Cash is MONEY!

That is all.

Finally Baseball is HERE!

So the Red Sox had a clinic with some young baseball players today.

Is this a Manny in the making??

Is this a young Josh asking for the secrets from Wally?

Well Well WELL....looks like Steve the ferret has some competition in the title of Stuffed Mascot World Traveler.

Oki is saying "Can we take them back to the farm and train them for later?"

Baseball is Tomorrow Morning at 6am...in Tokyo. IN TOKYO you heard me.

Who cares at this point? The Cask and Game On will be open at 5:30am....YEP you read right!! And I will have friends at Both of these places. Tru and Brenda will be at the game behind homeplate...while I think Cyn and Kelly will be at Game On to watch the game. Are they nuts??? YEP but hell so am I...I'll be sitting on my couch watching baseball Opening Day at 6am....but hey guess what??

Baseball is TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happi Easter!!

Isn't this where we left off from with J.D.???? For all those naysayers who said it wasn't gonna happen last year when J.D. came up to bat. For those fans who groaned at Lil Woodrow's across from me...YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE!!....and I yelled back "BELIEVE!!!!!" You shook your head up and down forcing a smile....yelling with me..."Come ON J.D.!!" And BAMMMMM .... Magic Stick took that little ball out of the park bringing Home Salami to the boys for a feast!!!

Imagine being at this game....J.D. comes to bat....are you thinking the same Thing??? you BETTAH NOT!! I'd say those Happi Coats rubbed off some good fortune to our boys and to J.D. .... or could be This is our NEW J.D. for 2008. I'm shooting for the latter.

We won ton 9-2!!! What a way to wake up on a Sunday morning!!

Happi Easter Ya'll!!

Beckett: Home Alone

So Beckett's isn't going to Japan: It's Official. Alot of skepticals are worried about Josh's back...but I'm not. I think this is all a labor of love that he is giving to Lester. Wake gave Lester his chance to be a hero in the World Series last year....Beckett is giving Lester Japan Stardom. Besides....Josh just isn't a sushi guy...he's more of a meat and potatoes man...hell Beckett is more of a Meat period man. I'm sitting thinking of all the things Beckett is going to do while his buddies are all over in sushi-land while he's still here state side.....

1. Practice how many beers cans he can shoot with one shot.

2. Measure the string out of the baseballs.

3. Call up Bill to see if he wants to compare the effects of drinking too much and smoking too much.

4. Stretching and icing his back.

5. Order up Personal Massages.

6. Mounting his kills from 2007.

7. Practicing Post Pressers in front of the mirror.

8. Pitching to Mirabelli.

9. Reading Manny's suggested book: The Secret; and

Finally

10. Taking dance lessons from the Dropkick Murphys so he can out dance Papelbon in October.

What do YOU think Beckett will be doing??

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Wishing you all a Happy St. Patrick's Day tomorrow. Good Luck to the Red Sox as they are finishing up Spring Training and heading into the regular baseball season.

Client #9

Men, Women, Cheaters, Wandering Eyes....all you listen up. You finally have an excuse to do what Spitzer did: It's an innate and according an article

"Psychologist Christopher Ryan, author of "Sex in Prehistory," says the desire for sex with more than one person has always been there - for leaders and followers alike. "The desire is not a function of status or power - it's a question of availability."

NO SHIT. Translation: We all got needs...sexual needs...we're horny sometimes. We have all this pent-up sexual energy....we gotta do something with it. I mean even Shelley Duncan and Jonny Gomes figured out what to do with it.

another bit from the article:

"Some alpha males do whatever they want for their own purposes but others can be very loyal." Alpha males often have excess sexual energy, but instead of cheating or visiting high-priced call girls, she said, many channel it into other pursuits. "Some people create things - or do things for the public good."

It's called: Restraint, Loyalty to partners, Discipline....in other words, instead of sleeping with call girls they work on awesome charity boards helping out causes for those who can't help themselves! I would add a picture of an alpha male doing charity work but I didn't want to sully their name with Spitzer's.

But still as the article puzzles, why did Spitzer and many other powerful men who could "get" any woman they wanted because of who or what they are....PAY a call girl??? Well for starters, I can say they want the risk, the unknown, someone who's willing to do the fantasy role, play nurse or school girl, or as psychologist David Buss of UT stated "Men such as those in Spitzer's position do not so much pay for women to have sex with them; they pay for women to go away AFTER having sex with them,".

hmmmmm REALLY???!!! And like my fellow blogger Muse would say: That Shit Ain't Right!"

Happy Birthday!!!!!!!!!!

That my friend is Candaon. I'm still not sure what he was trying to do that day in Baltimore....the lady at the door is BB's wife, Debbie, and she's holding Steve. The crew on the outside got locked out as most of them are smokers and were taking their break.....but I digress.

Today is Candaon's birthday so of course I had to find the silliest picture of him to post. I hope your day is awesome today and you're having the time of your life. Life is short.....don't short yourself.....or come out on the short end......see a theme here? :)

Seriously, I appreciate your friendship and I can't wait till we all hang out in May!!!!!!! Wooo HOOOOO!

I WANT!

So apparently with Volvo being the team's official car and all, they decide to make a special edition for the Red Sox. The C30 two door hatchback is the model they've selected in Passion Red. The sticker price? $29,465.00. Not bad eh? Kicker is they are only making 107 of them. Not sure what the 107 number signifies but they are going to sell 106 of them beginning March 12th at New England Volver dealerships. Number 107 will be held for a fund-raising charity event for the Red Sox Foundation. Out of the Boston Globe is a description of the car:

"The special edition Volvo C30 has customized outside molding and trim, plus fog lights, heated front seats, a blue-face instrument cluster, leather-wrapped steering wheel with aluminum inlays, sport pedals, sport shifter, soft load cover, cruise control, and a Dynaudio sound system with Sirius satellite radio. It also has a small Red Sox logo badge on each front fender, special floor mats embossed with a Sox "B," and a large transparent Sox logo decal in the rear window.
The car is powered by a turbocharged T5 5-cylinder engine that produces 227-horsepower and 236 lb.-ft. of torque. A five-speed automatic Geartronic transmission is standard."

I have a few friends up there who WOULD LOVE THIS....EVEN IF THEY DON'T DRIVE.

Light on their Feet

Ladies and Gentlemen: Your CLOSER of the Boston Red Sox.

Your 2008 World Series Most Valuable Player AND Golden Paddle Winner

and Last but not least...the 2008 American League Rookie of the Year.

And here we all have been thinking Manny was the one out in leftfield. All pictures taken by Brita Meng Outzen at a function benefitting Mike Lowell's charity.

Happy Texas Independence Day!

A moment from baseball if you will. Today is when a group of men met on Washington on the Brazos (The Convention of 1836) and voted that Texas would declare it's independence from Mexico. A delagate by the name of Richard Ellis (sad to say no relation to me, purely coincidence) from Red River was voted President of the convention. The document was signed by all March 2, 19836. That doesn't mean independence happened that day for what many of you may not realize is the famous battle at The Alamo ended on March 6th AFTER Independence was declared. The battle began on February 23rd....a 13 day seige by the Mexicans who surrounded The Alamo, a mission. This battle involved 189 Texans and 1600 Mexicans....now you may understand why this battle was SO ingrained into our minds with the everloving cry by men who fought at the San Jacinto battle "Remember The Alamo". All but a few slaves, women and children were murdered at that seige. Yes, I say murdered because of that slightly unbalanced odds of men against men.

Above is a flag that was created by two women, YES women, when Mexico had sent men to retrieve a cannon that was lent to the town of Gonzales by Mexico. A group of armed Texans formed surprising the mexicans....the mexicans withdrew....and they kept the cannon.

The first flag established by a band of men led by John Scott said exactly what Texans wanted:

It wasn't until September 5th of that year that Texas elected a President. From 1836-1845, Texas was it's own country within the United States.

Novelist John Steinbeck perhaps said it best:
Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word.

So you see, loyalty and pride to be a part of something great was already instilled in me when I came upon The Red Sox Nation. When I believe in something and it's important to me, I stand by it....no matter who or what they say about it. So thanks Becks for remembering a day that is very important to me. And I hope each year when March 2nd rolls around, you remember Texas and you remember what it stands for....loyalty and independence. And as Paul Harvey would say....NOW you know the REST of the Story.

Paps being Manny?

NO, you are not seeing things. That IS Jonathan Papelbon wearing Manny's jersey. It seems Paps forgot his jersey. NOW tell me...how do you get ready for a game in your clubhouse, get in a bus to head to the other park, get out and THEN realize you do NOT have YOUR jersey?? So I'm just waiting for Paps to start growing dreds. I was sorta expecting to see baggy pants on Paps...but I think Papelbon is alittle taller. Game 2 today ended in a win. Lester on the mound. The boys return to our park tomorrow to end the weekend. I have several friends who are there this weekend. I WAS supposed to be there but work was too hectic to get away from it. I'm sure I'll hear all the great stories and see awesome pictures especially from Kelly. Steve is making his rounds and I can't wait to see who/where he's all been.

Tito Rocks!!!

Tito has brought us 2 World Series Titles in the last 4 seasons. He spits and chews. He's a player's manager. He backs up his guys and acts like a proud papa. There's one other reason I'm glad he's back....for scenes like these. Above is Tito getting thrown out of a game this past July at Fenway. The following are pics that occurred AFTER he got thrown out....Tito does NOT go quietly into the night apparently :) I attended over a dozen Red Sox games last year....two of them Tito managed to get thrown out. I like those odds.


I'm not sure what he was telling the Ump after he got thrown out...perhaps "your dick is this little"

Again...Tito jawing at the Ump who threw him out

I'm imagining Tito saying "Your lips are moving yet all I hear is Blah Blah Blah"

Manny's in Da House!!!!!!!!!

So Manny shows up ON TIME this year....and the media can't stand it cos this means there's no MANNYDRAMA to write about....SO of course they hang their hat on Manny's fashion sense and try to read between the lines of his minimal interview about whether or not he's going to pursue a extension on his contract. Can we ALL just BE HAPPY that Manny is IN TOWN on TIME???

Rock Paper Sissors

It appears the Red Sox are trying out a new method for selecting it's 5th pitcher. Tomorrow the rest of the team are supposed to report although Youk and Pedie already showed up earlier in the week while today Tiz, Jacoby and Lowell showed up for practice as well. The Big Question remains....Will he or Will he not be on time? You all know who I'm talking about....I'm betting he'll drive up sporting some new 'do with his tight clothing to cover his newly ripped body he's been working on all off-season and sporting that famous smile we all know and love. And as they say on The Price is Right...

Manny Ramirez............Come ON DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Beckett: I Ab Ready!

See....what'd I tell ya? Josh ain't worried about a thing. He's here to play ball. hard ball. fast ball. curve ball. sliders. nasty wicked ball. Smiling....shooting the peace sign....and doing alittle stretching it seems. By the way....that belly on Beckett just don't look that big. What has ALL the fuss been about? Spring training is began....the first game on the 28th has yet to be played. Beckett is pitching....and 2008 begins.

The Boys Are Back In Town!!!!!!

So Spring Training is HERE...Pitchers and Catchers Reported all on time and here is alittle review of what to expect. New Hair-Do's and Hats?

CardioBellyBusting Exercising

Reconnecting with old pals

and doing what our Pitchers do best.....Pitching.

and last but not least.....AIRPLANNNNNNNGGGGG!!!!

FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Beckett Arrives in Ft. Myers. He appears sullen or is it wistful? Jim Davis photo above with his or someone's caption "Not exactly a laugh a minute guy"....no shit Jim or random intern. We already got our "laugh a minute guy"


This is what I'm waiting on Beckett for


So let him do more of this so he can do more of what he did last year for us such as the playoff season: 30 playoff innings: allowed just four runs, 35 strike outs, & only walking 2. Let's just leave the jokestering to Paps and the Post-Pressers to Beckett.
**Josh shown practicing his "Kicking Ass" techniques

Red Sox vs Astros

Tomorrow morning I get to join the other Lotto winners to buy tickets to the Red Sox vs Astros series. I just hope I can snag 4 good seats. Now I have to figure out the best strategy of whether to purchase 4 singles or 2 doubles...1 game or two games?? So many ways to do this. And then to make sure I do NOT get the nosebleed section. Woo HOOOO! At least I know I have the chance to have a ticket for each game. Wish me Luck.

Truck Day!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Only the dyed hard in the wool fans get this picture. When the last baseball game is played in either September or in October, if we make the play-offs, we wait for Truck Day....the day all the Red Sox gear is packed carefully and sent on it's way to Ft. Myers, Florida in well Trucks. :)

I often wonder what the driver of the truck feels...to know he is carrying precious cargo to our boys. I have two friends at Truck Day, Cyn and Kelly, and I know when they return we'll get current pictures from them. But until then...I snatched a youtube rendition from last year of Truck Day. Enjoy and it won't be long till we see BASEBALL!!!

Being Sick Sucks

Coughing and hacking are not a pretty sight when you're trying to work professionally or just go to the store for that matter. After a good party on Mardi Gras, I awoke with someone on my chest....well it FELT like someone was on my chest cos I couldn't breathe and I was coughing up my lungs. Since I was in my other city I work in I kept trying to figure out what was wrong. On day three, this morning, I awoke with an earache as well. I call my other office to get the phone number of the clinic in my other city and talk about how the Dr BETTER give me some Antibiotics!!

SOoooooo I call the 24 hr clinic in the other small city I work in as I was on my way there. I get there and waited at least 45 minutes while filling out paperwork then being moved to another room. So Dr. Lady comes in...listens to me breathing...front and back...I coughed NO not like that....talked about all my symptoms...and without running a blood test...it was determined I had acute bronchitis.

"Well" I said, "Ive had it numerous times". She begins her discussion about how many people have come in with this blahblah blah blahblahblah and they are adamant about getting Antibiotics (I have no idea WHO she is referring to)...long story short. I didn't get Anti biotics. ::angry face::

She gives me this nice brochure explaining Acute Bronchitis..."what part of I HAD this NUMEROUS times did she not hear?" Anyway...so she tells me that this is a viral infection and antibiotics do NOT work on them. I look stunned...so I ask "What does then?" "Time" she says.

TIME? time?? T I M E???? "oh and it'll take about 7-14 days to get it out of your system" Again I look stunned. I know my previous doctors when I was younger gave me MEDS when i had this. She writes down an over the counter med and advises to get it and take it daily. So I ask a what i thought was a rhetorical question "its not contagious then?" She smiles and says "oh yes it is." again I'm stunned....

She then asks "Do you smoke?" I wanted to say "Only on the SG Board" but I was afraid she'd put me on the 5th floor so I just said "no". So now I sit on my couch after taking the over the counter meds...typing this...posting on SG...and hoping its just freezing cold the next week so I'm not upset about not being able to get out.

Lesson? I don't think there is one. I just know that I'm blaming that coach I met Mardi Gras night for me getting sick. Where's becks? I need that smoke.