Fenway Flashback: Little Green Men

April 20th Yankees @ Boston.

Maybe it's because it's November and I've got Christmas shopping on my mind, but don't they look like little elves in those green jerseys?

Beckett Undressed

BECKETT UNDRESSED
Life. Order. Chaos. Absurdity.
DIRECTED BY STACEY SPAIN
OCTOBER 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 20, 21, 25, 26*, 2007 @ 8PM
MATINEE: OCTOBER 21, 2007 @ 2PM
No lie! That's the name of the play that playing at the downtown theater. I saw the signs on our walk through downtown at dog school. I also saw a man walk into the crowd of dogs and lay on the ground. And a man riding on a bike with a kitchen sink strapped to his back. And I kid you not -- while we were practicing DOWN and STAY on the sidewalk at a busy intersection, a car stopped at the light with the stereo blasting WHO LET THE DOGS OUT.

I'm High Tech!

I finally figured out what the RSS logo and XML thing and that little orange ((( icon mean! I've set myself up with google reader and I'm getting the news as it's released. Well, I'm actually only getting Red Sox or U2 news, but what else is there? I've also -- are you sitting because this is really impressive -- clicked the button to add my favorite news stories to this page. See them over on the side there? Those are the ones that i think are really worth reading, so go ahead and click. I know you want to =)

too much red meat....

hey mom -- here's the clip of Luke's heart attack:

The Glass is Half Empty

Maybe it's all those years of experience, watching the sox let all their best players walk away.... Maybe it's the change of the seasons -- the cold is starting to set in... Maybe it's just my nature, but I'm feeling a little pessimistic these days. Four teams have offered Mike Lowell (did I mention I was born in Lowell, MA?) a better deal. It doesn't seem likely that he'll follow Damon over to NY because A-Rod has pathetically crawled back to the Yankees begging for his job back. Guess he isn't worth $350M after all. Surprise, surprise... So the Yankees would want Lowell to play first and why would he want to do that?? I just hope Lowell makes a decision soon and puts me out of my misery...

Speaking of misery, will you take a look at that goatee?? Everyone bags on Youk's facial hair but seriously what the --? It looks like Mike shaves the top of his mustache and beard off. AND it's crooked! I really thought the big attraction for men to grow facial hair was to NOT shave. But this beard requires precision shaving. But all that extra effort has definitely paid off just look at that HOT goatee!

Then there's this whole Japan thing. I read that the sox will have to cut spring training short by 2 weeks which is bad for the team and bad for the fans. And then there's the very good chance that Dice-K won't even go????! !? Mrs. Dice-K will be giving birth right around then. I totally get his dilemma but wasn't he the underlying reason for the trip??

I'm going back to my happy little flashback world of April 2007 when Mike Lowell was clearly a Red Sox, or is it sock? what's the singular of sox? How 'bout sox player. Last night the Sox played the Jays with Wakefield (another town in MA) pitching. Besides boring the hell out me, Wakefield held them to only one run (a HR), dominating the Jay's batting order. Pap closed and (gasp!) WALKED someone. I was quick to blame Mirabelli but Pap came back to strike out 2 and save the game. Whew!

Jerry Remy seriously underestimates the value of the pitcher catcher relationship. Didn't he ever watch Bull Durham??

Fenway Flashback: The Flying Pizza

As you know, I'm reliving the 2007 season from top to bottom. The game I watched Monday was the "Flying Pizza" game. I can't watch this clip without laughing aloud....

I love NESN! =)

1985 Revisted

Duran Duran has a new album! Lol... I was never a Duran Duran fan and I'm pretty certain, I won't become one anytime soon, but I had to listen to the soundbytes. Apparently they worked with Justin Timberlake and Timbaland. I can't even type it without laughing, so I had to listen and this was the funniest of the bunch:

1977 Revisted

For those of you who were wondering what all that talk about jumpsuits was about, read this:

Strap in, shut up and hold on. We're going back.

It's a very funny blog about a 1977 Penny's catalog....

turning japanese i think i'm turning japanese i really think so....

so the sox are scheduled to open next season in Japan. Seems like a long way to go to play the A's but a nice thing to do for the Japanese fans, who were so kind to sell us Dice-K and Okajima. I'm excited because this means it'll definitely be on national tv! So even this Reno girl will see it live -- wait isn't there a 12 hour time difference? It's not going to be on in the morning, is it? According to timeanddate.com, a game that starts at 7pm in Tokyo starts at 2am PST. Lol.. It'll have to start at 10am there to air here live at 5pm PST (8pm EST)....

btw, i've just discovered that in lieu of any real candy (read chocolate) tootsie rolls are quite good ;)

going... going.... gone!

I'm still a little cranky this morning about the Cy Young fiasco and the lack of a contract for Mike Lowell. Plus I watched a game from April last night in which the Sox lost to the Jays by one run -- the particular run that Dice-K WALKED in. I was impressed by how well he got himself back together in the following innings, though, but it didn't make up for the loss. And then there was the whole Marie Osmond drama. But that's fodder for a whole 'nother blog. Anyhooo, cranky me came across this and I cheered right up:

Beckett Gets Shut Out

The Sox have been winning awards left and right this off-season, but the win streak came to an end today when Sabathia beat Beckett to win the Cy Young Award. But didn't Beckett beat Sabathia twice during the AL series? That's when it really mattered anyway.... Hopefully we get a press conference out of it ;) and EVERYBODY drinks if he says "I don't get paid to win popularity contests" and CHUG if he drops an F-bomb in there...

(oh - according to Yahoo! Sports, the voting took place before the playoffs.. that makes more sense)

bye bye goatee...

Youkilis shaves for charity....

so he'll go from this:

ooops, i mean, from this:

to the youk of days gone by:

hey he's not a bad looking guy.. who knew?

uneasy feeling

I had a half day for the holiday yesterday. It was lovely. I watched a Beckett game and crocheted half a dress and then fell asleep watching Dancing with the Stars. Wow! Dancing is really quite boring compared to a Beckett game. I woke relaxed and refreshed and I realized that the Red Sox still hadn't signed Mike Lowell!!! Today, he is officially on the market and I've got an uneasy feeling...

Pedroia the Destroyah

Three cheers for Dustin Pedroia!! He was just named ROOKIE OF THE YEAR! And he did it with a broken hand... Dice-K and Okajimi also got some votes... of Pedroia's comments, I really liked this quote: "This game is tough. If you fail seven out of 10 times, you're a pretty good player."