Listen, we don't want to play into the whole Hub mentality - after all, it isn't all about us all the time, but we couldn't help but notice the way the two biggest headlines coming from Monday's crazy day of sports are closely tied to sports action right here in Boston. Our alumni in a couple of sports stepped up to in big, albeit decidedly different ways. For these two guys, Monday definitely represented the best of times and worst of times.
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Bostonist loves it when a cartoon show will animate a real life Bostonian and weave them into their plot line. Tom Brady has already been featured on “The Simpsons” and most recently, “The Family Guy." Besides that awful episode of “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy”, the Red Sox haven’t been featured on many non-sports related television shows. Well, this morning WGBH changed all that by having a few Sox players from past and present turn into somewhat freaky cartoon versions of themselves on the kids’ show “Arthur.” Johnny Damon, Mike Timlin, and Edgar Renteria all leant their voices and likeness to three animated creatures who play baseball for a team called the Grebes. Damon is a bear named Playmon, Timlin is a deer named Winlin, and Renteria is also a bear named Bateria. (Can we all appreciate the double entendre that WGBH has created, please?) Of course, the Grebes help Arthur and his team win their first championship since 1918. And the strangest part of it all? The animal versions of the Sox players truly resemble them; Winlin's scruffy goatee makes him even more believable as Timlin.
The Olde Towne Team has yet ANOTHER problem... and this one is big! The Sox are now going into litigation in order to keep the baseball that was used to get the final out of the 2004 World Series when Edgar Renteria (yep, that Edgar Renteria), then of the St. Louis Cardinals, hit a chopper up the middle that was snagged by Keith Foulke, and flipped to first baseman Doug Meintkiewicz to give the...
Orlando Cabrera, our time together was too short... Anyone witnessing the end of the Yankees season last night had to notice the incredible play of the Los Angeles Anaheim California Angels (or whatever they are this week) shortstop, and former Red Sox World Champion, Orlando Cabrera. Cabrera was a catalyst in the victory last night over the hated NYY. Cabrera was only 1-4 with a run scored, but there were two critical plays involving the...
As the Sox made their way into the 2003 post-season the rallying cry was, as many Bostonians and baseball fans alike remember, "Cowboy Up!". Cowboy boots, hats, bolo ties, a lot of beaten dead horses, another season, and a World Series Championship later - "Cowboy Up!" looked to be put to pasture. But after the game Kevin "Kentucky Fried Cowboy" Millar had tonight the denizons of Red Sox Nation might be willing to concede the catch-phrase embargo and re-adopt it. Of course that is, God help us, IF he wanted it.
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