Entries from Bostonist tagged with 'derekjeter'
February 7, 2008
Rudy Giuliani might be out of the presidential spotlight, but one of his comments regarding the Boston Red Sox is back to haunt him thanks to the Topps Baseball Card Company. The supposed die-hard Yankee fan will be in the background of a card featuring the celebration of the Boston Red Sox winning the 2007 World Series. To refresh your memory, a reporter asked Rudy who he was rooting for last October and he......
Continue Reading "Rudy and the Red Sox are Topps!"October 12, 2007
Ya know the old theories that those who are dating slowly begin to resemble each other? Tom Brady's Stetson campaign leaves us with the sinking feeling that he's turning into the clone of his girlfriend, panty model Gisele Bundchen. Give the above image of Brady as a steaming slab of manliness a long once-over. You'll see he's channeling Bundchen with the come-hither stare, the eye color that has an intensity courtesy of Photoshop, the......
Continue Reading "Tom Brady's Stetson Campaign: He's Not a Panty Model, but He's Close"October 6, 2007
It looks like just might be a higher power looking down on the MLB postseason. He/She/It is a Red Sox fan and, judging from the sight of Derek Jeter slapping like mad at the bugs descending upon him at the Jake on Friday night, any higher powers out there have a wicked sense of humor. On a Friday night that gave us fire (well, on the T here in Boston), locusts cleverly passed off as......
Continue Reading "Sports Redux: Are You There, God? It's Me, Manny"September 15, 2007
It was all going beautifully, in a manner that would make any Sox fan proud: Yankees roll into town for a late-season showdown. The Sox, boosted by a division lead and recent series of dramatic wins at Fenway Park, seemingly plunge their bats into the heart of New York baseball by taking a decisive lead in front of a riotous baseball crowd. After seven innings, Boston is five runs ahead and sitting pretty after a......
Continue Reading "Sports Redux: Ruh Roh"August 29, 2007
Were we sore baseball losers, we might snicker about how Johnny Damon's version of a home run is about as wussy as his arm. We could hypothesize about what Yankee operative snuck into the Red Sox clubhouse to tamper with the Icy Hot Manny Ramirez and Bobby Kielty were using to prevent their backs from seizing up during play. We might even politely ask Cameron Diaz to quit jinxing our team and instead focus on......
Continue Reading "Sports Redux: Bouncing Back"July 10, 2007
We have a confession to make: we didn't pay a lot of attention to last night's Home Run Derby. Our tolerance for Chris Berman yelling "back back back" is low. Our desire to see kayakers crashing into each other in San Francisco Bay was present, but not overwhelming. And without Papi, what's the point? So congratulations to Anaheim's Vlad Guerrero, who won the Derby, despite the fact that no home runs landed in the huge......
Continue Reading "Sports Redux: Derby Time"June 27, 2007
Well, the Red Sox got to Felix Hernandez. That's the good news. Unfortunately, the Mariners got to Kason Gabbard, and really got to relievers Manny Delcarmen and Javier Lopez, and won a back-and-forth ballgame 8-7. Lopez, in particular, was victimized by a Richie Sexson home run in the sixth from which they never recovered. Manny got the day off, and his replacement (Eric Hinske) homered, so that's going according to plan. Julio Lugo got the......
Continue Reading "Sports Redux: Sox End Up On Wrong End of Seattle See-Saw"April 21, 2007
-- One down! After the five-game pounding that the Red Sox took from the Yankees at Fenway last August, Friday's matchup was more than just a game. It was more than just the first rivalry game of the season. It was about avenging the embarrassment that continued to smart for Sox fans over the winter and into the early season. The game itself was a battle of the best kind: one in which we came......
Continue Reading "Sports Redux: Rally Caps Pay Off"February 27, 2007
...All's right with the world! This literary allusion comes courtesy of Manny Ramirez, and there's a sentence you don't read every day. The "enigmatic" slugger, fresh off the Classic Car Show controversy, arrived at camp with little fanfare and not a word to the press. Manny took three pitches from Matsuzaka, but didn't swing at any of them. That's what passes for news in Florida, but it beats what's going on here. The winter of......
Continue Reading "Sports Redux: Manny's In Fort Myers..."November 26, 2006
If you’re hiking, consider charging up your iPod, as Seattlest finds out that a man lost during a hike was found by the glow of his iPod. That cleverness seems to be devoid in cops who were using police cruiser instant messaging clients - although we imagine IMs “so are you nakie” to be included in cop shows, just for realism. If only the cops were busting the Hummer-driving jerk who made a poor......
Continue Reading "This Week in Ist"July 9, 2006
Torontoist immediately wins our heart by using the word "Jackass" in a headline. In fact, we love their use of it so much that we're going to use it as much as possible throughout this post. For example, it looks like there are Toronto-area jackasses besides those who misuse the sidewalk: look at the crap on sale on Toronto's craigslist. But it looks like Toronto doesn't contain the kind of jackasses who pee in public......
Continue Reading "Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse"May 2, 2006
Coming from someone who liberally threw around the "traitor" and "judas" labels, among others, Bostonist should probably be the last one to talk about how much of a raw deal Mr. Damon got from the crowd last night. But when you hear that one of the most beloved players on your team decided to sign with the enemy, of course there will be a knee-jerk reaction. Of course you'll call home names—and probably names worse......
Continue Reading "Fenway Crowd Craps On Damon"February 25, 2005
Antoine Walker, former Celtics player from 1996-2003, is coming back to Boston to finish out the season in a Celtic green jersey. Walker, who was a three-time All Star player with the Celts, was included in a trade yesterday with the his current team, the Atlanta Hawks. The Hawks will receive three Celtic players, including Gary Payton, as well as the Celts' first round draft pick for 2005 or 2006. Payton was traded to Boston......
Continue Reading "'Toine is Back"