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Posted by:
bosox61
on Jun 11, 2009 at 09:36:00 AM
LEADING WITH MY CHIN: All is right in my world today. I just watched my beloved Red Sox beat the snot out of the Yankees on television during the past two nights and realized for the first time in about fifteen years, there is not one Yankee player that I have any sentimental feelings for. I am free to hate on them without any second thoughts. Back in '95 the Yankees weren't doing so well. But they signed Tony Fernandez to play shortstop and I was a big Tony Fernandez fan. It was during that year that I became aware that there were a few Yankees that I actually liked. For some strange reason I liked Paul O'Neill; I liked Tino Martinez; I liked Bernie Williams. I began to wonder if I was getting soft in my advancing years. I have spent my whole life hating the Yankees, and this ...
Posted by:
bosox61
on Apr 21, 2009 at 09:18:00 PM
When I was ten years old, I joined a Little League sponsored by my parish church in the Dorchester section of Boston. I had no idea what position I wanted to play when I was asked so the Manager put me in the outfield. We began the first practice with him hitting fly balls to us in the outfield. I couldn't catch anything and the twelve year olds started ragging on me. I was so embarrassed that I threw my glove on the ground and ran off the field and all the way home.
Later that day the Manager of the team showed up at my house with my glove. My Mom invited him in and we all sat in the kitchen and talked about my playing baseball on his team. He never said anything (in front of me) about what happened at the field that day but my Mom decided to walk me to the park on the ... |
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