Oh, Canada! by Rich Paschall When I mentioned to some friends that I would be going to Toronto, they asked me if I was going to drive. It is a reasonable question. You can reach there in a little over… Read More ›
Boston Red Sox
A TERRIBLE WONDERFUL YEAR – TWO ARE WON! – Garry Armstrong
And tonight, minus the rain and the lightning, game two commenced … and we won. Two down, two to go. No power outage and there will be a day off, then they will be off to L.A. It was 47… Read More ›
SEPTEMBER FANTASY BASEBALL
The Red Sox are playing the Phillies. Winning. They haven’t won often this year, compiling a record so awful I thought they had an unbreakable lock on last place in the American League East. I was wrong. They actually have… Read More ›
SERENDIPITY PHOTO PROMPT 2015 -19: NIGHTMARE ON YAWKEY WAY
This week’s Frisbee Wednesday is about beisbol, the most American of pastimes in that most American of baseball stadiums, Fenway Park. This has been a sad, bad year for the Sox. To say they are playing poorly doesn’t begin to cover it…. Read More ›
A SEASON OF PAIN
The look of sudden shock and pain on Garry’s face was alarming. “What’s wrong?” I cried. He was obviously hurting. “I just saw the score,” he said sadly. Which is when I realized he had turned on the Red Sox… Read More ›
WINNERS OF THE 2013 WORLD SERIES, RED SOX DO IT AT FENWAY IN 6!!!
It’s only been 95 years … just a blip on the monitor of history. But it’s been a long wait for Red Sox fans, to see them win a World Series in Fenway Park. Tonight the magic worked. The third… Read More ›
GO SOX! UP THREE TO TWO AND BACK TO FENWAY!
WAY TO GO! Back to Fenway on Wednesday! Big Papi was okay on first … surprise! What a great series this is turning out to be. Who really thought we’d take two out of three in St. Louis? Wonders never… Read More ›
Garry Armstrong’s Wonderful Broadcast Life – by Roger Lyons
His obstacles were many. Some might have said insurmountable. He was a painfully shy black man with a hearing problem, trying to break into major market radio and television in the ‘60’s. Yet Garry Armstrong went on to accomplish amazing… Read More ›
Daily Prompt: So Far, So Good
It’s almost August. The year’s mid-point passed a while ago and the days are beginning to shorten again as our tilted planet spins its endless, dizzy circles round our not-yet-fading sun. Outside in my garden, the roses are past caring,… Read More ›
Daily Prompt: Fandom — Beisbol
I always liked baseball. I grew up in New York where the annual epic battles between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Yankees were so important we listened to the games in classrooms in elementary school during school hours. When… Read More ›
Boston from the Baptist – The Citgo Sign and Fenway Park
I had to be at the Baptist Hospital today to see my spine guy, harboring a hope that something can be done to make it hurt a bit less. I have been to the Baptist before and I remembered that… Read More ›
SERENDIPITY - SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 