Tag: Red Sox
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There are no words
Here I am at the latest No Fluff, Just Stuff conference in Framingham, MA, meeting up with great people, learning lots of new things, when the Sox/Yankees game comes on. We’re up 7 – 2 headed for the 8th inning. Okajima (ERA: 1.76) is already in for the 8th, Papelbon (ERA: 1.50) is ready for…
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Green Monster time
Xander and I had our trip to Fenway today, with my first time ever sitting on the Green Monster. The weather was great (low 80s, partly cloudy, with a nice breeze), the seats were excellent (Section 5, Row 1, Seats 9 and 10 — basically middle of the front row), and the Sox scored six…
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It’s not all Gagne’s fault
I’ll keep this short and sweet. Yes, if it wasn’t for Eric Gagne, the Red Sox probably would have swept all three games against the Orioles rather than lose two of three. Yes, the Yankees are playing video game baseball right now and may win no matter what we do. But somebody please, please explain…
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Burned by MLB and DRM
I know this isn’t really business related, but I thought I’d write a post about this problem just in case anybody knows a solution. In late 2004, after the Red Sox won the World Series, I purchased the downloadable broadcasts of all of their playoff games from Major League Baseball. That came to about 20…
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Quick moment to gloat before the Yankees start hitting again…
Everyone says you should stop and smell the roses, right? My own variation on that line is, whenever you find yourself in a good position, be sure to enjoy it, because everything changes. Well, the Red Sox are currently 36-15, the Yankees are 21-29, and the difference between them is a whopping 14 1/2 games.…
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20 days and counting…
In honor of the first Yankees/Red Sox game of the season (okay, pre-season), let me just remind everyone that opening day is only 20 days away. Sweet. Just to prove to myself that my son (Xander, age 14) doesn’t read my blog, I’ll let you in on a little secret. I’ve told him that we’re…
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If you can’t blog something nice…
… I suppose you shouldn’t blog anything at all. That means I won’t be discussing anything here about my latest airline experiences, especially my trip through Chicago with the flight delayed 5 1/2 hours and then ultimately cancelling without telling me. Nope, I’m SO not going there. (Other than to say I feel so much…
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Baseball Tour 2006
Normally here I’d rather spend time talking about technologies I’m working with and the process I’m going through learning them, but I thought I’d take a small moment as an aside to mention the baseball tour I just finished with my son Xander, 14. A week ago Sunday (8/6) we went to McCoy Stadium to…
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What a twist!
Okay, I’ll admit it. When I first saw the commercial for the new M. Night Shyamalan movie Lady in the Water, I, too, felt compelled to say, “What a twist!” Robot Chicken rules, and not just because it was created by Oz from Buffy, aka Scott Evil, aka Chris Griffin. On a more serious note,…
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What a way to enter the All Star break…
19 innings and an L. Papelbon blows the save by giving up a homer with two outs in the 9th. They score two runs in the 11th, only to give them back in the bottom half of the inning, missing a major baserunning error in the process. They almost made that double play to get…