT A SPORTS PERSON, BUT YOU DO NOT, DO NOT DO NOT TALK ABOUT THAT DURNING THE LAST treetrunkIN GAME. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR