What if A-Rod escapes New York after this year and the Sox sign him as a shortstop? Jeff Louderback ponders:
... I don't like A-Rod in a Yankees uniform, but I can't imagine any Sox fan who would not like to see A-Rod playing shortstop for the Sox in 2008. Shortstop, after all, is his best position. ...
During the first quarter of tonight's radio broadcast of the Celtics game against the Houston Rockets,one of the Celtics players managed to fake out the referee to get a call to go his way. The referee who made this call was Violet Palmer, who happens to be a woman. Cedric Maxwell, the analyst / sidekick on the Celtics broadcast team, proclaimed "Get back in the kitchen!" when she made the call.
Dan Shaughnessy Watch compiles a list of terms the CHB uses over and over and over again, such as "Young Theo" and, oddly, "Grey Poupon" - and solicits your help:
What is your favorite Shankism?
Adam Reilly brings up the 1997 case in which Johnson was charged with holding a knife to his wife's throat (the charges were dropped when she refused to cooperate with prosecutors) and wonders why local reporters either ignored it or glossed over it in their stories on his death:
... Johnson was an amazing player, and he may have been a good man who just made a terrible mistake ten years ago. But pretending the events of that day never happened--or eliding them as "messy"--is awfully tough to justify.
Spatch recalls the '85-'86 season and says good bye:
... One by one, our heroes fall. Their numbers are retired, hoisted to the rafters in a misty-eyed ceremony, then left up to collect dust and occasionally get shaken out before the start of a new season. The heroes themselves may live on further, but we don't remember their importance, their impact, their lay-up of Bird's stolen pass to win Game 5 of the 1987 Conference finals -- we don't consciously remember any of that.
We only get reminded when we're told that they're gone. That they've fallen.
Could somebody get the Globe sports department a map of Boston? An item today suggests nobody there knows the location of local institutions:
Harvard Stadium's new look helped hook a new tenant.
The Boston Cannons of Major League Lacrosse announced yesterday the team was moving its home from Boston University's Nickerson Field across the Charles River to Harvard Stadium for the 2007 season.
Dave ponders the new official Cheez Doodle sponsor of the Red Sox, which happens to be, brace yourself, Wise, which makes Cheez Doodles:
... Seriously? Cheez Doodle sponsor? Considering Wise is the only company that MAKES Cheez Doodles, that seems to be a bit of a low aim, don't you think? Why not aim for the official cheese-flavored puffy snack item of the Olde Towne Team? Or is Cheetos now in line for the official Cheeto sponsor of the team? Chester Cheetah must be despondent today. ...
Adam Reilly thinks the story might be playing out differently if Brady were black.
OK, this isn't Dan Shaughnessy Watch and it's not like I actually try to read his column any more, but man his column today, in which he takes a break from bashing Sox players so that he can luxuriate in Tom Brady's impending fatherhood, is just puerile. And you can all but hear Herr Shank cackling as he spends - at most - 15 minutes writing it. It ends:
Off the playing field, in 2007, nothing is out of bounds.
Oh, please.
Make Dan Shaughnessy retire and just use some software to create columns consisting entirely of random Shaughnessy phrases (such as "Theo and his minions").
Remember that commercial where the equipment guy finally has to take Curt Schilling aside to show him how to say "PAHK"? Soxaholix ponders a book that purports to educate Japanese Matsuzaka fans about life in New England:
...True, the highly ornamental Queen Anne Style house is all wrong. A less ornate Shingle Style is the more the norm in these pahts.
Sportsmanship at the Beanpot (note: title has words you might not want to have on your screen as the HR director walks by).
Michael Femia posts both photos and video of the Red Sox equipment truck leaving for Florida.
I know, I know, it's a rhetorical question.
But don't worry, Sox fans aren't dandified wusses; they can make pop-culture allusions with the best of 'em (albeit pop culture from the 1970s).
They're so bad they're almost worst than that Dan Aykroyd movie.
Red's Army says the team should come with a warning label.
Jay Fitzgerald ponders the dive:
We should be seeing Capt. Nemo and giant squids at any moment now. ...
CelticsBlog notes that Memphis managed to win last night, so:
We officially have the worst record in the NBA. So we got that going for us, ...which is nice.
Yes, the day you've been waiting for: Broken Down Sawx Fan reports the Red Sox equipment truck pulls out of Fenway this Monday. Wally will be on hand to throw things at fans as the truck begins the journey to Florida around 1 p.m.
There's a meatball-shaped robin in Newton. And Soxaholix reports another sure sign of spring:
... Have barred clouds bloomed the soft-dying day, and touched the stubble-plains with rosy hue?
No, but the first "What is on Manny's mind?" article has bloomed. ...
This reminds me why I don't watch Channel 25 news. I wonder if he was that upset about Curt Schilling promoting obesity and coronary disease when he got signed by the Sox.
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