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...dyed-in-the-wool Red Sox fan, the other a Bronx bomber since birth; when it comes to Major League Baseball, we don’t agree on much. During the postseason, metaphorical fists fly as we gloat over our respective teams’ accomplishments and argue over who is the more valuable player: Mike Lowell or Derek Jeter, Mickey Mantle or Teddy Ballgame. But there is one thing we can agree on; we both nominate Manny Ramirez and Jonathan Papelbon for 2008 Class Day Speakers...
...have long watched these two enigmatic Red Sox stars with the rapt attention one might pay to a car accident—as much as you want to avert your eyes from the fiery wreckage of yet another Ramirez base-running blunder or J-pap victory dance, you are physically unable to. But over the course of the Red Sox’s championship run, it dawned on us that while the media might lampoon—sometimes affectionately, sometimes not—Manny’s space-cadet qualities or Papelbon’s meat-headed antics and deranged...
...would be a disservice to the senior class not to invite these two Sox stars to speak at Class Day. If the Class Committee forces us to listen to Tim Russert bloviate about Big Russ instead we’ll go nude under our graduation gowns in protest...
...course, even if you are grounded, it helps to dress for success. Just follow J-Paps example: “I just happened to have on nothing but some underwear and a kid’s t-shirt Red Sox uniform jersey, and, you know, that’s kind of what I decided to celebrate in, you know what I mean, what I can tell...
November is to baseball fans as the end of party grants is to Currier’s Ten Man: game over. Though Boston Red Sox followers have been spoiled recently—two World Series titles in four years—it is time to face reality. The season’s over. Retire the jersey and don something with long sleeves. Luckily, for those of you who need to relive the magic, Jimmy Fallon and Drew Barrymore’s lighthearted romantic comedy “Fever Pitch” (2005) remains a solid home-run flick to hold...