Archive for February, 2012
Friday, February 17th, 2012
As I mentioned earlier this week, the Sox and Major League Baseball, under the auspices of the website, FenwayPark100 (which in and of itself is a very cool site to check out…) are balloting for the “All Fenway Team”, which will be unveiled before the All-Star break as part of the 100 Year Anniversary Celebration [...]
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Tuesday, February 14th, 2012
While the Sox did not get as close as they did when negotiating with Wily Mo in 2007 (They hammered out a deal while they were waiting to go into the hearing), the Sox got pretty close to what could have been a complete and utter mess with David Ortiz…or at least a distraction and [...]
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Monday, February 13th, 2012
Holy…Buckets! After waiting what seems like a LIFETIME–with the completely lackluster showing in improvements in this offseason not helping matters, Pitchers and Catchers is upon us… The Truck left on Saturday, and should be pulling into Fort Myers sometime tomorrow, and several players have arrived and started their workouts in anticipation of the 1st mandatory [...]
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Thursday, February 9th, 2012
So, let me get this straight: Pitchers and Catchers in less than 2 weeks, Roy Oswalt still needs a job, the Sox still need a starter. Uh, so what is the problem here? Why can’t Sox Management get this done? Apparently part of the problem is Oswalt thinks Boston is too far away from his [...]
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Monday, February 6th, 2012
I know I was in the vast minority last night, regarding the fact that I really could care less who won the Super Bowl–same thing every year–no interest in football at all, didn’t watch one second of the contest, blah…blah…blah… Glad for those who are happy the Giants won, feel bad for those who are [...]
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Friday, February 3rd, 2012
Have you seen the Travelocity commercial, where the Roaming Gnome is talking about the little girl who is riding her water toy in an empty swimming pool in some dive of a hotel, because her parents booked the wrong place? My favorite line is: “Somebody, get her a pony!” That is sort of how I [...]
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