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Cardinals Red Sox Poll - Who wins?

I'm voting for the Cardinals. While I'm liking the evil empire slaying Red Sox, the Cardinals are the best team in baseball. It's funny how the Cards beat Clemens to go to the WS, but Clemens had the last laugh as he single-handedly blew the AS game which gave Boston home field.

Brian

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  • CardsFanCardsFan Posts: 1,093 ✭✭✭
    Cards... hopefully the Red Sox are spent after the Yanks series.
  • <<It's funny how the Cards beat Clemens to go to the WS, but Clemens had the last laugh as he single-handedly blew the AS game which gave Boston home field.>>

    I was thinking the exact same thing and just mentioned it to my wife.
  • Boston is a very good team but I think those Missouri boys are gonna give em hell.
  • Gemmy10Gemmy10 Posts: 2,990
    I think the Sox have all around better pitching and it all depends how Schilling pitches and if Pedro adopts a God Father since he will be away from his Daddy.
  • Houston gave the Cards fits and Boston is better than Houston, So, I say that Boston wins the series.
    Wise men learn more from fools than fools learn from the wise.

  • There is no Transitive Law of Baseball. LOL
  • >>There is no Transitive Law of Baseball. LOL <<

    Hey, let's see if the hypothesis works.
    Wise men learn more from fools than fools learn from the wise.

  • yawie99yawie99 Posts: 2,575 ✭✭✭
    Cards in 5.
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  • Curt Schilling healthy - Red Sox
    Curt Schilling hurt - Cardinals
  • frankhardyfrankhardy Posts: 8,097 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I think it will be a great series. The Red Sox and the Cardinals are both great teams. As a Cardinals fan, Houston scarred me to death. Boston is very dangerous too. Schilling is not 100 %, and Pedro is not the same Pedro that he was a few years ago. In my opinion, Pedro is dominant for 5 innings, and then he starts to wear down. I think Boston's bullpen is very hittable. They don't have a closer like Houston does. Sure, Foulke is a very good closer (like Izzy), but neither one of them is a Brad Lidge. That guy has some filthy stuff. I don't know if I have ever seen a closer so unhittable. I think Lidge has a very bright future.

    The thing that urks me is all of the attention that Boston is getting. I look on ESPN (Classic especially), and it's all Boston talk. I mean, come on, they keep rerunning a show called "Red Sox - Why Not Us?". I think they have ran it non stop since yesterday.
    I know - it's because of the curse, but give the Cards a little respect. By the way, THE ONLY WAY TO END THE CURSE FOR BOSTON IS TO WIN THE WORLD SERIES. Beating the Yankees isn't good enough.

    Oh by the way, Cards in 7!

    Shane

  • Frank,

    The curse is actually broken, or neutralized.

    Even though the curse of Babe Ruth is
    a world series curse, the fact that the Sox
    did what no team has ever done in baseball history
    in "the House that Ruth Built", has ended the curse, or neutralized it.

    Also, the Cardinals are a great team with a great following for sure.

    However, if you would have spent the first weekend of October in
    Baltimore when the Red Sox were already in the playoffs and just
    playing out the remainder of their schedule, and see 20,000
    Red Sox fans from all over the east coast cheering their team
    on in a suburb of Boston called Baltimore, then you would understand
    all the attention the Red Sox get from the networks. These fans are
    absolutely nuts for their team. No one would understand the passion
    these people have for this losing, "cursed" franchise.

    Anyway, I'll be interested to listen to Tim McCarver this series.
    He is a Yankee broadcaster and ex-Cardinal.
    He was very pro-Yankee during the Yankee series, and I
    expect him to jump on the Cardinal bandwagon now.

    Bring back Curt Gowdy.

  • frankhardyfrankhardy Posts: 8,097 ✭✭✭✭✭
    zsz70,

    I see what you are saying. But, let's move ahead a week after the World Series ends IF the Red Sox lose. The curse WILL still be there. They have not won a world series since 1918. The ALCS against the Yankees did not change that fact.

    Shane

  • yawie99yawie99 Posts: 2,575 ✭✭✭
    Anything less than a World Series championship would be a huge failure for either team. These aren't just-happy-to-be-here kinds of teams. If the Sox lose, their ALCS performance will undoubtedly lose some of its magnitude over time; if the Cards lose, the purportedly great 2004 squad will be but a footnote in the team's annals.

    And I agree, Marc: Schilling's physical health may be the key to the series.
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  • Frank,

    You're right. The official "curse" will not be broken
    unless the Red Sox win the series.

    The curse of the Bambino is that the Red Sox traded
    the greatest player of all time to the Yankees and
    haven't won the world series since.

    However, winning the ALCS brings 1,000 times more
    satisfaction to a Red Sox fan then beating the Cardinals
    in the world series. That is an undisputible fact.
    Beating the Yankees in the House that Ruth Built
    will taste good for generations to come.
    The class of 2104 will be hearing about this on
    ESPN 7 someday. It will never go away.

    Also, understand that the Red Sox are the only
    team New England has to cheer for. Plus, parts
    of eastern Canada gets the Sox games on TV.
    Did you see after game 7, there were thousands
    of Red Sox fans behind the dugout going nuts.
    It's not called the "Red Sox Nation" for nothing.

    Also, Keith Foulke is the son of an Air Force pilot.
    He is tough as nails. He didn't let up a run against
    the Yankees. He did the same thing to the Yankees
    that Lidge did to the Cardinals. He even pitched more innings then Lidge. If not for Ortiz, he
    WAS THE MVP of the series. This guy throws only 88,
    but his screwball is Sutter and Valenzuela like.
    He is as lights out as Lidge.

    Anyway, enjoy the series. The Cardinals are an
    awesome team. My dad was at the 67 series
    when the Cardinals beat the Red Sox. He's still
    alive to see this one.

  • SDSportsFanSDSportsFan Posts: 5,136 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I think the Sox have all around better pitching and it all depends how Schilling pitches and if Pedro adopts a God Father since he will be away from his Daddy.


    Don't forget Pedro's got his grandpapi with him (David Ortiz was the Yankee's daddy in the ALCS) image

    I'm votin' Red Sox all the wayimage

    Steve
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