Entries from Bostonist tagged with 'sanjose'
October 14, 2007
Maybe someday, when all this is over, we'll sit down with (or maybe without) Terry Francona and we'll all have a good laugh out of all of this. Because when it became obvious that Curt Schilling didn't have it (and he was OK, but clearly didn't have his A game, or even the B+ game he's been getting by with), maybe a different manager would have gone to Jon Lester, or Julian Tavarez (whoops! he's......
Continue Reading "Sports Redux: Epic Fail"May 5, 2007
Bostonist would much rather sit in an obstructed view right field seat behind a sign-wielding fan gabbing on his cell phone than trade in Fenway Park for a newer model. Whenever Tim Wakefield takes the mound in a domed facility, however, we can't help but wish that there was a canopy or something that the Fenway crew could erect over the ballpark every five days. The typically fluttery knuckleball becomes even screwier, allowing Wakefield to......
Continue Reading "Sports Redux: Get Well, Wake"April 27, 2007
Finally, we can put the one-day wonder of Sockgate behind us. O's broadcaster Gary Thorne admitted he misinterpreted Doug Mirabelli's horseplay as a confession, and thus has no reason to believe that Curt Schilling painted his sock to look bloody. The lesson here, of course, is that horseplay has no place in a major league clubhouse. Curt took the opportunity to unload on the media; you get the feeling that parts of his diatribe were......
Continue Reading "Sports Redux: Balti Mo"April 22, 2007
This Japanese Word of the Day will, we hope, be brought to you by Daisuke Matsuzaka, who will try to use his houri to send the Yankees packing tonight. The Red Sox took game two of the latest Ultimate Regular Season Series yesterday; Josh Beckett recovered from a couple shaky innings to hold New York in check. David Ortiz provided the big hit, as he is wont to do, with a two-run homer around......
Continue Reading "Sports Redux: 'Houki' Is Japanese For 'Broom'"May 21, 2006
LAist has so much fun this week! They go to E3, where they overhear the timeless remark "Man, this is where nerdy girls get laid." Is that a promise? They also give us this week's best CDs and make us realize that LA is the best place to use Zillow. Ah, Houstonist. They're biking to work, that is, if they can figure out how to get there. That's right, Mapquest says "Houston had the......
Continue Reading "Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse"December 1, 2005
Well, it looks like the Sox aren’t the only Boston sports team looking to put themselves out on a limb to get some better talent. It seems that the dismal Boston Bruins have traded their sandy colored haired team captain, Joe Thornton, to the San Jose Sharks last night in a move that shocked many hockey fans. Bostonist will admit that we don’t spend enough quality time with the NHL, thus the lack of posts......
Continue Reading "Sports News of the Day: Thorton Traded; Sox Head to Court"April 15, 2005
It seems lately all the corporate heavyweights that have traditionally been associated with our city have been abandoning us: FleetBoston, Gillette, and Filene's to name a few. Luckily, most of these departures/foldings have centered around bastions of corporate finance and excessive consumerism (c'mon, who really needs a Mach3Turbo?), while Boston's traditional cultural icons have remained steadfast...until now. The publishers of the Atlantic Monthly have announced that the 148 year-old Boston-born journal of cultural and political......
Continue Reading "Boston Loses Another Giant"