Tag: boston marathon

Patriots Day

Happy Patriots Day. No, we don’t have a holiday for a shitty football team. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has a state holiday to remember the start of the American Revolution. Fucking irony, eh?

Today is Marathon Monday in Boston. As a result, it is also the day we have the weirdness known as the 11:00am Red Sox game. The game starts early so that it ends at about the same time the Marathon runners are reaching Kenmore Square. You go to Fenway Park, watch the Red Sox, leave Fenway Park and head for the Green Line station and catch the leaders as they fly by. I’ve only participated in this once but it was a really cool experience.

Every year when Patriots Day comes around I go to work like it’s a normal Monday but I promise myself, I full on swear to myself, that next year… next year I am going to go to the North Bridge re-enactment of the first shots of the American Revolution in Minuteman National Park in Concord, MA and then I am going to go to the Red Sox game and then I am going to watch a bit of the Boston Marathon and then I will still be home before dinner.

And then every year I forget all about it until I wake up and realize it is Patriots Day again and I forgot about all of it. Oh well.

So the Pope died on Easter Sunday, eh? Wouldn’t it have been more on brand if he had died on Good Friday? Sorry… too soon?

I can’t help but be flippant about everything on Earth today. On top of the continuing collapse of American Democracy, I watched season two episode two of The Last of Us last night and it absolutely destroyed me. I knew from talking to a gamer player a few years ago that last night’s twist was coming, but I didn’t know when. I figured it would be late in the season, maybe in the finale. Nope. Episode two. On top of the twist, the whole thing going on in the town (no spoilers!) was maybe the most intense episode of television I’ve ever sat through. Damn. Just… damn.

In an attempt to calm myself down after watching that show last night, here’s a cat.

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That didn’t fix me so here’s another cat.

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Red Sox Fail

The Red Sox played the annual Patriots Day/Boston Marathon Monday 11:00am game today. Morning baseball, everyone!

I always enjoy listening to the Marathon Monday game on the radio while I’m at work. I don’t know why, it’s just something I particularly like to do. Today’s game was tough for a bunch of reasons. I had a whole pile of meetings on my calendar, but there were breaks during game time so it was okay. In the end the Red Sox lost to Cleveland. It was close through most of the game but once The Guardians started hitting it was painful. Lots of defensive screw ups for the Red Sox, including two players crashing into each other hard enough to draw blood. Ouch.

Those aren’t the worst parts of the game though. The worst part was the radio broadcast. As soon as I logged onto the MLB app and brought up the audio I wanted to yell at WEEI and shut it off. I didn’t, but I should have. The radio announcing team included Sean McDonough. I fucking hate Sean McDonough. He used to do Red Sox TV broadcasts years and years ago (before getting the job doing Monday Night Football? Was that really a thing?) and he sucked to high heaven. I hated every single syllable that came out of his asshole of a mouth. Ugh, I fucking hate that guy! I’d rather listen to a baby crying at 100 decibels for three hours than listen to that prick call a game.

I listened to the game though. I didn’t let that butt munch ruin my Patriots Day. Screw that guy. The team losing was just fitting though. Yeah, screw that guy.

Haiku for You #178

On Patriots Day in Massachusetts, the Boston Red Sox play a morning game, which starts at 11:00am. It’s timed so that the fans will exit Fenway Park just about the same time the Boston Marathon reaches Kenmore Square. It’s a great little mini-tradition, and I always enjoy listening to the Sox game on the radio while I work.

Today’s haiku for you is the story of how WEEI and the Red Sox ruined it for me today.

Turn on the Sox game
and hear Sean McDonough’s voice.
Fucking hate that guy.

Police Presence

A combination of today being a Massachusetts holiday and the kids needing to be in school early has placed me about 90 minutes early for work with only 10 more minutes to go before I get there.

On times like these I stop at the rest area next to route 16 and have a little breakfast while watching Netflix.

Right now the rest area is swarming with Massachusetts State Troopers.  I’ve never seen so many badges in one place.  This can mean only one thing:

It’s Marathon Monday.

No one had better mess with Boston today.  No one.

Rolling Stone Sucked Long Before This

So Rolling Stone magazine is putting the douche who set off two bombs at the Boston Marathon onto the cover. People are pissed off. My response is, so what? Rolling Stone hasn’t been relevant since the Beatles broke up. You’re going to let a snot rag like this get under your skin? People far worse than this loser have been on the covers of magazines far better. Were there calls to boycott Life when Manson was on the cover? How many magazines have put Bin Laden on the cover? What about Hitler?

Rolling Stone has been garbage for pretty much my entire life. Putting this pathetic piece of trash on the cover does not change that. The cover won’t stop me from buying Rolling Stone. Rolling Stone’s existence is what stops me from buying Rolling Stone. They can publish this completely insulting and tasteless cover if they want. It’s their magazine, there is freedom of the press in our country (much to the dismay of many people who are sympathetic to the Boston Bomber’s cause), if they want to publish crap… let ’em. Just know that they could have a candid paparazzi shot of Jesus Christ himself buying a snickers bar at a 7-11 on the cover and it still wouldn’t change the fact that nothing that magazine does is worth the price of the toilet paper it is printed on.

The two scumbags who set off those bombs are beneath my contempt. Rolling Stone is the perfect piece of shit to share their story. Those piles of crap were meant for each other.

Just my $0.02.

Moment of Silence

I feel bad.  Boston observed a moment of silence today at 2:50 in honor of all of the victims of the Marathon bombing and their families.  At 2:50 we were parking the car in front of a restaurant and we missed it.  When we got to our table it was 2:53.  I wanted us to be a part of the moment even though were are like 500 miles away.  I feel like I let our city down.

They Got Him

They got him.  It’s been a long day, but they arrested him.

I’m already starting to see jokes about how if you want to escape in a boat it should be in the water, not in watertown.  Har Har.  I wish I’d thought of that.  I could print t-shirts.  Oh well.

I know he will be tried and convicted and put to death under Federal law.  I know.  I don’t like it though.  We’ve seen three innocent people die, one hero of an MIT police officer die in the line of duty, and one scum bag schmuck of a murdering putz die of criminal stupidity.  That’s enough.  I don’t want anyone else to die.  I want him to spend 60 years in prison having what he did pounded into him by his “neighbors”.  Death isn’t punishment for someone like this.  Killing him lets him off the hook.

My sincere thanks to all of the law enforcement people who worked so hard on this.  Hopefully there are no other accomplices   Hopefully they can all kick off their shoes and put up their feet and take a load off.

Good work, people.  Thank you.

Do They Have Him

The news is reporting that the police have surrounded our prick of a fugitive. Looks like he was hiding in a boat in someone’s back yard. Shots have been fired.

Please take him alive. We’ve had too much death.

Manhunt

As usual, all of the news is scattered, and probably inaccurate.  One of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects is dead.  The other is on the run.  They have killed one cop and injured another.  They were throwing explosives at the pursuing officers.

Some reports say that the dead suspect, a 20 year old Russian immigrant who was here legally, may have killed himself or he may have been shot or he may have had a suicide vest and tried to blow himself up or he may have had a bomb on him as a booby trap.

The two suspects are apparently brothers.  They may have been from Chechnya.  They have been living in Cambridge for a while.  Friends and acquaintances are starting to come forward and they are saying these guys were happy, social, normal, popular, American, kids.

Last night I was hoping strongly that the two suspects in the FBI videos were the actual bombers because I did not want innocent people targeted.  Now, from what we’re being told, there isn’t any doubt that they did it.  Why?

As we speak there is a standoff brewing on Willow Street in Watertown.  Armored trucks, cops on megaphones, helicopters.  They might have the guy cornered.  I sincerely hope they take him alive.  Partly because I want answers, but also because there has been enough death.

If you live in Watertown or in any town nearby, just stay home and keep out of the way.  Stay safe.