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Reflections on the 2008 Season
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ImpossDream67 ~RSM wrote this 1 month ago on |
| When I showed up to play tennis on Thursday night, one of my long-time tennis friends said, "I didn't even want to come tonight because I thought you'd be in such a bad mood because the Red Sox aren't in the World Series." True, I am HIGHLY disappointed that they aren't facing off against the Phillies, but, since I have the hindsight of 52 years of following this team, I can put 2008 into some sort of perspective.
First of all, the Manny situation. It got...
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Governors of RSN
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ImpossDream67 ~RSM wrote this 2 months ago on |
| Were any Sawxheads chosen to be governors of RSN? I say "chosen," because I really don't think they were elected. I was disappointed that some of the prime New York fans on this site were not selected, but I'd like to know if some of the people from the other states whom I voted for were chosen. I had the pipe dream that I would be the president of RSN in 2007 then another one that it was possible to be the "governor" in 2008. Just start singing...
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Russ Gibson RIP
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ImpossDream67 ~RSM wrote this 4 months ago on |
| Russ "Gibby" Gibson, who was part of the 1967 "Impossible Dream" team, died on Sunday. Ironically, he passed at pretty much the same time as Dick Williams was being inducted into the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. Gibson was never a superstar; in fact, he struggled mightily, most at the plate (but not BEHIND the plate). He often talked about quitting baseball, thinking his MLB days were numbered, but Williams kept him going. He did get to play a few...
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Last-minute tickets for Sunday!
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ImpossDream67 ~RSM wrote this 4 months ago on |
| Hey--will anyone be at the game on Sunday? I got a last-minute ticket and will be driving down on Sunday morning! Of course, I'll just be one in about 36,000, but who's counting? See you in the rightfield GS seats...
GO SOX!!!
(photo is of me and Dick Radatz about ten years ago...)
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Governors of RSN
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ImpossDream67 ~RSM wrote this 4 months ago on |
| Would there be a way to post who is running for governors, which states, what their names and e-mails are, for the entire site to see? I know that John Gilligan is running from NY, Jonathan Sherman from Kansas, and I am running from NY as well (although I am not posting here, since John has already done so--I will be voting for John myself). If there were a central place where we could go to refer, that would be great.
Wanda
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National Anthem at Lowell Game in Troy
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ImpossDream67 ~RSM wrote this 5 months ago on |
| I will be singing the National Anthem at the Lowell Spinners/Tri-City Valley Cats game in Troy, NY, on Sunday, July 20th! Now, if I could just get those pesky Red Sox people to let me to sing at Fenway Park...(It's on my "bucket list"!)
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Red Sox fan in exile
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ImpossDream67 ~RSM wrote this 5 months ago on |
| Just for fun, I responded to my alumni magazine (Northeastern University, from which I graduated before lots of you were born--LOL!) when they asked for stories from Red Sox fans in exile. They picked two stories to be included in the magazine that came out this week--and they picked mine! They used the photo that I have on this site with my daughter and son. I'm more proud to have their photos in the magazine than mine. But I do have to say, it boosts my RED SOX PRIDE...
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Tim Russert, RIP
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ImpossDream67 ~RSM wrote this 5 months ago on |
| Just wanted to put a short piece on here about Tim Russert, who passed away today at the young age of 58. He was an amazing journalist and a baseball fan, although we won't discuss his favorite team. Last year, however, he was a good sport and came to Boston to "moderate" the "debate" between the "finalists" (I don't want to get into that, either! LOL) for president of Red Sox Nation. The people who were at that event had the great privilege of...
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What to do when the Sox have an off...
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ImpossDream67 ~RSM wrote this 6 months ago on |
| I have officially made a fool of myself and entered the Baby Ruth/MLB "You can sing 'Take Me out to the Ballgame'" Contest, and they actually posted my video. They haven't gotten to the voting part yet, but if you want a good laught, go check out ole Impossible Dream's video...
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Fenway photos 1964
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ImpossDream67 ~RSM wrote this 6 months ago on |
| Here are four photos from Fenway Park, 1964. I know these are very small--almost postage-stamp size--but I don't know how to make them bigger (HELP?). If you can, notice how many empty seats there are, especially in the bleachers. During those days, bleacher seats were first-come, first-served--no assigned seats.
We have come a long way!
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Tony Conigliaro fan club--circa 1964
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ImpossDream67 ~RSM wrote this 6 months ago on |
| I don't know if this will work or not, but...Last night I was looking for photos for my husband's 60th (YIKES!) birthday, and I came across this letter I received in 1964 from Marge Zembo, who was the president of the Tony Conigliaro Fan Club. I thought I'd share this with you all, just for fun.
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Ballpark Etiquette
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ImpossDream67 ~RSM wrote this 7 months ago on |
| I had the great privilege of going to today's drama-in-Kenmore game. It was a pretty extraordinary one, and I know that others have already examined the ins and outs of the game, and that people know that there were a couple of times when the Sox had bases loaded with two outs. Pressure situation! Great stuff when you're a Red Sox fan, right (well, as long as you took your blood pressure meds! LOL).
Anyway, so we were sitting in our seats, biting our...
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Atop the Green Monster
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ImpossDream67 ~RSM wrote this 7 months ago on |
| A new job. An unusually warm Friday afternoon. A 59-year-old diehard Sox fan tools down the Mass Pike wearing her lucky shirt (green with the red shamrock) in hopes of squeaking to the game on time...Tickets atop the legendary Green Monster await!
But once again, someone from Yankee-land gets in the way--temporarily. My new job entails handling media calls, and just as I got to Lee, my Blackberry rings. (I've never had one of these babies before, and I'm just...
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Monster Seats, here we come!
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ImpossDream67 ~RSM wrote this 7 months ago on |
| Well, actually, I guess I should say MONSTER SRO, here we come! The Fischer family will be in the SRO section of the Monster on Friday night, April 18! I am even going to sneak out of my new job a couple of hours early. I can't wait! I am soooooo excited (does that make me sound like a teenager text-messaging on a cell phone??)! My "babies" (aged 29 and 27) will be with me, too, and if there are any Red Sox guys who want to meet a nice girl, let me...
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This weekend--April 18-20
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ImpossDream67 ~RSM wrote this 7 months ago on |
| Anyone going to be at the games this weekend--April 18-20? My kids and I (see 'em smiling in my profile photo?) have SRO tickets on the Monster for Friday and real seats (LOL) in right field on Sunday.
AND--I HAVE A REAL JOB again! Yeah! I am finally gainfully employed again, mostly surrounded by Yankee fans, but I can deal with that. After all, I have lived here for 29 years now and have fended them off for that long!
Wanda ~RSM
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Reading...
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ImpossDream67 ~RSM wrote this 8 months ago on |
| I have been thinking about all of you over the past few days. We traveled to Kansas City for my father-in-law's funeral, which was a nice remembrance of his life--a life well-lived by a southern gentleman who had a wonderful family, and, according to him, "never worked a day in his life"--he was a pilot for Trans World Airlines (some of you will be too young to remember TWA, but it was big in its hey day). He retired at the age of 60 in 1979 and flew a couple more...
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Is the Pope a Red Sox fan?
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ImpossDream67 ~RSM wrote this 8 months ago on |
| quick glance of the Yankees' schedule in April reveals a pretty strange stretch: they're on the road for almost three straight weeks from the 8th through the 28th, with a random two-game home stand jammed in the middle against the Red Sox on the 16th and 17th. That makes for an awful lot of traveling and some angry Yankees. But why is the schedule so funny?
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Jackie Robinson Tribute
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ImpossDream67 ~RSM wrote this 9 months ago on |
| So today I drove in the rain, snow, and muck to go to the EMC Club and listen to Bill Russell and several others pay tribute to Jackie Robinson as a kick-off to Black History Month. It was wonderful. Elaine Seward, who's vice president and club counsel to the Red Sox and was a Jackie Robinson scholar, also spoke, as did Faye F. Fields, president/CEO of Integrated Resource Technologies and a partner in the group that owns the Washington Nationals, and Stece Jacobson, Newsday...
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Last Hall of Fame game
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ImpossDream67 ~RSM wrote this 10 months ago on |
| Just heard on the news that this year's game between the Cubs and Padres will be HOF officials said in their press release that it's become too difficult to coordinate schedules of the major league teams and get them to Cooperstown to play. So another era comes to an end...
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An idea...
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ImpossDream67 ~RSM wrote this 10 months ago on |
| I have an idea. I'd like to start collecting stories from people about how and when you became a Red Sox fan. They can either be anonymous or you can sign your name to them. I will edit them and put them all together into some format (hey, I'm an unemployed writer, so what do you expect?). Then I'll figure out what to do from there. I asked my earthlink account to come up with an address that I could use and not have to pay anything extra, and they came up...
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Letter to the Editor
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ImpossDream67 ~RSM wrote this 10 months ago on |
| I wrote a letter to the Editor of the Boston Globe last February when Curt Gowdy died. They chose it to be one of the best letters of 2007 in the runner-up section (Web only). I can't figure out how to put a link into this blog, so you'd have to go to www.boston.com, go to today's globe, then click on opinion, then click on best letters and the Web-only section for runner-up letters. Mine is February's letter. How exciting for...
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A-Rod: NO SPRING CHICKEN
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ImpossDream67 ~RSM wrote this 1 year ago on |
| A-Rod is "almost a year younger" than Mike Lowell, reports one of today's papers on the "news and rumors" section. And that makes him MORE ATTRACTIVE to our team, at HIS PRICE, than Mike Lowell? Can someone explain this to me? A-Rod is no young 'un, either, but Theo and the rest would go after him? I CAN'T STAND THIS. If Mike Lowell goes, we need to find someone besides A-Rod. Period. If the argument is that Lowell is "too...
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An idea
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ImpossDream67 ~RSM wrote this 1 year ago on |
| Okay, what does everyone think of this approach? Re-sign Lowell, go for David Eckstein for SS. That works for me, mainly because Eckstein is affordable and good, while you all know what I think of A-Rod...
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Manny and Papi
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ImpossDream67 ~RSM wrote this 1 year ago on |
| Are there any links to Manny and Papi's most recent TV shows? I did stay up to watch Papi on Conan but missed Manny on Leno and missed Papi on Regis and Kelly. Can't seem to find the segments online. Anybody have any ideas?
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BJ's
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ImpossDream67 ~RSM wrote this 1 year ago on |
| Hey, everyone, I was in BJ's Wholesale Club in Chicopee today, on my way to Boston (I am helping my daughter chaperone a field trip--this is what I get for not having a job--chaperoning sixth-graders--LOL). They have genuine World Series programs for $10.40 (cover price: $15). I have seen people selling them on eBay already for much more than that! So if you're near a BJ's in Massachusetts, you might be able to scarf up a real program, even if you couldn't get a ticket to...
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Comments about A-Rod in Times-Union,...
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ImpossDream67 ~RSM wrote this 1 year ago on |
| Brian Ettkin, a sportswriter for the Albany Times-Union, wrote an increible piece about how egotistical and selfish A-Rod is in yesterday's newspaper. I can't seem to get the link to work, but you can go on www.timesunion.com (it's free and you don't have to sign up for anything), go to sports and look for Brian Ettkin. I think he also has a blog that's on the front page under "all blogs" on the right side of the page, about in the...
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What am I going to do?
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ImpossDream67 ~RSM wrote this 1 year ago on |
| The Sox are in a great position.
But I am worried because once the baseball season is over, I will be lost.
Lost, once again, until pitchers and catchers report to spring training in February.
Lost, once again, because I really do live for the baseball season, whether it's the Red Sox, t-ball, Little League, or the Tri-City Valley Cats (an A-level minor league affiliate of the Houston Astros, who play close to where I live), I really just love this game....
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Jacoby on NPR
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ImpossDream67 ~RSM wrote this 1 year ago on |
| There was a terrific story on Jacoby Ellsbury on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" tonight. My only objection was that they interviewed a twenty-something in a "tight-fitting" number 46 t-shirt, "the last one available in Burlington, VT." She said, "I told the guy, 'I don't care if it's a kid's size, I'll squeeze into it.'" And then Tom Goldman, the reporter, asked her whether or not Ellsbury was a talented baseball...
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Rocky Mountain High
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ImpossDream67 ~RSM wrote this 1 year ago on |
| Okay, here's the beginning of a new song, sung to the tune of John Denver's "Rocky Mountain High"--no apologies to him! I'll finish it later tonight:
We were watching in October in the seventh game that year
They came home to the place they'd always been before
They left Jacobs Field behind them, you might say they were born again
You might say they had the World Series at their door
When first they left Fenway, they knew what they...
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Write to Fox
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ImpossDream67 ~RSM wrote this 1 year ago on |
| Now that we're going to the World Series--let's all write to Fox and tell them how awful their commentators are. Go to www.foxsports.com and then fill in the feedback form. Let them know they STINK TO HIGH HEAVEN--UNLIKE OUR RED SOX, WHO ROCK!!!!
Wanda
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Boneheads from Fox
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ImpossDream67 ~RSM wrote this 1 year ago on |
| So...Here's another good bonehead comment from Joe Buck. When Blake gets a hit and goes to second base: "Now, with a runner at second, that cuts the Red Sox lead in half." WHAT? I didn't see Casey score, just get to second base. And, oh, by the way, Asdrobal Cabrera, in their minds, is about the best rookie second baseman they're ever seen. HELLO??????? Can they look at the guy in the RED SOX uniform???
Ay, yay, yay, yay!!!
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Rainbow
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ImpossDream67 ~RSM wrote this 1 year ago on |
| So here's a good omen...I was on my way into work at the radio station tonight (yeah, I'm going to miss tonight's game AGAIN--BUMMER!!). BUT...For the last five miles of my trip into work, there was a rainbow following me. And when I got to the station, it looked as if it was right over the entrance to WAMC. It was awesome. I say it's a GREAT OMEN for the Sox tonight. Whadd'ya think????
Wanda
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Pitching specialists
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ImpossDream67 ~RSM wrote this 1 year ago on |
| About 20 years ago, I interviewed Edsel Walker, who had been a member of one of the Negro League teams. We talked a lot about baseball and where it was going. He shook his head when he talked about the "percentages" of the left-handed pitcher going against right-handed hitters. "In my day," he said, "you pitched until you lost, then they would bring in someone else and he pitched until he lost. That's how it went."
So today, we...
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A few thoughts on the marathon game
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ImpossDream67 ~RSM wrote this 1 year ago on |
| Everyone's had the day to recover from last night's marathon game, and Monday's a new day. We've listened to the analysis until we're blue in the face. We've relived the moments where things might have changed--woulda, should, coulda.
Gagne? Personally, I think he's done. He can't handle the spotlight of being in the Boston media, and he certainly can't handle being under the microscope of Red Sox Nation. But I'm not sure that the blame for the...
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Cheer for me tonight
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ImpossDream67 ~RSM wrote this 1 year ago on |
| Now, RSN, I have to rely on you all to cheer a little louder on my behalf tonight, because I won't be able to watch the game. I will be on the air at WAMC, doing my radio show, the same way I have for the past 25 years every Saturday, the same way I was in 1986 during the famous "Buckner" game, and my daughter will be giving me text message updates while I'm on the air. So give Schilling, Manny, Papi, Pedroia, Tek, Julio, YOOOOUUUUKKKK, Coco, Drew, and my man, Mike...
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More reflections on the presidential...
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ImpossDream67 ~RSM wrote this 1 year ago on |
| As someone who worked really hard to "run" in the "presidential" election, developing a true platform that would have been useful to both the team and the community, and as someone who had fun throughout the process, especially meeting the other candidates, I am disappointed in the final outcome of the so-called election. I was happy to have made it to the top 40, but I don't know why Jerry Remy, who has total access to everything that was offered as the...
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Jared and Bill Reynolds
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ImpossDream67 ~RSM wrote this 1 year ago on |
| Here is what I wrote to Bill Reynolds. I was not nasty, just expressed MY opinion, the same way he expressed HIS.
Wanda
Dear Bill--Well, I read your "when I was a kid" column, and, based on your observations, particularly those about the Red Sox ("they were mediocre,but we could get tickets...and afford them"), I believe that we are probablyabout the same age. I started following the Red Sox in 1956, when I was not quite...
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Yankee commentators
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ImpossDream67 ~RSM wrote this 1 year ago on |
| You know, I just hate this. I am watching the Red Sox-Yanks game, and of course it's blacked out on MLB.com because it's being broadcast on the YES network. I have to listen to the Yankee commentators. When Pedroia just made a play in the field, and he might have made a different choice, John Flaherty said, "And they want HIM to be rookie of the year??? Delmon Young is a much better choice," then they went into a discussion about why Pedroia shouldn't...
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Posada wins Clemente Award??
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ImpossDream67 ~RSM wrote this 1 year ago on |
| You know how it's ABY--ANYBODY BUT THE YANKEES??? Well, I just heard that Posada won the Clemente Award. Poor Roberto must be rolling over in his grave. It should have been ABP--ANYBODY BUT POSADA!!!
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Tonight's game
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ImpossDream67 ~RSM wrote this 1 year ago on |
| So..Tonight's game was the only one I could get tickets for all year, and what does the weather look like? ROTTEN!!! It's pouring here in upstate New York! But despite that, I will get in my little Subaru and make the trip to Beantown in hopes that I will get to see the inside of Fenway and the Sox tonight. Since I have to watch the games on the computer (unless, of course, they're playing the Yankees or Faux TV decides to put them on), I have been looking forward to this all season...
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Can't get the game on Fox today
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ImpossDream67 ~RSM wrote this 1 year ago on |
| So...We're blacked out here in upstate New York today by Fox in favor of the Mets/Dodger contest. I am having withdrawal right now because it's also blacked out on MLB.com. Oh, well, I have to go to work at the radio station in about half an hour, anyway, and it saves me from having to listen to Tim McCarver pontificate about all the things that are wrong with the Red Sox!
If you want to listen to my radio show, you can listen on the Web at www.wamc.org and then go to the HD2 section.......
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Tony C
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ImpossDream67 ~RSM wrote this 1 year ago on |
| On August 18, 1967, Tony Conigliaro was seriously injured by being hit in the eye--beaned by a baseball when he was up to bat. Tony was a hometown boy, beloved by everyone, and only 22 years old when it happened. The sound from that ball hitting his face could be heard all over Fenway Park. I can still hear it, 40 years later. It still makes me sick to my stomach.
This was during the Impossible Dream season, 1967, and it was a horrible, horrible blow...
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