Joel Oliveira

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• Posted This Season's Top Five Largest Fenway Ovations to Bostonist
  Unless you're somewhere in the Blue Hills living in a cave, you are aware that today is opening day at Fenway Park. The Red Sox open the 2007 season at home against Ichiro the Seattle Mariners, with Josh Beckett taking the hill. Bostonist expects to hear a thunderous ovation for our returning Red Sox, and a warm welcome for the new guys (JD Drew, Julio Lugo). Outside of today's team introductions Bostonist was contemplating what...
• Posted WTB RedSox Players In Rivals' Forums to Bostonist
  A blogger telling someone to "get off the computer" is a bit like the pot calling the kettle black. However, Bostonist would like to tell Curt Schilling, yes - Curt Schilling, to put down the keyboard and mouse and push away from the computer. It was pretty rad that Schill showed up on the Sons of Sam Horn boards as the Sox were courting him. Even more cool is the fact that he allowed the...
• Posted Welcome Back Pedro to Bostonist
  Bostonist was on hand for last night's return of Pedro Martinez to the mound. To say that the environment was electric is a colossal understatement. There was one thing the people who showed up were there to see - and that's Pedro. People wanted to cheer him on the way to the bullpen to warm up, on his way back to the dugout, on his way to the mound for the bottom half of...
• Posted Brazilians in Boston - Celebrate With Them or Debate Legality? to Bostonist
  The Globe ran a piece in today's edition about tensions in Framingham with some of the locals and their ire towards all the Brazilians making Framingham the spot for those immigrating from Samba-land. These days the Brazilians as a whole are much more conspicuous around Boston thanks to the World Cup. Green and yellow can be seen everywhere as the people from Brazil celebrate their Seleção in hopes that they bring home their record...
• Posted Gammons Recuperating After Surgery to Bostonist
  Baseball fans across the country, especially those from New England, know that the ultimate and most respected writer in the baseball world, for the past 30-40 years is Mr. Peter Gammons. Hailing from our own Groton Mass. and currently calling Cape Cod his home, "Gammo" has written for the Globe (for several tours), Sports Illustrated, currently serves as a baseball analyst, blogger and reporter for ESPN, and calls into WEEI on the regular. This...