Comments on: In the name of love http://www.toeingtherubber.com/2009/10/in-the-name-of-love/ "You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain." (Leo Durocher) Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:24:23 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Cruiser http://www.toeingtherubber.com/2009/10/in-the-name-of-love/comment-page-1/#comment-2856 Cruiser Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:45:45 +0000 http://www.toeingtherubber.com/?p=3155#comment-2856 I had a standing room ticket for the game in the terrace under the Cumberland Farms sign. By the end of the game my back and legs were screaming. I was all prepared to see the Sox win as I believed they would. The wheels came off so quickly there wasn't even time to cry. It was pure shock. It just wasn't supposed to end that way. Like you Cyn, I just wasn't prepared for the Red Sox season to be over. The hardest part for me is that everyone I know wants to rehash the game with me and I don't even want to think about it. It is going to be a long off season. I had a standing room ticket for the game in the terrace under the Cumberland Farms sign. By the end of the game my back and legs were screaming. I was all prepared to see the Sox win as I believed they would. The wheels came off so quickly there wasn’t even time to cry. It was pure shock. It just wasn’t supposed to end that way. Like you Cyn, I just wasn’t prepared for the Red Sox season to be over. The hardest part for me is that everyone I know wants to rehash the game with me and I don’t even want to think about it. It is going to be a long off season.

]]> By: reindear44 http://www.toeingtherubber.com/2009/10/in-the-name-of-love/comment-page-1/#comment-2854 reindear44 Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:22:20 +0000 http://www.toeingtherubber.com/?p=3155#comment-2854 Cyn, thanks for this past year of humor and insights you've shared with us. For me, yesterday's events are part of the ebb and flow of baseball and follow a great year of heartfilled play on the field and joyfilled solidarity in the fan base. This has been a great season for all the reasons you outlined most especially: At the end of an 'ebb' year, we look ahead to 160 short days from now when, after a well deserved rest, a fantastic conglomeration of talent and heart once again takes up the challenge and we cheer them on. GO SOX ! Cyn, thanks for this past year of humor and insights you’ve shared with us. For me, yesterday’s events are part of the ebb and flow of baseball and follow a great year of heartfilled play on the field and joyfilled solidarity in the fan base. This has been a great season for all the reasons you outlined most especially: At the end of an ‘ebb’ year, we look ahead to 160 short days from now when, after a well deserved rest, a fantastic conglomeration of talent and heart once again takes up the challenge and we cheer them on. GO SOX !

]]> By: Dori http://www.toeingtherubber.com/2009/10/in-the-name-of-love/comment-page-1/#comment-2851 Dori Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:07:07 +0000 http://www.toeingtherubber.com/?p=3155#comment-2851 I admire your guts...I would have been a weepy mess if I had been there. I'm never sorry to be a Sox fan, and I am always grateful for a great season. They give me so much joy each and every year and while this time it ended in heartbreak...it begins again in February with different faces, different memories but always wonderful. I wouldn't trade my team for a lifetime of Yankee championships. And, I think the Angels just really had so much heart and something to play for. Its the intangible that gets it done sometimes. I just wish it wasn't over so quickly and so abruptly... I admire your guts…I would have been a weepy mess if I had been there. I’m never sorry to be a Sox fan, and I am always grateful for a great season. They give me so much joy each and every year and while this time it ended in heartbreak…it begins again in February with different faces, different memories but always wonderful.

I wouldn’t trade my team for a lifetime of Yankee championships. And, I think the Angels just really had so much heart and something to play for. Its the intangible that gets it done sometimes.

I just wish it wasn’t over so quickly and so abruptly…

]]> By: Cormac http://www.toeingtherubber.com/2009/10/in-the-name-of-love/comment-page-1/#comment-2850 Cormac Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:22:43 +0000 http://www.toeingtherubber.com/?p=3155#comment-2850 On another note, I found it very interesting to read your comment on Dirt Dog, I have had a couple of email back and forths with him in the last few years, and he is nothing short of an angry tyrant, a very rude individual, my question is, why does the globe persist with his brand of inane, angry 'writing', there are a thousand Boston blogs better than his out there in the internet-world. Glad to see someone agrees with me on him. On another note, I found it very interesting to read your comment on Dirt Dog, I have had a couple of email back and forths with him in the last few years, and he is nothing short of an angry tyrant, a very rude individual, my question is, why does the globe persist with his brand of inane, angry ‘writing’, there are a thousand Boston blogs better than his out there in the internet-world. Glad to see someone agrees with me on him.

]]> By: Cormac http://www.toeingtherubber.com/2009/10/in-the-name-of-love/comment-page-1/#comment-2849 Cormac Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:17:07 +0000 http://www.toeingtherubber.com/?p=3155#comment-2849 Amen brother, 100% amen Amen brother, 100% amen

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