August 31, 2007
Posted at: 11:31 pm by Timothy Haroutunian
Categories: Rants and Randomness
Today is my birthday and I was interested to see who had the same birthday as me. It turns out there are some pretty famous people who were born on August 31st.
Birthdays:
1928 – James Coburn, Actor (died in 2002)
1945 – Van Morrison, Musician
1949 – Richard Gere, American actor
1968 – Hideo Nomo, Former Red Sox pitcher – 2001
1972 – Chris Tucker, Actor in the Rush Hour movies
1973 – Scott Niedermayer, hockey player
1975 – Gabe Kapler, Former Red Sox player
There were not a lot of important events that happened on my birthday, but there were some from the past and “present” (after I was born).
Events:
1897 – Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
1962 – Trinidad and Tobago become independent.
1997 – Diana, Princess of Wales, dies in a car crash in Paris. (10 year anniversary today)
Just thought you might want to know!!
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August 30, 2007
Posted at: 11:40 pm by Timothy Haroutunian
Categories: Sports and Leisure
Well, you have can’t win them all, but so far we have won 80 games and have a now 5 game lead over the Yankees. I will be happier once we are back up to a 8 or 9 game lead. Actually, I take that back, I will be ecstatic once we knock the Yankees out of the playoffs and clinch the division. Now, a little recap of today’s game which ended with the Yankees winning 5-0.
Schilling pitched very well except for two costly hits which were home runs by Robinson Cano. It doesn’t matter how good Schilling, Beckett or Matsuzaka pitched this series, the bats were not there for the Red Sox. They came into this series outscoring the White Sox 46-7 and could not even get 7 runs in the series against the Yankees. If the bats were there, we would be in a different situation.
There was some controversy (I wonder why!) in this game which saw two ejections, one from both sides. First, Terry Francona (Red Sox Manager) was thrown out for arguing a play that included A-Rod and Youkilis. In the top of the 7th, Youk was on his way to third base towards A-Rod who had the ball and instead of throwing to second and then to first to get the double play, A-Rod tried to tag Youk. Well, Kevin got out of the way and went beyond the base path and A-Rod missed him and then threw to first for the out. The umpire originally called him safe, but after A-Rod bitched to the ump like the little winer that he is, they called Youkilis out. Francona was pissed and came running out to argue the call the other way, pushing Hale and Youkilis out the way. After a few minutes, Francona got fired up and they finally ejected him.
Next, in the top of the 9th with the Yankees on top 5-0, their new pitcher Joba Chamberlain was tossed. Joba, who has a 100 mph fast ball, threw two consecutive balls at Youkilis’ head and right as Youk was about to say something to the umpire about it, he was ejected. He had a look of shock like he didn’t understand why he was being thrown. I have a question though, How do you not know that almost hitting a player in the head back to back, 2 innings after he was involved in another controversial play, will get you kicked out of a game. He may be new to this rivalry thing, but if he plans to react like that, this 21 year old is going to be in for a world of pain.
I was listening to Mix 98.5 today on my way to work and they got a call from one of their DJs Sue Brady saying that she was on her way to New York to kick some Yankee Fans Ass because a bunch of women who were extremely drunk dumped beer all over her husbands head (he’s a Red Sox fan) while he was with some clients for work. He just turned around and sat there while they continued to swear and yell at him. I mean, I know that I despise Yankee fans (because they are too dumb to root for a good team), but I would never dump beer on their heads. A beer at Fenway Park costs $8.00 for a 16 oz and $10.00 for a 24 oz beer, why would you want to waste beer by pouring it on someone. First of all, thats a waste of money and beer, second, why would you give your enemy more of something that they (usually) enjoy. Just a side note, but Yankee Fans are rude and dumb.
Yankee Fans Suck, A-Rod Sucks, Yankees Suck, GO RED SOX!!!
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August 29, 2007
Posted at: 11:08 pm by Timothy Haroutunian
Categories: Sports and Leisure
Even though it is no longer an 8 game lead like we had two days ago, we still have a 6 game lead over the Yankees after the loss today against Roger Clemens. Four years since the last time the Red Sox faced Clemens and he came out strong. You might hate him, but he is an amazing pitcher just like he always was. He went six innings giving up 2 hits and only one run which was a homer by Ortiz.
The Yankees started off the bottom 2nd scoring 3 runs including a throwing error on Beckett. It wasn’t until there were two outs in the 7th that Beckett’s night finally ended giving up a home run to “A”-Rod (“A” for @$$hole), who jumped around like a little 12 year old school girl after they won. I mean honestly A-Rod, you call yourself a man yet you play ball like girl (Slappy McBlueLips). That was a tangent sorry…Youk brought the Red Sox back within a run, but they were not able to pull the trigger at the end and come back to win it.
Schilling will be up against Chien-Ming Wang tomorrow afternoon at 1:05pm for the final game of the series and the Red Sox need to score early and score often to keep the lead to 7 games in the East.
Yankees Suck, GO RED SOX!!!
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August 28, 2007
Posted at: 10:34 pm by Timothy Haroutunian
Categories: Sports and Leisure
It is that time of year again where the Nation faces off against the Evil Empire in “Hell” (Yankee Stadium because that is where the devil lives). Yesterday, the Yankees lost to the Tigers 16-0 making the Red Sox lead in the AL East 8 games, unfortunately for the Red Sox, the difference in game 1 was the former Boston favorite Johnny Damon. The now hated number 18 hit a two run home run off of Daisuke Matsuzaka in the bottom of the seventh inning.
In the first inning, the Yankees took a 2-0 lead but the Red Sox came back to tie it. The Yankees then lead by 1 run after Jeter hit a home run in the fifth. It wasn’t until the top of the 7th that Varitek tied it up with his home run to make the score 3-3. However, it ended the scoring after Damon’s home run.
Granted the Red Sox lead is still 7 games in the East, but it would have been nice to take a game 1 win making it a 9 game lead. Tomorrow nights game is Josh Beckett (16-5) against Roger Clemens (5-5). Beckett is tied with two other pitchers for the MLB leaders in wins and teammate Wakefield is one of them. It will be a great matchup tomorrow and hopefully we will be able to take game 2 and 3.
Damon Sucks, Yankees Suck, GO RED SOX!!!
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