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The Dugout: ALCS Game 7 Recap

Oct 19, 2008 – 11:44 PM
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B. Thompson Stroud

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Who the hell would've thunk it?

After a game like that, even an unprofessional, jobless hack like myself has to put aside the jokes and give the propers where they're due. So instead of doing a Dugout tonight full of pop culture references and off-topic cursing, I've decided to recap the game for those who didn't see it, and report the events of the night as closely as possible to the way they happened.

Tonight's ALCS box score and recap are after the jump.

The Dugout

**TBS Online Host**
Welcome to game 7 of the American League Championship Series between the Boston Red Sox and the Tampa Bay Rays!

::Top of the 1st::

ChasingGarz: /takes breath, gets ready for the biggest game of his life

ChasingGarz: /winds up

/throws fastball

NotPedroiaLookingFor: /swings
**Online Host**
NotPedroiaLookingFor has hit a deep fly ball to left field!
Crawfish: /runs at full speed
CedricTheInternetter: ooh wee look at that fine woman
IBelieveInSteveHarvey: Ced, when I see that woman, I'm like Shaq doing Shakespeare - I just don't know how to act!
CedricTheInternetter: damn steve you ever take a dookie, but it ain't the dookie you want to take
CedricTheInternetter: its the dookie the dookie want to take
IBelieveInSteveHarvey: hey do you remember this classic soul song /plays "Me and Mrs. Jones" by Billy Paul
CedricTheInternetter: heeeeey /raises arms over head, dances
IBelieveInSteveHarvey: /smiles, adjusts buttons on zoot suit
**TBS Online Host**
Welcome back to the Bottom of the 5th. The Red Sox lead 1-0! There are two on with no outs!
RoccosModernLife: /tries to get mitochondria in order, or whatever

ChildrenOfALesterGod: /readies pitch

Wait, am I using the right buddy icon? This doesn't seem right...

NotPedroiaLookingFor: No man I think you're using mine
ChildrenOfALesterGod: sh** hold on a sec
ChildrenOfALesterGod: there, is this one me
NotPedroiaLookingFor: I don't know, isn't that Jed Lowrie?
EllsburyDoughboy: That's not you, now you're Jacoby Ellsbury!
RoccosModernLife: ARGH YOU ALL LOOK THE SAME JUST PITCH THE BALL, I'M GETTING UNUSUALLY FATIGUED OUT HERE
ChildrenOfALesterGod: sry /pitches
RoccosModernLife: /swings with last bit of might
bush_league: /squints eyes
bush_league: My fellow Americans! A-heh heh! With the faultering economy and gas prices at an all time high! "Strategery!"
CantWalkWithoutMcCain: I'm a half-assed impression of John McCain and I approve this ad!
IBelieveInSteveHarvey: lol boy you a trip
CedricTheInternetter: this white boy so crazy he think "impeachment" a fruit-flavored breath mint!
LargeHadronCaliendo: now hey guys! /makes quizzical "straight man" face
**Online Host**
FrankTV, only on TBS!
**Online Host**
Welcome back to the Top of the 8th. The Red Sox are down 3-1! There are two on with two outs!
RadBradford: /mind is a cacophony of cowbells, cheers, and lame comments like "if you give the Red Sox life they will take the life from you!" courtesy of the TBS Broadcast Team
sacrament_of_youkilis: /steps in
RadBradford: /rolls ball on ground four times
sacrament_of_youkilis: welp /walks to first
RadBradford: d'ooohhh thought that'd work
**Online Host**
RadBradford has left the chatroom. The bases are now loaded!

WhatPriceGlory: let me try throwing the ball in the air, see if that works

/throws pitch

MyNameIsSlimJD: /swings
**Online Host**
Strike 1!
WhatPriceGlory: /throws pitch
MyNameIsSlimJD: /swings
**Online Host**
Strike 2! The crowd is going crazy!
WhatPriceGlory: oh man oh man oh man /throws best pitch
MyNameIsSlimJD: /swings
IBelieveInSteveHarvey: i can't believe romeo though that get-rich-quick scheme would work, stealin' my checkbook... ain't earned him nothin' but a ass whoopen from his mama
**Laugh Track**
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
IBelieveInSteveHarvey: you know, ced, I lurnt somethin' today
CedricTheInternetter: we been in some crazy ass sitch-e-ations today, what you learn
IBelieveInSteveHarvey: I learned that just because you ain't the biggest dog in the fight don't mean you ain't got the biggest fight inside of you.
IBelieveInSteveHarvey: ey man, sometimes miracles happen, you know? Sometimes it don't work out like you expected it to when you started.
CedricTheInternetter: yeah, I feel you /gives rhythmic handshake
CedricTheInternetter: and ey, I think I learned something too, you know
IBelieveInSteveHarvey: what's that, ced
CedricTheInternetter: i learned yo' checks do more bouncing than nell carter on a pogo stick.
**Laugh Track**
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH woooooo /clap clap clap clap


P.S. the rays won
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