About Me

My name is Mac and I'm a die hard Red Sox Fan in Colorado. Dreaming of the day I get to Fenway. Back during the 2007 World Series, I was doing some shoping in hometown wearing my Ted Williams Jersey, and Red Sox cap. One of the stops I made that day was the Dollar Store,and while waiting in line some old lady said to me I should punch you for wearing that, and punched me in the face for being a Sox fan, and routing against the Rockies.

PROUD MEMBER OF THE RED SOX MAFIA
RESPECT~LOYALTY~FRIENDSHIP!!!
RISPETTO~FEDELTA~AMICIZIA!!!
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"I have vison and the rest of the world wears bifocials"

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1971.37 miles from Fenway


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This is about the whole team, not all about one or two players. This is about the Red Sox right here. I told everyboby, you've got to feel proud of wearing this name on your chest"
~David Ortiz
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"Who hits the ball and makes it go? Dominic DiMaggio. Who runs the bases fast, not slow? Dominic DiMaggio. Who's better than his brother Joe? Dominic DiMaggio."
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"All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life."
~John Cheever
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As Commissioner, youre supposed to be objective. It wasn't much of a secret, though, that I loved Fenway especially how it made you a participant, not a spectator." - Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn

"As I grew up, I knew that as a building (Fenway Park) was on the level of Mount Olympus, the Pyramid at Giza, the nation's capitol, the czar's Winter Palace, and the Louvre” except, of course, that is better than all those inconsequential places." - Baseball Commissioner Bart Giamatti

"Everything with me is normal except when I pitch (in Fenway Park). When I pitch here it's a little different. There is a little more anxiety to go along with the nostalgia because this is the park I grew up with as a kid. This is the park I dreamed of playing Major League Baseball in and no other ballpark has that feeling for me. There are a lot more family and friends here than in my normal starts and I want to pitch well here." - Tom Glavine in the Boston Herald (July 9, 2001)

"Fenway is the essence of baseball." - Tom Seaver in the Christian Science Monitor (July 1999)

"Fenway Park is one of the most historic, beloved, and revered ballparks in the nation. In fact, [tourism statistics] indicate that Fenway Park attracts more visitors to Boston than any other single attraction." - C.H. Johnson Consulting, Inc. in The Johnson Report (1999)

"I'm helplessly and permanently a Red Sox fan. It was like first love...You never forget. It's special. It's the first time I saw a ballpark. I'd thought nothing would ever replace cricket. Wow! Fenway Park at 7 o'clock in the evening. Oh, just, magic beyond magic: never got over that." - Art Historian Simon Schama in History in Brilliant Brushstrokes (1999)

"I've always noticed how the Fenway fans get behind the pitcher, especially late in the game if you're having a good game, or if you have two strikes on a hitter, they really start to chant and anticipate a strikeout. And that's the best part about playing in Boston and at Fenway. There are knowledgeable fans who anticipate the flow of the game and they can really help out the pitcher." - David Cone in the Boston Herald (May 28, 2001)

"I've moved from the newest ballpark in the country (Miller Park) to the oldest. It's the dream of my life. It's the best place in the world to be. Fenway Park." - Groundskeeper Director David Mellor in the Boston Globe (April 7, 2001)

"Love of Fenway itself may be as much a part of the Sox' 2.6 million annual attendance as Pedro (Martinez), Manny (Ramirez) and Nomar (Garciaparra)." - Sportswriter Michael Gee in the Boston Herald (July 10, 2001)

"New England's parlor, a region's nightclub, and the Olde Towne Team's hearth. To generations of Americans, going to Fenway Park has been like coming home." - Curt Smith in Our House : A Tribute to Fenway Park (1999)

"That's the magic of Fenway Park. That's why people love it so. Come to think of it, at Fenway almost every year is a wonder year." - Red Sox Announcer Ned Martin (1977)

"The ballpark is the star. In the age of Tris Speaker and Babe Ruth, the era of Jimmie Foxx and Ted Williams, through the empty-seats epoch of Don Buddin and Willie Tasby and unto the decades of Carl Yastrzemski and Jim Rice, the ballpark is the star. A crazy-quilt violation of city planning principles, an irregular pile of architecture, a menace to marketing consultants, Fenway Park works. It works as a symbol of New England's pride, as a repository of evergreen hopes, as a tabernacle of lost innocence. It works as a place to watch baseball." - Martin F. Nolan in A Ballpark, Not A Stadium (1999)

"This is the place to be. Baseball town. The intimacy of Fenway, the toughness of it. I like that. I'm used to it. I need it. If I went somewhere else, it might have been a bit of a letdown. I like the edge." - David Cone in the Boston Globe (February 13, 2001)

"To me, the feeling is what you get from standing on this field. It's the memories, the history you get a great sense of the players who played here over the years. What made Camden Yards a gem was re-creating the atmosphere that a place like Fenway already has." - Cal Ripken, Jr. in the Boston Globe (September 25, 2000)

"We love Fenway Park because we love antiques, be they rocking chairs or ballparks. But we love it even more because the eccentricities of the place mirror our own. It is, like us, difficult and cranky. And this makes it a mighty hard place for a player to play in. Too bad. Players come and go, but Fenway Park may become an American Pyramid." - Boston Red Sox Sportscaster Clark Booth in Fenway by Dan Shaughnessy

"When we lose Fenway, we lose that sense that somebody sat here and watched Ted Williams hit." - Broadcaster Bob Costas on Fox Game of the Week (1999)

"You can say, 'Well, if they tore down Fenway Park, we can build a new one.' But you wouldn't build it right. It's better to make the accommodations, to save the old ballparks. If Fenway Park needs sky boxes to bring in the poverty-stricken owners enough money to save the stadium before they tear it down and move it someplace else, then build the damn sky boxes. If Wrigley Field needs lights to survive, put up the damn lights.... Make the damn structural improvements, but save the ballpark because when you try to rebuild a cathedral five hundred years too late, it doesn't come out the same." - Sportswriter Tom Boswell in The Story of America's Ballparks (1991)

"When the Red Sox win (at Fenway Park), the P.A. system immediately blares forth 'Dirty Water,' a No. 11 hit for The Standells back in 1966. It's usually little more than pleasant background music as we make our slow way toward the exits. But after a dramatic win and tonight marked the Red Sox' third walk-off win in their last eight games a good percentage of the fans hang around and sing, 'I love that dirty water... Oh, Boston you're my home.'" - Sportswriter Rob Neyer on ESPN (August 7, 2000)

The Wall giveth and the Wall taketh away.

-- Roger Angell


Fenway Park, in Boston, is a lyric little bandbox of a ball park. Everything is painted green and seems in curiously sharp focus, like the inside of an old-fashioned peeping-type Easter egg.

-- John Updike


Baseball isnt a life-and-death matter, but the Red Sox are.

-- Mike Barnicle, Boston Globe, 1977

The Yankees belong to George Steinbrenner and the Dodgers belong to Manifest Destiny, but the Red Sox, more than any other team, belong to the fans.

-- Steve Wulf, Sports Illustrated, 1981

An almost inexorable baseball law: A Red Sox ship with a single leak will always find a way to sink ... No team is worshipped with such a perverse sense of fatality.

-- Thomas Boswell, How Life Imitates the World Series, 1982


Boston has two seasons: August and winter.

-- Billy Herman, Red Sox manager, 1965


The Red Sox are a religion. Every year we re-enact the agony and the temptation in the Garden. Baseball childs play? Hell, up here in Boston its a passion play.

-- George V. Higgins, Time, 1980


Almost anywhere in Fenway you feel connected. There are no distant seats. There really is a feeling of connection and intimacy.

-- David Halberstam in Fenway


Theres no place like it, and it's ours.

-- Stephen King in Fenway

Great stretches of Canadian forests have been destroyed to print the paper on which people have written paeans to Fenway Park. There's something in its intimacy, there's something in that incredible green-ness. There's something in the peculiarity of the way that the outfield follows its meandering pathway from right to left ...

-- Dan Okrent
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"With the passing of Ted Williams, America has lost a baseball legend. Whether serving the country in the armed forces or excelling on the baseball diamond, Ted Williams demonstrated unique talent and love of country.

"He inspired young ballplayers across the nation for decades and we will always remember his persistence on the field and his courage off the field. Ted gave baseball some of its best seasons -- and he gave his own best seasons to his country. He will be greatly missed." -- President George Bush, former owner of the Texas Rangers

"During his lifetime, Ted was uncomfortable when praised for all he did for the Jimmy Fund But, let me say now, that his commitment to the Jimmy Fund and to the children facing cancer should go in the record books as among the most any professional athlete has done to advance a cause." -- Dr. Edward Benz Jr., president of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

"He is the premier measuring stick for all hitters. He's light years ahead of anybody as far as hitting a baseball. The country lost a great American today." -- Frank Howard, played for Ted Williams on the Washington Senators

"I think he was the best hitter that baseball has had. He wanted to be the greatest hitter of all time, and he worked hard at that, but he was also a great teammate. He patted everyone on the back " -- Bobby Doerr, Red Sox second baseman, played with Williams 10 seasons

"I am truly heartbroken. We have lost another great ballplayer, another great person. When I was just a rookie in 1941, he took me under his wing. After he hit a double one day, he called timeout and told me, 'Kid, you've got a chance to play for the Yankees for a long time, so bear down.' He was a credit to the game and did so much for so many people." -- Phil Rizzuto, New York Yankees Hall of Fame shortstop

"Ted was an American legend. Besides being one of baseball's all-time greats, he was a genuine war hero, having served as a Marine flyer in World War II and in the Korean conflict. "When Ted was a young man, he often said it was his goal that people would say of him: `There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived.' Ted fulfilled that dream.'' -- Bud Selig, Commissioner of Baseball

"There was no one more dedicated to this country and more proud to serve his country than Ted Williams.'' -- John Glenn, former U.S. Senator, astronaut, and Marine pilot who flew with Williams in Korea

"This is a sad day for baseball, a sad day for anybody who knew Ted. Nobody was more loyal, generous, courageous, more respected than Ted. He sacrificed his life and career for his country. But he became what he always wanted to be: the greatest hitter ever.'' -- Yogi Berra, former New York Yankee catcher

"This guy was courageous, bigger than life, tough as nails, and he had that rare ability to sum up perfectly in his character a generation, a game, a country. I'd say we won't see another like him, but for America and baseball's sake I sure as hell hope we do. No one knows what kind of career numbers he would have had and what records he would have broken. But those years more perhaps than even his years at Fenway Park spoke to who Ted Williams was and why he was such an inspiration. -- John Kerry, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts

"I remember the first time I met him. In 1976, only a few months after I was drafted, I was standing in line at a movie theater and he was right behind me. I was almost speechless, but I introduced myself and told him that I was just drafted by the Red Sox. He looked at me and said 'can you hit?' I told him I hit .485 in my senior year of high school and he said 'you'll do great.''' -- Wade Boggs, former Red Sox third baseman

"He told me, 'You don't even have a clue what makes a ball break, do you?' I said, 'The spin?' 'No, you idiot.' He'd bring out the equations from his aviation terminology. He'd be screaming at you.'' -- Bobby Cox, Atlanta Braves manager

"I have his book on hitting and every offseason, I read that book. What stands out is his tone, the way he talked: 'Hey, I know how to hit and this is how to hit.' When you read that book, you feel Ted Williams is talking to you.'' -- Sean Casey, Cincinnati Reds first baseman

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	Hi Sunshine :) I hope you have a wonderful day. The only way the sox can go is up from here. posted @ 08/07/2009, 11:00am
Mandy Pa..

	Please read latest blog!!! posted @ 08/06/2009, 3:02pm
JustSayN..

	i agree...i tink some of the Roid usage is messing wit everyones brains...i almost feel like we are somehow intimidated....u should join the fun an yearbook urself like we are with our photos :) posted @ 08/06/2009, 2:18pm
N*o*e*l*s*

	they are sure goin to be Huge...but seriously i got a bad bad feeling about tonights game...my belly is in a knot :( posted @ 08/06/2009, 2:03pm
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	and how can we do that posted @ 08/05/2009, 10:50pm
newevile..

	Martinez HR we are coming back!!!! posted @ 08/05/2009, 8:58pm
newevile..

	I think we still can come back! posted @ 08/05/2009, 8:21pm
newevile..

	Kep the faith man..I dont think itll be along game at lease i hope not I cant stand another long game besides I have to head to the shore tomorrow posted @ 08/05/2009, 7:04pm
newevile..

	hahahahahahaha i think so too! they should just but me season tickets! posted @ 08/05/2009, 2:33pm
BeanTown..

	hey, no problem! i wanted one anyway with the new 14! awesome game btw! posted @ 08/04/2009, 9:21pm
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