LATEST STORIES FROM A RED SOX FAN FROM PINSTRIPE TERRITORY
Dougie Takes Down Thundering Herd
Looks like Mirabelli might make more than Varitek this year....
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18 days ago
Discuss
Not Again
The damn Pats and the damn Giants have to go and make the damn Super Bowl in the same year again. Warning: several strained, rambling posts about it possibly ahead.
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20 days ago
Geddy Movin' On Up
As you know, this is your source for all the latest in Rich Gedman news. He's moved up, from short-season A ball to high A, as he'll be the hitting coach for the Salem Red Sox in 2012. Moving up, but moving out of the area, unfortunately. But hey, it's all part of the plan of seeing Geddy back at Fenway as a coach one day. Scutaro: gone. He was one of the few September...
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22 days ago
Happy New Year
The first Red Sox tickets have arrived!Gray envelope, as usual. White envelope inside gray envelope, as usual, with little window on outside containing "receipt" ticket, as usual. And glue from gray envelope sticking to white envelope, as usual. This problem has been going on for years now. You'd think a friend or relative of someone who works there would have gotten...
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24 days ago
Wert, Yu've Got Company
On Valentine's Day, 1819, Christopher Sholes was born in Danville, Pennsylvania. Almost 200 years later, Yu Darvish has signed a contract to play Major League Baseball. And finally Don Wert may have a friend.Sholes invented what we now know as the universal or QWERTY keyboard for the typewriter he patented (#79,265) in 1868. Between then and now, the only person to play Major...
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25 days ago
Cheap Bloops Save Lives
I like to joke about how Yankees fans/announcers occasionally act like the on-field successes of Derek Jeter have an impact on world events.But every once in a while, someone actually crosses into that territory.In a piece that mentions Adolf Hitler, Muhammed Ali, Jackie Robinson, and the Civil Rights Movement, Wallace Matthews writes that Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream...
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26 days ago
Hundred-Year Old Trade Rumors
Providence Evening Tribune, 1/8/1912:"Chicago, Jan. 8--A rumor is going the rounds here that Harry Lord, captain of the White Sox, and peerless third baseman of the American League, is to return to his old love this year and once more cavort around the third cushion for the Boston Red Sox.The consideration is said to be Tris Speaker, the great Boston centre fielder."Whatwhatwhat...
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28 days ago
Play These Games
You play these things yet?
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28 days ago
'12: Year Of Giant Ships Sinking And Red Sox Championships
Two nights ago I was reading about the Titanic. I was looking at newspapers from when the tragedy happened. I noticed that some initial reports had the boat sinking, but all the passengers safe, rescued or on lifeboats waiting to be picked up. The following day's papers show that those reports were far from correct.Then the next day, yesterday, I had lunch with a friend I hadn...
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29 days ago
4/16/1990
From a story about Barack Obama in "The Vindicator," 22 years ago:
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January 14, 2012
Resurrecting Green Death
Fenway Park's left field wall wasn't painted green until 1947. But before it became known as the Green Monster (somewhere around 1960), and after it had already been called simply "the Wall," players gave it another name:GREEN DEATH[...] the inviting leftfield wall, which Boston pitchers call, "green death" [...]--The New York Times, 4/28/1956[...] Fenway...
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January 12, 2012
The Organ (Still) Does Not Lead The Charge
"There are no electronic waterfall-and-cartoon marvels that light up like a Christmas tree when a native son hits a home run. The very thought would make a Fenway fan shudder. The scoreboard [...] is operated manually by a crew recessed in a sort of forecastle behind the left-field wall. Human hands lift metal numbers and slide them into slots. When a Red Sox rally is on, the...
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January 12, 2012
More Proof Halper Was A Fraud
More from the Prime Minister on that "Mt. Rushmore of uniform fraud," the 1985 Sporting News cover photo.
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January 11, 2012
Sun, Baby, Owl
Kim and I saw a couple of crazy sunsets recently--Friday and Saturday.These first few are from a lake near our house in Providence Friday night.Also, ducks and stuff.And shortly after that, I spotted a doll in a tree...On to Saturday...This was one of those sunsets where you can really see the red rubber ball, and you can kinda look right at it despite what parents/teachers always...
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January 10, 2012
The Annual "It's Gonna Be A Long Offseason" Post
Was watching Wall Street, and in one of the FDR Drive shots I thought a certain spot looked familiar:Here's a closer look:No, it's not "I don't care at all about this," it's that building the funny Mets-related ad I took a picture of a few months ago is now on!
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January 08, 2012
Sec: 36; Row: Fun!; Seat: And Excitement!
After a year off from the Section 36 scavenger hunt, I think I'll be participating again. Try it. See if you can beat this former champion.
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January 06, 2012
Couldn't Get This Other Thing Done....
...so here's a picture of Amazing Larry and Danzig waltzing instead:
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January 05, 2012
Putting Spinners On Things
Two things:1. I wrote to the Paw Sox today asking if they knew the other team in the Futures Would-Be Doubleheader. They answers promptly and succinctly: "It will be Lowell." Okay, then. I guess I have to believe that, even though Lowell and the Red Sox have yet to mention it, and Lowell is hyping a 38-game season ticket plan which includes a game that day in Lowell. So...
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January 04, 2012
The Nod: Celts From Even Higher Than Usual
For some reason, the Celtics sold their $150 promenade level tickets to this game (and this coming Wednesday's) for 40 bucks. When you click "price range" at Inglorious TicketBasterd, they're listed at the regular price, but find them on the seating map and you'll see they're 31 plus fees....I think this level is usually for groups. There's one row,...
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January 03, 2012
Close, But No Million
Remember how I gave the WS contest winners a chance at a million dollars in a state lottery raffle thing? Well, the drawing was last night. The ticket did not win the million dollar prize. But it was very close on one of the 5 $10,000 prizes--within 150 out of 120,000! There's a second chance drawing which I have entered the ticket into. That whole deal will be over by early...
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January 01, 2012
2012: Futures Altered?
Here's the latest on my borderline-obsessive speculation about Futures at Fenway 2012:Red Sox schedule currently doesn't have any notation of the game(s) at all.Paw Sox schedule still shows them playing at Fenway against Buffalo on August 18th.Portland is already selling tickets to their home game that day, so they're out.Greenville is on the road that weekend.Salem has...
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January 01, 2012
Sun Settin' On 'Eleven
Pic I took of sun setting into Long Island Sound during X-mas in X-nnecticut this year.Have a fun, safe NYE. Due to a family sickness, Kim and I will be staying in. But if you think I'm gonna complain about getting to watch 48 hours of Twilight Zone episodes, you don't know me at all (or never read this blog around New Year's or July 4th).20 effin' 12. All our lives...
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December 31, 2011
Inspectah On-Deck: Back In America
European Vacation (1985) has a great credit-roll, featuring the song "Back in America." To me, it's not about patriotism, it's about '80s Americana. And I love it. I've seen this thing so many times, and finally I thought to figure out the date of the baseball game shown. Not the bird's-eye shot of Yankee Stadium, but the shot of Dave Winfield arguing...
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December 31, 2011
"It's Beautiful"
I think it's a great thing Mets knuckleballer R.A. Dickey is doing. He'll be updating his progress climbing Kilimanjaro on the New York Times Bats blog. His post from Thursday is here. (And here's his introductory entry from early this month.) He's doing it to raise awareness about human trafficking. The goal is to open a health center for girls in Mumbai who have...
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December 30, 2011
My Lastish At Bat
Just to prove I'm an equal-opportunity out-caller: I was watching the Ken Burns' Baseball marathon the other day, and Bill Lee was talking wistfully about his final at bat in a Red Sox uniform, before the designated hitter rule took the lumber pitchers' hands after the '72 season. He described a triple to right field. Al Kaline (who he said had bird crap on his shoulders...
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December 29, 2011
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