Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, Welcome to Fenway Park
Finally, a Red Sox home opener. Today marks the 4th time the Red Sox have participated in a home opener of the season. One in the Toyko Dome, at Oakland, at Toronto and now at Fenway.
Let's hope an extra cup of coffee can help the home team get on base and score some runs. The wounded Detroit Tigers are in town and off to an 0-6 start. The are a bit hurt, but are too good a team to rollover and play dead.
No matter the competition, it is nice to have the local team home.
Expect Coco Crisp in CF today. As reader blmeanie pointed out, the Red Sox really need Crisp to hit a bit in order to trade him. If he keeps up his .235/.235/.294 (yes, a whopping .529 OPS) numbers, they'll have to cut him. "Time to put some lipstick on this pig." Either way, time to say goodbye to Coco. I know, I'm beating a dead horse here.
Play ball!
Comments
your title of this post, for those younger than 30, is the voice of Sherm Feller, longtime PA announcer at Fenway.
I have an audio clip of the title somewhere, let me find it and give you a link if you are interested (any older Sox fan should be, right?)
Posted by: blmeanie | April 8, 2008 10:54 AM |
by the way - Buckner?
Who's next, Bucky Dent? Bill Laimbeer? Ralph Sampson?
Actually I was hoping it was Matt Walsh, spygate secret witness, perhaps the Fenway faithful would chase him down and tar and feather him...
Sorry to mix sports, it was for entertainment value only.
Posted by: blmeanie | April 8, 2008 04:07 PM |
blmeanie, I was unable to watch the game live, but read the Boston.com updates and was thrilled that they chose Buckner and more importantly, thrilled that he accepted. He has tried to remove himself from the whole 1986 thing and in fact lives in Montana now I think.
He is a good guy and was a great ballplayer. To qualify that, another good season or 2 and he might have been a HOFer.
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April 8, 2008 08:17 PM
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btw, go to http://www.shermfeller.com/ and you'll hear the legand welcome you to Fenway Park.
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April 8, 2008 09:32 PM
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thanks for the link, I found my wav file of it too.
I haven't been to Fenway in a couple/few years, do they play a recording of the welcome or does the PA announcer do their own version of it?
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April 10, 2008 06:18 AM
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