Since y’all (mostly VT Woody) keep sending me the pics, I figured I would take one in my office this morning.
Yes, I will survive.
No, I take no solace in pitchers and catchers reporting soon. My love of the Sox is almost extinguished by the great “Beer and Fried Chicken Debacle of ought eleven”.
Yes, I still have my UMASS Basketball.
No, they will not make the Big Dance.
Yes, I still have nightmares of Welker’s non-catch.
No, I don’t think Gisele is the Yoko Ono of Boston.
Yes, I still loathe in perpetuity Mia Hamm, who is the actual Yoko Ono of Boston.
No, I do not consider this the worst bed-shitting in Boston history.
Yes, I still hate Satan Peyton Manning more than his brothers.
Does that answer everything?
How’s the interview for cabana boy going? Has he asked you to recite any lines from a certain Heath Ledger movie while dressed up in chaps?
I gotta ask: why Payton and not Eli?
@2, that AFC Championship a few years ago nearly killed me. The Giants less so only because the reality is they played better than us. Also, I live in Indy, so it is easier to hate Peyton. (Despite my appreciation for what he has done for the city, I suspect there is a malevolent scheme behind it.)
Look at the bright side, man. Tim Thomas is still da man.
I’m with ya, TSO. Here’s my take on i all.
http://aw1tim.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/i-am-a-patriots-fan/
And yeah, I hate Seyton Manning much more than his lil’ bro goober.
As to the haters out there, I think my pal Fitzy summed it up best with his simple line: GFY. 🙂
A Sox fan.
You have my undying sympathy.
John (Tigers fan)
So… You did not say what you thought of Bucky Dent…
@#6, here’s hoping that Verlander can finally win a few games in April this year.
And Mia Hamm? Why hate on her?
@8, it goes back to the great head-shaving of 2003. Damon wouldn’t cut his hair, and Mia told Nomar he couldn’t. I’m still convinced that is what cost us that year.
The Red Sox were a cut above the Oakland A’s in their
first-round series, but the same can’t be said of the Boston clippers.
Manager Grady Little and general manager Theo Epstein were the latest
members of the organization to get their heads shaved – Epstein hid his
haircut under a black baseball cap – as part of a solidarity effort by the
team. Nearly all the regular players got their scalps shaved before Game 3,
when the Red Sox trailed Oakland two games to none.
“I just told them, ‘Cowboy up and get into the chair,'” said first baseman
Kevin Millar, the ringleader behind the haircuts. “[Tim] Wakefield was the
clipper [late Monday night in Oakland]. Trot [Nixon] has done some, too.”
Noticeably absent from the close-cropped combine was shortstop Nomar
Garciaparra. “He’s got a wedding in November,” Millar said. “That’s the only
reason he’s getting away. He’s afraid Mia Hamm will leave him if he gets his
hair cut.”
OK, and I thought it was something trivial. Glad you explained it.
@5, Tim, I tried to comment on your blog, and think it may have been eaten. Or maybe I made an error somewhere, either way, good post. +10.
TSO: As John Melon Cougarcamp observed:
“Oh yeah, life goes on
Long after the thrill is gone…”
I forced myself to bounce back quicker then the 07 debacle. I went on the Boston Globe website and forced myself to listen to ESPN Pats hate machine gloat. Now I’m better. It was kinda tough rolling through the gate at Ft Knox Monday morning with my NEPATS1 vantiy plates but there’s always the Bruins. Also, glad to see Oil Can Boyd spent most of his career with the BOSOX coked out of his tree…..bad week for Boston Sports.
You might want to say a little prayer to the baseball gods that the Sox don’t end up with a September like last year and end up looking up at the D-Rays.
AGAIN.
@8 UpNorth: amen to that. And here’s hoping that Miggy can do more at third than just wave bye-bye to ground balls as they go by.
@#16, I think the great experiment will be done by mid-May, and Inge will be back at 3d, and Miggy will be the DH. One of the local sports shows did a study on him and found that there’s only a 1 in 5 chance that he’ll commit an error on anything hit to him.
TSO: I found your comment and got things fixed. Thanks for the kind words. I keep happy thoughts headed your way because of where you live. 😉
@#17 I didn’t hear about that stat…wow. I wasn’t hoping for him to be another Brooks Robinson, but you’d think that with him damn near being as big as a backstop, that he’d have a better fielding percentage than that.