Entries from Bostonist tagged with 'sanfranciscogiants'
February 26, 2008
From satire by the Upright Citizens Brigade (see video above) to Bob Ryan to editorials in the Boston Globe magazine, the media appears to be wailing on Patriots coach Bill Belichick after Spygate and the Super Bowl loss. So he lost, and so he might be a cheater, but would people be as angry if the Patriots won the Super Bowl? Maybe not. Doug Most writes in the Boston Globe Magazine, "But now it's......
Continue Reading "Hating on Belichick Continues"January 16, 2008
A New England Patriots fan told Joe Fitzgerald at the Herald that some overzealous Pats fans beat up him, his friend, and his cousins, who happened to be Jaguars fans and who were wearing Jaguar gear, after the Pats-Jaguars game. Brian Wormstead recounts the appalling pummeling he received in the parking lot after a brief exchange with the Pats fans: "I just know I’ve got a punctured eardrum and lumps all over me; Chris has......
Continue Reading "It's All Fun and Games Until Someone Gets Beat Up--Or Booed"August 8, 2007
Where to begin? When it comes to baseball, most of the news that came out of Tuesday was dreary, almost as dreary as the skies over Boston this morning. It felt as if it took ages for Barry Bonds to take the final steps in his journey to become baseball's new home run king, but on Tuesday night, the San Francisco Giants slugger did it. Shortly before midnight Eastern time, at a time when many......
Continue Reading "Sports Redux: Harumph."June 17, 2007
Once upon a time, in a land that was starting to feel far, far away, Manny Ramierez used to hit home runs. Big, deep, towering shots that left Red Sox fans cheering like mad and opposing pitchers more than a little nervous when #24 stepped up to the plate. The slugger took Sox fans on a trip down memory lane on Saturday, snapping a 50-at-bat homerless-streak and delivering the only run Boston needed to take......
Continue Reading "Sports Redux: Father's Day Edition"April 7, 2007
--After the beauty that was Dice K's debut, the Red Sox suffered a letdown with a loss to the Rangers, 0 to 2. It was a low-scoring game, so clearly Tim Wakefield had a decent pitching effort, but the Rangers' Robinson Tejeda was better. It stings a little to lose to a team with Sammy Sosa, though. Tonight, Julian Tavarez and Kevin Millwood will match up, and we hope the Red Sox will enjoy a......
Continue Reading "Sports Redux: John Kerry Homers"