Snapshots from Sunday afternoon

by gar ridge pride on Sep 6, 2010 7:20 PM CDT

Hey folks. As promised, some pix and random thoughts about the UNFREAKINGBELIEVABLE ballgame at Fenway Sunday afternoon. Some of you have written about it already and most of you have seen it and there's also the fact that I can't be too wordy with a couple lectures to look over for the first day of class tomorrow, so here you go:

Kotsay and Teahen discussing the rumor they heard that the next Sox number retirement ceremony is for a guy named 'Mark'.

The view from our SRO "seat" at the very top of the grandstand. (innings 1-7) I am not one of the people that so glibly call the place "a dump".

‘lil grp was lucky enough to get Danks, Bacon, Castro and the Bridge to add their sigs to the Edwin Jackson ball from last week.

I asked Ozzie why Beckham was batting ninth. (I'm pretty sure he swore at me in Spanish.)

The game took pretty long so many of the families with kids left at the end of the seventh, this enabled us to end up around 8 rows behind the White Sox on-deck circle. All of this of course happened because Josh Beckett wouldn't THROW THE FUCKING BALL! This picture is fairly unspectacular except for the strange appearance of a Babe Ruth impersonator in the upper left corner of the pic.

Manny's at bat in the 8th had to be one of the strangest AB's I've ever witnessed in 33 years of attending major league games. This weird buzz worked its way around from the 1st base side to us on the 3rd base side. I thought where we were featured mostly boos with only scattered applause. I wish I had the presence of mind to get a snap of the hundreds of people holding up their cellphones to get one of #99. BTW a security guy told us that Manny spent a couple hours in the under-the-stands cage on the Friday night of "Hurricane Earl". This was snapped milliseconds before he took the pitch on the hand.

Sorry folks that's all I got because doofus here didn't pack a spare set of batteries for the camera to make it through to the 9th. Needless to say, we couldn't believe what ended up happening and with today's heroics in Comerica I think we've got more life in us than I thought at the end of last Sunday's game. C'mon e-gus bring home a winner tomorrow.

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Good stuff

And the Sox managed to make Joe Scarborough sad:

2 outs in the 9th. The Sox lead 5-3. STILL 2 outs in the 9th and they’re losing 6-5. Unbelieveable.

7-5. This just got uglier. Fenway empties.

Theain is the guy I Just can’t stand! pierre is almost as bad,he dose get on base more. If Quntin gets any worse trade him. WE NEED HELP!

by 67WMAQ on Sep 6, 2010 7:39 PM CDT reply actions

Man, it got real ugly as the 9th went on, real ugly

" Well son, this is what happens when you mix lots of beer with a bad bullpen"

"Having resumed drinking alcohol, I cannot for the life of me understand how I ever could've given it up." - Merrick

by gar ridge pride on Sep 7, 2010 11:29 AM CDT up reply actions

i unfortunately had to bail after the stretch on sunday to make my flight at logan.

so for all i know, bosox fans are a nice, genteel bunch that i have nothing to complain about them for.

i’ve come to the conclusion that they’re easier to deal with when your team wins / is winning.

These events have me frightened and on the verge of evacuating my bowels.

by thatshortkid on Sep 7, 2010 1:30 PM CDT up reply actions

thank you. very nice.

i too noticed that beckett (then papeldouche (or is it douchelbon? i can never get it right)) would not fucking throw the motherfucking ball. i may have even mentioned it in the game thread.

i am a bark for buffeting. i am a hound for thornypaws. i am a doe for swiftness. i am a tree for wind-siege. i am a windmill. i am a hole in a wall.

by BuehrleMan on Sep 6, 2010 8:14 PM CDT reply actions

puta madre?

nice post GRP!

"I never say one bad thing about those stupid fucking Cubs fans. Not a single word about those mother-shitting pieces of fuck"

by onlysoxfaninbasel on Sep 7, 2010 2:00 AM CDT reply actions

Whoa.

Awesome ball ya got there. And great post, thanks.

"Before you can say 'sounds of the game,' Mark Kotsay is out." -Chris Rose

by Teahenny Penny on Sep 7, 2010 6:06 AM CDT reply actions

Is school out already, TP? ;)

Nice post, gar. Always a treat.

I guess one man's pain in the ass is another’s perfect fit.
by mick10 on Sep 1, 2010 2:39 PM EDT

by winningugly on Sep 7, 2010 9:30 AM CDT up reply actions

iphone pics, so no zoom, as my bday present of a new camera wasn't given until after the trip. (sigh)

http://s569.photobucket.com/albums/ss139/thatshortkid/fenway%20pahk/?start=all

i forgot to snap a picture of it, but i think i found hawk’s spank bank: in the bleacher bar underneath the monster is a tribute collage to yaz.

fun fact: that bar serves goose island 312 and is a notre dame bar, oddly enough, which got a few antagonistic “boiler up!”s out of my group before the domers put it away.

These events have me frightened and on the verge of evacuating my bowels.

by thatshortkid on Sep 7, 2010 10:36 AM CDT reply actions

thanks for adding your album tsk

I’ve been extremely happy with the Sony DSC-H1 that I’ve been using the last couple of years. A really great point and shoot for a little over $300 at the time. (I’m too chicken ..and cheap.. to take the step up to an SLR.)

"Having resumed drinking alcohol, I cannot for the life of me understand how I ever could've given it up." - Merrick

by gar ridge pride on Sep 7, 2010 11:35 AM CDT up reply actions