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Johnny Damon to Red Sox fans: "You’re welcome for ’04." Joan Benoit Samuelson plans to compete in the 2011 Boston Marathon. She won the 1979 race. Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
The 2011 agrees with the Boston Celtics. The guys in green are 9-2 in January after taking their fifth straight win last night from the Utah Jazz, 110-86.
You can go ahead and shave today after all, Sox fans. Johnny Damon "love[s] Detroit", and isn't taking a midnight train going anywhere. So says the once-beloved outfielder, who's off the waiver wire after rejecting the prospect of a deal that would have brought him to Fenway for the rest of 2010. Maybe it's better that our emotions aren't jerked around so much in an already-weird season. Now we just wait to see if there's a Manny Ramirez derby in the days to come...
The Boston Red Sox claimed Johnny Damon off of waivers from the Detroit Tigers. Really.
The Sox got the message. After making decisions that led to the breakup of the 2004 champs, like letting Pedro (which we grudgingly understood) and Johnny Damon (hey, how's that working out for you anyway, Johnny?) leave, Sox fans stood as one and declared that if they didn't bring back World Series MVP, great fielding, clutch hitting, hard working, popular Mike Lowell, we'd...be pretty unhappy. So Mike Lowell will be right where he belongs next...
Update: Our Ist-a-Verse family called the individual in this story a "Boston Idiot." We would like to clarify; hence, the photo. Yet another hoser ran across the Fenway Park field yesterday during the Red Sox-Yankees game. In the seventh inning, the guy 20-year-old Charles Gendron, of Maine, ran across the field and grabbed the cap off the head of Robinson Cano, the Yankees' second baseman. NESN cut away from the action, but Bostonist saw...
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...
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...
We know that Massachusetts is the albatross around Mitt Romney's neck as he campaigns for the Republican nomination. We know he talks about us like an old fling he had, that doesn't really mean anything. And for the most part, it's mutual.
Forget the 2008 Presidential Race for now. The biggest decision any voter can make right now is the one forced on us by Major League Baseball. Since the All-Star game is in San Francisco, a National League park, the designated hitter is not an option. Which means the Red Sox had to designate David Ortiz to be in the First Baseman section of the All-Star ballot. Which means Kevin Youkilis is on the outside looking...
The brouhaha over Curt Schilling's sock is heating up. We're still waiting for the man himself to chime in, but Baltimore broadcaster Gary Thorne, suggesting that Curt painted on fake blood, has really gotten the Sox to circle the wagons. Dr. Bill Morgan performed the procedure, which fixed up Schill's ankle with toothpaste, popsicle sticks and duct tape, and said that he is utterly convinced that the blood was real. Doug Mirabelli, who, being Italian...
At about a quarter past 7pm tomorrow the bidding will end. Cucho Rodriguez' ring will be sold to the highest bidder. So far there have been about ten bids and the official Red Sox World Series Championship ring is fetching over $16,000 in the eBay auction. Cucho Rodriguez was listed as a consultant in the scouting department for the Sox from 2003-2006, he was part of the staff when the Sox went all the way and took home the ring. In addition to the 9 guys that were on the field when the last out was played in the World Series, the 11 other pitchers, the rest of the active roster, Larry, John, and Theo, the championship rings were given to a lot of other people in the Red Sox organization. Around 500 Sox staff and players received rings. As a scout, Cucho received one. The bidding continues on the ring, the auction also includes the commemorative box, certificate of authenticity, and all the carrats and gold included in the ring itself. If you're not in the championship ring buying business you might be confused as we are about what exactly the "Professional Championship Warranty" actually warrantees. Last July a different ring was fetching 1/2 million dollar bids.
Oh, crap, we almost got caught in a MasterCard commercial for a moment. The $112 million that was spent to bring the Japanese pitcher to Boston is more than we can ever imagine spending on a Christmas present. Even if it is a present for our favorite home town sports franchise. Even if we had the money to spend. $20 is probably closer to our price range.
OK, OK, Bostonist feels a lot better about the Old Towne team, and not just because of a man whom will be known in these parts for a time to come (and maybe longer?), as Dise-K. (And please, don’t' go with D-Mat. Sounds like doormat, and who wants to be named after something that one would use to wipe off their dirty shoes. Wouldn't you want to be named after a nasty, distasteful, comic that...
Couple thoughts and musings while lamenting a loss to the New England Patriots biggest rivals, and wondering why in 'tarnation did the Pats stop running the ball in the second half of the Indy game.... The Pats are 6-2 and in great shape in the AFC East. Yes, now we will have to head to Indy to get to the Super Bowl, but as all Bostonists are stating, Tom Brady is 10-0 in domes....
We here at Bostonist have chosen not to do a play-by-play of this past weekend’s Sox series against the Yankees. We’ve decided to take the high road and analyze who the hell we can blame for the awfulness that ensued against New York. While some look to Varitek’s absence as a major reason for losing, we’ve heard others point fingers at a slew of people. Could it be the grounds crew and their lack of...
For those who love reality television, you are most likely familiar with the FOX series, "Trading Spouses", where two “couldn’t be more different” families swap the mothers for a week to see what happens when mothers stop being polite and start getting real. One recent episode had the fathers so riled up over one another's spouses that a table was thrown with shouts of "You're going to kill him. Stop it!" in the background. (Riveting, right?) So when this posting popped up today on craigslist’s “creative gigs” section, Bostonist had to give those Fox Television execs some credit. While they might have misstepped by killing off Mischa Barton's character on "The O.C." recently, FOX might be onto something good here:
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.
Shanghaiist probably knows a little more about China than the Chicago Sun-Times. Giving them the benefit of the doubt on that one. The city does to have a music scene. Don't even front like they don't. They also have Dorito bananas and white guys shopping for wives. What they don't have is any more tolerance for jaywalkers. Bostonist sees Boston and Somerville each whip out their art and face off. A plagiarized novel is the...
Bostonist was sitting in the stands for last night's game, as you may have read. We realize that some of you probably weren’t following all of the lead-up in the press, but this game was kind of a big deal. It marked the return of Johnny Damon to Fenway for the first time since he went to the Yankees, an act seen by some as selling your soul to the devil. It marked the return...
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...
During the off-season, Fenway Park underwent some drastic changes, including the removal of the glass from the .406 Club and the creation of the EMC Club, as well as the Home Plate Pavilion just above it. Last night, Bostonist had the good fortune to sit in the new EMC Club, for the first home game against the Yankees, no less, and we thought we'd gloat share. We arrived early enough to take in what might...
Some tidbits, insights, slanted biased Bostonist type opinions, and other sports "knowledge" from the Bostonist's satellite office in Medford, on a lovely sunny Wednesday afternoon.
Seattlest saw a house party get senselessly attacked with a shotgun and end in seven dead. A local senator is debated and their version of the big dig is investigated. To truly get to the bottom of it they interview the writer Jonathan Raban. Bostonist has its first birthday party and investigates how to attach more gambling dollars to the Red Sox. Benjamin Franklin is celebrated and Johnny Damon is not. Image by Ethan Bagley...
While the real baseball season hasn’t even started yet, all Sox fans have been eyeing new Yankee Johnny Damon ever since that first press conference with his long locks chopped off for Steinbrenner’s organization. There hasn’t been much to comment on since Damon just recently returned to the lineup after sitting out since March 10th with a shoulder injury. (Not that it wasn’t a bit fun to see the replay of him missing that first pop fly when he returned to face the Devil Rays on March 25th.)
For our friends in Florida it will be the first time that Red Sox fans get to broadcast sounds of discontent as they “boo” when Johnny Damon takes the outfield with his clean-shaven, closely shorn, new look in a Yankee uniform. We’re sure it will be a lot louder when the Yanks come to Fenway in May. We’re showing our solidarity with the Olde Towne Team today as they face the Yankees in a spring training game that really doesn’t matter – at least that’s what we’ll be saying if they lose, if they win we might take more of the “we showed them” attitude. For now we’re just enjoying this video of a Yankees hat aflame on the grill.
Good news for Sox fans and Sox players alike: Terry Francona, Sox Skipper, has signed a 2 year extension as manager of the Boston Red Sox, meaning he will remain in charge through the 2008 campaign. The extension is well deserved for Tito, who brought the Sox their first World Championship in 86 years in his first year as manager in the unforgettable 2004 season, and won 95 games a year ago leading the Red...
David Wells, Mr. I-can't-go-out-to-eat-without-being-papparazzi'd-to-death, no longer wants to be traded. Hmmm...now that there's a question of his paycheck (and his $200K bonus per start), he's a dedicated Red Sox pitcher. Can you say flim flam? Flip-flop? Hey David, if you want privacy at a restaurant, give them a call in advance, tell them who you are, and get a private table. When you're famous and the city of Boston pays your salary, part of the deal is putting up with fans (note - fans, not people that want to beat you up or steal your Rolex) who might want to interact with you. Get over it; you've been in the bigs for 19 years.
