Half Armenian, Full Eagle
The Red Sox have lost the last four games and have dropped into second place behind the Rays. However, not the worst slump they have had. They will get better again.
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According to a Turkish website, the Turkish government has tried to make amends with the Armenians since 2005. They brought a plan to the Armenians who didn’t accept. However, the Turkish government almost broke ties with the US Government a few months ago when they demanded that the US call off the discussion about the Recognition of the Armenian Genocide. The US complied because the US uses their airspace for the damn war.
How can they claim that they want to discuss the 1915 situation in more detail when they don’t allow another country to make its own laws about facts that you are talking about. It seems that it is a little to close together.
Ponder that!
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The Celtics celebrate their NBA Championship, just like all the other sports teams do in Boston… in Duck Boats! Yesterday, the Celtics traveled from the TD Banknorth Garden to Copley Square while fans gathered around to watch the Green flaunt their victory. Unfortunately, I had to work and logistically could not take the day off. One of my friends who was on PACE with me, Dan Fornash, went to the rolling rally and allowed me to use these pictures in my blog. Thanks Dan!
NBA Finals MVP and captain of the Celtics, Paul Pierce AKA “The Truth” holding his MVP trophy.
Wyc Grousbeck (Celtics owner), “The Big Ticket” KG Kevin Garnett and the NBA Championship banner.
Ray Allen and the 2008 Playoffs banner throughout Boston.
Ray Allen waving to the crowd from the Duck boats.
The Celtics mascot, Lucky taking video of the crowd. We actually got to see Lucky perform at Plymouth State during one of our home basketball games. He was amazing!!!
The next few pictures are fans gathering along the streets of Boston waiting for the duck boats to pass.
From the begining of the season to the rolling rally, the Boston Celtics made all of Boston forget last year and turn over a new leaf…and a new era of Champions!
2007-2008 Opening Night Introduction!
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Boston is the center of the sports world again….Red Sox in October 2007 win World Series, Patriots go to the Super Bowl in February 2008 and now the Boston Celtics are the 2008 World Champions. They beat the Lakers 131-92 (39 point difference) More to come later, but UBUNTU!!!!!!
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What an amazing game by the Celtics tonight. If you stopped watching the game after the 1st quarter, you screwed up big time. The Celtics were down by 24 points at one point and 18 points going into the 3rd quarter. With 6 minutes (or so) in the 3rd, the Celtics pulled together one of the greatest comebacks in NBA history. The only one better, was the Celtics Eastern conference championship comeback in 2002 while down by 26 points at one point and 21 points going into the 4th quarter. The Lakers thought they were going to make it 2-2, but the Celtics never gave up and took a 3-1 lead winning 97-91.
The Celtics homepage after the win said they were down by a lot going into the half. However, on the right it says that the Celtics won 97-91.
Game 5 is on Father’s day (June 15th) where the Celtics will try to bring home their 17th Championship banner.
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I have attended quite a few Red Sox games this year, but it always seems that interesting things happen while I am there. It has taken me almost two months to write this, but at least I got around to doing it.
One of the games that I was at, was the same day as game 6 of the Bruins vs. Canadians. My seats were in the right field grandstands and they had TV’s hanging down for people who had poles in front of them, they could see the replay if they missed it, or since they couldn’t see the Jumbotron. However, my friend Vasken and I started watching the TV while the Sox were warming up and found that they had the Bruins game on and we were so excited. Right as they were about to drop the puck, they changed the channel to the Red Sox game. We were upset, but we figured they would at least have the game on NESN so that they would update us on the score of the Bruins game. Instead they had it on FSN (most likely for contractual obligations), but we couldn’t find out the score. So instead of telling us the score, the techies inside of us pulled out our Blackberry’s and went to the website and auto refreshed the score.
Everything was going great and Vasken and I were updating the entire section of the Bruins game during down time. I was holding my Blackberry in my left hand and my beer in my right hand. See if you can put two + two together. That’s right, as Manny hit his go ahead HR in the bottom of the 8th inning, I stood up and my Blackberry slipped out of my hand and into my beer. I pulled out the phone and took out the battery immediately, however the damage had already been done. Luckily I had insurance on my phone (which I only had for about two months) and I was able to get a new Blackberry for only $50 instead of $400.
In the same game, the lady in front of me told me that I talk like Jack Black. I wasn’t sure how to take that, so I said thank you and continued watching the game. Random, I know, but it was an interesting night. Another situation at the same game, was a girl directly behind me that stood up and dislocated her knee. She was in horrible pain and had to have the medical staff take her out of the game to get it checked out.
Finally, the week before during the Red Sox vs. Yankees game, I broke my camera. Since I blog I like taking my camera to Fenway to have photos to display. However, I hadn’t been doing that because I still haven’t fixed my camera. I thought my camera was in my jacket which was next to me, but apparently it slipped down between the seat while I was standing up. When I sat down, all I heard was glass cracking.
Note: The Red Sox have won every game that I have gone to this year, but they are also 25-6 at home, so that might be why as well. Also the Bruins won that game in dramatic fashion, even though they lost in game 7.
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The NBA finals are back in Boston since 1987 and Game 1 was a memorable one.
Between Paul Pierce getting hurt and coming back to score 15 points in the 3rd quarter, to KG’s ridiculous slam dunks, this game was jam packed with intensity. By the way, the Celtics took game 1 of the 2008 NBA Finals 98-88 against the LA Lakers.
Game 2 is on Sunday, June 8 at the TD BankNorth Garden in Boston. I am entered into a lottery to try and purchase tickets for that game.
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The Pittsburgh Penguins tried to force a game 7 in the Stanley Cup finals, but fall short in last few seconds. It came down to the last shot with only seconds remaining and Osgood saved the game and won the series. The puck trickled across the goal line (right to left) as time expired to end the game. The Penguins came so close to tying it and force a game 7. It was a great game though.
Hendrick Zetterberg won the Conn Smythe (Constantine Falkland Cary Smythe) as MVP of the Stanley Cup Finals.
Even though the Bruins didn’t make it further, congrats to the Detroit Red Wings.
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Growing up, I loved watching the Mighty Ducks films, mainly because I was playing hockey around the time the movies came out. They were a few years older than me, but I really enjoyed it. That was in 1992 when the first film came out. The second and third films came every two years up to 1996 when the third was released.
In 2008 there have been rumors that they are actually going to make another one. It has been 12 years since the last one was made, it seems that today’s generation wasn’t even born when the first movie was released. However, they seem to have a familiar plotline for the 4th.
The Mighty Ducks return! Charlie is an adult; but he isn’t exactly grown up. When he gets into trouble with the law, he’s forced to do community service, coaching a children’s hockey team. Naturally, he calls on old friend Gordon Bombay (Estevez) for help.
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The plotline for “The Mighty Ducks 4” will have a lot to do with today’s generation preferring to stay inside and play video games or search the internet rather than get out there and play a sport. He believes there is an opportunity to take some of the characters like “Goldberg and Averman and bring them back, and we can revisit that, if we had a fresh story to tell. And that’s what we’re working on”.
That doesn’t give a definite that they are doing it, but I wonder how well it would do now.
On a message board, Rhino2233 writes:
A new Mighty Ducks film is currently in development at Disney. The film has officially been given the green light after script by Steven Brill was approved. The film will reportedly center on Banks, who has since gone pro along with Charlie and his girlfriend, Julie the Cat Gaffney, Bangor,Maine. Other cast members will be making cameos. Taking a more serious twist on the sorry, Coach Bombay will be defending himself in court against former ducks who charge him will sexual molestation that took place in the first two films. Hans will also appear in spirit form to give Charlie Conway some much needed advice. Watch for more news.
He is obviously kidding, but that is awesome.
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Manny Ramírez became the 24th player in MLB history to reach 500 career home runs. He joins Red Sox greats Ted Williams and Jimmie Foxx. Today’s HR against the Orioles came 1 day after his 36th birthday.
Ramirez got every bit of an 82-mph, first-pitch offering from former teammate Chad Bradford and sent it soaring high and far into the Baltimore night. The 410-foot blast — a solo job to right-center — came with two outs in the top of the seventh inning, and it boosted Boston’s lead to 5-3.
The Ramirez watch had been on for some time. By clubbing six homers in the season’s first 19 games, Ramirez was at 496 on April 19.
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