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The Good News is the Ice Cream’s Free…

…the bad news is we sing off key!

For my birthday we went to Outback for dinner tonight. Like good people we split an order of babyback ribs and just ordered a second salad instead of ordering two entr?es. Like bad people we ordered coconut shrimp for an appetizer. To make up for that transgression we declined desert. But we got on anyway. On the way in Donna whispered to the hostess that it was my birthday, so a cadre of wait staff came over and serenaded me and handed me a ice cream sundae (with two spoons.) Donna knows that I hate this kind of thing, but I forgive her, at least she didn’t get them to decorate the conference room with black streamers and balloons at work and get the whole front office to give me those horrible over-the-hill gag gifts that take up a section of Spenser Gift stores…

All I want for a present is an FRS victory in tonight’s game against Toronto. They won this afternoon’s make-up for last night’s rain out already, keeping them tied with the Damn Yankees. These two rivals are locked in a tie for first place with seven games to go in the season. This weekend they play three games head to head that will more than likely decide who is going to the playoffs. Doesn’t get any better than this…

As you can see by the bottom of this page I managed to do a little importing, all the previous Mr. Fletcher’s Ride photos are now a part of the new blog. Even with the heroic measures taken, I overran my bandwidth limit and when I got home this afternoon, the web site was locked. I emailed the web host and he promptly upped my limit, so I’m back online. Hopefully next month I will get no where near my alloted 10Gig.

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Let’s Hope They Never Got The Message

And aren’t going to get it late, meaning tonight. Last night’s rooting for the Baltimore Orioles didn’t work out so well, they still lost to the Damn Yankees, which placed the Red Sox a full game behind in the East. I’m hoping the O’s don’t get my wishes for a win a day late, because they are playing the FRS right now.

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Perfect Night Gone Awry

A Red Sox loss and a Yankee win last night put the FRS into their usual American League Eastern Division spot, 2nd place. The past couple of years that was still OK because they had a good enough record to get into the playoffs via the Wildcard route. This year that may not be the case because the Cleavland Indians have a better record than the Red Sox and if the season ended today the BoSox players could break out the fishing gear.

It is not over by a long shot (I tell myself), there are still 10 games to play in the season and ten games ago the Red Sox were in 1st place by 4 games. A turn around is possible, we only trail the Yanks by a 1/2 game and Cleavland’s hold on the Wildcard is only 1 game…

But the long-time Boston fan in me is absolutely positive we are out of the playoffs now though. A co-worker brought me in his copy of the DVD Fever Pitch and I figured what better way to drown my sorrows than to watch a romantic comedy movie that uses the Red Sox’s glory year as a backdrop. Well, it was a nice thought, but I left the movie on my desk…

The FRS have an night off, so their is no game on the radio to listen to, so I guess I will have to make do with listening to the Baltimore broadcast of the Orioles-Yankees game and rooting for the birds.

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Boston Red Sod

For the ultimate Red Sox fan. You can now buy a 18″ x 9″ rectangle of grass from last year’s championship season for a mere $150. I’m sure the careful gardener could rip up his existing lawn, break up the piece into say 1″ square bits and nurture this into an entire yard full of fabled Fenway turf. I’d have bought some with my birthday money, but they won’t ship. The only way to get your grass is to show up at Fenway Park Gate B at 9:00 AM on Saturday, September 24th and that is too long a drive.

Fenway Championship Sod Sale

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Ladies and Gentlemen, Kate Smith

Well, the FRS managed one out of three at the Stadium and ended up the weekend with a 3 game lead in the East. There are 20 games left to go in the season, so it is not over by a long shot, but the Sox are probably happy with their position right now. Of course us die-hard fans just know that a collapse is coming, I can feel it, a 2 game lead over the Yankees entering the final weekend of the season and needing to win just one game against the Bronx Bombers to clinch and they get swept at home. To make matters worse it will be on a Mark Bellhorn homer and Alan Embree will pitch a masterful 2 innings of relief to finish the game.

Although dead since 1986, I fully expect it to actually be Kate Smith singing “God Bless America” during the 7th inning stretch the way Bob Sheppard the Yankee Stadium public address announcer says, “Ladies and gentlemen, Kate Smith.”

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Man That Was A Long 4 Days

Why do short work weeks seem so long?

So far this week the FRS are one and one in televised games, but tonight is the one that really matters, Red Sox vs. Yankees in the Bronx.

From a tidbit in this morning’s paper:
3 Downtown Events To Close Streets Saturday
1) Sept. 11 Memorial March
2) Southeast Clown Association Parade
3) Walk for Autism
There is a very tasteless joke in there somewhere…

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This Week Can Go Down 2 Different Ways

Because the FRS are playing two teams this week from the top two TV markets in the country national sports coverage will be heavy for the next week. The Angels from the left coast are in Boston for a three game set mid week and Wednesday night’s contest will be ESPN. ESPN will also show Friday’s game from the House That Ruth Built. Fox has the Sox – Yankees tilt listed for Saturday broadcast, but I may not see that as they also list the Braves – Nationals and they try to regionalize their coverage.

As a bonus it looks like ESPN is going to show tomorrow’s contest between the White Sox and the Red Sox which is a make-up from a rained out August 14th game. I thought I heard one of the FRS’s broadcasters say last week sometime that Chicago was thinking of forfeiting the game because they didn’t want to fly into Boston, play a game and then have to fly back home on what was supposed to be an off day.

So I’m either in for an exciting TV week or a very disappointing one. I’ll let you know.

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