Toeing the Rubber

Cyn | May 7, 2010

My father turns 75 years old today.  Eight years ago I gave a speech at his retirement party.  I’ve since lost the text to the speech but part of it touched upon his love for the Red Sox, his belief that every year is the year and his frustration with Jimy Williams (this was 2001, [...]

Category: 2010 | 3 Comments »
Tags: 2001 Red Sox, Bob Costas, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Family, Jimy Williams, john smoltz, MFY, MLB Network, Sweep!

Cyn | March 15, 2010

Day 3 of gray, rainy days.  Yay. At least NESN got their act together long enough for us to be able to watch the Red Sox beat the Twins (putting them up 3-1 in the Mayor’s Cup race).  We could watch sunny Florida on our televisions and forget all the rain.  It was nice for [...]

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Tags: Jed Lowrie, Metsgrrl, Mike Lowell, MLB Network, Spring Training 2010

Cyn | March 11, 2010

Red Sox baseball on television today! Unless, of course, you actually live in the Boston area. If what they’ve done historically still holds true, the MLB Network will be airing today’s 1:05pm Sox/Mets game as long as you aren’t in the Boston area market (not sure about NY – do they get blacked out too?). [...]

Category: 2010 | 1 Comment »
Tags: Boston Sports Media, CHB, Jason Bay, MLB Network, New York Mets, Nomar Garciaparra, Sean McAdam