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Warning: Hankie Alert A very touching story in today’s Boston Globe. I couldn’t help but be reminded what a central role the game of baseball played in my childhood, and in my relationship with my father. A die hard Red Sox fan from Utah promised his sons that he would take them to Fenway Park […]
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Is the job of ‘studio host’ so difficult that NBC absolutely must have Jim Lampley anchoring their billion dollar coverage? Couldn’t they have found someone less polarizing, like Keith Olberman? Lampley was arrested for domestic violence last year in an ugly incident involving a girlfriend, his 14-year old son, drugs and alcohol. Furthermore, though far […]
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Manny to the Marlins is a perfect match. Nobody who lives in Miami gives two hoots about the Marlins, and Manny feels the same way about the fans. Perfect. He’ll be playing is a stadium that has 47,662 seats and only 15,686 bodies filling them. Who will notice or care if Manny turns a single […]
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Nobody, and I mean nobody, dislikes Manny Ramirez more than I do. I am a long standing Manny hater of the first order. It didn’t take Manny pushing a 65-year old Red Sox employee to get my head out of you know where. It didn’t take leaving his bat on his shoulder for three Mariano […]
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I spent last week in the seventh circle of hell. I’ve heard others refer to it as Las Vegas. Anyway, I got to watch the Celtics game six clincher at the Wynn Sports Book with, surprisingly, a ton of Celtics fans. It was a good time, the number two highlight of the week. The first, […]
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