If the Sox can do it, how about Cornell?

[billhoward]

OK, Boston hasn't won it all, not yet, but they've beaten their equivalent of Harvard and BU all rolled into one.

So maybe Cornell can take inspiration from this.

Let's hope Mike Schafer doesn't do anything boneheaded equal to letting Pedro pitch the seventh. Was that the ghost of Grady Little bringing in Pedro? Martinez is a genius, but on five days rest.

[Killer]

What a depressing game.  Pedro's appearance was the only highlight.  What goes through Francoma's mind sometimes?  He has the game virutally wrapped up, the crowd is dead, he only has to get through a couple innings, and he goes and makes the one move guaranteed to get the crowd back into it and potentially ignite the Yankees...and it almost worked.  Wish we had some pitching, but I'm sure glad we don't have Francona.

[CUlater 89]

It's not like BU and Harvard have been preventing us from winning the NCAA (or even the ECAC title) for so many years.  If anything, I'd say that recently UNH is more like our Yankees.

[Al DeFlorio]

[Q]Killer Wrote:
Wish we had some pitching, but I'm sure glad we don't have Francona.[/q]
So starting Kevin "Can-I-Punch-the-Wall-Again" Brown was a bright move by Torre, eh? ::banana::

 

[CowbellGuy]

[Q]Al DeFlorio Wrote:
So starting Kevin "Can-I-Punch-the-Wall-Again" Brown was a bright move by Torre, eh?[/q]
On the one hand, hell no. On the other hand, who else was there? I can't say I'm surprised at the outcome. Disappointed, yes, but it's pretty hard to win a 7 game series with one pitcher. And that's only compounded by Boston's offense. Anyway, it's easy to point a finger at Joe, but was there a better choice?

[Jordan 04]

What a glorious day for all of humanity.

That is all.

[Killer]

Unfortunately, I don't think Torre had much in the way of options.  Yes, there was Vazquez or maybe El Duque, but neither of them had much in the tank either.  Hey, given the number of decent innings he got out of Loaiza, maybe that was his move for a starter.

Still, the Yankees forgot to show up last night, so regardless of who was pitching, they were in trouble.  It's too bad that the one game that the Sox controlled from the start turned out to be Game 7.  At least if that had come earlier and we could have swapped one of Games 4-6 into that spot, there would have been some drama.  Can you imagine going 14 innings to decide it, on top of going 11 last year?  Or put Clark back up as the winning run in the bottom of the 9th - he strikes out, you win; he connects, we win.

Hope to see you at Lynah East (and maybe Brown?), Al.  Bring mussels.:-)

[Al DeFlorio]

[Q]Killer Wrote:
Hope to see you at Lynah East (and maybe Brown?), Al.  Bring mussels. [/q]
I'm planning to be at both, Bob.  Should also be at Brown this Saturday afternoon.

[Killer]

I'm going to be in RI as well, but down in Wakefield.  Might join the in-laws for a game at URI.  I don't think I can sell a trip to Brown, but who knows?

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

If Cornell beat Harvard in the semifinals of the ECAC tournament, we'd all be thrilled, but we'd also know that it wouldn't mean as much if we didn't win the final.

Same thing here.  No curse lifted until they win the series.

[Josh 03]

[Q]Killer Wrote:

At least if that had come earlier and we could have swapped one of Games 4-6 into that spot, there would have been some drama.  Can you imagine going 14 innings to decide it, on top of going 11 last year?   [/q]

I was plenty happy to coast through Game 7 in a cautiously optimistic zone, without the drama.  the 2003 ECAC Championship and the BC game gave enough sports drama to last me 10 years.

[Greg Berge]

1.  Cornell isn't cursed and isn't anything like the Red Sox.  (If Cornell is like anybody, it's probably the Giants -- glorious history, some down years, now very solid but not quite there yet).
2.  34 years aint 86 years.
3.  Cornell isn't UNH because Cornell has actually won it.:-D  Twice.
4.  It's only a matter of time.

[jkahn]

As a Yankee fan, I found the ALCS to be eerily and sadly similar to the ECAC quarter-finals this year.  While everyone looks to assess blame for the losers and exalt the winners, we all should remember how there is often little difference between the two.  Just one strike being called a ball in game 4 or 5 could have made the Yankees look like world beaters and the Sox look awful, and last year the Sox could have just as easily won it as lost it.  Similarly, without an instant replay in Buffalo, or a different ruling on the review .....
But that's what makes us love sports - each game starts 0-0 and just about anything can happen.

[Jerseygirl]

For the love of God, don't compare my beautiful alma mater to the Red Sox.  

[Avash]

[Q]Jerseygirl Wrote:

 For the love of God, don't compare my beautiful alma mater to the Red Sox.  [/q]

Oh come on. This Red Sox team showed an incredible - and as it turned out, unprecedented - amount of heart, grit, determination and pride the last 4 days - intangibles that any team, including our hockey team, should aspire to have. Plus they sort of looked like hockey players do in the playoffs, with the beards and the hair and all that :-). But more importantly, they played as a TEAM and never gave up. Who wouldn't want our hockey team to be like that?