Red - you deserve to win this. Just mortgage everything you own. You can't take that stuff with you anyway and think of all the people your money will help (along with your self-esteem, bragging rights, and ego).
We do expect the lowdown the next day though - go get em Tiger!
We needed 'Robbie' (the robot) ant the end of last season to come out of the tunnel barking, "warning Terry Francoma - Warning, alien substances being ingested - warning!".
Maybe he is 4 months too late.....
Well since I am engaged to a lovely lady in Tampa (no - I'll still be a Sox fan don't ask) I'll just wish you all the best Red - seriously.
We need all the juicy details here on SG
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What do you mean no baseball to talk about. The Hot Stove has been plenty active.
I think Jose Canseco is playing a Softball Tournament somewhere - has to be. So hit the ground and net all you wannabe journalists we need to know this stuff because in a month it will be too busy.
Seriously - I love all Christmas has to offer.
What I will not miss is all the grovelling charities do during the 'season'.
I believe in compassionate giving but if you have to make December your 'gift month' you are deceived.
How about a year where one of these 'Charities' says "we have so much we want to give and not receive this month (December)".
I have no more to say
Makes us wonder what deep dark secrets lie in Minka's closet.....
bknelsen sad but true
Where to hell is Ugeth Urbina?
Wait - I have an idea - how about we send Jenks and Slackey on a 'scouting mission' south of the border? I know somehow they will end up 'detained indefinitely'.
As a side note Jenks looks like he would fit well as a member of ZZ Top
Sox on the Beach You know he is!
Tex19 The only thing having a daughter did for me was to increase my awareness of 'pretty things' and decide to clean my shotgun in the presence of her first date XD
Now I am not saying Bobby V has connections but if we see him get up in the dugout and give Josh the 'family farewell kiss' on both cheeks......
I'm just saying I don't think shenanigans and pissy attitudes are going to be allowed in the Bobby V camp.
I hope this thing is all overblown - it is fodder for some great humor though. Good job Red.
I am thinking the new Republic here in Beantown baseball is going to be interesting yet some how 'tamer' than the Horse that ran off the track in September.
I am not expecting to even see minor league outbreaks such as this memorable one:
http://youtu.be/S2uGROwr-rY
Then of course we have had the likes of Jose Offerman (bat attacker) and Ugeth 'Uggie' Urbina who ran afoul of the law south of the border. I believe we'll not see the likes of them in Red Sox ranks during the Cherington Marionette Era.
Yes, these are interesting - yet disturbing - stories. I hope we have the kind of drama that stems from a team that is united, focused and known for 'pulling out a few tight ones'.
I really have seen my share of 'benches clearing brawls'. Though interesting it can cause a season ending injury to a multi million dollar player. The game just ain't what it used to be.
Red, thanks for the memories. I do hope the only headline we read in the NYP is this:
'Frustrated Yankees have no answer to Boston as any hope of post season play vanishes'. That my friends is a headline!
Fla Beck/Becky I read that article too....XD
LynnRice75 too many
The ball dropped, we hugged, we kissed and those who were not completely intoxicated navigated home in vehicles.
Well, if you were in Mount Olive NC this evening you would have seen a Big Pickle drop in lieu of the Crystal Ball.
Check this out and Happy 2012 Red Sox Nation:
http://www.weather.com/outlook/weather-news/news/articles/new-years-drops_2011-12-23?page=7
The worst: The deception that Theo put upon us as he let the season get away while planning his escape to Chitown,
The Best: A 12-5 record against the Bombers this year (not bad for a bunch of disconnected Chicken greased boozers huh?)
VJ in Stuttgart How about he gives you BOTH? A lukewarm PBR is a treasure anywhere North of Portland ME so maybe you guys could connect at Moosehead and have a tepid PBR
Hope all is working out for your housing and GO SOX
I sit here flabbergasted. I know Maine is not the center of economic activity but EX-SUEEZE Me?
I do not know more than a handful of people in this state making a six figure income. To think of someone getting a six figure return just makes the nerve receptors in my cerebellum scream.
I assume the Steinbrenner's file quarterly taxes - so how could they have been this far off? I'm sure it was a clerical error on the Steinbrenner's part.
Ya - right, I am a conservative but this is just why conservatives make the news. Why is it that people making great money cannot stop until they have picked up every penny (even if it is not theirs to pick up)?
So my only question is this - does this have one whit to do with Boston baseball other than one more slash at the Yankees Jugular?
Happy New Years everyone!!