Sports

WGBH compiles a list showing why some politicians should decline to comment on local sports.

Remember when you'd get so frenzied to buy Red Sox tickets you'd open up two or three browsers on two or three different computers and then you'd sit there for hours and finally you'd get in and all that was left were tickets to some Royals game in August?

Fred Somers tweets:

1st yr in a long time that im not waiting in it. #sorrynotsorry

Albert bitingly accuses Celts of pumping in crowd noise; Celtics deny it.

Somebody's more than a little tired of the Dropkick Murphys being played at every single major sporting event in town:

It's become ridiculous. I grew up a DKM fan, and still play them with pride for two weeks in March, but this city has turned them into glorified mascots for the B's, Sox, Pats, and C's. Call me old fashioned, but playing fight songs for billion dollar corporations doesn't seem very punk rock to me. This goes double for Steven Tyler.

H/t Matthew Cote.

Bring on Baltimore.

Mike Cole at NESN shows that Sav-Mor Liquors in Somerville still has its finger on the zeitgeist.

Thanks to the investigative reporters at the New York Daily News, we now know how Kevin Garnett set Carmelo Anthony off:

"Your... wife tastes like Honey Nut Cheerios," Garnett exclaimed to Anthony on the court, rhe News reports.

OK, I must be getting old. I get the part about taunting him about breaking up with his wife, alright, but Honey Nut Cheerios?

What kind of insult is that? Is there some hidden sexual connotation to the bee I don't get (like, is he the Nasonex Bee's secret lover) that would set a presumably mature adult off?

Billboard over I-93 in Medford celebrating the end of the NHL lockout.

Ladies and gentlemen, your 1941 Stanley Cup winning Boston Bruins!

The Boston Public Library's posted a set of Bruins photos from back in the day by news photographer Leslie Jones. Among them:

The Boston Public Library has posted a ton of Leslie Jones basketball photos, including a number of Celtics photos, such as this one of Bill Russell at Fenway in September, 1962 and this one of Bob Cousy with the ball in a 1950s game at the Garden against the Knicks:

Cheering for a Belichick Coached Team, by Uncle Diesel.

Note the Dunkin' Gronk cutout in the back.

Dan O'Brien captured Gronk in a social-media class at Emerson tonight, where he spoke about, surprise, social media. O'Brien reports he agreed to speak after students tweeted @ him. O'Brien adds the Patriots player is a big fan of Boloco, which is also big on social media.

A roving UHub photographer noticed this possible omen of things to come this morning in a barbershop on Comm. Ave. by BU.

One of Joseph Donahue's parents forwarded these pictures and this note:

On a tour of the Bruins' locker room for season ticket holders, 7 year old Joseph Donahue of West Roxbury, MA snuck a note in to leave for his favorite player, Milan Lucic.

Perhaps a misspelling or two as he hurriedly wrote in on the drive in, but he successfully pulled it off. Now, the 180 million dollar (how far the sides are allegedly apart) question: When will the note be read?

And the Patriots are the Bumpus hounds.

Sportswriter visits the Hub, feels inadequate - even as losers, our teams are better than his teams, he writes, adding:

Boston is the best because it has made rooting for a team its noblest civic duty. You get out on the highway and you suffer. You get into the stadium and you may suffer some more. But your suffering has meaning. It's an act of contrition. It's - and you don’t go too crazy on this word - a sort of worship.

They do it better than us. No one who's ever compared experiences can seriously argue that.

H/t Stephanie.

And you think we're a tough crowd.

One of RCN's 14 or so customers adds:

It's days like this that I'm happy that RCN offers the YES network.

And just to keep the feeling going, here's a recap of what happened on this day in 2004.

You'd almost think Cody Ross and Will Middlebrooks pissed on home plate at Fenway or something last night. Both were watching the Yankees/Tigers game and both tweeted their amazement/admiration for Raul Ibanez's ninth-inning home run.

And parts of Red Sox Nation lost their collective mind.

Why the Internet was invented.

Angry Dan wonders if maybe the Museum of Bad Art should put in a bid, to replace its stolen Velvet Crying Elvis.

Boston Sports Media Watch dissects the latest column by a Globe sportswriter about how those damn kids have no respect at all, not like in his day.

Last week:
The Globe writer who hates bloggers.

Valentine fired, and on Thursday, leaving plenty of time for the "shocking" revelations to be phoned in for the Sunday papers.

Over the Monster recounts yesterday's memorial at Fenway Park.