buh-bye, manny…

31 July 2008 @ 04:27:31 pm

filed under: baseball, boston red sox

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after all the years i spent defending “manny being manny”…  he just went over the top this season.  my breaking point?  when he stood with his bat on his shoulder and took three straight stikes from mariano rivera.

theo is funny ha ha, though…  instead of trading him to florida — where manny lives and would be “comfortable” — he trades him to los freakin’ angeles!  HA HA HA HA!!  brilliant!  enjoy your “peace”…

cubs tix purchased? 4 cubs games attended? 0

18 May 2007 @ 11:17:03 am

filed under: baseball, chicago cubs, living in nyc

several months ago — before the baseball season started — i purchased two sets of cubs/mets tickets for this past week. one set for monday. one for wednesday. both night games. alison and i had been looking forward to seeing the cubs — as this is the only time they will be in nyc this season. and yes, i realize they could play post-season here. don’t get me started.

twist of fate…

alison needed to be in AZ for a long weekend with family. so i unloaded the monday tix to a nice guy i met while playing in a pool qualifier last saturday.

wednesday… raining cats/dogs/frogs/antelopes outside. alison and i watched 6 different channels full of weather and 4 different websites trying to figure out what to do. we even saw a tornado warning! so… we made the decision to stay home. we watched the hockey game (go sabres!) and applauded our decision not to go out there as we kept in tune with the weather in flushing (absolutely pouring…) over the next few hours. the game was scheduled to start at 710pm. AFTER the hockey game was complete (game started at 700pm) they STILL had not started the baseball game so we were REALLY proud of ourselves. (but they still had not cancelled/postponed) just before 1030pm — almost 3.5 hours after the game was scheduled to start — they started the damn game!!!

we were shocked. shocked, i tell you. there must have been 30 people in the stands for the game.

i cannot imagine WHY they would have held on that long — other than obvious scheduling stuff…

the mets are coming through, in a way… if we send in our tix to wednesday’s game, they will send us mets/twins tix for later this season… so at least we’ll see one baseball game we could care less about this season.  ;-)

bosox with four home runs — in a row

23 April 2007 @ 04:32:12 am

filed under: baseball, boston red sox

alison and i returned home from a weekend upstate JUST in time to watch the bosox take on the yankees. on our new tv. in hd.

it was the first sporting event we watched in hd.

and with 160+ games in the baseball season, we certainly do not watch a ton of baseball…

the bosox, however, decided to celebrate our hd-ness by belting out 4, that’s right FOUR, homeruns IN A ROW! it has only happened TWICE in the last ~40 years and we saw it live!

very cool.

mike lowell hit another homer later in the game to seal the the win…

i feel bad for chase wright (the yankees minor leaguer making his second start with the “big” club), but at least his name SOUNDS like he’s a professional athelete. ;-P