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Out and About Today (Yankee Fans...
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Sonoma Dave wrote this 3 days ago on |
| I was out and about town today with my Sox hat on, making a couple of quick stops. At the pharmacy, I got in line behind a guy wearing a NY hat. He looked at me and said something to the effect of, "Uh-oh! Red Sox!" I didn't sense that he was about turn mean or nasty, but just didn't know what to say. I engaged him in some conversation, told him about the Yankee fan bartender...
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Breaking News! Varitek!
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Sonoma Dave wrote this 6 days ago on |
| MY 'sources' tell me that Jason Varitek will be signing a contract very similar to Tim Wakefield's: $4m/yr w/ the annual option. He will be trading in his catcher's mitt for a butterfly net in order to become Wake's personal knuckleball catcher for the next 10 years.
In other news, a bridge in NY has become available for sale.
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So 2 Sawxheads and 2 Ex-Marines Walk...
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Sonoma Dave wrote this 10 days ago on |
| How many were there altogether?
Actually, there were 3 of us. Two of us are Sawxheads and two were in The Marines.
This past week, I had the pleasure to meet CaliGrown408 in the great city of San Francisco (2nd only to Beantown!) today. We live about 100 miles or so apart from each other, The City being about the mid-point between us, so there it...
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Chuckle of the Day
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Sonoma Dave wrote this 15 days ago on |
(1st of an occasional series)
This is from “Eight Men Out”, by Eliot Asinof, the story of the 1919 Chicago White Sox who threw the World Series that year. Ring Lardner was writing in a different vein: “As for today’s game, they was a scribe downtown this AM saying that 2 men asked who was going to pitch today and the scribe said Cicotte and 1 of the men said you are crazy as...
Tags: Eight Men Out 8 Men Out Eddie Cicotte Cicotte Chicago White Sox
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A Toast to the Most Valuable Pedroia!
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Sonoma Dave wrote this 15 days ago on |
| Raise your whiskey glass in honor of MVP Dustin Pedroia!
This is a Sonoma County band, Poor Man's Whiskey, doing their alternative version of Pink Floyd's 'Money': 'Whiskey'.
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My Father is a Yankee Fan
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Sonoma Dave wrote this 23 days ago on |
Despite growing up about 50 miles southwest of Fenway Park, my father is a Yankee fan. (Hmmmmm..... maybe that's why we never went to many Sox games!) He was born in 1918 and missed the 1st Sox Dynasty of 1903-1918. By the time he was a young boy playing sandlot ball, it was Yankees, this and Yankees that, and Babe Ruth hitting 60 HR’s! He played 2B for his high school team and hit about .285. He wanted to keep playing, but his father wouldn’t let him play...
Tags: Army Great Depression Marines Ozarks 102nd Division Sawxheads
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My Turn at Armchair GM
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Sonoma Dave wrote this 1 month ago on |
| Rest assured that Theo will be analyzing EVERY position player and EVERY pitcher with a fine tooth comb in regards to value to the team, as well as trade value.WAKEFIELD & CASH~ Signing Wake for $4m gives the Sox a proven 5th or even 4th man in the rotation, while at the same time frees up umpteen bazillions for other needs. While Cash is no Papi at the plate, he does have adequate skills behind the dish. The experience he gains as...
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101
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Sonoma Dave wrote this 1 month ago on |
| While 101 may be a west coast highway, never forget that is the number of games the Red Sox won this year. The Red Sox won one hundred and one games in 2008.
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Pre-Game Thoughts
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Sonoma Dave wrote this 1 month ago on |
Will Don Zimmer charge Jon Lester tonight? Do the Rays have their "Least of the East" shirts ready? Are hairdressers in Florida ready for the onslaught of customers looking to get their 'hawks shaved tomorrow? Are drummers and percussionists ready to snap up all those cowbells that'll be on craigslist and e-bay tomorrow?
Tags: cowbell don zimmer mohawk mohawks pedro martinez
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This just goes to show you....
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Sonoma Dave wrote this 1 month ago on |
| You NEVER leave a Sox game before it’s over!
And the game is never over until it’s over!To those ‘ f a n s ’ (and I use that word EXTREMELY loosely) who left early:
SUCKAS!!!!!Holy shizzit, I am still stunned!
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Belligerent Fans, Loose Cannon...
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Sonoma Dave wrote this 1 month ago on |
| In the past month or so, we have seen videos of confrontations between Sox fans and security guards at Yankee Stadium and Tropicana Field. I have posted these videos not to glorify the incidents, nor to make celebrity of the those being apprehended. I posted them because these events HAPPENED. Had I not posted those videos, someone else would have. I will not sweep away these actions of both the fans being apprehended or the security guards....
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Trigger Happy at the Trop
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Sonoma Dave wrote this 1 month ago on |
Trigger Happy at the Trop
Tampa Bay security tasered a Red Sox fan this weekend. Busted Coverage provides these two videos, but no mention is made of what the fan did that caused the Trop security to respond with tasers, but I do notice that 1, possibly 2 of the security guards (law enforcement wannabes) are the
Tags: Sciesinski security tased taser Tropicana field
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A Buck Martinez Nugget If I Ever...
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Sonoma Dave wrote this 1 month ago on |
| Beckett's on the mound when the camera shows Delcarmen and Lopez in the bullpen warming up. Manny's got his hand down his pants fixing his cup. Caray~ "They're loose down in the Red Sox bullpen." Martinez~ "He's not."
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Frank & the Bloggers
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Sonoma Dave wrote this 1 month ago on |
I think Frank is on to the scribes. There's been no shortage of posts on various blogs, no shortage of comments by readers of the scribes. Yet we are still inundated by the barrage of Frank TV ads. Frank just promised that we will get even more Frank TV ads, 'til we puke. Great.
Tags: Frank TV TBS
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The TBS Slant
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Sonoma Dave wrote this 1 month ago on |
It's been noted in various posts and subsequent comments that the TBS game analysis is biased against the Sox. Buck Martinez, while announcing the defensive alignment of the Sox tonight, just said that the Sox are noticeably weaker with Lowell out, Youkilis at 3rd, and Kotsay in at 1st. While it may be true that Gold Glover Mike Lowell is out of the line-up, Youkilis is just as capable at that position....
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Hatin' the Sox
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Sonoma Dave wrote this 1 month ago on |
Now that the Sox have won 2 World Series' in the past 4 years and are poised to win a 3rd (back to back, no less), it seems as if the whole world is hatin' the Sox.
This is an anonymous comment on FenwayWest.com in response to an earlier post:
As much as I would love to see the Dodgers...
Tags: hate hatin' hating
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TBS v. Fox
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Sonoma Dave wrote this 2 months ago on |
TBS v. Fox
No contest! Thank Christ Fox is not broadcasting the playoffs! Although I don't particularly care for the sound of Buck Martinez's voice, what he has to say is a helluva lot more interesting than Ken Rosenthal or Jeanie Zelasko and company. I'd still rather be watching NESN, but TBS works just fine for me, (except for the...
Tags: TBS Fox
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Where are they now? Julian Tavarez
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Sonoma Dave wrote this 2 months ago on |
| Mr. Hollywood, Julian Tavarez, who started this season with the Sox got a travellin' bone. He went from Boston to Milwaukee to Atlanta. I guess he must really like Boston. He came in for Atlanta in the 9th inning tonight with the Braves and Astros tied at 4 apiece. Four pitches later, the Braves lost, 5-4. Tavarez is sportin' a healthy 5.20 ERA. I have no idea who the other guy is with Julian in...
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Playoff bound, but.... OUCH!!!!
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Sonoma Dave wrote this 2 months ago on |
| It wasn't supposed to end this way. The Ray's dive to the bottom of the sea in their last three games, and the Sox thrash the Yanks in their last three. That's the way it was supposed to end. It even looked like Mother Nature was going to bat for the Sox as well. The Sox had a 3-1 lead after the 1st, but the Yanks would score in every inning afterward up until the game was mercifully...
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This Week in Fenway West History
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Sonoma Dave wrote this 2 months ago on |
While Matt O'Donnell, owner/editor of FenwayWest.com, is off visiting the motherland, (and submitting road trip stories and photos), yours truly, Red Sox Sonoma, will be writing up the daily recaps on that page in his stead this week.
I'm also working on a new series that I kicked off today: Separated at birth?
Got a few other ideas for other...
Tags: separated at birth fenway west fenwaywest.com
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Sciesinski Arrest Video
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Sonoma Dave wrote this 2 months ago on |
Dan Lamothe of Red Sox Monster today posted this video of Christopher R. Sciesinski, the Red Sox fan that tried to jump over the Ray's dugout and onto the field during Wednesday night's game, as he was being led up the stairs and out of the stadium....
Tags: Sciesinski
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Sox Fan Gets Tasered at Trop
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Sonoma Dave wrote this 2 months ago on |
| Is it me, or are the po-po's at other stadia of the AL East pickin' unnecessarily on Sox fans?
Last month, a large female officer went totally off on a Sox fan at Yankee Stadium. Last night, a Sox fan who was about to be ejected, decided at the last second that if he was...
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Celebrity TP
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Sonoma Dave wrote this 2 months ago on |
| One of the photos I used for my profile a while back used to be of a roll of Yankee TP. Someone wrote and asked me where one could purchase these. Well, I found a web site called "Celebrity Toilet Paper":
http://www.jeremyinc.com/Celebrity_toilet_paper.html
Click on the link and you'll get a good laugh at who's #1 on their list!
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Book Review: 'The Last Night of the...
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Sonoma Dave wrote this 2 months ago on |
| First of all, Buster Olney is not a die hard Red Sox fan. He did not write this book from the perspective that many of us in RSN might have given the opportunity. He covered the Yankees for 6 years for the New York Times. Secondly, it was with total glee that I happened to finish the book on the same day that the Yankees slid from 3rd place to 4th with slim chances of climbing back higher.
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Right now
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Sonoma Dave wrote this 2 months ago on |
| Beckett had a perfect game through 3 innings! He's got a 4 hit shutout goin' on, and still hasn't walked, balked, or HBP anyone through 5 innings. He's only thrown 80 pitches (16/inning), striking out 7, while lowering his ERA to 4.20.
Mikey Lowell is back and he means business! He's 2 for 3 with a HR, scoring 2 and knocking in 3, all this in his 1st game back from the DL!
Sox up 7-0 in the 6th.
The Jay's just beat the Ray's, leaving the Sox only 3 games out,...
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Hurricane Hannah
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Sonoma Dave wrote this 2 months ago on |
| The Sox head out of town for 3 games in Texas and the timing couldn't be better! Hurricane Hannah is due to hit New England Sunday morning while they're gone. Let's hope Hannah clears out before the Rays show up on Monday. Meanwhile, TBY will be in the comfy confines of Rogers Centre over the weekend. I was so hoping they would be at home and getting washed out this weekend,...
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Yanks scare the snot out of the Rays
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Sonoma Dave wrote this 2 months ago on |
| It was lookin' like the Yanks were gonna go belly up on the Rays tonight, down 7-0 headin' into the top of the 9th. The Yanks finally showed up and scored a not-quite-enough 5 runs off of Hammel before Wheeler came in to get the final out and the save.
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A-Rod in the game for the records,...
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Sonoma Dave wrote this 2 months ago on |
| I was reading the story about Giambi’s run-in with an intimate object, when I spotted this nugget: Having passed Mike Schmidt into 12th place by himself with 549 home runs, Alex Rodriguez knows Reggie Jackson is next on the list at 563. "Reggie is next, that's the guy I really want," Rodriguez said. So he’s not in it for the...
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This 'who to root for' question
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Sonoma Dave wrote this 2 months ago on |
| So we're in a situation where we're actually rooting for the Yankees to win. No biggie, we'll take the help, should they prevail. And if they don't, so what? The Sox will prevail over the Rays when all is said and done, Yankee's help or not.
But that's not the point of this post. What I'm smiling about is that with every Yankee win over the Ray's, they are helping the Sox overtake the Ray's. I'm smiling because of the predicament that causes Yankee fans! They want their team to...
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Yankee Joke
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Sonoma Dave wrote this 2 months ago on |
| The Red Sox are in the middle of a pennant race one September as elementary school in Boston reconvenes. The teacher, being a big baseball fan, decides to break the ice with the new class by asking who likes the Sox. All the kids, save one, have their hands in the air. Teacher asks the boy why he doesn't like the Sox. He explains that he just moved to Boston from New York, and that he likes the Mets because...
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6 particular games in the next 2 weeks
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Sonoma Dave wrote this 3 months ago on |
| Sept 2-3-4: TBY v. NYY @ TBY
Sept 12-13-14: TBY v. NYY @ NYY
NYY @ TBY?!?!?! Could it be I could find myself rooting for......, naah, no way. (This can't be happening.)
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White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen on...
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Sonoma Dave wrote this 3 months ago on |
| From redsox.com:
"I never thought I would walk a jockey," quipped Guillen, who heaped enormous praise on Pedroia before the game. "I must be the worst manager ever in the history of baseball right now, walking a guy that just came from being on the top of Big Brown to beat the White Sox. Right now, he's on a roll. This guy right now is on fire."
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The Cap'n Got His Game Goin' On
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Sonoma Dave wrote this 3 months ago on |
| For all those folks raggin' on the Cap'n 'Tek, I would like to point out again that he's not washed up yet! In the 10 games since Aug 16, he's hitting at a nice .371 clip, lucky 13 H's in 35 AB's.
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Red Sox fans get rude treatment in...
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Sonoma Dave wrote this 3 months ago on |
| Two Red Sox fans were escorted out of Yankee Stadium yesterday after getting what local skank fans thought was a little too vocal in their support of the Sox. Apparently, it’s OK if their own fans can intimidate and assault Sox fans, but not the other way around.
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