Bulletin Board Material Alert!!!

[3 Point Stan]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21373248/

"The champagne tastes just as good on the road as it does at home," Ryan Garko said in Cleveland's clubhouse.

I can only hope this has woken the half-sleeping giant that is the Boston Red Sox. Nice going, Garko! :thumb:

[nomars_girl]

I know this is a little off-topic, but do any of them actually DRINK the champagne? It seems like they just shake it up and spray it all over each other. Hope they don't buy good champagne.

[3 Point Stan]

NG, I think so. But in this case, I think someone needs to pull the rookie aside and tell him things like:

You don't light a victory cigar until the contest is over
You don't book hotel rooms in the city where the SB is being played until AFTER the AFC championship game
You don't give the other team bulletin board material when you have to go back to their house and win a game

[Bases Loaded]

That's not what I expect to hear coming from an organization like the Indians ... their cockiness is going to be their downfall if this reflects the teams attitude. You took one at our house? Big deal. We took one at yours, against your ace. Now you're back at the Fens.

Get your popcorn out, fellas.

[southcarolina]

I know this is a little off-topic, but do any of them actually DRINK the champagne? It seems like they just shake it up and spray it all over each other. Hope they don't buy good champagne.


I think he was talking about afterwards, when the Indians players lick it all off of each other.

[EverettsTheoryOfEvolution]

Unfortunately, this is not the Pats we're talking about. The Red Stockings don't respond to bulletin board material. The only person on the team that cares what's said about him is Curt, and he responds with the printed word, rather than the thrown ball.

[NEM]

I am sure that Manny will be glad to share some of his bottle with Garko.

[jaychamp]

Only thing a comment like that does is put pressure on his own team, which can be helpful to us of course. Bulletin Board doesn't really apply in baseball. Getting pumped up can actually hurt you. It's a game of concentration and focus.

[nomars_girl]

NG, I think so. But in this case, I think someone needs to pull the rookie aside and tell him things like:
You don't light a victory cigar until the contest is over
You don't book hotel rooms in the city where the SB is being played until AFTER the AFC championship game
You don't give the other team bulletin board material when you have to go back to their house and win a game

You don't print 2007 World Series on your stupid rally towels. That will be Cleveland's undoing.

[SteelerFan87]

NG, I think so. But in this case, I think someone needs to pull the rookie aside and tell him things like:

You don't book hotel rooms in the city where the SB is being played until AFTER the AFC championship game


What if the league tells you to?

[pookie]

What if the league tells you to?

You don't listen because they you'd be embarrassed....

[Mikiemo83]

What if the league tells you to?you don't talk about it then

[SteelerFan87]

You don't listen because they you'd be embarrassed....

What if they said your opponents were being told the same thing?
I remember right before that game, they had the story on the news, "Steelers book hotel rooms for Super Bowl, didn't they learn anything from 1994 or 1997?" The reporter said that the NFL told the Steelers that they and the Pats were to book their hotel rooms before the AFCCG, so that there wouldn't be any confusion trying to get rooms while everyone else was trying to book a room to go watch the SB. Then all of a sudden the Pats start talking about how we shouldn't have booked our rooms ahead of time. So either the NFL lied to the Steelers, or Bob Kraft didn't tell his players that they too had been told the same thing, in an attempt to motivate them.

[Mikiemo83]

What if they said your opponents were being told the same thing?
I remember right before that game, they had the story on the news, "Steelers book hotel rooms for Super Bowl, didn't they learn anything from 1994 or 1997?" The reporter said that the NFL told the Steelers that they and the Pats were to book their hotel rooms before the AFCCG, so that there wouldn't be any confusion trying to get rooms while everyone else was trying to book a room to go watch the SB. Then all of a sudden the Pats start talking about how we shouldn't have booked our rooms ahead of time. So either the NFL lied to the Steelers, or Bob Kraft didn't tell his players that they too had been told the same thing, in an attempt to motivate them.
the team books them and that is kept quiet until the game is over.


same for family rooms, you DO NO TALK ABOUT IT LIKE SOME PLAYERS ALEDGEDLY DID

[3 Point Stan]

ATTENTION RYAN GARKO:

Due to circumstances beyond your mouth's control, the only champagne you will be tasting will be on that long-ass flight back to Cleveland. It is also our regret to inform you that since it is a domestic flight, you will also have to pay for it.

Sincerely,

RED SOX F*CKING NATION!