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2008 10 07 Gil Santos Commentary

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Play from 0:00[0:00] ..." Last week with a Major League Baseball divisional playoffs opened up -- on Thursday night didn't have a good feeling about the -- auctioned their best of five series with the Angels. I thought -- look at the simple fact that the Angels would be in the Red Sox eight times in nine regular season games and -- 162. Record being the best in Major League Baseball. The Angels would win the World Series I -- go onto the ALCS against the White Sox want to go to federal overall pitching in the Tampa bay rays. Well you obviously know and Allen went two for two. Both wrong it's job a -- and however in the case of the Red Sox and latter was wrong and -- remarkable life. But try to be as objective as -- good I didn't think the -- to be able to pull off this time around again wrong. A new -- talk starting pitching was very -- and Jonathan Papelbon terrific closer Michael the Angel started were just -- go to this or they're closer. What happened in this series of the Rusch -- showed their experience in big games and and winning big games and big series. The Angels showed their experience and losing play -- should -- to the Red Sox. That's what they've done very well in the past and they do it again. The Sox played harder pitch better scratched and -- got the biggest when they needed them. The Angels did none of the above while John Lackey says he feels the Angels lost to an inferior team. Maybe that's true when you compare what happened in the regular season. But this was not the regular season. This was the playoffs where the Red Sox have won two World Series titles and four years and I'll have a shot at making it back to back world championships for the Red Sox. For the first time in 92 years. Last on the road -- one back to back World Series. 1915. Over the Phillies and 1960 him over the Dodgers aren't known -- sent those WBZ sports."...

Play from 0:00[0:00]" Last week with a Major League Baseball divisional playoffs opened up -- on Thursday night didn't have a good feeling about the -- auctioned their best of five series with the Angels. I thought -- look at the simple fact that the Angels would be in the Red Sox eight times in nine regular season games and -- 162. Record being the best in Major League Baseball. The Angels would win the World Series I -- go onto the ALCS against the White Sox want to go to federal overall pitching in the Tampa bay rays. Well you obviously know and Allen went two for two. Both wrong it's job a -- and however in the case of the Red Sox and latter was wrong and -- remarkable life. But try to be as objective as -- good I didn't think the -- to be able to pull off this time around again wrong. A new -- talk starting pitching was very -- and Jonathan Papelbon terrific closer Michael the Angel started were just -- go to this or they're closer. What happened in this series of the Rusch -- showed their experience in big games and and winning big games and big series. The Angels showed their experience and losing play -- should -- to the Red Sox. That's what they've done very well in the past and they do it again. The Sox played harder pitch better scratched and -- got the biggest when they needed them. The Angels did none of the above while John Lackey says he feels the Angels lost to an inferior team. Maybe that's true when you compare what happened in the regular season. But this was not the regular season. This was the playoffs where the Red Sox have won two World Series titles and four years and I'll have a shot at making it back to back world championships for the Red Sox. For the first time in 92 years. Last on the road -- one back to back World Series. 1915. Over the Phillies and 1960 him over the Dodgers aren't known -- sent those WBZ sports."

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[0:00]..." Good journalists and Papelbon shut everything out any doubts annual my -- coming out. After the threatening ranger. Not not really I mean I think for the most part my whole goal was a really just not not sit down and in the rain delay kind of keep moving around in. I think MA said now for five minutes -- stay on the buy it and it "...

[2:44]..." kind of rain we had -- and then. So there's just are warming up in the fares start coming down and now we're back out there nick Collins I mean -- at some and you really can't. You know control so I just try to focus on what I can "...

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