David Scott wonders whether Ted Johnson still has a contractual deal with Channel 4, based on the softball questions gently lobbed him by Bob Lobel:
... Lobel ended the piece from the studio with a meandering, babbling public service announcement about the "moral of the story" and urging viewers to make a call if they feel threatened.
OK, so maybe "Damon sucks" baby bibs are a bit, oh, extreme. But do they warrant legal threats from Johnny Damon's agent?
Via Beetle, who suggests another saying for bibs.
It'll just confuse the customers, Dave Copeland reports:
... [I]t was just as "Boston Red Sox, 2003 American League Champions" was being flashed across the bottom of the screen. The team was celebrating on the field and shots of teary-eyed Yankee fans were mixed into the reel. Needless to say, it caused quite a bit of confusion in the bar, with the belligerent guy who was plainly into his fifth or sixth Mai Tai spitting "That shit ain't right....this is some sort of mistake." ...
NESN tonight starts that "What If" series, in which the network will use fancy computer simulations to answer such questions as "What if Grady Little had taken Pedro Martinez out in game 7 of the 2003 ALCS?"
Yeah, yeah, fine, but on Surviving Grady (one guess why it's called that), Red ponders true Red-Sox what-if scenarios for NESN to explore:
Sure, it's no Matt Amorello crack, but one of our channel-4-watching correspondents couldn't believe her ears last night while watching Bob Lobel do the sports:
He ended his story on last night's game saying "Lester The Molester is now 5-0 with tonight's win." I actually rewound the DVR to ensure I heard it correctly.
Kristen is forced to admit that Mirabelli is a stud, but she is worried this morning:
... In fact, I would rather be packed into a crowded T in 98 degree weather with eight thousand drunk Yankee fans on "Don't Shower For Luck Day" then deal with so much uncertainty in the Wakefield-occupied part of our pitching rotation. ...
Jennifer Garrett, however, is loving the thought of Big Papi stealing second.
Be sticking around Boston, that is. David Scott has the scoop on Mae's contract extension with NESN, which he credits in part to her "evocative wardrobe," if you know what he means.
Kristen explains why fans should consider booing World-Series-Ball Doug when he shows up with the Royals tonight. Or just drink some gin and misspell his name as creatively as possible.
Jason Feifer reports that Seth Mnookin, author of that inside-baseball book about the Red Sox front office, got a little testy at a Newton reading when some folks questioned whether his book was really all that. Jason also tells us how to pronounce "Mnookin."
IRVING, Texas -- Terrell Owens says plenty in his new book. Except for one word he now claims he didn't say. But making a big deal of an apparent misquotation -- despite the sentence being written in the first-person -- is the kind of media nitpicking Owens would lament in his 242-page book.
Only sport's biggest blowhard would claim he was misquoted in his own autobiography... When I was a kid, were the athletes that I looked up to really this much of a jackass, or is this a recent phenomenon?
That compliment having been made, however, it was odd to read him today complaining about the amount of wasted newsprint and verbiage on Manny's All-Star No-Show, because his entire column was about, well, Manny's All-Star No-Show.
Nomar Garciaparra's old Charlestown loft is for sale. You remember that condo, right? The one from which Nomah and his uncle jumped into the hahbah to save a couple of drowning women?
Being the tough kid that Jake is he wanted to reel in a fish he had snagged on his kids fishing rod.
Around 11:10 tonight, a car came barrelling down Poplar Street in Roslindale, heading toward Hyde Park, horn blaring, the driver screaming:
Forza Italia!
Bat Dor joined the throngs:
... There was already some random saint's day festival going on, but people had set up massive speakers and were playing bad-in-a-good-way Italian techno and were waving Italian flags and dancing and - much to my surprise - throwing buckets of water out of upstairs windows. Good thing I was wearing black. ...
Some Hanover Street photos (including one guy dressed as Zidane).
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