Ahhhh.....Opening Day at Fenway Park. When rich corporate-account-types and townies lucky enough to score both a ticket and a day off get to cheer on the hometown team and gloat like drunken monkeys for all the assembled television cameras. Jesus. Watching NECN coverage is turning my stomach. Yes, as a former Opening Day attendee it makes me sick to see these unworthy fools sitting in what should rightly be my seat at Fenway, but do they have to be so friggin' smug about it too? I wish it fuckin' rained on their asses. Not the kids though. Wait. How does a ten year-old kid make it to Opening Day? Why aren't they in school? That kid's parent(s) should be throw in jail, the kid given to DSS, and all their tickets given to more deserving fans, and I think you know who I'm talking about.
For all the crap athletes take about talking in cliches, the sports media needs to be called out for what it is: a bunch of unphotogenic fat guys saying the same phrases over and over and over...
Every time I hear someone talk about how an athlete stepped up it makes me want to put my foot through the radio. God, why do I listen? Maybe I can get a t-shirt that says "WEEI ruined my life."
Has any Sox player been as flat-out cool as David Ortiz? I'm a supposedly mature adult male with a house and a family I love and a long list of important concerns to occupy my mind and I'd seriously give anything to be him. Not just a great, clutch hitter, he seems to enjoy the game and himself so much that you can't help but dig him. I imagine he's the kind of guy who can't wait to get up every morning because his life is just so fantastic. He also has the ability to respond to a situation in a way that's so perfect it's almost like he can't be real. Watching him in the 2004 playoffs was like reading a hokey sports book, or watching a bad movie. His performance just wasn't plausible, yet there he was racking up memorable hit after memorable hit and creating a legend one at-bat at a time.
For all the crap athletes take about talking in cliches, the sports media needs to be called out for what it is: a bunch of unphotogenic fat guys saying the same phrases over and over and over...
Every time I hear someone talk about how an athlete stepped up it makes me want to put my foot through the radio. God, why do I listen? Maybe I can get a t-shirt that says "WEEI ruined my life."
Has any Sox player been as flat-out cool as David Ortiz? I'm a supposedly mature adult male with a house and a family I love and a long list of important concerns to occupy my mind and I'd seriously give anything to be him. Not just a great, clutch hitter, he seems to enjoy the game and himself so much that you can't help but dig him. I imagine he's the kind of guy who can't wait to get up every morning because his life is just so fantastic. He also has the ability to respond to a situation in a way that's so perfect it's almost like he can't be real. Watching him in the 2004 playoffs was like reading a hokey sports book, or watching a bad movie. His performance just wasn't plausible, yet there he was racking up memorable hit after memorable hit and creating a legend one at-bat at a time.
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