Broomed

Sweeping out another month here. I started off stronger this month, but again, fell off with the posting. This was going to be a Sox-centric post, but let’s get some catching up out the way first since it has been two weeks since my last post.

Well, over those last two weeks, I have had to do a good amount of writing at work, so that saps my will to write here. While I don’t mind the occasional need to write a piece of technical documentation, mostly because I’m good at it, I must give kudos to the full-time technical writers out there. I don’t know how you don’t just drink yourselves into oblivion in preparation for work each day. Oh, wait… you probably do.

Anyway, today I had to update my appraisal/review form with my six month results towards my objectives. That’s fun. Especially since we’re really doing eighth month results… and, why am I writing this myself again? I’m sorry, but if I am a manager, there’s no way I have my folks doing this themselves. It is time better spent on their job and something I should be tracking myself. They read it, we meet and they provide feedback. Done.

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Towel. Thrown.

As blog is my witness, the towel has now officially been thrown.

You may remember that Ed and I were to go to the game last night (Sunday) and so we did. We arrived to the Fenway area about 2 1/2 hours before gametime so that we might get a bite to eat and enjoy a few brews at Boston BeerWorks. Well, the line for the place was insane, so we headed over to Game On. This worked out pretty well as we walked right in and the wait for a table was only an hour. Probably the same wait at BBW, but it would have taken us a good 20-30 minutes to get in the door. Thus, I suffered thru drinking Corona instead of Haymarket Hef.

Fast forward to game time and in we go. The seats I thought we had weren’t the seats we had. You know how the right field corner goes and the seats point towards center field scoreboard? Yup, those were the ones… right on the aisle that goes diagonal, so the next section over looks more towards the field, but we were pretty high up. Probably the third last row in the boxes, but remember, these used to be grandstand seats. Thankfully there was enough legroom for my long sticks.

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Gammons at Fenway

Leave it to a Sox/Spanks series to bring Peter Gammons back into the baseball fold. This tidbit of information comes courtesy of boston.com sports blogger Eric Wilbur who is looking correct in his previous statement that he’s thrown in the towel. It’s too bad that Gammons’ presence couldn’t bring his preseason A.L. Cy Young pick Josh Beckett better luck on the mound today. Personally, it has less to do with luck than his lack of a quality third pitch, but that’s just me.

Anyway, good to hear Peter is back at the park. UPDATE: Here’s a better AP article on espn.com.

Curse of the Grackle?

I happened to click on an Eric Wilbur blog link on boston.com today. It would seem the resident sports blogger — is it me or is he a ringer for Andy Richter — has thrown in the towel on the Sox making the playoffs. Well, I’ll admit I was having such thoughts after we were swept by the Royals, I chose to delay my judgement until after the five game series with the Spankees this weekend.

Yes, Wily Mo Pena took his eye of the ball to sneak a peek at the runner and missed the catch. At first I thought if he made the catch, he had a chance to throw the man out, but the replay showed the angle, etc. and it would seem unlikely to get the speedy Carlos Guillen. It would have had to be a perfect throw and I don’t think that happens, so the run would have scored anyway and he still got his out at first base. This was not a play to hang up your playoff hopes on.

At least they won tonight and avoided a sweep by the Tiggers. The Sox also picked up Carlos Pena and Eric Hinske today. Pena might be a good future guy, but Hinske has never excited me and last time I checked, neither can pitch. The WEEI boys commented tonight that the Orioles’ LaTro... Continue reading »

Wild Thing

I haven’t watched many Sox games on TV yet this year, so this is kind of a surprise to me, but it seems Papelbon has *won* a bet with Youk. I wonder what Youk had to do as the loser…

UPDATE: More about that bet here.