The Red Sox' Season Is Over

But this is the worst baseball watching night I’ve had since 2003 Game 7. The way the Rays came back from 7 zip, while we snatched defeat from the jaws of victory was just ridiculous.

Guess I can give my Braves friend a buzz and wallow together.

Of all the money e’er I had,
I spent it in good company.
And all the harm I’ve ever done,
Alas! it was to none but me.
And all I’ve done for want of wit
To mem’ry now I can’t recall
So fill to me the parting glass
Good night and joy be with you all.
Oh, all the comrades e’er I had,
They’re sorry for my going away,
And all the sweethearts e’er I had,
They’d wish me one more day to stay,
But since it falls unto my lot,
That I should rise and you should not,
I gently rise and softly call,
Good night and joy be with you all.
If I had money enough to spend,
And leisure time to sit awhile,
There is a fair maid in this town,
That sorely has my heart beguiled.
Her rosy cheeks and ruby lips,
I own she has my heart in thrall,
Then fill to me the parting glass,
Good night and joy be with you all.

unfathomable.

Jesus. I got nothing. Just an unspeakable kick to the cubes.

Also…Tim Bogar better be gone next season. If nothing else. I want Tim Bogar gone.

Crawford, hustling like it’s an intra-squad game in March.
Papelbon, laying one more right in the wheelhouse. Why? “Because I’m Jonathan Papelbon, and you’re not.” CRUNCH. There goes your ego, Pap, bouncing off the right-center fence.

DAMMIT!

idk how to feel…the seasons over…pitching pitchin fuckn pitchin….trade xander and jacobs for hernandez/weaver fuck john lackey fuck tim wakefield……….livin in ny the moment i see a rays hat i will maul!

Just… What… happened?

Can we trade Theo, too?

I think we’ll be watching “Four Days in October” tomorrow.

Winning Percentage prior to Connor Jackson trade: .619
Winning Percentage after Connor Jackson trade: .259

Curse of… Connor Jackson?

is going to haunt Papelbon in his nightmares

Please kill me

So I will lie to my son from now on, tell him I’m a Yankee fan. I don’t want him to experience all the heartaches that go with being a Red Sox supporter.

I am the Rays biggest fan until the offseason. I love everything about that team.

Except, you know, tonight.

… pulling out my Bruins sweater.

sigh

This is the first real heartbreak I know as a Sox fan. 2003 I was 10 years old kinda remember it but I couldnt comprehend it.
But this…..

GIVE THE WHOLE FARM

can we also get the other half of A-“GON”…where is the power?….whats going on @ third base? shortstop? right field? closer?

Go Bruins!

That was the last game that we will see Yuk, Paps, Big Papi and Wakefield in Red Sox uniforms

Valiant effort tonight by the Red Sox. It just wasn’t meant to happen.

I was pulling for the Sox. I think Yankees vs Red Sox games are always the most exhilarating to watch and a New York/Boston series in the playoffs would’ve been classic.

Congrats on a 90-win season (realize that the O’s would trade places with your organization in a heartbeat) and good luck in the offseason.

This is a respectful post. Please don’t ban me.

Come on… this is still unbelievable. When can I get over this shit?

this will fade. Go find some friends, sit around and stare at a wall with them for an hour or two, and sure, grab the Bruins Jersey after that.

Rough go, guys. Look forward to another good race with you guys next year.

and they can’t even do it with a 7-0 lead. Girardi uses 12 pitchers, and to top it off, Golson does his best Suppan impersonation(without all of the running back and forth) on the bases. Johnson bangs one off the foul pole down to their last strike.

I have caught all kinds of heat from “Rangers fans” (and let me be clear, there is no such thing as a Ranger Fan, it’s only “whatever team is winning within the DFW area fan” Go ahead, try it out, bring up 2000-2009 to any Ranger and I garauntee you get a blank stare as if no baseball was played within that time.)

Yet, I still love My Red Sox. We have many problems (here’s one finger pointing at you Lackey, and you know which one it is).

I hope the Front office makes the right moves, and let’s hope the injury bug plagues some other team next year.

See y’all Spring 2012.

wish I could say it gets better, but 4 years later for us, and, well…

Hey, at least you guys already HAVE a good front office. You won’t spend 3 years dicking around with Omar Minaya like we did. Good luck. The world is a better place when the Red Sox are better than the Yankees.

its collapses like this that lead to imploding a team…like shoulda happened to the Canooks after rd 1 should Patrick sharp pick a corner.
Nevertheless Boston teams have stayed the course in the past and been rewarded to the max(thanks Bruins)

If Theo says “we won 90 games, season was a success” crap, somebody better dress up in his gorilla suit and pummel him to a pulp.

Seriously, I will pay good money for that to happen.

Lesson: When you are expected to win it all – winning 90 games is under achieving.
Lesson revisited: You can never have enough pitching
Lesson revisited: When you suck for two months you will not go to the post season
Lesson revisited: MFY

Baseball is the best.
Baseball is the worst.

No baseball fan should have to suffer through what you guys just witnessed, and that’s part of what makes this game beautiful.

My condolences, Sox fans. You’ll be back next year.

Had a bunch of Cardinals and Sox fans in for tonight’s madness. Quite the atmosphere. All right all star voting alliance buddies, let’s drown our sorrows, lol.

I’m sick. Want to crawl under a rock. I’m not embarrassed to be a Sox fan though. Just tremendously disappointed. Like many of you, watching Sox baseball is one of the things that give me great joy (epic collapses notwithstanding). It was a fun season, my first full one at OTM. Thanks to all of you, it’s nice to come here and talk to people as passionate as I am. I wish it would have ended differently. Whatever changes are made to the team I just hope this experience sticks with those that remain and it brings them back hungrier next season. I know come February I’ll be ready. The pain will go away, it always has before. It just might take a little longer this time. So thanks again OTMers. I look forward to the offseason and 2012.

PS- Crawford still blows goats, and he better get his shit together ASAP. Oh and Ells still should be MVP.

I’m slightly amused by the fact that the majority of you are Yankee fans. It sort of feels like the 20s, when someone in a gang would take out someone in a rival gang, then go visit his family to offer condolences and pay for the funeral.

Brought a bit of a cynical smile to my face.

I have a big scar from the ’86 Series. Tonight, Pap used a dull blade to cut all the way around the outside of that scar and rip out the flesh. This one is going to take a long time to heal.

I still feel numb and sick. I want to throw up. I feel like the wind has been knocked out of me. I can’t even concentrate on anything baseball right now

And it seems like every other baseball fan is celebrating tonight as if it was the highest achievement in MLB history.

Had the most fucked up dream last night….

Pats in the 07 Superbowl, Celtics in Game 7 against the Lakers a couple years ago, Bruins losing against the Flyers after being up 3-0.(Thankfully this was avenged)

Boston sports teams can’t go too long without heartbreak.

That is all.

On Wednesday, with the latest Red Sox collapse complete and Francona walking in the unfamiliar shoes of Don Zimmer and Grady Little, the manager stood in the busy corridor outside the clubhouse and tried to explain what had just happened. These words, ‘I don’t know’ may be his epitath.

He spoke softly. "I don’t know how to evaluate when you go home before you’re ready," he said.

What do you mean you do not know how to evaluate? Take a look at September! I have been one of his biggest supporters. But, these words: “I don’t know” are inexcuseable. You cannot lead and manage by not knowing. If he is indecisive and clueless to the collapse then it is time for a change. He looks tired and the fire is gone in his belly. The whole team looked tired and weary and he is the centerpiece for that lost, weak and powerless image. The image is pathetic.

I do not blame Tito for the collapse apart from some of his boneheaded moves and confused state of mind – but the bulk of blame is on the FO for no pitching depth, and the players’ crummy defense, lousy base running and lack of clutch hitting. Furthermore, the big money stars did not perform and they should be publicly chastised by management.

However, I do hold Tito accountable for taking responsibility and providing managerial summaries of what went wrong and how to fix it. He did not do that at all. He failed in that task.

Tito, your words are weak and your excuse is a sham. You should come out and say it – “we stunk, we chocked up the biggest lead in history & we did not play good baseball and that is why we collapsed….this is intolerable and the entire organization needs to look at the problem and determine the fix from the front office to lowest rung of our farm system.”

If you are not part of the solution then you are part of the problem. The organization has lost it’s identity – they need to begin the process of top to bottom review now. The Sox need clear leadership not fuzzy words like “I don’t know.” I don’t know does not cut it. You know, we know, all of baseball knows – you sucked in September and that is why your season ended.

And, the first two questions to ask are,
1. “Who is worth retaining?
2. Who can we trade or release and still be competitive, even if we swallow $$ in our under performing contracts ?”

"We knew they weren’t out of it," Crawford said of the Rays.

"They’ve got the kind of team that will come back."

WTF, this guy under performs, lookd dazed and confused and then states the Rays have the team that comes back. He is a Ray at heart and not a Sox – our team used to have the comeback attitude. This whole month – this self-defeating attitude permeates the Big League Club. Does he say – we are better than this – we are a comeback team and we just came up short? Sox nation- I aplogize for our epic collapse and my part in it and we will comeback next season. You are the best fans around…No, he just compliments the Rays. And we have him for 5-6 more years…good times.

Last night was without a doubt was the most exciting final nights in baseball, and also one of the most heart breaking nights for millions of fans in Atlanta and Boston. I admit, it was a bit sad seeing Big Papi and Chipper Jones down, you could see they were broken and as a baseball fan in general, it sucks knowing that a few teams always has to be the one that loses.

You guys will bounce back, sign that closer (yes, he blew a couple of games but outside Rivera the guy is damn good at what he does), and I can’t see Crawford giving this sort of performance for two years in a row, I expect a comeback year for the guy.

Hope to see you guys and the Braves in the playoffs next year.

I’m still processing everything that happened last night. I keep telling myself that there’s always next year and hopefully this lights a fire under them. I personally think they were too streaky… pitchers and hitters. I’ve stuck with them from their 2-10 start, through the highs and lows and believed in them in September. I knew that if they made the playoffs, then it would be interesting to see what happened/should they even deserve to make it. I had 08 ALCS flashbacks last night and I remember 03 too. It just sucks when a season ends “in a second.” Last night is baseball drama at it’s finest.

The 2012 season has already started.

GO SOX!!

Tampa Bay earned it, against all odds over a month of play.

Boston already has earned a World Series over a comeback rally over the Yankees.

It’s sports and an emotional time. Hold your head high and be positive that you have already done the unthinkable a few years back to become baseball champions.

Peace. Fresh start in 2012!

Uh, sorry folks. Not really sure what to say, but thanks for having me hangout here over the last week.

this team seemed so good- I really had complete faith up until Longoria’s walk-off; that was when I finally accepted that it wasn’t going to happen. It’s kind of an embarrassment as a fan to have a team THAT hyped up fail SO miserably.

That said, I hope Theo can get creative this offseason and find a way to really shore up our pitching. I hope that Youk and Buchholz and Crawford can come back and contribute like they should. I hope Papi is back, and I hope that Tek and Wakefield decide to exit of their own accord. I hope that next year, this team can be everything that they were supposed to be this year.
As Red Sox fans have said for so many years before- there’s always next year. I know that I and all my friends here will be behind them all the way.

here at OTM. It has been fun to find other sox fans. Being here in Utah, we don’t have a team. Anyway, thanks for all the fun times guys. Ben, Marc, you guys do a great job with this site and I look forward to reading about how we do in the offseason and going forward.

Very very frustrating. Its one of those nights that we will remember exactly for the rest of our lives. But its just a game. Life will go on. We will get back to where we want to be.

Here is to a WS title in 2012!

My schedule sure has opened up this October.

The Braves had a similar (worse IMO) September meltdown, and it still wasn’t as bad as what happened to their hockey fans. I love the Winnipeg Jets, but Atlanta’s diehard sports fans (all 50 of them?) have a decent sized share of facepalm going on right now.

Not that it makes this situation any better, but hey, Boston is still home to a pretty decent sports city.

And the best freaking marathon in the world, in my humble opinion.