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.
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Adam at Universal Hub first brought this to our attention, then we heard it on WBZ in the car: it's a brilliant Gil Santos mashup in which he simultaneously announces the opening day games of all four of our local teams. That Zdeko Brady Matsuzaka is a hell of an athlete, leading the league in assists, RBIs, and completion percentage. The Red Sox joined the growing number of MLB teams who've had to cancel games...
Weeks of anticipation of Condoleezza Rice's address to the graduates of Boston College have left us wondering if she would or if she wouldn't. She did, and it worked out fine. There is difficulty in standing alone against a public figure – 50 Boston College seniors stood with their backs against Condi as she began the keynote address to the graduates. The rest of the class and much of the audience stood in a standing ovation for the Secretary of State. Her speech was less than controversial, she even played into the concerns that students and faculty had voiced through protests about her involvement and symbolic representation of the Jesuit University.
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...
Today the headlines talk about scratch tickets and fights at home plate. Bostonist isn’t having any of it. We love the Red Sox, we love Fenway, and we’ll never forget the night we never thought we’d see. On a fall evening in 2004 the Red Sox did something they hadn’t done in 86 years, brought the World Championship trophy home to Boston. With opening day just around the corner we’re going to watch this video, forget about the 2005 season, and know that we can take the World Series again this fall.
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...
A quick entry here from Bostonist, showing our love and respect for one Manny Ramirez. Fellow Bostonians... 40 Home Runs and 130 RBI are not something found hanging around the trash heap. The combination of Manny Ramirez, David Ortiz, Johnny Damon, and company has been a Sox staple for three years.
If Bostonist could paraphrase the infamous words of Colonel Jesop in the movie A Few Good Men, "You weakened Red Sox Nation today Larry Lucchino, that's all you did." Theo is gone, and the Boston Red Sox are without a General Manager. In what will go down in history as one of the supreme boffo manuevers in the Boston Red Sox checkered history became "official-official today" when Theo Epstein held his farewell press conference with...
Today the New England Patriots take to the streets in Boston’s own Duck Tour boats for the championship parade. This will be Boston’s second World Championship parade within five months, but complacency is not setting in. All the speak of a new dynasty in football gets us excited to bring the Lombardi trophy home more often, with more parades. The Patriots will roll down Boylston Street starting around Copley Square and turn onto Tremont Street...