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mollysmiles · 10-19-2007, 06:58 PM

but i got both of you!

ogre · 10-19-2007, 06:59 PM

Also ogre, you have been blessed with yet another one of those characteristics that I don't yet possess, yet I admire you for having.....the analytical breakdown of all that could possibly go wrong, done before the game, carefully factoring in pitching, SWING STYLE . . . lol

mollysmiles · 10-19-2007, 07:02 PM

lol..... i didn't even pick up on that.....hmmm....as El would say, "something you'd like to share with the class??"

ogre · 10-19-2007, 07:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Bydand

I agree ogre. It is different acting team without a doubt. And I tried to send to rep over to Molly as well and it said I had to spread it around a bit.

Yeah, I've found you have to give out quite a bit of rep before they let you rep up the same person again. There was one day I gave out a bunch, and discovered they allow a daily maximum of total reps as well. I tried to rep somone and got a notice not that I'd have to spread more rep before getting that person again, but that I would have to "wait a while," or something like that, before giving out any more.

Geez, Molly. If you were able to give out more to the two of us here, you must spread the daily limit of rep every day! I know it wasn't all that long ago that you said you'd repped me up the last time. Well, hey, I see all the rep you've received. What goes around comes around, in this case in a positive way.

Bydand, I'm curious about where you were living when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down. UP, Arrowhead, northern WI? Just asking because I'm doing grad school applications this fall. You might have seen my posts on here asking about Orono, since UMaine is a school on my list of possibilities. Northern Michigan U. is another possibility, so I welcome any info anyone might happen to be able to provide about the UP and Marquette. I saw something on this forum once where someone said that Maine and the UP were similar. One thing I know for sure is that the UP doesn't have anything like Katahdin, one of my favorite spots on Earth. Still, I bet that upper Great Lakes area is magnificent.

Back to topic: Which Schilling will appear tomorrow night?

mollysmiles · 10-19-2007, 07:28 PM

I hate to say this.....

but last night both Jake (my 9 year old) and I slept in our Red Sox shirts.....hmmmm.....

anyway! ogre, I have become addicted to rep points....sad, but true....it started because I noticed that it looked funny that I had so many posts and so few points....so over in the games forum there is this "rep fueling station" thread....I rep you guys here, then go over there and rep, and they rep me back.....some of them have so many rep points they can give out 9 for one post!! So, I rep all 20 times in 24 hours that I can

and it helps when I come back here and only have to wait a day to get you guys at "home"!! if you click on "my settings" you can see who's repped you.....

so, I'm hoping for bloody sock Schilling.....

Bydand · 10-19-2007, 07:37 PM

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Originally Posted by ogre

Bydand, I'm curious about where you were living when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down. UP, Arrowhead, northern WI? Just asking because I'm doing grad school applications this fall. You might have seen my posts on here asking about Orono, since UMaine is a school on my list of possibilities. Northern Michigan U. is another possibility, so I welcome any info anyone might happen to be able to provide about the UP and Marquette. I saw something on this forum once where someone said that Maine and the UP were similar. One thing I know for sure is that the UP doesn't have anything like Katahdin, one of my favorite spots on Earth. Still, I bet that upper Great Lakes area is magnificent.

Back to topic: Which Schilling will appear tomorrow night?

The UP. I graduated High School from Sault Ste, Marie, MI in 1981 and then did a bit at Lake Superior University when it was still known as Lake Superior State College.
The UP is very similar to Northern Maine. Smaller towns, spread out and generally more economically depressed than the Southern portions of the State. Marquette is a great city! NMU is a fantastic school and the views of Lake Superior are breathtaking. It may be a lake, but unless you have seen a lake that is 350 miles long and 160 miles wide, you cannot draw a good mental picture. The surface area of just lake Superior is almost the same size as the entire State of Maine. Wave heights are regularly over 20' during storms and can be bigger than 30'. It is a different feeling than the coast of Maine, and generally a LOT less people during the Summers. On the Southern side of the UP you have Lake Michigan, and that has a totally different feel to it as well. Can you say, Sugar sand beaches. Katahdin? Not really, but the Western side of the UP has the Porcupine Mountains and the views from Brockway Drive are great. The UP is one area I would go back to in a minute, if I could talk the wife into longer, colder winters; and that is not about to happen!

mollysmiles · 10-19-2007, 07:42 PM

and we like you here!

ogre · 10-19-2007, 08:10 PM

This one dates me. It's from my youth . . . in the '70's. I hope I'm not doing any copyright infringement here. I'll take my chances, since it's been so long that no one should care if I quote, lo these many years later.

This was an article in Sports Illustrated. The situation was like this: The story appeared in early August, at which time the Sox were in first place, with something like a 4-1/2-game lead. At the time there was no wild card. A team had to win its division to make the playoffs. Not only did the Sox have what seemed like a moderately comfortable lead, but they had been on a hot streak, and the lead was increasing. I began to have visions of playoffs dancing in my head. But I was young then, and had not yet learned the importance of making sure not to get your hopes up.

So, the SI story began something like this:

Of course it was only a matter of time before one of Boston's finest would approach the young man and young woman sunning themselves by the banks of the Charles River. It was not that they were causing any sort of disruption. It's just that they were wearing no clothes. And, while au naturel may be the latest in thing in Malibu, it's banned in Boston. So now the policeman stood next to the naked young couple. And what did he say? Pointing at the blaring radio: "Hey, how're the Sox doin'?"

Man, the Sox are doin' just fine. [Then there's a recap of their situation at the time, the lead they've built up, etc. Then:]

What the Boston Red Sox are really doing is ruining the summer vacations of millions of New Englanders. In situations like this, people in this region can never completely relax and enjoy the summer. The events at Fenway Park are always lurking in the back of the mind. From the beaches of Cape Cod to the mountains of Maine, life in New England wears a worried face when the Sox are locked in a pennant fight.

They are the Sox, mind you, not the Red Sox. In New England, if you call them the Red Sox, this immediately exposes you as an outsider. You might be from Florida, maybe New Jersey, maybe even another world, but you're obviously not from New England.

[Then there's some discussion of how obsessed people can become with following the Sox:]

One man fastened together fifteen extension cords so he could take his television onto the beach to watch a game. Everywhere, the Sox are the topic of conversation. Radios find their way into golf bags. Sometimes the action being described over the air becomes a convenient excuse for poor performance on the links: "I shanked that last shot because Yaz hit into a double play."

Yaz. Not Carl Yastrzemski. If you call him Carl Yastrzemski in New England, they know right away you're from Mississippi or Saskatchewan . . .

The article continued, but this early part of it was where the writer really captured the essence of Sox fandom. Wish I could remember who it was. Now that I think about it, this captured Sox fandom so well that I have to believe the writer must have been a long-suffering member of the legions himself.

The rest of the story: That lead of 4-1/2 games (or thereabouts) the Sox had built up in early August had grown to 7-1/2 by about a week before the end of August. Then . . . absolute, utter collapse. They finished seven games OUT of first place. Definitely one of my more memorable lessons about the consequences of getting your hopes up about this team.

And, as you made clear in that earlier post, Molly, this is the kind of thing that makes criticism of the Sox a privilege one has to EARN, and earn dearly, which is not allowed to just anyone.

ogre · 10-19-2007, 08:23 PM

Thanks for the info, Bydand.

mollysmiles · 10-20-2007, 06:34 AM

I too grew up in the 70s.....with Yaz, Lynn (one of my favorites cause he's a lefty!), Rice, Fisk, Evans.....yup, completely get that!

oh and Petrocelli, and Butch Hobson!! ok....moving on

I didn't know about that SI article....it would be great to have a copy of that....maybe I'll go digging....