One guess which broadcast team Red is referring to (hint: It's not Jerry Remy and Don Orsillo on NESN).
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By adamg - 7/7/06 - 10:05 pm
David Scott makes the case that Jerry Remy is veering toward annoying and has been going downhill ever since Sean McDonough's departure:
... The games have gone from baseball broadcasts to RemDawg infomercials, right down to the dutiful infomercial co-host, Dandy Don Orsillo, who even got his own "Yo-Lo-Go-Lo-Va" t-rag during a recent game. ...
By adamg - 7/6/06 - 11:40 am
Kristie was not born here, but she bleeds Sox red and blue as much as people whose grandparents remember seeing Teddy Ballgame at the plate. Plus, no way is she giving up her lime-green Sox cap.
By adamg - 7/5/06 - 10:46 pm
Soxholix tackles tough doctrinal questions involving pink Sox caps and the question of whether people who only started rooting in 2004 can ever truly be members of The Nation:
... Well, you think if someone walks into St. Marks and says they want to convert that the priest is going to be all, "Well, dude, where the fuck were you when we were getting thrown to the lions?" C'mon. ...
By adamg - 7/4/06 - 4:08 pm
Some supporters of Italy in the World Cup today went down to Columbus Park to exult after Italy's win over Germany. "They took the head off Colombo!" one supporter yelled when he saw the statue, which, indeed, no longer has a head. Click the image above to hear them sing Italy's praises (750K QuickTime file).
By adamg - 6/30/06 - 8:09 am
Beth recaps last night's game from her seat in Loge Box 150:
... Already juiced by Coco's dazzling catch just moments earlier, "Sweet Caroline" rousingly sung and the Papi blast, the crowd went so completely wild as the first chords of Jonathan's entrance music sounded that I wondered seriously if we might ever just shake that old place down. It took him just a handful of pitches to retire the Mets, and I was there, goddammit, watching every one, screaming my fool head off, happy just to be alive.
By adamg - 6/29/06 - 8:09 am
Beth says Martinez's shellacking almost went too far. After that dropped ball by Lastings Milledge, she thought:
... I wished right then that it was over. I wished the Mets manager would pull him. I wanted there to be mercy. But there wasn't. ... This was defeat. I root for the laundry as much as anyone, but you might as well have drawn a moustache on the Mona Lisa right in front of me. I want the Sox to win at absolutely all times, but I never wanted to see that. ...
By adamg - 6/28/06 - 3:50 pm
Lewis Forman hopes the Sox call for a moment of silence tonight for Peter Gammons - whose Globe columns he remembers from his childhood:
... The glorious sports page. A 25 plus smackdown of stats, images, weekly stories and usually during baseball season Gammons' Baseball Notes column. Required reading if you ask me. I got to know the players in the game through the column including all the little people in minor league ball that may come up in the future or traded for the next "wallball" bat. ...
By adamg - 6/28/06 - 1:21 pm
OK, so the Globe inexplicably ran a Bob Ryan column about Pedro's return instead of one by the CHB, but still: Go check out and vote on the top 17 entries in Bruce Allen's Shaughnessy Write-Alike contest.
... Tonight he returns. Not as a despised Yankee, as his former teammate Johnny Damon did, but as another Golem of Gotham: a New York Met.
By adamg - 6/28/06 - 9:32 am
Beth loved everything about last night's game, from the Pedro standing ovation to that out at the plate, but especially that bases-loaded, two-outs third strike by John Lester:
By adamg - 6/26/06 - 11:05 am
Somebody really doesn't like Jeremy Jacobs.
Hmm, if Jacobs takes the site's advice, he could set up a site called ISoldMyTeam.com.
Via Jay.
By adamg - 6/24/06 - 4:56 pm
Is how much he makes you appreciate Remy, Orsillo, Castiglione and Trupiano.
Aw, but screw it, because:
PAPI, PAPI, PAPI!!!
By adamg - 6/23/06 - 12:29 pm
... "Dunkin' Donuts is honored to partner with the New York Mets to help New Yorkers relive the glory and excitement of one of the sport's most beloved teams," said Al Hodges, Regional Vice President, Dunkin' Donuts. "We are pleased to bring this unique, commemorative collector's item to Mets fans everywhere and to celebrate the players that brought energy and excitement 20 years ago." ...
By adamg - 6/23/06 - 12:19 pm
Soxaholix takes note of Boston Sports Media Watch's Dan Shaughnessy write-alike contest by trying to figure out an entry:
...And his thesis will be along the lines of "Oh, you poor unwashed, unsophisticated, Boston fan fools. You drove Pedro away with your mean Puritanical spirits and the terrible things you said about him. I tried to warn you."
By adamg - 6/22/06 - 10:45 pm
Now that a marginal player from back in the day has admitted to shooting up (to a non-local media outlet), David Scott wonders if the local papers will do some investigative work:
... The Steroids Scandal has been barely played out in Boston and that needs to change.
By adamg - 6/22/06 - 12:58 pm
Really wanna wow that hot prospect at Matching Sox? Get an e-mail account at Boston-Redsox.net.
Via BostonGeek.
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