Here are a few choice Sox quotes I lifted from Tim Brown's sports column on "Yahoo! Sports" , complete with Brown's sometimes (most times?) snarky commentary:

" ... So David Ortiz commandeered a newsman's microphone, pushed it close to Ramirez's face and shouted, 'Hey, Manny, one more question. Everybody wants to know, when's the funeral?'  Ramirez grinned and flipped at his neckwear, the shade of a grape Popsicle.  'I want to take this tie to Colorado,' he said ... Afterward, Ramirez went to repetitive lengths to clarify his 'Who cares?' remark from the previous day.  'We leave everything out there, and whatever happens, happens,' he said. Later, he added, 'No pressure. As long as you leave everything on the field, that's it.'  Nearby, Ortiz saw Ramirez getting dangerously close to another seismic misstatement, grabbed his talented and flighty teammate by the arm and gave it a heavy tug.  'OK, that's it,' Ortiz roared. 'Come here. I don't want you to fuck up. Come here. We don't need any more of that bullshit.' ... [Josh Beckett] threw a fastball straight over Franklin Gutierrez 's head in the second inning, then nearly started a fistfight with Kenny Lofton in the fifth inning.  He stood through his ex-girlfriend, country artist Danielle Peck, singing the national anthem before the first inning, then stood while she belted out "God Bless America" in the seventh.  On that, Beckett was especially colorful.  'I don't get paid to make those (expletive) decisions,' he said, typically unyielding. 'She's a friend of mine. That doesn't bother me at all. Thanks for flying one of my friends to the game so she could watch it for free.'  The result of those 3 ½ hours: A win the Red Sox had to have, a ridiculous 1.17 ERA in the playoffs, a more pleasant flight to Boston, and a Curt Schilling - Fausto Carmona rematch Saturday at Fenway.  'We're excited to get back to Boston," Beckett said. 'It's going to be a great flight. Better than if we would have went down losing. This is not where we want to be. But, obviously, we're inching closer to where we want to be. Kind of the motto in the clubhouse right now is, 'It's better to die on your feet than live on your knees.'"  Nobody's dead yet, even if Manny's dressed for it."

I don't really know what Brown meant by that last statement about dressing for a funeral.  His whole column is laced with Anti-sox bigotry, which I've noticed all over the place.  My feeling is, we're not the underdog anymore and, maybe, non-members of RSN aren't as quick to support us ... Oh, hell, I don't know & I don't care.  I love my team, the Sox are my team & to hell with people who can't respect that ... and since we're still behind 3-games-to-2, I think it's important to load some inspirational montages from sports movies ... now: