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[Teh One Who Knocks]

by Ricky Doyle - NESN




Yes, David Ross has thought about it.

Ross played for the Boston Red Sox in 2013 and 2014 before spending the last two seasons with the Chicago Cubs. The veteran catcher has some fond memories from his time in Boston, as do a few of his Chicago teammates, so as the Cubs and Red Sox stand atop their respective leagues with the Major League Baseball postseason approaching, Ross can’t help but consider a dream World Series scenario.

“This season has been a dream come true for me in so many ways, but to end it playing the Red Sox, that would be the storybook,” Ross recently told WEEI.com’s Rob Bradford on the “Bradfo Show” podcast. “I love all those guys. I’m rooting those guys on all the time. I’m in constant contact with a bunch of those guys, coaches included. I miss those guys. I’m always pulling for them. Getting me and David (Ortiz) in the World Series would be pretty neat.”

Ross, like Ortiz, is retiring after this season, although the 39-year-old backstop’s farewell tour hasn’t been quite as publicized as his former teammate’s dominant campaign for Boston. Playing the Red Sox in the World Series would make for an even more memorable send-off.

It also would make for great theater. In addition to Ross, several other members of the Cubs organization — Jon Lester, John Lackey and Theo Epstein, to name a few — also have ties to the Red Sox, hence why a potential Boston-Chicago Fall Classic has been discussed within the walls of Wrigley Field.

“We have such a connection with the city (of Boston) and the (Red Sox) organization, that comes up all the time. We’re talking about David and what he’s doing and what is going on there and all the success that’s happening in Boston,” Ross told Bradford. “Heck yeah, we’ve talked about it. I think the storybook is the Red Sox and Cubs. Two of the oldest franchises in the game. The two best stadiums, in my opinion, in all of baseball. We think about it all the time. If that’s the goal, there wouldn’t be a better place to be than Boston and Chicago.”

Don’t worry, Mr. Ross. We’re thinking about it, too.

[deebakes]

i'm going to find it funny when neither team makes it that far

[DemonGeminiX]

BoSox can clinch the division today with either a win or a Blue Jays loss

Tonight, the Red Sox pitching choked in the 9th and they ended up losing to the Yankees, but Toronto lost. Looks like Boston clinched.

[RBP]

i'm going to find it funny when neither team makes it that far

[RBP]

Tim Tebow’s first professional baseball game, of sorts, yielded an immediate highlight as the telegenic Heisman Trophy winner and two-time national champion quarterback hit a home run on the first pitch he saw in a game against a team of St. Louis Cardinals farmhands.

Tebow, 29, is likely the oldest player populating instructional league games in Florida, and the 255-pound outfielder did not waste time showing he’d like to advance with some dispatch through the New York Mets system, hammering a pitch just to the left of dead center field in Port St. Lucie, Fla.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

i'm going to find it funny when neither team makes it that far

What's the Twins magic number?

[deebakes]

2024

[DemonGeminiX]

The Red Sox lost again. I know they've clinched the division already, but going into the playoffs on a losing streak is not a good thing, Lance.

And what was up with the end to the Cardinals-Reds game? That was a ground-rule double. You can't end a game on that ground-rule double. The runner was on first. He's now on third and forbidden from advancing to score on the play. That game's still tied and unfinished. They need to get back out there and finish that game.

[DemonGeminiX]

The league's explanation's bullshit. That game's not over. The Cardinals stole that game.

I was watching the game and the first thing I said was "ground rule double". Then the announcers chimed in on it. The commentators on the MLB network have been up in arms about it ever since. There's a bunch of explanations coming from the league out on the air, and they are all fucking bullshit.

What a terrible way to end a game. The Umps and the MLB fucked the Reds over badly.

[DemonGeminiX]

Oh, and the Cards pull into a tie with the Giants in the WC standings, if the Giants lose tonight. This is way more fucked up then just fucking the Reds over.

[RBP]

I'll have to find it...

[Oofty Goofty]

Words that I never imagined I would get to say in my lifetime - The Texas Rangers have secured home field advantage throughout the playoffs!

[RBP]

Words that I never imagined I would get to say in my lifetime - The Texas Rangers have secured home field advantage throughout the playoffs!

You and me both, my friend.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Soak it in, #RedSoxNation.#ThanksPapi pic.twitter.com/nOO7mL3slT

— Boston Red Sox (@RedSox) October 1, 2016

I'll take Big Papi for $1000, Alex

This is the Red Sox path to winning the World Series this year.

Who is David Ortiz?

[RBP]