From There to Here

So our two-state, two-country baseball odyssey behind us, Mike and I attended Opening Day at Fenway Park yesterday for the presentation of the rings and an Opening Day matchup against the 0-6 Detroit Tigers. Mike and I entered the game at 0-3 ourselves, watching the sweep of the Sox in Toronto over the weekend.
We joined […]

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Nothing like hanging out at the ballpark, hoping to salvage one game and not be swept when big Frank Thomas steps up to the plate with the bags juiced. That’s ok though.

He unjuiced them pretty quick with a grand slam served up by Manny Delcarmen and basically charged to Josh Beckett. And the Sox got […]

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So Saturday didn’t go any better than Friday.
In fact, it was much, much worse. This one was basically over by the end of the sixth inning. Buchholz didn’t pitch great, and gave up four runs (three earned). But the real damage was done by Snyder and Corey, who gave up six runs in just […]

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Woke up yesterday morning and checked out of Turning Stone about 10:30. Made our way quickly back onto the highway and hit the road shortly before 11 a.m. With the prospect of the first rest stop having both a Dunkin’ Donuts for me and a Sbarro (at 10:45 a.m.) for Mike, we decided to stop. […]

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What a day yesterday.
I woke up slightly before 6 a.m. to watch the Red Sox drop their second regular-season game to the Athletics. Bummer.
From about 6 a.m. to 8 a.m., I watched the game with Mike while bumming around the apartment and getting ready to head to work. Left the house just after 8, […]

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I couldn’t be prouder of what the Boston Red Sox did yesterday.
The team, which has players who make between $20 million (Mr. Manuel Ramirez) and $390,000 (quite a few talented rookies), had heard that their coaches, at least one of whom makes $30,000 per year, were NOT receiving a $40,000 stipend from Major League […]

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There’s been nothing Earth shattering happening lately, leading to my lack of posting. I’ve been incredibly busy between my work and my personal life, and there hasn’t been something that’s struck me as ridiculously interesting enough to post. So here’s a quick list of ten things that have been happening in my life or that […]

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I’m so glad to have Curt back on the roster next year — this gives us so much flexibility with the rotation, and with a 1-year, $8 million ($14m with incentives) contract, it’s definitley a good move for the team. If anything, Curt’s definitely going to help our stable of young pitchers (Lester, Buchholz, Dice-K, […]

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I just read two things that made me excited for baseball season next year, and it’s BARELY November.
1) Terry Francona will be managing your 2008 American League All-Stars in the last big game to be played in Yankee Stadium. I say last big game, because there’s no way in hell the gang that can’t […]

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Three years and one day after we won the World Series, we did it again.
Two championships in four seasons.
For six games in a row, we went to the Baseball Tavern. We watched. We cheered. We got pissed. But we won. All of them. Since we started heading there down 3-2 in the ALCS, we won […]

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