Talk:2003 American League Championship Series

Other games

Can we please put in the other games of the series and not just Game 1. The Legendary Ranger 20:09, 13 August 2006 (UTC){{subst:image source|Image:2003ALCSLogo.gif)) Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 23:35, 24 May 2007 (UTC) {{missing rationale|Image:2003ALCSLogo.gif

This is horseshit....almost nothing about game six. This whole thing needs to be redone. The "closer by committee" thing is nonsense. All of the references to the Red Sox's "inconsistent bullpen" (as opposed to what?). This whole article needs reworked.

"worst loss in Boston Sports history"

This may now be a dubious statement.... maybe with regard to baseball, but not to all Boston area sports.

Roodog2k (talk) 19:28, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

I don't know -- probably it should be changed to "one of the worst losses in Boston sports history", but I don't think you're going to get people switching over en masse to say that Super Bowl XLII was the worst. There's a nonscientific poll up on Boston.com right now asking whether Super Bowl XLII is the worst loss in Boston sports history and Super Bowl XLII is only getting about 42% of the vote, even though it's less than 24 hours after the end of the game. I would say it's going to be fairly widely discussed which one is the worse loss. Super Bowl XLII is more historically significant, probably, but the 2003 ALCS was more gut-wrenching. Of course, that's based on my own inappropriate-for-Wikipedia research. After all, I'm at this page the day after the Super Bowl to remind myself of the first time a Boston sports team broke my heart!Librarykyle (talk) 22:45, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

OK, I've now gone ahead and changed this -- Super Bowl XLII aside, many consider the Red Sox' 1978 playoff game and the 1986 World Series with the Bill Buckner incident to be as bad or worse than the 2003 ALCS.Librarykyle (talk) 14:56, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 04:52, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Bad wording

I'll quote "Both benches cleared, but the resulting brawl turned surreal when 72-year-old Yankee bench coach Don Zimmer ran toward Pedro Martínez and swung an arm at his head". Surely it would have turned surreal if a giraffe came out of the pond and juggled a pink cabbage? A member of the opposition coming onto the field during a bench clearing brawl most certainly isn't surreal. Ill-advised maybe. VonBlade (talk) 19:50, 30 October 2008 (UTC)