Half Armenian, Full Eagle
While watching the World Series I noticed that behind home plate there was a green screen to display ads on. It was very weird to see because most parks will have rotating ads for even the fans at the game to look at, but not the Rockies. There was one angle where it would display ads and another angle that wouldn’t. Just an observation!!!
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A picture of the 2004 Rolling Rally
Again the Red Sox will celebrate like they did in 2004 with a duck boat filled rolling rally, however, many people will not be attending. You see, the Boston mayor, Tom Menino decided that instead of waiting until Saturday when more people could attend, they are holding it on a Tuesday at noon which means most people will be at work. I am very upset because I really want to go into Boston but I can’t because of work. I can’t even take my lunch break to go down because I would not be able to find a parking spot within an hour and the MBTA would be a lot harder.
Below is the parade route in case you want to head in for yourself.
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Since I had a wedding the night before they won the World Series, I was too tired to go into Boston that night and it was a Sunday and I had work in the morning. I was fine with it because I knew that they would have a rally (hopefully) on a Saturday, I was wrong. Red Sox nation spends 7 months (12 months if you follow breaking news all year) watching the Red Sox play and sit with them through the joys and sorrows of the season and the city of Boston repays us by holding it when most people can’t attend. I also don’t want to hear the saying “A true fan would miss work” because if I could I would but my work is launching our new website soon and I need to be there to fix any errors/additions that come up.
It’s alright, because I will just watch the coverage that is being streamed from myfoxboston.com on my other monitor while at work. (I will be getting work done while occasionally glancing over). For those of you who are going, enjoy the celebration and take lots of pictures.
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A few years ago, Red Sox nation would say, “All I want is to see the Red Sox win the World Series in my lifetime.” For everyone who has been around for the past 4 seasons, have now seen two championships in their lifetime. This was an amazing season for the Red Sox who were in 1st place in the AL East since April 18th. They won the AL East, swept the Angels in the ALDS, came from behind against the Indians 3-1 to head to the World Series. Finally they swept the Rockies in the World Series for their 7th championship in franchise history.
I am going to put together a bigger article when I have more time to write it.
Mike “RBI” Lowell, was named the World Series MVP. The game ended at 12:04 on October 29, 2007
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One more game to go before we bring another World Series Championship back to Boston. I will write more about the World Series if the Red Sox win game 4 and end the season with a ring and a celebration.
***My sister’s wedding was this weekend and that is why I haven’t written a lot the past few days. Sorry!***
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I don’t know how they did it, but with 4 minutes left in the game, the Eagles scored 14 unanswered points including recovering an onside kick to win the game.
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It is hard to say what the reasoning for a complete change in games 1 and 2, but the Red Sox didn’t have the bats in game 2. However, it didn’t matter because the defense and pitching was AMAZING. Schilling only gave up 1 run and the bullpen was untouchable through 3 1/3.
Out to Denver to take care of the rest of the series and hopefully bring another championship back to Boston. GO SOX!!!!
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Game 1 was just a Rocky bashing that started in the first inning. Beckett came out and struck out the side and then at his first at bat in the world series, Dustin Pedroia hit a home run off the top of the Green Monster. The runs just piled up for the Red Sox who won 13-1. 11 of the runs came with 2 outs in the inning.
The Red Sox broke 3 World Series records last night in Game 1. 12 doubles in a game (previous 9), beat opponent by 12 runs (previous 11) and 9 consecutive batters were at bat without making an out.
Game 1 ended at 12:07am on October 25, 2007. Game 2 will feature Curt Schilling on the mound! GO RED SOX!!!
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Verizon FIOS changes the way you look at your ISP with their new vision of 20/20. This means 20Mbps Download, 20Mbps Upload at $65 per month. This would be amazing to have considering that the average upload speed for US Broadband internet is 1.9Mbps. I want it!!!
FiOS now has more than half a million subscribers. How many of them actually need a 20Mbps upstream connection remains to be seen, but there’s no doubt that the cool factor here is off the charts; we’re confident1 that “Hey baby, want to head back to my place to see to me stream high-def video from my Mac?” will soon be the hot new pickup line at NYC nightclubs.
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While in Armenia in 2001 during the 1,700th Anniversary of Armenia becoming the first Christian nation in 301 AD, I was able to pick up a souvineer to bring back with me to the US. It was a commemorative case that held 40 boxes of matches with Armenian Churches and Locations on both sides of the box. The case that the matches were in and the match boxes themselves was created just for 2001 and they can no longer be purchased. This was given to me as a gift from my host family in Armenia.
The front cover of the box is a picture of Holy Etchmiadzin where the Catholicos resides and the birthplace of the Armenian Church.
On the inside cover is a picture of Khor Virap where St. Gregory was held captive in a pit for 13 years.
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Just when I think the US government is finally going to do the right thing and recognize the Armenian genocide, George Bush and other politicians petitioned Nancy Pelosi not to vote on the resolution next month. Their reasoning behind this letter was that since we are at war, we need Turkey as an ally so we can use their air space to be closer to Iraq. He said that it would cost too much money to fly in from another country and that having them as allies will help “our” cause. The question I have for Bush, is who’s cause? Your cause? All this war has done is killed innocent Americans who are trying to cover up his mistakes by continuing to fight. Don’t get me wrong, I fully support the troops and what they are doing for this country, but I don’t think that we should still be in this war and about 65% of the country agrees with me.
Facts:
Besides the people that George Bush has killed (yes, he has killed), he has also put this country in horrible debt. At the time of this post, the cost of war is at $462,300,000,000 (over 4.5 Billion dollars) and rising drastically. Here’s an interesting tidbit of information, Bush has spent more dollars in the war than the age of the earth which is 4.54 billion years old. My parents taught me growing up that, “Money doesn’t grow on trees”, but George Bush is apparently proving them wrong because he is spending more money than we have to spend, so what do we do, borrow it from other countries. Who is going to pay that off once the war is over? The American citizens are going to now and in the future and they will pay it off in taxes and other price increases. The reason I bring up the war is because I am an Armenian American who will have to pay off that debt, but what has this country done for the Armenian American population, they have rubbed this bill in our face by not passing it.
Adolf Hitler before the Holocaust: “Who still talks nowadays of the extermination of the Armenians?”
Turkey has condemned the “genocide” bill and recalled its ambassador to Washington back to Turkey for consultation over the matter, a sign of exasperated U.S.-Turkey tension over the issue. More than 1.5 million Armenians were killed in a systematic genocide in the hands of the Ottomans during World War I, before modern Turkey was born in 1923. All Armenian Americans want is for the US government to recognize this as a genocide and not try and pull some political bull just so we can use Turkey’s land. It has been 92 years since the genocide took place and Armenian Americans want to know that the country that our ancestors escaped to is finally going to agree with us. My great grandparents were featured in an article in the Boston Globe in the 1990’s for escaping the genocide and finally coming to Ellis Island to start a new life in Boston, Mass. A new beginning that my grandmother and my father and I were able to have in this country, one that 3/4 of my ancestors were not able to have because they were killed by the Turks in 1915.
To the US government, this might be a chance to keep an ally oversees, but to the 700,000 - 1.4 million Armenian Americans currently living in the US, it is about being recognized for the lives that were taken and new start this country gave us when the US actually cared about its citizens that live here. Please help raise awareness on this cause, and vote Yes (MSNBC Poll) and help bring the numbers back up because they are extremely low. This is not about politics, this is about doing the right thing and helping the Armenian Americans take back what the US has never given us…Recognition
WE WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER!!!!
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