Casey On NESN

As far as Sean Casey goes, he's probably not the answer.


A bit rough and earnest

Sunsets, Bitches

Enjoy the Holiday weekend.

Day Game To Erase Night Mare

Rish is on the mike, as usual on Wednesdays. Nobody told the board op back at the station, who played the Joe C/Obie playin.

If there's anything interesting to say during the game, I'll log it here.

[ok, not much of a game up to the 9th]

developing...

Game Tied!!!!! 5-5

6-5 final. As Rish said at the close, "we had them all the way"

Ooops

Aside from the Red Sox monumentally shitting the bed last night, the June 30 game was notable for another reason:


Due to ESPN commitments,. Dave O'Brien started the game, waited out the rain delay (1 hour and 11 minutes), picked up after the delay, and then just LEFT. Rish and Joe C. presided over the immolation of the Boston Red Sox bullpen. It was ugly in ways not calculable

New Trupiano Podcast

Underdogs

In Jail A Long Time

Don't let the rats eat your innards, Bernie.


How does it feel to be totally alone?

But in meting out the maximum sentence, Judge Chin pointed out that no friends, family or other supporters had submitted any letters on Mr. Madoff’s behalf, attesting to the strength of his character or good deeds he had done.

Dave Makes The Effort

You've got to hand it to Dave O'Brien, who is making a concerted effort to call as many Red Sox baseball games as possible on the radio. He was in DC with the Sox Tuesday, went to Atlanta for his Wednesday gig on TAWWL, and then can back to DC. Considering that the Red Sox are now in the ATL for the weekend, he could have easily stayed put Thursday and waited for the team there.

Trup Takes On Don Fehr

Jerry's latest podcast is here.

Dave Roberts

Listen, the guy stole second base at a critical time in 2004, so I am not gonna go all Geffner on him, but last night's Nationals' game on NESN was a little rugged for Dave.

1. He has a habit of repeating or slightly reframing what either Orsillo just said or what he himself just said.

2. A couple of times toward the end of the game, he wasn't putting sentences together, just saying random disconnected phrases.

And another thing, not Dave-Roberts connected: what the fuck is up with the uber high angle homeplate shot in Nationals Stadium?. it looked more like a soccer match with the little men on the field. NESN, let's try to pluck out a lower anger establishing shot tonight.


The scoreboard is nasty big isn't it?

Yikes

Not much a showing by the Nats last night.

During my visit to Nationals stadium earlier this year, I didn't notice the glue factory out past the Right Field pavilion. But, it must be there, since the Nationals' bullpen is headed there next...Wells, Villone, Tavarez, Mike MacDougal!?. Yikes.

25

I've been thinking about this for a while, but my best count is that I've been to MLB games in at least [update] 25 (I forgot a couple.. sorry Jary Park) ballparks during my miserable existence. Some don't exist anymore. Most for good reason.

Anyhow, the last one was Nationals Park in Washington, where Your Boston Red Sox play for the next three nights.

I paid my first visit to Nationals Park a couple of weeks ago to see the titanic matchup between the Nats and Redzzz.

To be honest (for a change), the Nats park is the first of the new parks I've seen that I didn't take a shine to.

It has a lot of amenities. In fact, all it has is amenities, most of which were closed after the 2 hour rain delay and the club sent most of the workers home. So, that was odd. Of course it was a rain-delayed Tuesday night game between the two NL powerhouses, but still there couldn't have been more than 7,000 in the park when the "game" began.

The Nats have some good (or formerly good) position players, so their woeful record is attributable to pitching and defense, I guess.

The most distasteful thing about the experience was the monstrous, ginormous, big fucking scoreboard in center field. Holy Mother of Ahmadinejad, that bitch is big. And, it overpowers everything. I was sitting there, 6 rows from the field, watching the game on the screen. It was reflexive, and makes no sense, but I kept doing it and catching myself. Check it out on NESN this week.

I was really looking forward to seeing the park, since I lived in DC during the Ford administration (look it up), and never saw a pro ball game, except having to go to Municipal Stadium in Baltimore. I did see an oldtimers game in RFK where Luke Appling, age 75, hit a homerun.

Also, after two hours of rain, the brand new field didn't drain very well.

My night at the park:

But, they had Pilsner Urquel on tap, so that was good.

Jerry Trupiano Now

Recently, Jerry Trupiano began a series of podcasts, entitled "A View From The Booth".

It's wonderful to hear him opine about hockey, baseball and other things near and dear to him.

This seems to be an effort to start a new career path after having been wrongly replaced by the Boston Red Sox at the end of the 2006 season.

Welcome back Jerry, may you succeed in your next gig.

I'll be posting links to his podcasts, so you can enjoy a real pro. Sorry Geffner, and sorry Rish, but this guy has knowledge and pipes and memories and attitude that you'll never have.

A fan,

LC