Comments on: These are the Good Old Days

By: Big Guy

Big Guy — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:55:19 +0000

I guess the ladies love Ellsbury. I was at game one of the ALDS and when he came in in the ninth and they annouced his name, all I heard was shreks of joy. I told my brother to settle down and relax, hes just one player. He stopped shreking, but he giggled like he was five when Jacoby made, what is now, a patented sliding catch to rob a base hit.

By: Mumma

Mumma — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 02:34:12 +0000

You guys are scaring me now….

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 02:09:50 +0000

Oooh, I almost forgot about Ellsbury. In fact, how could I forget about Ellsbury? His exclusion from the line-up was the reason for my post in the first place.

You are absolutely correct. He’s dreamy!!!

By: JFCC

JFCC — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 01:21:03 +0000

Ed, ask my dad sometime if you can listen to the “Thank God I’m a Country Boy” tape.

At one point Sunday night, I turned to DG and said I had a man-crush on Ellsbury. So you’re not alone, Ed.

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 01:10:57 +0000

I’m just glad everyone has moved beyond my shocking confessions. I don’t need that haunting me.

By: Mumma

Mumma — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 21:48:05 +0000

I may be your mother, but I ain’t DEAD yet!

And take it as a sign that I just might be if I no longer admire ( from WAAAAAY afar) all of the attibutes of a professional athlete. I am not the one who put him in those pants…or Brady in his either, come to think of it.

By: JFCC

JFCC — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 21:09:42 +0000

Sigh…Mention of “Papelboner” and my mother talking about the nice ass of a guy younger than me.

Welcome to Biggerboat, folks.

By: Mumma

Mumma — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 20:01:25 +0000

Excellent choice, Ed, he has a nice ass.

By: Ed

Ed — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:41:21 +0000

Giving as how I spent the better half of last Friday night warbling alongside my soon to be married bud, Mookie, to a little Kareoke rendition of Bonnie Tyler’s ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart’ followed up by my own solo shot at ‘Just a Gigolo’ and I had merely two beers down my gullet by that point, I have to take Pap’s cause under my wing. He’s not crazy. It’s the rest of you that are.

I am a happily married man and father of two children so I feel completely secure in my own sexuality when I say, I love me some Papelbon.

He’s my Man Crush.

By: Ed

Ed — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:37:19 +0000

Yes – I am reposting a Comment I placed on my own site. Hey – this is all part of my appeasement tour for getting momentarily blinded by rage. ED SMASH LUGOOOOOOOO…errr, where was I?

Anyway, here goes.

Now that my head has cleared (your beloved home team winning the ALCS will do that for you) I have come here to repent. No, I will not apologize for Tessie. The Dropkicks still owe us for that one – although ‘Shipping Up to Boston’ may be thanks enough (no matter how many times I hear that song, I never fail to get pumped and jacked).

My post last week was written in desperation. While I know I had nothing to do with the outcome, it is nice to see Francona come around and embrace conventional wisdom by his insertion of Jacoby Ellsbury in the starting line-ups for Gme 6 and 7. Of course, Coco’s absolute failure to execute the most routine of plays (bunting the runners along) in 3 tries may have had something to do with that.

And there’s happy endings all around. Ellsbury contributed – as the 36,000+ fans who stood and cheered his every appearance could attest to – and Coco got to make a spectacular final catch through his ‘balls to the wall’ dash to rob Cleveland of any potential hint of a rally and send the Red Sox on to the World Series for the first time in three years. (It would be nice if they would win one for my two-year old daughter Aria who has waited a lifetime to see this moment.)

Game 1 is tomorrow night. I will be saying pennance over the next 24 hours or so and promise not to follow those lemmings to the Tobin again. That thing’s cracked ya’ know.