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Opening Day

It’s the bottom of the third inning on Red Sox opening day and the Sox have a 3-2 lead over the fucking Yankees.

I put the game on the radio just as it was starting and before I could even blink the Red Sox had scored three times. I thought about writing up a quick post about how scoring three in the top of the first inning of the first game of the season against the fucking Yankees basically guaranteed us a World Series win. I stopped myself though. What if I jinxed it and the fucking Yankees came back in the bottom of the first and scored a bunch of runs?

I am glad I waited. They scored their two runs right off the bat too. We still have the lead though so I figured a calmer blog post was still appropriate.

The fucking Yankees failed to score in the bottom of the third. So now we’re 3/9ths of the way through the game and 3/1,458ths through the season and we’re still in the lead.

I’ll take it. Go Red Sox.

Thursday Lunch Thoughts

I am writing this in the final few minutes of my lunch break. Today has not been fun. Neither was yesterday or the day before or much of last week. I am going to be needing the universe to lighten up and I am going to need it soon.

Apparently today is Opening Day for Major League Baseball. Hooray! The Red Sox are in New York to face the Fucking Yankees and wouldn’t you know it the game has been called off due to bad weather. If that isn’t a bad omen for the season I don’t know what is. Hopefully it’s more of a bad omen for the Fucking Yankees than it is for the Red Sox. We will see.

What? New Pink Floyd? Read this article. It sounds like Mr David G. once played a show with a Ukrainian artist who is now fighting against the Russian invasion. That guy posted a video of himself singing to Instagram, and the Floyd has worked it into a new song. The release will raise money for Ukraine. That sounds pretty sweet to me. Now we just have to hope it’s a good song. We’ll find out tomorrow, I think.

Okay, Robert. This work day ain’t gonna finish itself. Get to it!

Opening Day: Take Two

Which title is funnier:

  • Opening Day: Take Two
  • Opening Day: The Next Generation
  • Opening Day 2: Electric Boogaloo

You’re right… none of them are funny.

The forecast for our second attempt at an opening day calls for partly cloudy skies and temps in the high 30’s with a moderate to high chance of fans catching Covid-19.

Play Ball!

Also…

They can’t be any worse than last season!

Go Red Sox!

Happy Red Sox Opening Day

I’m sitting at my desk at work, eating lunch.  Patiently I wait for 2:05 PM Eastern Daylight Savings Time for that is the scheduled start time of the Boston Red Sox 2017 season opener.

My bologna sandwich is good, but the first win on the road to another world series championship for the Sox would be better.

We start the season at home this year which, given the fact we had a nor’easter two days ago, seems risky.  It’s supposed to be a nice day though so we have that going for us.  The reining Cy Young Award winner Rick Porcello is our opening day starting pitcher.  Last year I jokingly referred to him as Cy Young Porcello when he won his first game.  Much to my surprise he just kept winning which kinda made me feel like I called it… even though I was trying to make fun of him after his crappy 2015 season.  Sorry about that, Rick.

Opening day is an interleague game.  I find that a little annoying.  I never liked interleague play.  It was a gimmick before and now it’s making me feel like a grumpy old man.  Hey Pittsburgh Pirates!  Get off my Fenway lawn!  I’m hoping that the work stars will align to let me listen to the game on the radio.  I don’t know.  It’s been busy today. Lunch time has been a lull.  That sometimes means that everyone is saving up the hurt for just after lunch.  Does that happen at other companies too? Probably.

Anyway, good luck to my home town team, the Boston Red Sox.  They surprised us all last season by winning their division and making it to the playoffs.  Here’s hoping they can top that this year.

Go Red Sox!

Happy Opening Day

There really shouldn’t be a debate about this. Opening day of the Major League Baseball season should be a national holiday in the United States. Sure, the National Football League brings in better television numbers and I believe generates more annual revenue league wide, but we are a nation of baseball people. It may be “America’s Pastime” in name only these days, but it is still America’s Pastime.

The Red Sox begin their World Series title defense against Baltimore today at 3:05. Last season was a miraculous worst-to-first turn around. They had no business winning it all, but somehow they did. This year I feel the same way. They have no business winning it all. I would not be surprised to see them finish third in their division.

Having said that…

REPEAT!
REPEAT!
REPEAT!

Not since 1916 have the Red Sox managed to win two consecutive World Series Championships. This is the year! The two-in-a-row curse will be broken!

(Damn it, did I just use the word, “curse”? Crud)

Go Red Sox

Red Sox

Oh hey, tomorrow is April first. You know what that means, right?

Redemption, muthas!

Red Sox opening day. The Sox take on the F*#%€£g Yankees at 1:00. Schmucko the Clown is gone, the pitching staff gets a fresh start, the chicken and beer fiasco is in the distant past.

Redemption! Cart Blanche. The record is 0-0. I don’t expect the World Series, but I’m optimistic that we won’t be setting any franchise records for futility. 82 wins or bust, baby!

Go Red Sox!

Bring on the Hypocrisy

Today is the day that I, your humble narrator Robert, become a major hypocrite.  Hooray.

It all starts at 3:00pm Eastern Time today when the puck drops in three cities.  Well, two.  One of the 3:00 games is Chicago at L.A. and the Kings will be raising the Stanley Cup banner before the game, so they will probably start late… semantics.  Nit picking.  Shut up, I’m mad at myself.  Chicago/L.A. and Pittsburgh/Philadelphia are going to be shown on NBC.  I live in the East coast, so I assume there will be no banner raising ceremony for me, even though I was 100% a Kings fan from the second round on last year.  No, I get the first of a shortened season’s worth of national networks washing and polishing Sidney Crosby’s balls.  Don’t get me wrong, I am not one of those people who hates Crosby.  I feel that before his concussion issues he was the best player in the world, and I hope to see him come back 100% healthy.  He can be the best player in the world again, just so long as it does not come at the expense of the Bruins.  Okay?  Okay.  I just get really, really, really, awfully, terribly tired of all the attention the media lavishes on him.  Yes, he is a great story.  Yes, he is the best there is.  Yes, he is good in front of a camera.  Yes, his is essentially the face of the NHL.  Still, when you watch national coverage, be it NBC or Vs or ESPN (that’s a little joke) it’s always Crosby, Crosby, Crosby, Crosby rode a bike today.  Crosby went to the movies today (think that’s a joke?  Nope.  ESPN ran a story discussing how Sid the not quite Kid enjoys going to the movies.  When did they run this?  Yesterdady) Crosby had a hang nail today.  Crosby tried Shawarma and liked it.  Enough already!  I can see Pittsburgh’s local networks going off the deep end like that, but national networks?  No thanks.

What the hell was I talking about?  Oh yes, hypocrisy.

The Bruins play the Rangers tonight at 7:00pm.  If I’m not doing anything else I might watch it.  Maybe before I go to bed I might listen to the end of the game on the radio.  Who knows.

I swore that if the league canceled one game I was off the wagon for good.  Today, I am talking about watching a game or maybe even two.  Crap.  I just suck.  My hypocritical compromise is to watch, but not invest.  No money shall leave my hands and go to the hands of the NHL or any NHL franchise, including my beloved Boston Bruins.  Nope.  No money.  No part of the NHL is going to make a dime off of me.  Fortunately, the NHL Game Center iOS app is free.  I installed it on both of my iOS devices today.  Hypocrite!  Last year I spent $15 or so to upgrade to whatever they call the package is that lets you listen to the radio broadcast of every single game.  Not this year.  This year I will get my 98.5 the Sports Hub (WBZ FM) stream from the radio.com app.  That’s it.  I am sticking to the no money thing for as long as I can.  If one of the kids starts begging that they want to go to a game, that will be the only way I will break this oath.  My step kids are more important than my being pissed off at the NHL.  Still, I do not expect much begging and pleading, so I’ll be all right.

So what about the games themselves?  What can we expect?  I had 98.5 on in the car as I drove to Dunks to get some donuty breakfasty goodness this morning and a caller was breaking down how the Bruins and Rangers match up.  I was laughing my ass off (figuratively) the whole time he was talking.  About half of the Bruins roster played in Europe during the lock out.  They had more players playing this season than any other team in the league.  The rest of the guys?  They worked out, they skated, they held captains practices, they did their best.  Then they had less then a week of camp and then the idiotic shortened season started.  In other words, these guys all had an extended summer break and are right about now getting into what would usually be pre-season game readiness.  Folks, the hockey today is going to be AWFUL.  It’s going to be a terrible, sloppy mess.  You can’t look at any rosters and say this team should beat that team because no one is anywhere near ready to play actual games!

My prediction for tonight’s game between the Bruins and the Rangers at TD Garden in Boston is:  Bruins 11 – Rangers 10 with new Ranger Rick Nash scoring nine goals, all off of Tuukka Rask, and Bruin Tyler Seguin scoring eight goals for Boston and assisting on the other three.  At least one assist on each of the 21 goals scored will be given to a player who is generally considered to be a career minor leaguer, because all such players actually played hockey, in the AHL, over the last four months.  Expect results like that to be repeated league wide for at least the first three weeks of the season.  Alex Ovetchkin and Sidney Crosby and at least five other players will score 50 goals in 40 or fewer games.  Why?  Because the first few weeks of the season they will be playing against goalies who are still waddling in pre-season form.

Bring on the sloppy mess.

I am a hypocrite.  Deal with it.

Go Bruins

The Lockout is Officially Over

Both sides signed an agreement yesterday that officially ends the lockout.  The union ratified the deal after a 36 hour internet vote.  11 players failed to vote, and 12 voted no.  Lets hope that those 23 players all play for Montreal so that I can hate them even more.

Training camps start today.  The season starts on Saturday.  The Bruins will open against the Rangers at home.  26 of the 30 teams will play on Saturday.  How would you like to be one of the four teams that has the wait last an extra day?

I’ll probably watch some of the game, and I’ll feel like a dirty hypocrite doing it.  I’m resolved not to spend any money though.  They don’t get a dime off of me.

Go (broke) Bruins!