Flashback: Remember when the President's first pitch reached home plate
Too good not to post.
Here's President George W. Bush throwing out the first pitch at Yankee Stadium a month and a half after 9/11. A secret service agent was dressed as an umpire to provide extra protection. And
unlike the current occupant of the White House, Bush reached home plate (threw a strike in fact).
Let's go to the videotape (Hat Tip:
Zvi S).
Labels: 9/11, George W. Bush, New York City, World Series
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.
Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, Boston Bruins, Boston Red Sox, Jonny Gomes, Stanley Cup Finals, Tim Thomas, White House, World Series
Class act
The Boston Red Sox have
thanked the city of St. Louis.
Read the whole thing (and see an enlarged photo)
here.
Labels: Boston Red Sox, World Series
This is for you, Boston
I got goose bumps when I read this. You can see it as a web page
here.
Labels: Boston, Boston Marathon, Boston Red Sox, terror attacks, terror victims, World Series
Congratulations Red Sox!
Too bad the parade is on the Sabbath.
Labels: Boston Red Sox, World Series
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.
Labels: Boston Red Sox, World Series
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.
Labels: Boston Red Sox, World Series
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!
Labels: Boston Red Sox, World Series
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).
Labels: Boston Red Sox, World Series
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....
Labels: Boston Red Sox, World Series
Congratulations to the 2013 American League Champions!
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| 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!
Labels: Boston Red Sox, World Series
Curse of Obama tames the Tigers
The San Francisco Giants have won the World Series for the first time since 1954. and they have
Barack Hussein Obama to thank for it.
Not only did the Detroit Tigers lose the world series, they lost
spectacularly, with the Giants winning in a solid four game streak. I
predicted this outcome a few days ago, not because I know anything about
baseball (I don’t), but because I am familiar with the Obama curse. As
Rush Limbaugh has been pointing out for years, if Obama backs something
(a business, a climate summit, an Olympic games venue), it goes down in
flames.
On Wednesday night, Obama appeared on Jay Leno’s Tonight Show.
There, in response to Jay’s question about the World Series, Obama
turned his back on the Golden State that has filled his campaign coffers
and told America that he was rooting for Detroit’s team (keeping in mind that Michigan’s electoral votes are up for grabs):
I will say, I’ve spent a lot of time in Detroit lately,
and I didn’t want to let Detroit go bankrupt. So in this particular
World Series, I might be a little partial.
Once Obama voiced his support for the Tigers, their defeat was
assured. The Giants played marvelously, that’s true, but they should
also send a word of thanks to the President. Without the benefit of the
curse he laid upon the Tigers, they might not have won.
Heh.
Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, World Series
Important stuff: Phillies v. Red Sox?
Rasmussen may have gotten the World Series times right, but they got the winner wrong. God willing,
it's going to be the Red Sox this year.
The Philadelphia Phillies and Boston Red Sox arguably made the biggest off season moves, and fans put them ahead of the pack going in to the 2011 Major League Baseball season.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Adults who watch professional baseball at least once a week shows that 21% think the Phillies will win the World Series this upcoming season. Seventeen percent (17%) think the Red Sox will win their first title since 2007. But their biggest rival is right behind as the New York Yankees are picked to win by 15% of baseball fans. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
No other team earns double-digit support. Even last year’s champions, the San Francisco Giants, are picked by just six percent (6%) of fans to win the Fall Classic.
The Milwaukee Brewers, Atlanta Braves, Texas Rangers and Minnesota Twins all received five percent (5%) or less of the vote to win it all this year. Nineteen percent (19%) opted for another team not mentioned in the survey.
The Phillies are favored by fans possibly as a result of signing top free agent pitcher Cliff Lee this off season. The Red Sox were not far behind in making off season headlines as they landed top free agent outfielder Carl Crawford and made a blockbuster trade for San Diego Padres first baseman Adrian Gonzales.
Go Red Sox!
Labels: Phillies, Rasmussen Reports, Red Sox, World Series
