My Red Sox are the World Champions and now I can get some sleep!
Archive for the ‘Boston Red Sox’ Category
Red Sox 4, Rockies 3
Monday, October 29th, 2007Red Sox 10, Rockies 5
Sunday, October 28th, 2007Sleep! What’s that?
Red Sox 2, Rockies 1
Friday, October 26th, 2007I am so sleep deprived!
Red Sox 13, Rockies 1
Thursday, October 25th, 2007What can I say?
up with the Sox
Monday, October 22nd, 2007
It’s 12:42 AM and I should be sound asleep because I have to get up at 5:50 AM to go to work, but my Red Sox just won the American League Championship and I am watching the celebration on TV.
one down, ten to go
Thursday, October 4th, 2007My Red Sox won the first game of the playoff last night. It was no contest, as Josh Beckett had his stuff and mowed down the Angels while giving up only four hits and no runs in a complete game effort. Youk and Big Papa provided the firepower with home runs. Nice, quick game!
It was also nice that the game started at 6:37 PM and was over at a decent hour. I wish all the games started that early. Sunday’s game in California begins at 3 PM, but, alas, Friday’s game in Boston begins at 8 PM.
my Sox are first
Sunday, September 30th, 2007Today is the last day of the baseball season. The play-offs begin on Wednesday.
The season is long, beginning in early April and ending today, but it seems like it flew by this year.
I am happy to report that my Boston Red Sox had a very good season and finished in first place in the American League East.
Go Sox!
out of sync
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007
I have been a fan of the Boston Red Sox since 1958.
How did I become so afflicted?
Back in the spring of 1958, Dad bought me my first pack of baseball cards. Opening the pack, I found a stick of gum and five baseball cards. Included in the five was Topps card number 1, Ted Williams.
I showed Dad my cards and he said that Ted Williams was the best, so I hooked my wagon up to Ted’s team and have been following the trials and tribulations of the Scarlet Hose ever since.
Later that spring, Dad bought me a Red Sox yearbook and he bought me one every new baseball season until I could afford my own.
Forty-nine years later, I realized that I had not bought a yearbook this year with less than three weeks left in the baseball season. I had a complete run of yearbooks from 1958 to 2006 and I sure did not want to break that run, so I started shopping for the 2007 yearbook.
I figured I would find one online, but I could not find one.
I looked through magazine racks whenever I saw one, but still no luck.
Yesterday, I went to Wal*Mart to buy some cement to fix a broken tile and before I paid for the cement, I checked the magazine rack and, voila, I found a copy of the yearbook!
After I paid for my stuff and walked to the exit, I passed shelves of Christmas decorations and felt doubly lucky that my unsold Red Sox yearbook wasn’t replaced with a Charlie Brown Christmas comic book on the magazine rack!
1080-kHz DX
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007I’m on the road this week. Tonight, I’m in a Ramada Inn in State College, PA.
Around 2030 EDST, I went to my car to get something. I turned on the car radio and dialed up WTIC-AM on 1080 kHz to see if I could catch some of tonight’s Red Sox game.
I was impressed on how well I was able to receive the broadcast over 300 miles away. The signal was very clear and I could listen to it all night if I wasn’t tired of sitting in my car half the day today driving here.
Usually, I listen to WTIC only ten miles away from its transmitter, so it is interesting to hear something familiar as DX.
Did I ever mention the time I listened to a Red Sox game on WTIC, while sitting in my car in a hotel parking lot in Orlando, Florida, 1200 miles away as the crow flies down I-95? Now, that was a challenge!
NK7U in SI
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007I’m have been a diehard Red Sox fan since the late 1950s, back in the days when Ted Williams was closing out his career and the Sox often battled the Kansas City Athletics for last place in the American League. So, it was a thrill to run into former Red Sox outfielder Joe Rudi, NK7U, at the Dayton Hamvention on a number of ocasions. Last time, I saw him I even got him to pose for a photo with me.
Anyway, this week, Sports Illustrated has a nice article about NK7U, which you can read here.