The Paper of Record acknowledges:
[T]his city has ridden an unprecedented wave of success over the past decade: the Bruins' victory in the Stanley Cup finals on Wednesday night made Boston the first city to win championships in all four major sports within a 10-year span.
However, the paper forgets about the Celtics, when it writes:
Michael Ratty was at Tia's at Long Wharf this afternoon when Bruins showed up with the Cup (Marchand kissing it).
Some 21 years ago, Don Martelli and his brother got their father a battery-operated Bruins clock. But dad vowed he would only actually put a battery in after the next time the Bruins won the Stanley Cup. Guess what he did last night?
The T says it's beefing up service on Saturday for the Bruins victory parade, which kicks off at 11 a.m. at the Garden.
All four subway lines will run at "near rush hour" schedules during the day. The T says it will also have extra orange-vested workers stationed throughout the system to help riders unfamiliar with how to use CharlieCards or get to the parade route.
The T said commuter rail will run on its normal Saturday schedule, but that it hopes to announce some additional service tomorrow.
Eastie ladAll five were arraigned today in Boston Municipal Court, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
The one local was Christopher Prader, 20, of East Boston, who was charged with inciting a riot, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest after his arrest before the Bruins game had even ended - around 9:30 p.m. at Causeway and Beverly streets.
According to the DA's office, Prader began loudly declaring he wasn't a punk and daring police to arrest him. When they refused, he began cursing them out, took his shirt off and threw his belt at them, prosecutors say:
That's a custom-sewn T Red's wearing at Faneuil Hall Marketplace today.
Photo by Faneuil Hall Marketplace.
Max Gitell, 4, of Roslindale looks pretty cute in that hand-knit Bruins sweater he's rocking this morning.
The carpenters' union building by the Expressway in Dorchester this morning. Photo by Peter the Gr8.
Tanya Ray Fox sums up:
They have been tired, beaten, disrespected and doubted. They've been bitten, taunted and criticised for their style. Yet they fly back to our city Thursday with the Stanley Cup: the 7th time a major Championship will belong a Boston team since 2002. It wasn't easy, it wasn't pretty, and Boston fans wouldn't have it any other way.
Rollzroix tweeted from the Orange Line this morning:
Pulling into N. Station Orange Line conductor announced "transfer to commuter rail and home of the Stanley Cup champion Boston Bruins."
4-0! City of champions once again.
Black and gold celebrations off Causeway. Photo by Laura J. Nelson.
From people gathering by the Garden to the Unitarian Universalist Church in Medford, where the bells rang, we reveled in yet another championship title by a Boston team. Fireworks exploded across the area, people yelled "Woo!" out car windows in Davis Square.
Stanley Cup on the Red Line. Photo by Shawn Granniss.
So just cut that out! Brendan alerts us there was a total lunar eclipse on Dec. 21, 2010.
Nor is it the first Total Eclipse of the Heart since the Sox won.
The Vancouver Sun reports:
Vancouver city crews are working to set up the massive viewing screens on Georgia, Homer and Hamilton, as devoted fans are already beginning to gather for Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final. ...
Fans are expected in the tens of thousands, but numbers could double if the game goes well. One hundred thousand people flooded the area during Friday's game.
Boston Police announce the now standard parking bans for Game 7 around the Garden, Faneuil Hall and, of course, Kenmore Square (even though most college students are now home for the summer).
Joanna sums it up in her Tale of Two Timmies:
It was the best of times ... and it was the best of times. It was the age of wisdom, it was the age of whoop ass, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of in your face, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Unbearable Lightness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of dope, we had everything before us (101 more games), we had nothing before us (2-2 tie in the Stanley Cup Finals) ...
Paul Buckley tweets from tonight's Phish show down in Mansfield:
A Let's Go Bruins chant with band participation at a Phish show is pretty rad.
Boston Police report arresting a Bronx resident on charges he printed up and tried to sell a bunch of fake tickets to last night's Bruins game.
David Lucas, 28, allegedly had 14 tickets for last night's game and four for tomorrow night's game - all counterfeit - police say.
Police say officers looking for people like that, spotted Lucas talking to somebody outside the North Station T stop:
Sugar on Washington Street in Roslindale was selling these cupcakes today.
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