Hey Johnny, You Greedy SOB....

Oh this is good....

The Chi Sox have rescinded on their offer to Johnny Damon Demon. GM Kevin Willams said:

"It became clear to us in our recent negotiations that the money that we were offering was not going to be good enough for Johnny at this time. At this particular point, we feel it's necessary to withdraw our offer."

The response from Damon's camp? They told the White Other Sox that they had underestimated his market value. But Williams didn't fall for the BS and responded:

"Unless Johnny sees this as a great opportunity for him, enjoys a chance to win in a great city, it's an unrealistic number in which we got back from them."

(awesome painting by Erin Biscoe)

I remember Damon's first game at Fenway Park after signing with the Evil Empire (05/01/06 - I can't believe it's been almost four years!) People in the outfield were throwing $$ at him, calling him a sellout (and other things I can't post here!) He responded by saying we were just upset that he left and were *hurt* to be missing his talent. Ha.

No Johnny, we hate you you greedy SOB. Have fun in (potential unintentional) retirement!

P.S. Check out my post on Boston Sports Then and Now: 57 Years Ago Today We Almost Lost a Baseball Legend

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Boston Sports Blogapalooza

Boston Sports Then & Now, the Rhode Island based Swing Juice and Jerry Remy's Sports Bar & Grill are teaming up to put an event together for us bloggers to meet each other face to face, network, trade tips, eat, drink and be merry!!

Boston Sports Blogapalooza is being held March 28th at Jerry Remy's new Sports Bar at Fenway Park (watch out, Game On!) for all sports bloggers 18+.

Local artists Brian Richard and The Hootchies will be there for our entertainment (and a little Nothern-Fried Rock and Roll).

R.S.V.P. on BSB Facebook Event Page and become a fan!


Some bloggers I've seen on the RSVP list are:

• Cyn from Toeing the Rubber
• Derek from SawxBlog
• Caroline & Jennifer from Respect the Tek (I would not shake of Jason Varitek in my house either!)
• Jared Carrabis from SoxSpace

Will yours be next? I hope to see you there!

For more information Email Joe from Boston Sports Then and Now.

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RSN Represents in Vancouver Winter Olympics

Life is Good.

Pitchers and Catchers report TOMORROW;

Opening Day is only 45 days away;
The 2010 Winter Olympics are in full swing.

I have been pleasantly surprised watching the national coverage of the games to find out two of our USA representatives are members of Red Sox Nation!

(image courtesy of boston.com)

Hannah Kearney is a VT native, and 2010 Gold Medalist in the Women's Freestyle Moguls did a great interview with Bob Costas where she admits to wearing a Jacoby Ellsbury shirt under her opening ceremony uniform and then Costas gives a shout-out to RSN. (about 4:40 into the video).

It's been reported that Tom Wearner called Kearney up on her cell phone to ask if she wanted to throw out the first pitch at a Sox v. Yanks game in April; An offer she (reportedly) gladly accepted.

If I could walk in the shoes of anyone right now, it just might be Kearney.

I mean, Ben & Jerry's are going to name and ice cream flavor after her. And while that's not Sox related, it's just plain cool. Never mind the fact the flavor is Coffee and chocolate cookies. No joke, my favorite. Seriously we should be BFF.

(image courtesy of nbcolympics.com)

Then there is Mr. Michael Morse who placed 15th in the 2010 Men's Freestyle Moguls.

During his interview, he showed the world that he wore a Red Sox belt buckle under his skiing uniform. The buckle may not have given him the best of luck in the Olympics, but this guy is a lucky charm in other ways.

Morse threw out the first pitch in Lester's 2008 No Hitter (a game I was at!)

He grew up on the South Shore in Duxbury, MA and has been an avid Red Sox fan his whole life.

Have you heard of any other Olympian who is a Sox fan? How about an Olympian who is a fan of another MLB team? Email me and let me know!

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It's Truck Day, Brought To You By Jet Blue Airways...

...who in the what now?

Nevertheless, it's the day we've all been waiting for (especially since the end of the football season): TRUCK DAY!!!!! I attended Truck Day back in 2007. I was working in the city and it was easy enough for me to hop down to Van Ness Street to take in the happenings. Wally was there, I sung along to the music, took a few pictures...and watched a truck drive down the street. For many, they don't understand the draw. For those of us who bleed Red Sox red, it was the start of another year full of hope.

Truck Day has been a fan favorite in Boston for years, until recently it was completely overlooked by other ball clubs. According to an MLB.com article on Wednesday, Truck Day is now being celebrated by multiple clubs. Hey, I say the more the merrier (and MLB says, the more we can capitalize on, the merrier!) But really, when did Truck Day become a celebratory event in any other city besides Boston?

I'm not the only one who has noticed this. Craig Calcaterra at HardballTalk wants to know why truck day is suddenly a big deal.

Last year Dan Lamothe, over at Red Sox Monster did some analysis stating Truck Day queries on Google were largely dominated with Red Sox results. I'm going to venture to guess this year Red Sox will still dominate the SERPs, but there will be some creepers on the page. Next year is anyone's guess.

While Red Sox Nation may not have hope that this season will bring home another trophy to Boston, I think we're all excited to see the Boys of Summer back in action. At least I know I am.

On this truck day, we should all take a moment to remember Dom DiMaggio who would have celebrated his 93rd birthday today!

Here is a short video from Truck Day 2007 - Get Ready, Get Pumped, Get Thunder Struck; the 2010 season is almost here!

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Ask Soxy

Every once in a while something miraculous happens; I get confirmation that someone has stumbled upon this little blog. This can happen in the form of a comment, a RT on a Twitter post, or in this case a question via email.

Chris asks:

I saw the thing you did for red sox at bat music

i was looking for the song they play when jd drew hit that homerun in ALCS game 5 in 2008

if u could help that would be great!

Hey Chris,

Thanks for the question. JD Drew's walk-off hit in Game 5 of the 2008 ALCS was fantastic! At Fenway Park, every time the Sox win a game they immediately play "Dirty Water" by the Standells.

Here is a short video I took of the Standells playing "Dirty Water" at Fenway in October 2007, just days before the Drew hit. Enjoy!

~SoxyLady

*****UPDATE*****

I was wrong, Chris was talking about Drew's 2 run homer in the 8th. He emailed me back and said he found the answer. The song in question was the popular homerun song Sandstorm by Darude.



Thanks everyone for making sure the posted details were correct!

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Giving Away A Little Soxy Love

It's not important why I've been gone for so long - it's just important that I'm back and I have a great way to celebrate!

It's about that time of year we all love to hate. The dreaded VDay, Vtines Day, VD day - you know the day on the 14th where you're supposed to spend oodles of money to profess your love to someone. What's your plan? No need to send overpriced flowers, buy tacky stuffed animals, or eat gross filled candy when there is THIS:

The big love T-shirt from my pals at the Red Seat!!!!!

Want to take a closer look?


Yep, it's pretty awesome. A perfect - cost effective - gift for the love of your life (if that love is a woman, or a man who loves to wear his heart on his sleeve shirt).

But here's the best part. My generous pals have given me a code to share with my Soxy Friends for 10% off! Just enter SOXYLOVE when you check out to get the discount.

CLICK HERE TO ORDER YOUR BIG LOVE T-SHIRT NOW

**I was not paid by the Red Seat to post this, I just happen to love the company and their merchandise and think you should too!

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CB Bucknor

Seriously?!

The first "safe" call against Kendrick was bad. The second one - inexcusable.


Curt Schilling himself provided some insight over at SOSH:

FWIW that might be the worst umpiring crew in the history of post season baseball. Bucknor, Gibson AND Merriweather? Oh and Joe West, the umpire who is well known to hate the Sox as much as any man ever.
At least in Joe's defense he's a decent ump, albeit one who has stated EXPLICITLY on the field he holds grudges and gets even, CB, Gibby and Chuck just suck, no two ways about it. Chuck's at least a nice guy though. He feels bad when he blows calls. CB has never been good enough to ID a bad or missed call and as far as Gibby knows he's NEVER MADE a bad call.

Direct quote from Greg Gibson during a game "Do you know you are arguing with the best young umpire in the game right now?"

Dead serious when delivering it too....

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Want To Own Part of the Red Sox Franchise?

Jere from A Red Sox Fan From Pinstripe Territory has come up with an idea about how we, Red Sox fans, can own 17% of the Red Sox Franchise.

That's right, people, we're gonna buy the Red Sox. We've all heard that the Times is supposedly looking for a buyer for its 17 percent share of the Sox.

WHY NOT US?

They say the share of the team "could be worth up to 160 million dollars." But we're in a recession here, people. They can take or leave our offer of ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS.

Like he says, why not us?

Head over to his site, take a look, make a pledge and find those millionaires willing to help out!

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Coming Out of Hibernation

"...the best laid plans of mice and men often go astray..." ~Robert Burns

I'm not going to apologize or give you a laundry list of excuses why I haven't posted. I haven't, but I am now aren't you so happy?

My off-season has been semi-eventful. I started a new position at work, a new personal blog, had the holidays and all of that jazz. I even got to meet some Sox super-stars, past and present.

In November, thanks to our awesome friends from The Red Seat, we attended the 2008 Red Sox Hall of Fame Induction Gala. Mike Greenwell, Mo Vaughn and Bill "the Spaceman" Lee (among others) were this years inductees.

My husband and Louis Tiant

So we maybe, kinda, sorta stalked Tiant on his way to the bathroom. The thing is my husband is a huge cigar fan and we gave away Tiant's "El Tiante Cigars" at our wedding. When Tiant heard the boxes were for our wedding he actually signed one of the boxes for us, which was really cool.

Me and Mike Greenwell

I don't know why I was a little scared of Greeny - he was nice as could be. I can't even clearly remember what we talked about - but I was surprised by how genuine he seemed.

Me and Mo Vaughn

Mo was very cool. I (embarrassingly) told him when I was growing up my brother and I both had cow stuffed animals one was named "Mooooo Vaughn" and the other one was named "Cow Ripken" he laughed and said that was cool b/c Cal is one of his closest friends. I kinda wanted to ask him to call him up right then and there, but you know..I didn't.

Then right before Christmas the husband and I were shopping at the Cambridgeside Galleria and met Wes Welker (ufortunately we have no pictures, but we did get a great signed picture!)

Today we went to World of Wheels (for him, not me) and we I chose today as the day to go because Justin Masterson was there.



So this guy who brought Masterson up to the signing table had on a Yankees jacket and people were "booing" and yelling at him so he said "ok, ok, I'll take it off" and he had another Yankees shirt on under that. And again he said "ok, ok just kidding I'll take it off!" and off comes that shirt to display this A-Rod t-shirt. *sigh* At least Justin got a good laugh at it.

Another super-nice guy. We talked a bit about the Cape League and he said "man, that was a LONG time ago!" and I kind of laughed to myself thinking, "yeah, all the way back to 2005!" This kid has a great arm and a better smile.

So there it is, the celebrity sightings this off-season. Have you seen anyone good? My next stop is Ft. Myers in March. I can't wait.

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F*CK YEAH MY LITTLE PONY!!!

It's not breaking news that our very own Dustin Pedroia is the 2009 Rawlings Gold Glove winner at 2nd base. It's a well-deserved honor. Put it on your shelf, Dusty, and hope that your shiny MVP award will be sitting next to it soon.

Speaking of the AL MVP award....it's coming soon. Here are some other dates you may want to jot down on your calendar.

November 10th: Rookie of the Year Announced
November 12th: Manager of the Year Announced
November 13th: AL Cy Young Winner Announced
November 14th: Free Agents are....free
November 18th: AL MVP Winnter Announced
December 1st: Last day to offer salary arbitration
December 7th: Last day for those offered arbitration to accept
February 25th: Red Sox Spring Training Begins!
April 6th: Opening Day at Fenway Park!

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