Ryan Hanigan
Began again.
Tag: red sox
Cardinals championship ruins joke
In 1996, I sent Levi a condolence card after the National League Championship Series, in which the Braves came back from being down 3 games to 1 to the Cardinals (including a 14-0 win at Busch Stadium in Game 5).
In 2004, I sent Levi a condolence card after the
Red Sox swept the Cardinals in the World Series.
This year, if the Rangers had won in Game 6 or Game 7, what I would have sent Levi is some random sort of greeting card — perhaps a My Little Pony birthday card that would normally be intended for a 5-year-old girl — and writing in it, “I asked my friend Tony La Russa to call and order a condolence card.”
Of course, I don’t think Levi necessarily minds that he didn’t get to fully enjoy that joke.
What a difference 6 years makes
Some differences between May 2010 and May 2004:
- The Boston Red Sox have won the World Series twice.
- The Tampa Bay Devil Rays are now just the Tampa Bay Rays, and have won the American League pennant.
- Kaufmann Stadium, home of the Kansas City Royals, has been renovated.
- The Minnesota Twins play in an outdoor stadium.
- I have a job where Excel is installed on my computer, which means I don’t have to use graph paper. I can make actual spreadsheets, such as this one.
- Through various travel-related machinations, I hold Premier Executive elite status with United Airlines, Executive status with National Car Rental, and Platinum status with Hyatt.
- There are no Hyatt hotels in the state of Iowa. (Actually, this may have been true in 2004 as well.)
- I like baseball even more.
- Levi is at least twice as busy.
Does this list of differences have anything to do with anything? Mmmmmmaybe…
Fox being Fox
If the World Series had been Dodgers-Red Sox instead of Phillies-Rays, Fox’s TV coverage would have gone something like this…
Joe Buck: Manny Manny Manny. Manny Manny Manny Manny?
Tim McCarver: Manny Manny Manny Manny Manny Manny. Manny Manny Manny Manny, Manny Manny Manny Manny.
Joe: Manny Manny Manny Manny. Manny Manny Manny — Chris Myers?
Chris Myers: Manny Manny Manny Manny Manny Manny Manny. Manny Manny Manny Manny Manny Manny. Manny Manny Manny Manny Manny Manny. Manny Manny Manny Manny Manny Manny Manny Manny. Manny Manny Manny Manny Manny. Manny Manny Manny, Joe.
Joe: Manny Manny Manny Manny Manny Manny — there’s a grand slam by Rafael Furcal — Manny Manny Manny Manny Manny.
Tim: Manny Manny Manny Manny Manny Manny Manny Manny Manny Manny Manny Manny Manny Manny Manny Manny Manny Manny Manny Manny Manny (continues until end of inning)
By the way, don’t let anyone claim that the Rays are a “small-market” team — Tampa-St. Petersburg is the 13th-largest media market in the U.S. (link is to a Nielsen PDF). Larger than Seattle-Tacoma (#14), larger than Minneapolis-St. Paul (#15), larger than Miami-Ft. Lauderdale (#16).
The sparkly scorpion
Here’s David Ortiz wearing an awesome jacket on “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” last night. Aren’t you
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Man, I’m sick of the Red Sox always winning the World Series! (Now there’s something no one’s said in about 90 years.)
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it works just as well tomorrow night as “Heroes” chili.
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Nice trick if you can pull it off
At Fenway Park this season, the Red Sox averaged 101.4% capacity. Actually, before you click on that link, try to guess which
team drew the lowest percentage.
It’s Levi…from the future!
But he doesn’t look particularly happy to be there. Perhaps the people he’s with — I assume that’s his niece and her kids, also from the future — are
distracting him from keeping score and/or reading, and are annoying him by wearing Red Sox paraphernalia instead of Cardinals items. Or maybe he’s just worried about the time travel paradox.
(You may also note that Fox’s graphic has misidentified him.)
Sorry, Devil Rays
This site, called Cool Standings, shows the major league baseball
standings — including expected wins, expected losses, and their calculation of each team’s chances to win the division, win the wild card, and make it to the playoffs, period. The Red Sox currently have a 96.5% chance of making the playoffs; the Padres are tops in the NL, with a 90.9% chance.
If you click on each team’s name, you get more stats, including
a graph showing how their playoff chances have risen and fallen during the season. The one for the Yankees is particularly recommended.