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Check out what I got today. An '81 All-Star Game ball. It happens to be signed by the umpires of that game, but I just wanted it for the logo. (One of the few animal products I buy is old baseballs--I justify this by the fact that they are used items. And obtaining this ball will not mean a new one must be produced. Then again, buying tickets to baseball games helps the baseball-making ...
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Had you ever thought about the mortality of Yaz before the other day? I hadn't. Maybe it's because when I was little, he was already old. Yet he was still a fixture of the Red Sox team. He's just always been middle-aged in my mind. No older, no younger. He's always looked like a 45 year old man. Good to hear his surgery was a success. Sox go for the sweep in Baltimore tonight, still 4.5 back ...
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Do you ever hear a musical artist on the radio so often over a day or two that you start to think maybe that person died and you just hadn't heard about it yet? That being asked, somebody might wanna check on Donna Summer. I drove four hours to see a movie tonight. Essentially. Tonight was the season finale of the Bryant Park summer movie-fest. Superman. The 1978 one. You may remember I saw ...
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We really stank today. And last night. While everyone else won. The Sox fans who only remember the past 48 hours aren't gonna sleep tonight. We go on a nine-game road trip now, but after that, we only play nine road games total through the end of the season. You know furniture stores? Sure you do. I bet you have some pretty strong feelings about them. Here are mine: We just got our house, and ...
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Top of Pru chopped off! I got to the park Friday night, and batting practice was going on. Got to see a few Sox hitters from the Monster Seats. Any ball hit up there was probably gonna be mine. Papi hit one just shy of the seats, right to me, a few feet down the wall. Then the rain came, and they covered the field. Some Blue Jays stayed out there and warmed up. We waited and waited. Everyone ...
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Daily News: "I've never seen Mo throw a wild pitch," said an exasperated Girardi. "Never in my life." Okay, even if you've watched most Yankee games for the past 13 years or so, I'd say it's understandable to not remember any of Mo's wild pitches, up until the game-losing one last night. But when you were the catcher while some of those wild pitches were happening, as Girardi was in these ...
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For the four or five of us in the world who've been anxiously awaiting the game where the Red Sox break the all-time consecutive sellout streak, there's been a change in plans. The day we hit 456 was supposed to be the afternoon game on September 3rd against Baltimore. That was assuming there were no rained-out games which were rescheduled for a date beyond September 3rd. That's what happened ...
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My final Monster game tonight--will I get to sit in the front row despite only having an SRO ticket? I'm not counting on it. But we'll see. Look for me up there. I'll be the one making an incredible catch of a dong.
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Manny D, Aardsma, and in the middle...Charlie Zink, though I didn't know it when I took this pic, shortly after arriving at Fenway on Tuesday. Couldn't help but notice this guy working on the robot centerfield camera. It's hardly been used at all this series, so I'm hoping the guy broke it. I actually guessed they were making it rotate-able when I saw this guy up there. Texas' batting ...
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Sox win 10-0 to sweep the Rangers. Rays players are dropping like flies, but they win today, so we're still 3 back, and 3 ahead in the wild card.
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Chris "Mad Dog" Russo has been released from WFAN! Mike & the Mad Dog, split up. I owe the use of my favorite phrase, "terrible job," to Russo. I guess he's moving to satellite radio. Good luck to one of the great Yankee-haters in New York radio history, if not anywhere. (Here's my original post about "TJ," from '05.)
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...but it is our house, as of a few hours ago! Kim and I are homeowners (pay attention, Beavis) in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. That's a picture of our staircase, with the former owners' cat, which I took when we first looked at the place. We do retain the scratch marks on the window screens.... We'll still be in Somerville till the end of the month, but the packing ...
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Lester needed to give the bullpen a rest tonight and he did. 8-4 win, and we're 2.5 back. Rays are tied in the 6th. Yanks lost earlier. Tonight, Gammons was in the booth with DO and Rem. As he left, he called Remy "Scoots." I knew Remy was called Scooter back in the day. I even mentioned it here about a year ago. Yet it appears nowhere online. Google it and you'll only find that post by me. So ...
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NOTE: My Charlie Zink/pregame gallery will be posted
separately. Stay tuned for that. These shots are from
the actual game only. 7:00. Chuck Zink shown on the board in the dugout, about to make his major league debut. I got a pavilion standing room ...
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Human version of bugs that feed off of pig fecal matter speaks again . This time he's giving up on his team, and saying that (despite having the biggest payroll by far) that there's "nothing you can do." Daddy's two biggies were winning and breathing. Looks like the evil spawn is more of an "oh well, what are ya gonna do" type. He turns into a psychopath with this gem: "If the Red Sox lost ...
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Sox score ten in first, two dongs by Papi in same inning, Sox blow lead, then come back and win in Zink's debut. 19 to effin' 17. Crazy. Here's a shot of Charlie before the game. Tomorrow, the rest of my pics. What a weird night at Fenway. We're 3 games back.
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One of the best things about living close to Fenway--and I'll still consider myself in that league when we move to Providence next month--is that when you learn something special is gonna happen, you can just go and buy a ticket on short notice. Charlie Zink, the knuckleballer we've been hearing about for years (I remember my mom pointing me to a NYT article in, I don't know, 2003 or ...
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After getting perfected till the sixth, we finally break out and beat the ChiSox, 5-1, to split the series. Josh's performance was key. Now we come home--and Charlie Zink makes his MLB debut tomorrow night! My Futures at Fenway gallery is below... The Yanks are now 2-6 on their road trip, getting whitewashed in Minny tonight. They are now 10 games out of first place in the loss column.
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Kim, Brian and I walked from the Common Garage and got to Fenway a little after noon. I heard someone calling my name as we headed for our seats. It was former Sox blogger Andrew, and former father of a Sox blogger, Andrew's dad. It was good to catch up with them, before getting out of the sun and into our seats just under cover in the third row of section 24. The first between-innings ...
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I just heard George Bush say, about the Russia-Georgia conflict, in a disgusted tone: "interesting to me that here we are, trying to promote peace and harmony, and we're witnessing a conflict take place" That guy has some fuckin' nerve.
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