Red Sox vs Rockies: Which White House hopefuls scored baseball cash?

[Bluebear]

Boston Red Sox Team President Larry Lucchino is among those from the American League champions giving to Democrats: $1000. each to Dodd and Clinton.

Colorado Rockies vice-chairman Dick Monfort: $2300. to GOP hopeful Mitt Romney.

Source: USA Today 10/26/07

LET'S GO RED SOX!

[theboss]

1. Curt Schilling may run against John Kerry for Senate

Just sayin'.

[Binka]

3. FucK ShiLLing!

He's a sack of shit and Kerry would cream him.

[wicket]

4. Has he ever actually said anything about this?

I've only heard the Herald & WRKO rattling the sabers about this.

[theboss]

8. I think he's pitching next year so I doubt it

He's definitely self-important enough to be a Senator though.

[MADem]

12. We'll see. He's a free agent. He might want too much money. nt

[MADem]

11. It's wingnuts, with a "draft Schilling" online petition. It's got no juice. NT

[MADem]

10. Well, he just might be leaving the state, so that might be interesting.

It's a dream, that rumor. Or more appropriately, a nightmare!
FWIW, that's a "draft Schilling" movement by a bunch of wingnuts. Desperate wingnuts. Schilling isn't involved in it at all.

Kerry's already got a few competitors--serial losers, most of them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_election_in_Massachusetts,_2008

Schilling's family has not put deep roots down here. They've treated this gig like an extended holiday, really, though they're surprised and grateful that the franchise really did go to bat for them and publicize all their charities. And this year, he's a free agent, and he might want more than they're willing to pay him. We'll see: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21482831/

[wicket]

14. Didn't he start a gaming company too?

[MADem]

15. I dunno, he may have... nt

[wicket]

39. Found it-

http://www.38studios.com/

[wicket]

2. GO SOX!!!

:woohoo:

[IndianaJones]

5. man you're reaching. And from New Hampshire? Shocked. nt.

[SteppingRazor]

6. Still pullin' for the Rockies.

Hopefully, going back to Coors Field will change their fortunes!

[durrrty libby]

45. In reading the Rockies MLB board their complaint is quite different

Apparently they have had very few fans show up at the games all year

until they went on a tear at the end of the season

Kind of like the Devil Rays. Only a few thousand show up, unless the Red Sox or Yankees were in town

So now the poor faithful few can't get WS tickets. That's the way the cookie crumbles,eh?

[Fed_Up_Grammy]

7. Aw come on,Bluebear--let's just enjoy the Series.

[Clark2008]

9. Go SOX!

I love Jonathan Papelbon.

[Ishoutandscream2]

13. Unbelievable. The Sox are Democrats, the Rockies are Republicans

This shit is just too damn stupid. Let me tell you, no one has been more outspoken about his ultra right wing beliefs than Schilling, a Red Sox. But who cares? Making sports teams as political entities is just plain silly.

All of this shit that keeps coming from Sox fans makes me want to pull for the Rockies. I was completely neutral, but the sheer arrogance and statements such as these make me ill.

[MADem]

16. Oh, lighten up. You're taking it too seriously. Root for whomever you want.

[Ishoutandscream2]

29. I'm taking it too seriously?

A Red Sox fan telling me to lighten up? Okay...

[MADem]

53. Root for whomever you want (I say, again.) Life's too short to worry about stupid shit. NT

[Initech]

18. I agree.

It's pissing me off, and it only makes me want to root for the Rockies more. I swear that a Sox fan planted that story about Paul Byrd taking HGH (look at how well timed that story was), and then I bet some Sox fan planted that story about the Rockies hiring only Christian conservatives. Talk about foul play.

[durrrty libby]

21. Byrd bought 1000 vials of HGH/$25,000 from a dentist.

and you want to blame Red Sox fans.

...utterly absurd and silly stupid. Do you nutbars ever listen to yourselves?

[Initech]

23. Sheesh. You're so blinded by Red Sox Nation...

That if you thought about this for a second, your head would hurt. This story BROKE the morning of game 7. I mean, fuck, even Bush couldn't time an Osama public service announcement that well!!!

[durrrty libby]

38. and yet you continue to over look the 1000 vials of HGH prescribed by a

dentist. The rest of the story is just as pathetic

[wicket]

22. IT'S ALL A HUGE CONSPIRACY!!!!!

:eyes:

[Initech]

34. I notice the people attacking me on this all have Red Sox icons.

Now come on, you guys attack Bush and his minions all the time about manipulating the press, but when something like this happens, you look the other way. Give me a break. :eyes:

[wicket]

35. I didn't attack you - just called you on your hysteria

Which is exactly what it is.

Oh btw, a guy wearing an Angels hat once kicked me, should I hate the entire organization now? :sarcasm:

[JackRiddler]

24. Your Angels logo suggests sour grapes...

That was a fun sweep to this Met fan.

[Initech]

30. Yeah, actually.

I've seen two Red Sox mercy killings, er, victories at Angel Stadium and their arrogant jackass fans treat me and my fellow Angels fans like shit. So yeah, I have no sympathy toward Boston.

Although I would love to see an Angels - Mets WS. Maybe that will happen next year.

[JackRiddler]

42. It certainly will, if FOX has its way...

In this case, I'd have to agree with the evil television networks. They'd serve up alternating years of Mets-Angels and Yankees-Dodgers, interrupted in the middle year by a Cubs miracle run culminating with a Game 7 win over Boston.

(Didn't Tigers-StL proof that baseball isn't fixed? Well, I also enjoyed that, as one of 9,001 viewers...)

[durrrty libby]

40. Sour grapes indeed. I love..love...love bitter Yankee fans, but

bitter Angel and Indian fans are amusing too

[KamaAina]

41. The story about the Rockies being fundies broke last July

unless Lisa Williams is a Sox fan :-) , there is no way anyone at that time could have predicted the Sox would be steamrolling playing against Colorado in the Series the following fall.

[durrrty libby]

19. Anyone getting "ill" over over this, needs to step back and get some

perspective.........and air

GO SOX :yourock:

[Ishoutandscream2]

31. Uh huh. And it keeps coming and coming

Exactly what do you want? All I'm getting from "Red Sox nation" is "the Rockies can only be born-again Christians" and insinuations that anyone pulling against the Sox are Republican lovers.

Hey, you want others to root for your team, then try some humility, because I'm telling you, those of us sitting on the fence with this series are getting sick of stuff like this. With humility, maybe you can get more on your side.

[wicket]

36. Root for whomever you want

Makes no difference to this lifelong fan.

[durrrty libby]

37. Personally, I don't give a flying fuck who you root for and I don't

give a Holy Crap if the Rockies are a bunch of Moonies

or Nike wearing members of Heavens Gate waiting for their spaceship

[alcibiades_mystery]

26. They have to find a way to make the Sox the underdogs

It's cognitive dissonance. :-)

[Initech]

27. The Sox aren't the underdogs no matter how hard they try.

[alcibiades_mystery]

28. Of course they aren't

Which is why the Nation (or its representatives here) is getting so pissed at me saying that.

;-)

[Bluebear]

46. Yeah you pull for the Rockies.

Talk about taking a post too seriously! You should write USA Today and complain to them, it was their information.

[edbermac]

17. Schilling is a great pitcher!

I was thrilled when he pitched for us in 2004 and will be thrilled again if he helps the Sox take it all in 2007!

And I'll be even more thrilled if he runs against Kerry and gets his ass handed to him. Kerry will beat him more badly than the Sox beat the Rox in the first game of the Series.

Shut up and pitch, Curt.

[Ishoutandscream2]

32. Thank you!! He is clutch

And a great pitcher. On the field, I don't give a damn about his politics.

[AllieB]

55. Me neither. I wish we could just put aside politics and enjoy the series.

n/t

[Oeditpus Rex]

20. Oh, fer fuck's sake!

The game's on the field, man. :eyes:

[Bluebear]

47. Yes, dear.

[alcibiades_mystery]

25. Massively Favored Red Sox Trampling Republican Underdogs

:rofl:

The Democratic leanings of the Red Sox Juggernaut are clear: they treat their workers better, with massive salaries rivaling only the buttoned-down investment bankerish suits of the capitalist neo-con Yankee scum.

The Rockies payroll, just more than a third of the Red Sox, is evidence of their low Republican wages!

Rooting for the massively favored Red Sox is akin to standing up for the working class little guy against Republican bigwigs! Hoo-aaah!

:rofl:

[FredScuttle]

33. Does that make Eric Gagne the Nader of this analogy?

[Bluebear]

48. Gagne...slowly I turned. Inch by inch, step by step...

[joe_sixpack]

43. Why do you hate Baseball?

N/T

[rockymountaindem]

44. You know, Big Stein, A-Rod and Giambi give plenty of cash to the Republicans

yet nobody has to bring that up about them. Why are the Rockies getting this politically-motivated treatment? Could it be that for some people Republicans only exist in flyover country and conservativism could never sully their beautiful eastern seaboard? Nah... that couldn't be the reason the numerous players and owners on other teams who are fundies and/or give money to the Republicans get a pass :sarcasm:

[Bluzmann57]

49. Whatever. I still dislike the Red Sox

As well as the Yankees and Mets. See, the east coast biased sports media is constantly cramming these teams down our throats and it makes this Midwesterner mad. I watch sports because I derive enjoyment from it and sports is not politics, just as politics is not sport. The Cardinals won last year and the White Sox won the year before. I believe these are both Midwestern teams. Besides, my balnkity blankin' Cubs got swept away, so it doesn't really matter.

[Rockholm]

50. East Coast teams Dominate.

[Cha]

51. Thank you, Bluebear..I knew I liked

those Red Sox even, though..my home State is Colorado..I'm not nuts.

And as someone said.."Fuck shilling".. I went to a Kerry Rally on Nov 2, 2004 in Manchester, NH, and Tom Werner was there ..speaking along side Kerry!

snip~For those who didn't know:)

"Tom Werner is the Chairman of the Boston Red Sox, as well as an American television producer and businessman."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Werner

[loser_user]

52. No wonder the US is so divided.

Turning sports into something political causes heart attacks.

[mvd]

54. I AM rooting for the Red Sox

But when it comes down to local teams, prior loyalty takes precedence. I couldn't root for Penn State football if I applied this reasoning to them, since Joe Paterno is a known Republican.