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April 2, 2007
April 3, 2007
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I hate when talent leaves the Big East!
April 4, 2007
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April 5, 2007
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32 years may be enough of Billy Packer
April 6, 2007
Dice-K Debuts!
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The Dice-K Era!
April 7, 2007
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Developers are freaks sometimes
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Wishcasting
April 8, 2007
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you just know some spit was flying on this one
April 9, 2007
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I {heart} Thunderbird! It's email, it's an RSS reader.. it's heaven!
The Night Before the Day Before Opening Day
Last night just after the crack of David Ortiz's bat gave him his first homerun of the season, I heard another loud pop, followed by deadly blackness. The loss of electricity is really hard to get used to, even after the first few awkward moments.. moments of fumbling around for the flashlight, assuming the power will return soon. When that doesn't happen awe sets in: what will I DO? How will I survive? I can't iron clothes for tomorrow, I can't do laundry, and worst of all: I can't watch the Red Sox. Well... maybe not worst of all. But wait! I can listen if I can find a 9 volt battery to put into my alarm clock (where it should already be for just these cases, but isn't). I scavenge through through the junk drawer looking for said battery. Wasn't there one in my prep kit from the anthrax/bio-hazard prep/Tom Ridge as Homeland Security chief/Ready.gov days? Wow! I do have one. Into the clock radio it goes.
This new announcer on 'EEI is excrutiating. Not really jazzed about the whole move to 'RKO thing in the first place. The WRKO Red Sox radio network just sounds wrong. And I have no options. I wonder what they even talk about on 'EEI during the games. The Bruins? hahahaha. Ah.. good to hear the Foxwoods ads also made the jump to 'RKO - not really. Here is a question I've been meaning to ask since last season: what is up with the couple that go to Foxwoods to "reconnect - like when I met her" - then spend the entire time apart on separate activities? Is this a commercial for men?
Ok - it's been 15 minutes without electricity. I've survived so far, but my hand is getting tired from actually scratching all this out on paper and my neck is getting a crimp in it from holding the flashlight between my head and shoulder. How much does anyone really use their handwriting anymore?
Seriously, this announcer is making me want to rip my ears off.
9:30 pm... the lights return and all is well in my world. Just in time to see Paplebot mow down 5 Rangers with 5 pitches. That's right: 15 pitches, 5 outs. Count it.
The home opener is 15 hours away!
April 10, 2007
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If you didn't turn and run screaming from the room after seeing this recruitment video.. you deserve the career you got.
Baseballgasm...
The 1967 Impossible Dream Team
Robert Goulet singing
Johnny Pesky saying 'Play Ball'
Josh Beckett: pitching machine (struck Ichiro out 3 times)
A JD Drew (JD Drew!) homerun
Jeff Weaver's expression watching a JD Drew homerun
A mini bru-ha-ha and 2 ejections
Being so far ahead that Mirabelli pinch hits for Oritiz
Timlin returns from the DL
It was a tad cool, but all in all the perfect opening day!
And tomorrow: Dice-K faces Ichiro in the battle of the camera flashbulbs. Baseball is so very back!
April 11, 2007
How Much Do I LOVE This?
I love it the way I loved Days of Our Lives when I was 12...
Brendan Donnelly, Jose Guillen Renew Two-Year Old Feud at Sox Home Opener
Please, please, please.. let Donnelly pitch in relief again and let it be against Guillen.
And for those of you who are focuses on the fracas.. do NOT forget that Donnelly made Guillen look absolutely foolish and completely overmatched at the plate. It was outstanding.
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I have tickets to #1 - the Dirt Dog returnith...
Imus Finally Fired
According to this anyway: Imus Fired: NBC Couldn't Maintain An "Inclusive Work Environment" With Imus On The Payroll
A later post says he's fired from MSNBC, but not CBS. Not sure what that means.. that he won't be on tv, but remains on the radio? Blech..
And shame, shame, shame on all the mainstream media sticking up for him. Imus is on when I'm at the gym in the am. I see these journalists coming on his show to shill for their programs or magazines. I'm sure they also get paid for their appearences. Sick, sick, sick to put themselves ahead of what is right. Can you believe I just wrote that? You'd think I was unaware of how the world worked, but still.. I'm filled with happiness that he has gotten the boot.
April 12, 2007
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How great is this? Even better than a 2003 shot of him watching Clemons leave the mound for one of his many "last times" .
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Somehow, I'm sad...
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What a bunch of bunk. It's my blog and I'll be snarky and rude if I want to!
Men are...
and endless source of amazement for me. Here is my example du jour:
guy: why don't you marry Papelbon so we can get free Red Sox tickets?
me: SURE! Except that I think he's already married.
guy: Really? What about Beckett? Beckett's not married.
me: Doesn't he date super models?
guy: oh, don't put yourself down that way.
me: um, actually what I mean is that I may be too smart
guy: { nodding, not really looking at me. I can almost see the invisible bubble above his head containing the image of super models }
me: I said.. because I'm too smart.
guy: {sideways head tilt} what?
me: nevermind
But just for the record, I can't marry Beckett because he looks just like my brother and that would just be weird. (ha)
April 13, 2007
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The executive board of the World Bank has said it did not approve a hefty pay rise ordered by its president Paul Wolfowitz for his partner.
Do these people never learn?
A Sad Statement
Standing the kitchen at work today with a few co-workers, CNN was on in the background: Wolf Blitzer, In the Situation Room. They began a report on the 5 million (5 million!) missing White House emails. People stared at the television, then in unison burst out laughing. Comments came fast and furious:
Who do these baffoons think they are fooling?
Why do they think anyone believe anything they say on any topic?
Is Bush's middle name Nixon?
Don't they have any redundency? Wouldn't these emails be on more than one server? {we are a software company after all}
No, they are out back having a massive bonfire of the servers...
But I won't soon forget that initial burst of laughter at the report because it was so telling.. this administration has no credibility, none!
April 14, 2007
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Monica Goodling, who before she resigned last week because of the U.S. attorneys scandal, was the third most powerful official in the Justice Department of the United States. Thirty-three, and though she had never even worked as a prosecutor, she was task
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Don't we have a war czar already? Isn't that what the Secretary of Defense is suppossed to do?
April 16, 2007
Gwen Ifill calls out the Imus hypocrisy on Meet the Press
It's even better than just this clip. Read the whole transcript
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Former U.S. Attorney David Iglesias was fired after Sen. Pete Domenici, who had been unhappy with Iglesias for some time, made a personal appeal to the White House, the Journal has learned.
Dear Hokies...
and their friends, family, faculty members and staff of Virginia Tech: my heart hurts for you and I can't even begin to express my sorrow and horror at what you have experienced and for what remains for you to go through.
In case you've been under a rock (or just watching the marathon or the Red Sox) all day:
Let's just say I don't ever want to hear the words "student" and "execution style" used in the same sentence again. Nor do I wish to hear students describe watching out a window, police go into a building and bring out what they assumed were bodies.
Somewhere out there someone knows who this shooter was. Someone out there must have seen some signs of the planning. That someone out there should come forward and give these poor parents some concept of what happened to their child.
April 17, 2007
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Remy & Pizza-gate
If you are not blessed to be from New England and don't get to witness the genius of Remy & Orsillio on a regular basis, I feel bad for you because they were in rare form yesterday. Lucky for you, their genius is posted to Ted Steven's "series of tubes" internet thingy..
I think I've watched this 20 times and can't stop laughing. But wait, there is more... the full story from the Herald.
April 18, 2007
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It's official... Kerry has completely lost his mind. Why does he think anyone even cares what he thinks?
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Manny being Manny is explained to New Yorker readers..
April 19, 2007
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Timmeh better look out.. Dice-K may send Gamara after him...
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Bad, bad, bad
1 Day Til the First Red Sox/Yankees Game of the Year
I'm giddy...
April 20, 2007
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April 23, 2007
This Team CAN.NOT.LOSE
Even in 2004 we never had 4 homeruns in a row. Ridiculous!
Heaven is a place called Fenway.
AND Wright is scheduled to pitch against us next Fri. Think we're in his head a bit. Ask Mariano how that feels, young Chase.
And can someone PLEASE remove Joe Morgan from the announcers booth. After the homerun-a-thon and the lifting of Wright from the game, Morgan announced that this was why Torre is a great manager: he knows to lift the guy. Excuse me.. the 5 year old in the front row knows to lift the guy! This would be after they showed Manny suppossedly getting his first homerun of the year in Toronto last Thursday - except it clearly wasn't even film from this year. Manny's hair was blond and it's now black and red. Seriously, ESPN.. isn't this what you guys do?
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damn straight..
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Is he mentally ill? Could it be to hide even worse offenses?
April 24, 2007
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We've lost one of our best & brightest
April 25, 2007
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Office of Special Counsel is preparing to jump into one of the most sensitive and potentially explosive issues in Washington, launching a broad investigation into key elements of the White House political operations that for more than six years have been
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Bush seems to be trying all 10 steps..
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Yankees fall to last in East. How many times do we get to say that? Yea!
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AND a subpoena for Condoleezza Rice. Oooooo.... this is getting interesting.
April 26, 2007
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Let the insanity begin....
April 27, 2007
Yippee!
Team W L PCT GB
Boston 14 7 .667 -
Toronto 11 10 .524 3.0
Baltimore 11 11 .500 3.5
Tampa Bay 9 13 .409 5.5
NY Yankees 8 12 .400 5.5
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I just threw up a little in my mouth...
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No opportunity to draw attention to himself will be missed.
April 28, 2007
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Let's not forget The Teammates - one of the greatest books written about friendship, oh yeah and some baseball.
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Oh for God's sake...
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Tom Wolfe on Hedge Funds & their managers.
April 29, 2007
Thank God This is Over
My heart lurched...
But Big Papi's homerun made me feel better.
Go Sox!
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April 30, 2007
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bring back the book review sections. people will read again!
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I agree. You can't expect a pitching staff held together by band aids and glue (and seemingly includes HS JV pitchers) to perform in the big leagues.