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...Williams did nothing that day, but who cares?-he played, and the hot dog and soda vendors performed admirably. I can't even recall who won. I'm sure the Sox didn't. But, again, who cares? The game was followed by not one but two rides on the Swan Boats in the Public Gardens, then ice cream sundaes at Bailey's. My brother and I slept on the back couch of the Oldsmobile all the way back to Chelmsford, no doubt dreaming...
...Lifelong Sox fan that I am, I certainly considered Fenway. But the team is so good these days that every game's a nuthouse experience. I felt that the whole megasized Major League showtime deal might lead to sensory overload, and Caroline would come away only with memories of shouting and screaming. Fenway just didn't feel right to me. I took Caroline to the Swan Boats last year-four rides!-but didn't even try to score tickets for that night's Sox game...
...summers ago, when my wife Luci and I split a house with others at the Jersey shore, we had taken in a few Trenton Thunder games. A kid named Garcia-something was playing short for the Sox Double-A club that year, and he was worth watching. I was charmed by the lovely riverside ballfield, and the family-friendly feel of the games. There was a big, stuffed, Double-A quality mascot named Boomer and several Double-A quality contests between innings. I could tell a new science was being applied to minor league games; no doubt this was behind...
...fondly remember Boston’s Roger Clemens going head-to-head with Oakland’s Dave Stewart in the 1990 ALCS (which the A’s won, of course), yet the Sox fans accept no rivalry that is not against New York. Men, women, and children of all ages stand along Yawkey Way before and after every game, hawking bootleg “Yankees suck” T-shirts. A week ago I went to an Allman Brothers concert at the Tweeter Center—a four-hour lovefest of billowing marijuana smoke and pricey hot dogs?...
...York in 1997 when he was charged with child abuse, and last year his temper flared up again during an interleague game against the Mets, when he earned a 10-game suspension for head-butting an umpire. Almost makes you nostalgic for the glory days of Mets-turned-Red Sox pitchers Bret Saberhagen (who sprayed bleach at reporters back in 1993) and David Cone (who allegedly exposed himself to three women while hanging out in the Mets bullpen during a 1989 game...