Posts about 'Red Sox'

An oldie but a goodie

Saturday, November 10th, 2007

Over the past couple of weeks, I rewrote my gallery-building engine in Ruby, making it much more flexible and easy to use. So now, I may actually be able to put up some of the old galleries I did, but never published, like this one of a Red Sox vs. Yankees game from 2004.

Here are the pictures:

  1. Budweiser sign
  2. Couple at Fenway
  3. Baby at Fenway
  4. Fenway math
  5. Curt Schilling
  6. Jason Varitek
  7. Jason Varitek warming up
  8. Jason Varitek being all pensive
  9. Johnny Damon throwing
  10. Johnny Damon warming up
  11. Manny Ramirez warming up
  12. David Ortiz
  13. Curt Schilling faces Derek Jeter
  14. Curt Schilling brushes back Derek Jeter
  15. Watering the infield at Fenway
  16. Yankees fan gets booted from Fenway
  17. Another Yankees fan gets booted from Fenway
  18. Schilling leaves
  19. Keith Foulke saves the day

Red Sox win the World Series!

Monday, October 29th, 2007

Hooray!

This was a fun team to watch, and, with Ellsbury, Pedroia, Beckett, Matsuzaka, Lester and Buchholz, next year is looking pretty good too.

It’s fun to live in the city of champions.

P.S., damn you, Fox. Let’s try starting the games a little earlier next year.

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World Series windfall

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

We have a good article today on what the World Series means for hundreds of local businesses. It’s a good time to be in the hospitality business here in town.

We don’t benefit in this particular way from the World Series, but we certainly aren’t going to turn away all the additional people reading the Globe and hitting the site for the next couple of weeks.

Oh yeah, it’ll work out pretty well for those who bought furniture from Jordan’s, too.

Clay Buchholz no-hitter!

Saturday, September 1st, 2007

Wow, what an amazing game for the Clay Buchholz in his second major-league start.

This may be a special year for the Red Sox yet. I believe.

Unbelievable Red Sox finish

Sunday, May 13th, 2007

The Red Sox showed again why this is a special season, erasing a five-run deficit in the bottom of the ninth to beat the Orioles. This win was pure hustle. I love rooting for a team that will fight to the very end.

Strat-o-Matic remembered

Friday, February 16th, 2007

Chad Finn, of the always readable Touching All the Bases, writes an article about Strat-o-Matic baseball, a game that dominated most of the ’80s for me.

The guys at Goodwill Park taught me Strat-o-Matic [SOM] back in the summer of 1980 or 1981, playing with cards from the mid-seventies. I started Catfish Hunter, and he cost me the game when he gave up a dinger in the ninth. “He does that a lot,” they consoled me.

I got my first copy of SOM with the 1982 card set. I was the only one in the family interested in sports, so I created elaborate leagues and draft scenarios to keep myself amused. I would kill off two teams (Toronto and Seattle were generally the victims back then), allow each team to keep five pitchers, a catcher, three infielders and two outfielders. I’d then distribute the rest of the players. The Red Sox occasionally had a thumb on the scale during this distribution — hello Bruce Bochte!

I played SOM for 10 years or so, carrying the cards around the house and down the cape. I still have fond memories of it. Thanks, Chad, for bringing them back.

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Farewell Trot

Friday, January 19th, 2007

When I bought a Red Sox jersey to wear to the games in 2000, I didn’t even have a moment’s delay when deciding which one to wear: it was Trot Nixon’s #7. I’ve worn that jersey over a hundred times in the Fenway bleachers since then. And now, Trot has signed with the Indians. I can only wish him the best of luck.

Trot was my favorite because he plays baseball like a hockey player; he was the original Dirt Dog. I can’t wait to go to a Cleveland game this summer and give him a standing ovation.

Here’s Trot warming up in right field, taken from my seat in 2004:

Trot Nixon warming up

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Our seats at Fenway Park

Sunday, July 23rd, 2006

For several years, I’ve been sharing Red Sox season tickets with friends, sitting out in the bleachers for 10-20 games a year. It’s great during the summer to get to a few games, but it really pays off in October, when we get into the Park for playoff games.

Yesterday, we went to a corporate event at Fenway, and I was able to get a wide shot of the outfield. Here’s where we sit at each game:

Our seats at Fenway Park

Another Jason Varitek picture

Sunday, July 23rd, 2006

Here’s another shot of the Red Sox captain, from July 17th, 2006.

Jason Varitek

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Pictures of Kyle Snyder at Fenway Park

Sunday, July 23rd, 2006

We finally got a game last Sunday, and the starting picture was Kyle Snyder, up filling in while Clement and Wells are on the disabled list. Here are a couple of pictures I got of him from my seat in the bleachers.

Kyle Snyder of the Boston Red Sox

Kyle Snyder throwing

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Watch a game with Theo Epstein

Tuesday, July 4th, 2006

I’m sad that I can’t win this, because this looks like the coolest contest I’ve seen in a while: watch a game with Theo.

The grand prize winner will also receive a dinner for two at Fenway Park before a 2006 regular-season home game, and the chance to spend the game with Theo Epstein in his private suite!

Theo will also be chatting on Boston.com on Monday, July 10th at noon.

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Welcome back, Pedro

Wednesday, June 28th, 2006

I can’t wait for Pedro Martinez’s return to Fenway tonight.

In his prime, Pedro was electric. Every Pedro game was an event — you went in *expecting* a no-hitter, expecting to see something special.

I doubt we’ll ever see another pitcher like him.

Previously:
Red Sox Opening Day - 3/31/2003
Pedro! Pedro! Pedro! - 4/18/2003
The Full Moon at Fenway Park - 10/12/2003
Do you belieeeeeeve? - 10/16/2003
Grr. Argh. - 10/17/2003
Yub Yub - 10/19/2004

Pictures of Jason Varitek

Friday, April 21st, 2006

Jason Varitek, from April 2004:

Jason Varitek

Jason Varitek warming up

Pictures of Johnny Damon

Friday, April 21st, 2006

Here’s Johnny Damon warming up, from April 2004:

Johnny Damon warming up at Fenway Park

Johnny Damon, throwing the ball into the infield, from April 2004

Johnny Damon at Fenway Park

Pictures of Curt Schilling

Friday, April 21st, 2006

I don’t get to go to any Red Sox games until May, so I was flipping through some of my digital photos to see what I was missing. I realized I had a gallery from April 2004 that I never published. Oops. Anyway, here are some of the best ones.

Here’s Curt Schilling:

Curt Schilling

Here’s Curt Schilling pitching to Derek Jeter:

Curt Schilling pitching to Derek Jeter

Here’s Curt Schilling brushing back Derek Jeter:

Curt Schilling brushing back Derek Jeter

Red Sox uniform numbers

Sunday, April 16th, 2006

Here is a very handy reference to all the Red Sox uniform numbers since the 30’s.

(via Steve Buckley)

Picture of Yankees fan getting ejected from Fenway Park

Saturday, April 17th, 2004

Ahh, the first drunk Yankees fan of the year to get thrown out of Fenway.

Departing, I might add, with the level of dignity and class one associates with the Bronx.

Yankees fan getting thrown out of Fenway Park

It’s all the media’s fault

Thursday, July 31st, 2003

Newly acquired Red Sox reliever Todd Jones rips the Boston media in his Sporting News column.

To be honest, the media here is brutal. They are the most negative spin doctors I’ve run into. They make big deals out of nothing. One reporter goes in for an interview, and the next thing you know there are 35 around your locker asking the dumbest questions, such as, “Did you mean to give up that homer?” or “After this loss, is your team finished?”

Our favorite 30-year-old shortstop

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2003

Nomar, it’s your birthday, happy birthday Nomar.

The Tigers are so bad

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2003

Dan and I went to the game last night and watched the Sox destroy the Tigers without even breaking a sweat.

Of my fifteen games this year, this one had the lowest jacked-n-pumped quotient. Monday night. Threat of rain. Tigers. Burkett.

War with the evil empire

Wednesday, July 9th, 2003

Can I tell you how much I love Kevin Millar?

Back in front of his own locker, Millar leveled a blast at Roger Clemens, who on Saturday hit him in the left hand with a 95-mile-per-hour fastball, then chided Millar afterward for failing to get out of the way of the pitch.

‘’This has turned into a big old stupid thing,'’ Millar said, ‘’and it started with his stupid comment that I should have got out of the way of his 95-mile-an-hour fastball. The classy thing would have been to call the clubhouse and see if I was OK.