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Wait Till Next Year

October 10, 2011 – 12:22 pm

When I left America in early September, the Boston Red Sox seemed destined to finish first in the American League East or show up in the AL playoffs as the wildcard. They ended the month with a record 7-21 allowing Tampa Bay to replace them in baseball’s October classics. The Red Sox Nation have experienced […]

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0-for Ortiz

April 7, 2010 – 7:45 pm

The Boston Red Sox’s perfect season ended last night with a defeat by the hated New York Yankees. I was sitting in Frank’s Bar. Neutral territory since most of the clientele are Mets fans. Larry, the ex-Basketball phenom, was rooting for my team. He hated the Yankees. Dave Ortiz came up to the plate late […]

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Adios Manny

August 2, 2008 – 2:19 pm

The Boston Red Sox and the Chicago Cubs were cursed throughout the 20th Century. I don’t give a shit about the Cubbies, since I was born in Boston. I’m a Red Sox fan, although I lived in New York 27 years. I watched Bucky Dent’s homer at the Edison Hotel on Broadway. The Yankee fans […]

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Red Sox Win the World Series

October 29, 2007 – 11:43 pm

Yesterday I watched the final game of the 2007 World Series at Donovan’s Sports Bar on 3rd Road. The only other person in the newly opened restaurant was the Thai waitress filing her nails. She had no interest in baseball and even less in a farang nursing a cappuccino. I was on my own, because […]

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