Red Sox Game

I'm not sure where to post this, oddly enough there's no sports forum, so this catch-all forum looked good.

Yesterday we went to a baseball game - Red Sox vs Angels. It was a sell-out crowd of 44,100-some people. I'd say that 1/4 to 1/3 of the people there were Red Sox fans, and I didn't hear anyone talking with a Boston accent. Even out here, it's cool to be a Red Sox or Yankees fan. However, I am an Angels and Dodgers fan.

I took some pictures and they aren't that great, but baseball fans might enjoy them. This is at Angels Stadium.

This is Jared Weaver pitching and Kevin Youkilis up to bat.

Zoom shots with my camera are poor, but this is Reggie Willits of the Angels. I think he's a doll.

This is Orlando Cabrera on the left and Maicer Izturis on the right. Maicer hit the go-ahead homerun later in the game. He's just a little guy.

David Ortiz is up to bat here. He didn't do any damage to us.

This is Jason Varitek up to bat. On deck behind him is Coco Crisp.

This is Curt Schilling pitching.

BTW, the Angels won! Yay!!!!!!!!

Yayyy! (I can cheer for them as long as they aren't playing the Astros.. LOL)

How cool to go to a real ball game!

Thanks for sharing those neat pictures, Kelli!

Wuvie, you'd like Reggie Willits. He's from OK.

Kelli,

You can hear my Boston accent here! I grew up and spent most of my life in Mass, and he Red Sox rule!

Yes, you'll get a lot of Sox fans in California - Red Sox Nation is everywhere. I get a chance to see them whenever they come to sunny FLA. Watching them play in Topicanna, and hearing the crowd root for the Sox, you'd think you were at Fenway!

Steve

Steve, when the Red Sox play at Tropicana, does the place sell out? If not, does the place ever sell out? The ray touch tank looks pretty cool. Those rays are so cute. Did the term Red Sox Nation exist before the 2004 World Series? I don't think I ever heard of it before that.

See you in the post-season! :-)

i tried to get a sports forum started but it never was...
i went to the TIGERZ game this year so i could see magz!!
tigerz are out but will be back!!!!!

Im a HUGE sports fan Nascar,Baseball and hockey are my tops
but with 5 boyz i luv most every sport!

Look Magz heard me screaming-see he is looking right at me ;)

This is one of the new pitchers MILLER

This is me and my favorite TIGER ever-WILLIE HORTON
I was so happy to go to this game with my oldest son and his girl and my DH!

One more-dont want to high jack your thread!!
This is ZZZZZZZZuuuuuuuummmmmmmmyyyaaaaa up close!
they made me go to my seat-but i was happy to as it was right field where i could
drool over ORDONEZ

I don't mind the hijacking at all. Neat pictures!

i went to fenway park to take some pictures (could not get tickets) and i can tell you that you haveto be crazy to wear anything but red sock hats and jerseys. they are crazy fans. unfortunately my beloves n.y. mets didn't make it this year (i thought for sure they would) now i have to root for any team that planys the yanks.

have a great day.

ok then here is pitcher rodney giving us the luv sign when we yelled his name

this is the scoreboard with Magglio! i have a bunch of picks of him!!!!

Feel free to add as many pictures as you want. Who did the Tigers play against in that game and who won?


Herbie, any thoughts on why the Mets fell apart? Earlier in the season, I thought that they would probably win the World Series.


In honor of today's tie-breaker game, here's Jake Peavy. This was taken last year at Petco. I don't have any Rockies player pictures. I guess I'm kind of rooting more for the Rockies in this tie-breaker game. The Padres always choke in the post-season.

The Tigers played one of my favorite teams Kansas City Royals and we lost 5-2!
But i got to drool all day in the heat watching Magz
I was sure the Tigers were going to be the World Series champs this yr! now Im hoping for next yr-the club is already making some changes-better ones!!

Lions stadium in the back ground-Ford Field


i wish there was a sports forum!

Why is KC one of your favorite teams? Because you can usually beat them? ;-)

becuz I have been a baseball fan since i was YOUNG and I had a crush on George Brett

I picked a team in every league(east/west)
I also cheer for KC Chiefs football team! :)

I picked that game becuz I thought we could beat them that day and it was free hat day for adults only

kelli - there are a few good reasons why that happened. i think the main thing was that they thought there were going to win th3 eeast and they started playing sloppy. then the bullpen collapsed. three weeks from the end of the season the mets were about 7 games up. then they lost 4 strainght to philly. still, when i looked at the sed=chedule i didn't panic cause i saw that they were going to end the season playing 13 games with the nationals, the second worst team in the national league and the marlins, the worst team. the nationals beat us 3 straight and and we were now tied. we lost the first to the marlins and philly won so we were down 1. we won the second and they lost so we were ties. i had my doubts about glavine pitching this last game because i think he throws so soft but then i figured that he had been in this position many times. turned out he had one of his worst games ever as a pro and that was it. a month before i only hated the yankes. now i hate the phillies, the nationals and the marlins. LOL

to make matters worse, we had invited some neighbors who are rabid mets fans like me and two yankee friends for dinner tonight cause i thoujgh we would be celebrating a championship. now i have to hear it from them all night long.

Notmartha, we did the same kind of thing regarding the Royals and had the same result. I wanted to go to Arizona to see a game. It had to be a Saturday game before the weather got too extremely hot. If the D-backs were playing a team they should be able to beat, that was good. If they were giving away something neat, that was a bonus. So we went to a game vs the Royals in June. They were giving away team playing cards, which were cute. However, the D-Backs lost. This was a couple years ago. Here is a picture from that game. That's Tony Graffanino at first base and John(?) Buck is talking to the pitcher. I don't remember who the pitcher was that night.

That same year we went to an Angels game. I wanted to go on Fireworks Night and it ended up that the Angels were playing the Royals that day. This time the Angels won. I don't remember the score, but it was a bloodbath, something like 14 to 3.

This is Jose Lima.