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Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Tweet #ThanksPapi and watch a Papi emoji pop up

If you tweet #ThanksPapi on Twitter, a Papi (David Ortiz) emoji pops up.

#ThanksPapi

One of the all time greats! Go Red Sox!

(And yeah, it's a travel day and I'm at Newark Airport, and maybe if you're lucky I'll tell you all where I'm going).

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Wednesday, October 21, 2015

40 years ago today....

I remember this like it was yesterday. World Series Game 6 Red Sox v. Reds in Boston, 6-6 in the bottom of the 12th inning, Carlton Fisk at the plate:

Let's go to the videotape.



Unfortunately, they lost the next night (and a fellow Bostonian on my dormitory floor threw the handle of a chair through a closed window in disgust).

It took another 29 years for the Red Sox to break the curse in 2004 (I was at Game 7 when they lost to the Mets in New York in 1986). Eleven years ago yesterday, the Red Sox finished coming back from an 0-3 deficit against the Hated Yankees to win the ALCS and move on to the World Series against the Cardinals, which they won.

So hang in there Cubs fans. Hope springs eternal.

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Thursday, April 24, 2014

Playing for the Yankees does not require a brain these days

Please forgive me for starting the day with a baseball post, but this is the most amazing piece of idiocy I can recall in a LONG time.

The Hated Yankees were in Boston last night to play the Red Sox, and here's what happened.

Let's go to the videotape.



In Thursday's Boston Globe, Adam Kaufman slams pitcher Michael Pineda's idiocy.
After days of discussion on the issue, including pregame media conferences and scrums with managers and players during this very series, Pineda decided to press his luck once more, this time layering what looked again to be pine tar on his neck.
How stupid could a person be? Seriously.
This isn’t homerism. If a Red Sox player was under the spotlight for supposed cheating and pulled the same stunt against the same opponent in the very next meeting without fear of penalty, I’d be equally curious how many fruits came in the basket.
With Pineda’s latest stunt, he’ll almost assuredly receive a 10-game suspension. Broken down, that may as well be one game for the use of pine tar, two games for doing it twice, and seven games for belligerent buffoonery.
Red Sox manager John Farrell said prior to the game on Wednesday, “I would expect that if [the pine tar] is used, it will be more discreet than last time.”
Nope.
Not on his hat. Not on his belt. Not on his shoe.
Instead, it glistened off his neck under the evening lights. Give him a hand for trying something different. At least that’d be clean this time.
Farrell didn’t sit back. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Or, as President George W. Bush said…well, you can’t get fooled again.
With that – and a swipe of Pineda’s neck, only 1 2/3 innings into his outing – umpire Gerry Davis made the only call he could. The pitcher was out. It’s amazing Davis didn’t walk back to his post behind the plate laughing the whole way.
Pineda decision was beyond dumb; it was selfish, and it may very well have cost the Yankees the game. Debate the importance of a contest on a chilly night in late-April if you’d like, but all 162 count the same in the end, even for clubs currently in first-place.
 The New York Yankees. All the stupidity that money can buy.

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Tuesday, April 01, 2014

Red Sox outfielder skipping trip to the White House

The World Champion Boston Red Sox are taking advantage of the fact that they are playing in Baltimore to drop in on the White House on Tuesday. But one player won't be going along. No, this is not another Tim Thomas story (although the comments about the visit on Facebook were surprisingly nasty given that Massachusetts is probably the bluest state in the Union). But Jonny Gomes is staying in Baltimore.
BDD has learned that Turnaround King Jonny Gomes has decided to stay in Baltimore this morning as the team bus prepares for a trip to the White House. Gomes said this was not in protest of any government policy or activity, i.e. former Bruins goaltender Tim Thomas, but it is a protest of the fact that Red Sox manager John Farrell elected to keep Gomes on the bench in Boston's 2-1 Opening Day loss to the Orioles.

Gomes could have pinch-hit for new Red Sox catcher A.J. Pierzynski in the eighth inning, or again, batted for the struggling Jackie Bradley Jr. in the ninth inning. But Farrell chose to let the man with a World Series tattoo rot on the bench.

Gomes indicated that he may hit the Baltimore aquarium today in lieu of the White House trip, but stopped short of saying he was going to head back to Boston and hope for a better fate in the home opener on Friday at Fenway.
Hmm. I wonder what Kevin Paul Dupont will say. 

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Monday, November 11, 2013

Class act

The Boston Red Sox have thanked the city of St. Louis.
Read the whole thing (and see an enlarged photo) here.

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Monday, November 04, 2013

This is for you, Boston

I got goose bumps when I read this. You can see it as a web page here.

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Saturday, November 02, 2013

Congratulations Red Sox!

Too bad the parade is on the Sabbath.

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Thursday, October 31, 2013

We are the Champions!



Let's go to the videotape.



I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm floating.

Once a Bostonian, always a Bostonian.

I hope that Dad z"l - who was a major Red Sox fan - is celebrating in Heaven. He never got to see the Red Sox win it all at home.

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Wednesday, October 30, 2013

The first time since 1918?

When John Lackey takes the mound for the Red Sox tonight, he will have the chance to do something that no Red Sox pitcher has done since Carl Mays in 1918: Clinch a Red Sox World Series win at Fenway Park (Hat Tip: NY Nana).
The last time the Boston Red Sox clinched a championship at Fenway Park, they used carrier pigeons to deliver inning-by-inning updates to soldiers at a fort 40 miles away. The World Series was a September event, with games played in the light of day and lasting less than two hours. And their best young player was a 23-year-old hurler named George Herman Ruth. The year was 1918.

Ninety-five years later, after a wait long enough to create the Curse of the Bambino, lament it for decades, break it and almost forget about it, the city of Boston will have a chance to witness the Red Sox celebrate a title on Massachusetts soil once again.

By beating the St. Louis Cardinals, 3-1, in Game 5 of the World Series on Monday night at Busch Stadium, the Red Sox took a 3-2 series lead. A win in either Game 6 or Game 7 would clinch the series. A loss in both would go down as a collapse.

It will be sheer ecstasy or stunned agony, with little room for anything in between. The only certainty is bedlam.

...

Ninety-five years ago, a pitcher named Carl Mays stood on the mound at Fenway Park with two outs in the ninth inning and got Les Mann of the Chicago Cubs to ground out to second base to end the World Series.

On Wednesday or Thursday, if the Red Sox can take the lead and preserve it, that moment will likely belong to Uehara, and it will be seen far and wide. No pigeons required.
Two things that are unmentioned here. First, the Red Sox have had two other opportunities to clinch the Series at Fenway since 1918. In 1967, they lost to the St. Louis Cardinals at Fenway and in 1975 they lost to the Cincinnati Reds. Second, in both those Series, the Sox won Game 6. Game 6 in 1975 was the epic game in which Carlton Fisk waved his home run inside the left field foul poll. Will Fisk be there tonight?

Read the whole thing.

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posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 5:39 PM 2 comments

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Decisions, decisions....

So I'm now 37,000 feet above the Atlantic on my way back to Israel. The Red Sox have just defeated the St. Louis Cardinals 3-1 to take a 3-2 lead in the World Series back to Boston for the last two games.

When I get my checked bags, do I take out my playoff hat and 'We play for October' t-shirt before customs? Or wait until after?
Decisions, decisions.....

Make way for ducklings!

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Friday, October 25, 2013

World Series fever: Boston Symphony Orchestra v. St. Louis Symphony Orchestra

This is cute. World Series fever strikes the Boston Symphony and the Saint Louis Symphony. Orchestras' brass sections compete in a musical showdown!

Let's go to the videotape (Hat Tip: Mrs. Carl).



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Thursday, October 24, 2013

How about those Red Sox?

Let's go to the videotape.



What? You thought I was going to show you the game? This is what they play at the end of every Sox win....

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Sunday, October 20, 2013

Congratulations to the 2013 American League Champions!

Shane Victorino’s base-clearing grand slam in the seventh inning rallied the Red Sox past the Tigers in Game 6 of the ACLS before a sell-out crowd at Fenway Park Saturday night.
YESSSSSSS!

We play for October!

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Monday, October 14, 2013

What an awesome game!

Yes, I was there tonight, about ten rows from the field in the box next to the Red Sox dugout.

Here's the highlight. Let's go to the videotape.



Thanks to the regular reader who got my brother and me those awesome tickets!

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posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 7:56 AM 3 comments

Overnight music video

Around the time that this goes up, I should be at Fenway Park watching the Red Sox in Game 2 of the American League Championship Series. Thanks to the reader who arranged the tickets.

Here's Shauly Waldner with Siman Tov (A Good Sign).

Let's go to the videotape.



If we win, maybe I'll put on Sweet Caroline when we get home. Heh.

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Wednesday, October 09, 2013

See you at the 2013 ALCS

They were just starting the bottom of the 9th when I had to board my plane....

Can anyone get me a ticket for Game 2? I will be in Boston....

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Monday, September 23, 2013

All in the same weekend....

The Boston Red Sox clinch the American League East and unveil a Yaz statue.


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Saturday, August 03, 2013

Boston Globe sells for less than a Series B high tech financing

Shavua tov, a good week to everyone.

The New York Times has sold the Boston Globe to Red Sox owner John Henry for $70 million. For those keeping score, that's 93% less than the Times paid for it in 1993 (Hat Tip: Memeorandum).

Here are some interesting comparisons with the price paid for the Globe. Among them is the following:
3. HootSuite, a Twitter and Facebook utility, raised $165 million in its Series B round.
Who says the blogosphere is irrelevant compared with the legacy media?

By the way, $70 million is pocket change for Henry. The same item says that the Red Sox are worth $1.3 billion - which is more than the Times paid for the Globe in 1993.

Happy to see the Times lose money....

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Sunday, June 23, 2013

Bad British baseball commentary: Salamander?

Mrs. Carl sent me this very cute piece from NPR about what would happen if a cricket broadcaster had to announce a baseball game.
Suppose you have never seen a baseball game. All you know is cricket, and somebody sticks you at a Yankee/Red Sox game and says, "Do the play by play. Now. You're on!" There's no time to prepare. You don't know the rules, the names or the positions. All you know are the rhythms of your beloved cricketeers, but these "NY" players, whatever they're doing, it's not quite cricket. So you try to describe what's going on. What might that sound like?
Let's go to the videotape.



Salamander? His real name is Saltalamacchia (known to Boston fans as Salty...).

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Thursday, April 18, 2013

Give the Yankees some credit

Seen outside Yankee Stadium on Tuesday night:
And in the New Yorker Magazine:
And I'm sure you all heard that the Yankees played Sweet Caroline after the third inning on Tuesday night.

Now, I know every other team in baseball played Sweet Caroline on Tuesday as well, without making such a big deal out of it, but the Yankees still get some credit for behaving like mentchen. I wonder what George Steinbrenner would say.

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