Red Sox Win!

October 29, 2007 at 1:55 am · Filed under Baseball, Blog: Fall 07

People that know me know that despite growing up in New York, I’ve been a devoted Red Sox fan my entire life. (Something that was inherited from my father.) Yet, I don’t talk about it much here on SLN. That goes along with being a Boston fan. You don’t gloat because it could jinx you. During the bad times, you don’t say anything to put the team down, no matter how upset they make you. And you don’t ever assume a win, even with a large lead in the 9th. This could also jinx you. But the Red Sox won the World Series tonight!

Some thoughts:
- Papelbon = amazing.
- Francona: 8-0 in World Series
- Pedroia and Ellsbury. Yeah.
- Mike Lowell MVP

One thing I thought was completely unbelieveable during last night’s game came at the top of the 8th inning with no outs. FOX cuts away to their reporter in the stands to announce that A-Rod had opted out of his contract with the Yankees. Who the f#$@ cares about A-Rod during that game when John Lester made a special start and the Sox were on the verge of winning the World Series? And then Buck and McCarver discussed it for the rest of the inning. It was a completely inappropriate, classless, and tasteless moment. (Scott Boras is a complete jackass. Read here.) Hey Theo, Keep Lowell and screw A-Rod. I hope the Red Sox don’t even entertain Boras. We didn’t need him to win two World Series’.

In other news, I wonder how many shirts I’ll get for Xmas this year. Two in 2004.

Put on the Dropkick Murphys and celebrate!

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Play ball!

March 9, 2005 at 11:36 am · Filed under Baseball, Blog: Winter 04, New Music

Baseball season is just around the corner and Kyle Gann’s been making sports/music analogies. (That’s Hotaru over there, by the way.) I like John Luther Adams’ response, which likens music to baseball more than basketball. I’ve never been a big basketball fan–although I find the NCAA much more interesting than the NBA–and have often thought that a baseball game is like music. It is slow, like JLA says, but that only serves to increase the tension. It’s like a late Feldman piece. Milton Babbitt, whose music is a bit more eventful than Feldman’s, has a couple of baseball-inspired titles–Around the Horn (1993) for solo horn and Whirled Series (1987) for alto saxophone and piano. I’ll be listening to Babbitt and Feldman for the next couple of weeks to get in the mood for opening day. Go Sox.

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