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Peter Gammons. In the way-back times he functioned as a sort of baseball lifeline for me. More recently, his non-covering of baseball’s steroids era disappointed me. For some reason ESPN has let Gammon’s blog out from behind their subscriber only firewall, which allowed me to go back and read this column and remind myself that [...] I stick my head above the parapet only to point out that Roger Angell, at eighty plus years of age, is still the best baseball writer. Ever. I don’t have cable, although now that I live with the Intended I should say we don’t have cable. Anyway, that’s not to say I don’t watch any television shows, because I do – on DVD. Not paying for cable was an austerity measure a dozen years go, but now it functions as a filter [...] Am I the only one who thinks that last nights’ starter for the Red Sox, Jon Lester, somehow looks like Chilly Willy? I mean, as much a six foot lefty and a penguin can resemble one another. The Gator returns. Awesomeness ensues: Always felt like I had Red Sox blood in me.” Courtesy of Shorpy, one of my favorite photo blogs, the Royal Rooters at Shibe Park for the first game of the 1914 World Series. I can see Truck Day on the horizon… Goddam that was fun. Let’s do that again. [...] I became a hard-core Red Sox fan in 1988. By hard-core I mean someone who followed the team on a daily basis (which in those pre-internet days meant reading actual box scores in the Baltimore papers and gobbling up the Globe sports sections Dad mailed me) and whose emotional state closely paralleled the team’s fortunes. [...] Hit it here. From Shorpy, that most excellent (old) photo blog, a picture of Hank Gowdy, late of the Boston Braves. Other Old-Timers: Oscar ‘Happy’ Felsch and The Babe mugging with John McGraw. It’s Opening Day. The Tizzle has just knocked in the first RBI for the 2007 season. I feel better already. UPDATE: Not that much better. Schilling just walked in a run… UPDATE UPDATE: .. followed shortly thereafter by a leadoff triple. The Sox have yet to finish two innings of baseball this year and already [...] |
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