!!!! GO SOX !!!!

[fryguy]

Congratulations to Boston and all their fans....they truly deserve it....



http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2004/magazine/specials/sportsman/2004/11/27/wertheim/index.html

Collectively, the Sox were Sportsmen in the truest sense -- professional, collegial, colorful athletes who were easy to root for. The word heroic might get tossed around too blithely in sports, but how else to describe Curt Schilling's surpassing pitching on a mangled ankle? David Ortiz, who played the role of the clubhouse cut-up, redefined the term clutch hitting. Keith Foulke -- previously known for postseason jitters in Oakland -- emerged as a reliable stopper. Lambasted by the Boston media, righty Derek Lowe pitched the clinching games in all the postseason series. Johnny Damon was the free-spirited lead-off hitter in terminal need of a haircut and shave.

"Since Red Sox fans are so intense and baseball's a long, 162-game season, it helped that this team was as loose as it was," says Theo Epstein, the team's 30-year-old general manager. "If this team was as intense as its fans, it could have been too serious, too overbearing for everyone."

After the final out of this unlikely season, as rapture was overtaking Red Sox Nation, a group of fans paraded around Boston with shirts reading "It's Over." The slogan, of course, referred to the exorcism of the curse. But, lucky for us, it also applied to any further Sportsman of the Year deliberations.

[Penndems]

1. Congratulations from a Yankees fan

Y'all played a great game. Your success is indeed truly well deserved! :)

(Looking forward to next season's rivalry series already . . . ;))

[cruadin]

2. Thanks for posting--I hadn't seen the SI cover for...

"Sportsman of the Year."
I cannot hear too much about the '04 baseball season, nor can I hear the phrase, "The WORLD CHAMPION Boston Red Sox" often enough.

[StopTheMorans]

3. I'm with you!

April 11th can't come soon enough :evilgrin:

[Penndems]

4. Yanks Spring Training Schedule

2005 NEW YORK YANKEES PRELIMINARY EXHIBITION SCHEDULE

Thursday, March 3 PITTSBURGH PIRATES AT LEGENDS FIELD 1:15 p.m.
Friday, March 4 Pittsburgh Pirates at Bradenton Time TBA
Saturday, March 5 Detroit Tigers at Lakeland Time TBA
Sunday, March 6 CINCINNATI REDS AT LEGENDS FIELD 1:15 p.m.
Monday, March 7 CLEVELAND INDIANS AT LEGENDS FIELD 1:15 p.m.
Monday, March 7 Boston Red Sox at Ft. Myers Time TBA
Tuesday, March 8 Atlanta Braves at Disney Time TBA
Wednesday, March 9 Cleveland Indians at Winter Haven Time TBA
Thursday, March 10 TORONTO BLUE JAYS AT LEGENDS FIELD 7:15 p.m.
Friday, March 11 Detroit Tigers at Lakeland Time TBA
Saturday, March 12 PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES AT LEGENDS FIELD 1:15 p.m.
Sunday, March 13 Houston Astros at Kissimmee Time TBA
Monday, March 14 PITTSBURGH PIRATES AT LEGENDS FIELD 7:15 p.m.
Wednesday, March 16 Pittsburgh Pirates at Bradenton Time TBA
Thursday, March 17 DETROIT TIGERS AT LEGENDS FIELD 7:15 p.m.
Friday, March 18 CINCINNATI REDS AT LEGENDS FIELD 7:15 p.m.
Saturday, March 19 PITTSBURGH PIRATES AT LEGENDS FIELD 1:15 p.m.
Saturday, March 19 Cleveland Indians at Winter Haven Time TBA
Sunday, March 20 Tampa Bay Devil Rays at St. Petersburg Time TBA
Monday, March 21 CLEVELAND INDIANS AT LEGENDS FIELD 7:15 p.m.
Tuesday, March 22 PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES AT LEGENDS FIELD 7:15 p.m.
Wednesday, March 23 Cincinnati Reds at Sarasota Time TBA
Thursday, March 24 ATLANTA BRAVES AT LEGENDS FIELD 1:15 p.m.
Friday, March 25 Philadelphia Phillies at Clearwater Time TBA
Saturday, March 26 Minnesota Twins at Ft. Myers Time TBA
Sunday, March 27 HOUSTON ASTROS AT LEGENDS FIELD 1:15 p.m.
Monday, March 28 Toronto Blue Jays at Dunedin Time TBA
Tuesday, March 29 BOSTON RED SOX AT LEGENDS FIELD 1:15 p.m.
Wednesday, March 30 Cincinnati Reds at Sarasota Time TBA
Thursday, March 31 TAMPA BAY DEVIL RAYS AT LEGENDS FIELD 7:15 p.m.
Friday, April 1 Detroit Tigers at Lakeland Time TBA
Saturday, April 2 DETROIT TIGERS AT LEGENDS FIELD 1:15 p.m.
All times eastern and subject to change