Tag: Red Sox

Tell All

I have to hurry up and finish Derek Sanderson’s book.

Terry Francona and Dan “Big Bird” Shaughnessy have written a book giving lots of behind the scenes dirt on the Boston Red Sox during Francona’s tenure as manager.  This is just the sort of thing that a psychotic Sox fan like me needs to read.  Likewise it’s the kind of thing that non obsessed sports fans would look at and think, who gives a rats ass.

Sanderson’s book has been fun.  By fun I mean fun in the way that hearing reformed alcoholics telling stories of drunken debauchery from their drinking days is fun.  In other words, the stories are often really funny, but the subtext is kind of sad.  Reading about him driving down the walkway in the middle of Comm Ave in Boston in an attempt to make it to Logan Airport on time, and then, despite being completely blitzed, getting a police escort into the airport, is one seriously funny story, but knowing what it was costing him is sort of painful.  One thing the book is doing is making me want to read the soon to be released Bobby Orr autobiography.  Sanderson gives the impression that the ’70 and ’72 Cup winning teams were more or less the result of Bobby Orr’s will alone.  Bobby wasn’t the captain, but his word was law.  He was King both on and off the ice.

The other thing that trying to rush through the rest of the book is doing is making my eyes tired.  I’m basically seeing double as I try to type this.  I need a nap.

My 2012 in Pictures

In January I took my swanky new lens out and about in Methuen to see what it could do.  These trips usually focus on the Spicket River, but this time I went to the Merrimack.
Reflections in the River

As usual, February focused on the RPM Challenge. This year my saxophone came out of retirement.
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In March I finally managed to get a few pictures of the night sky that only mostly sucked, as opposed to the normal total suck. This is the Moon, Venus, and Jupiter, all at once.
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April brought us back to San Diego and I swear, each time we go there it gets harder and harder to come home.
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In May we brought the kids to Fenway Park. Dustin Pedroia and the Red Sox won the game, but went on to their worst season in 100,000 years.
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June was very quiet, photography wise, but we did get another piano recital in the wonderful Nevins Library in Methuen.
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In July we spent a week on Long Lake in Maine. I managed to accidentally take a few pictures that didn’t suck.
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In August we spent a day wandering around Portsmouth, NH including Strawbery Banke.
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In September we took the kids to see Rush. Now they know what I’ve been talking about all this time.
Rush on the opening night of the Clockwork Angels tour

In October we took the kids to Washington, DC and tried our best to see everything in the short time we were there.
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In November I didn’t post a single picture taken with my D90. I did, however, learn that this existed and it made me feel a little better about the human race in general.
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In December my wife and I ran off together to the mountains for a few days. It was wonderful to get away.
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And there you have it. A brief synopsis of my 2012, in pictures. I could have posted hundreds of pictures. Maybe I will later on.

Say it Ain’t So, Youk

Oh great.  First Babe Ruth, now Kevin Youkilis.

Former Red Sox third/first baseman Kevin Youkilis has signed a one year deal with the New York Yankees for $12 million dollars.  He now joins folks like Wade Boggs and Johnny Damon and Babe Ruth as players who left the Red Sox and went to the Yankees.

This time feels a little different to me.  He didn’t leave us, he was traded.  He didn’t run off to New York, he was swapped to Chicago first.  The Yankees need a third baseman to fill in for King Douche Alex Rodriguez while he is off recovering from hip surgery.  They also need a first baseman to spell Mark Teixeira (damn, that’s tough to spell).  Youkilis is like a defensive dream come true for the Yankees.

When I project myself into next season I don’t see me booing the hell out of Youk when he comes back in pin stripes.  Maybe a little, but nothing like the wrath we visited down upon the trader Johnny Damon.  Damon’s move to New York was evil.  Youk’s move was, as mentioned, actually to Chicago.  If anything we should be furious at Schmucko the Clown (my pet name for the idiot accurately known as Bobby Valentine).  It was the conflict between Schmucko and Youk that resulted in the trade.

Good luck, Kevin Youkilis.  May you have a good year on a team that goes 0-162, and may you not take it personally when I boo your ass when you play the Red Sox.

2013 is going to suck for Red Sox Nation.

Crud.