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January 14, 2011
And You May Find Yourself Reading A Specific Red Sox Blog. And I May Ask You, Well, How Did You Get Here?
"It would be neat to learn about how all the commenters on the site originally found it."
85 comments:
- allan said...
Non-commenters can also comment.
(P.S. There is water at the bottom of the ocean.)
- January 14, 2011 at 8:43 AM
- johngoldfine said...
Fucked if I remember....
Not through Andrew Sullivan.
Not through wmtc--though I found wmtc via jos.
Not through any other RS blog, because I don't read any other RS blog.
A mystery. Very glad, though, that I found the site and Laura K's too.
- January 14, 2011 at 9:21 AM
- richard said...
Typed "Red Sox Blog" or something like that.
Google did its magic.
Been in my RSS feed ever since.
- January 14, 2011 at 11:01 AM
- James said...
Linked from Surviving Grady
- January 14, 2011 at 12:24 PM
- RkyMtSF said...
Long time lurker.
Found this site through a comment on Firebrand years ago (before they were part of ESPNBoston). Found Firebrand through YFSF. Found YFSF from Baseball Musings. Prolly, goes further back, but I can't remember.
- January 14, 2011 at 12:32 PM
- Benjamin said...
I think via Jere's blog, but damned if I can remember.
- January 14, 2011 at 1:00 PM
- Jeremy said...
Haha oh yes, this is the best for me..
One word:
I do very much hate the Yankees, passionately. Almost as passionately as I love the Red Sox. For years I only hated on the Yankees because I live in NY State and it is assumed that by living here you should be interested in only NY based teams. Then in the '03 season, the two rivals played and I was this close to see the Yankees get burned. I was looking forward to the disappointment it would bring to all the smug, arrogant, snot-nosed Yankees fans who kept shoving their WS count in my face as if it had any bearing on current teams, plays, pitches, or the outcome of any series.
I didn't pay any attention to the '04 season as I was mostly a WS fan. When the Sox played the Twins in '04 ALDS, my friend Brandon was in town and wouldn't do anything that conflicted with watching the series. I was hooked.. Big Papi, Millar, Pokey, Coco Crisp, Cowboy Up, Doug Mintkewiezckjsdklkdjhlksdg, Manny being Manny, Trot, Foulke, the "Curse".. and my buddy Brandon was full of the spirit, living in boston at the time and he just said he "felt it" that year. All of these things were explained to me during the last few games of that DS. I was instantly hooked. THe idiots had my interest. And they had a chance to beat the Yankees. The hope that they would be defeated shone brightly.
I had read about Schadenfreude on Boston Dirt Dogs much later on. (the only post I can find is from the 06 season, but that doesn't seem right) I seem to recall not remembering how to spell it or what it was called a few days later and doing a search for something along the lines of "taking joy in others failures" or somesuch. WHen I found the actual word then I did a search with that plus red sox it brought me to the joy of sox. I don't even think I caught the pun for like, a week >< I read either the first or second (with a year between the two its hard to tell) posts tagged with Schadenfreude and I was hooked on the blog from then on. I liked that someone else was noticing when the Yankees fucked up. The tabloid covers were a real treat. The scathing quotes from NY's own media!
JOS is one of the top blogs on my iGoogle page, the first place I go to read about a thrilling Sox win the next day (or that night, to read the Dirty Water reactions! especially when I've had a few brews!!!). The first place I go to find the comfort of other fans after a stunning loss. (If I can bear it). And every fucking time THEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE YANKEES LOOOOOOOOSE! (big enough, large enough, catastrophically enough for a cathartic schadenfruede post.) I don't comment very often but I do read quite frequently. Thank you Allan for all you've written over the years, for all the schandefreude posts, the off day music posts, all the posts that keep me interested in the offseason, even if there are fewer of them.. I may not watch every game, but I can catch up on every one by coming here.
- January 14, 2011 at 1:40 PM
- Philip said...
This is not my beautiful house! This is not my beautiful wife!
I believe I find my way here in '06 through either the recommendation of my mother or a link at SG.
- January 14, 2011 at 1:42 PM
Google did its magic for me here in AK.
- January 14, 2011 at 1:50 PM
- Rasputin said...
Since you must know.
- January 14, 2011 at 2:05 PM
- allan said...
I'm still a little surprised that I did not enable comments until April 2005. One probable reason was not wanting to "debate" with anyone about the political stuff I was posting. I split the political stuff off onto a second blog in January 2005.
Game threads did not emerge until 2007 and it took until August for them to really get rolling. (We topped 1,000 comments for ALCS 5 and got 1,356 for ALCS 7.)
And I went four years before I had to moderate comments. That is interesting, since I had a decent-sized readership by mid-2007.
I want to know who has been regularly reading the blog the longest. (A lot of the earliest commenters are no longer around. Looks like the first non-anonymous comment was from Daryl, aka singapore sox fan.)
- January 14, 2011 at 2:10 PM
- allan said...
Since you must know.
Actually, it's Tim that needs to know. All blame or praise for this idea can go to him!
- January 14, 2011 at 2:44 PM
- Jere said...
Followed the Sox my whole life, but didn't really use the web to do it (beyond redsox.com) until '03, when my friend suddenly started talking about "this site that knows when trades are gonna happen" (BDD) and "this message board" (SoSH) and "this funny dude" (Boston Sports Guy). So I found myself watching the A-Rod trade talks unfold on Dirt Dogs, which I've loooong since boycotted. And at that time, in his links section, there was "Joy of Sox--the right Sox blog if you can stand the left leanings" or something. I was like, Hey, asshole, some of us LIKE the left-leanings, and anyway, that's how I found JoS. (Along with Bambino's Curse by Ed Cossette--how many people out there remember that one?)
"I'm still a little surprised that I did not enable comments until April 2005."
The first year of my blog was 2004, and for a long period, Blogger didn't even have comments. (Or I just couldn't figure out how to turn them on. Or something.) I finally started getting some around August '04. And my first time linking to JoS in a blog post was 9/1/04.
- January 14, 2011 at 2:46 PM
- allan said...
So I found myself watching the A-Rod trade talks unfold on Dirt Dogs
Then you remember that he said it was a 100% certainty that the Red Sox were getting A-Rod and that if the trade fell through, he would shut down his site.
"Joy of Sox--the right Sox blog if you can stand the left leanings" or something. I was like, Hey, asshole, some of us LIKE the left-leanings
I'm not sure I ever saw that. Funny. Yeah, Steve and I do not see eye-to-eye on politics.
(Along with Bambino's Curse by Ed Cossette--how many people out there remember that one?)
I do! That was a great blog. Looks it started in Feb. 2001.
- January 14, 2011 at 2:56 PM
- allan said...
I am pretty sure that when I started this in August 2003, comments were an option. I know I made a decision to not deal with them.
- January 14, 2011 at 2:57 PM
- Franco said...
I used to be more active on the old Projo board in the late 90s and knew of Allan from there. We watched a Sox game together at the Riviera around that time (with another Projo denizen, forget the name, maybe Riff?). Not sure exactly how I discovered the blog, might have been browsing the predecessor Pedro site? But, I think I was here pretty early: I can see footprints from 2003, and was there in time to enter (and win!) the first Final Record Prediction contest.
Since I got set up with an RSS feed I suspect I've read almost every post, though I'm a very rare commenter.
- January 14, 2011 at 3:05 PM
- Franco said...
Allan says: "I want to know who has been regularly reading the blog the longest."
I must be up there. Here I am commenting by email before comments were open: http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/2003/11/arod-to-boston-rumors-persist.html
am I right? am I wrong?
- January 14, 2011 at 3:32 PM
- allan said...
Franco may go back the longest. He also won the W-L contest in Year 2, I think!
I saw some games at the Riv with Riff, but what was the name of the place on 20th (?) Street, kind of near Broadway? Maybe that was with some SoSHers. Someone who posted as Nomar was there and I'm pretty sure it was this game, April 13, 2001 (Manny's 10th inning single wins it off Fruitbat).
(I think I saw Opening Day 2002 at the Riv with Riff, where the Jays battered Pedro.)
- January 14, 2011 at 3:59 PM
- Jere said...
"I'm not sure I ever saw that. Funny. Yeah, Steve and I do not see eye-to-eye on politics."
It was the "hover" text for his link to JoS. Maybe it still is...someone should check. Besides me. And didn't the site go black after the A-Rod thing fell through, but only for like one day?
Is Hairy Monk that other Sox bar? 25th a few aves over from Bway. But it may have moved to there.
- January 14, 2011 at 4:32 PM
- Amy said...
I think it was through iGoogle. I was setting up my home page with various topics and searched for Red Sox on their list of sites. JOS was the first one, so I subscribed. This would have been in 2007. I did not start commenting until the apostrophe debate regarding the Boston Herald headline.
- January 14, 2011 at 4:45 PM
I may have come here through Surviving Grady, but most likely through Cursed to First.
I'm not sure how I stumbled across Cursed to First.
- January 14, 2011 at 4:51 PM
- laura k said...
For years I only hated on the Yankees because I live in NY State and it is assumed that by living here you should be interested in only NY based teams.
Allan seems to hate all local teams for this reason. He used to hate the Knicks and the Giants, although he doesn't follow either basketball or football, and now appears to hate the Jays, the Raptors, the Argonauts and the Leafs - or if not hates them, just enjoys when they lose.
I don't understand this at all!
- January 14, 2011 at 4:56 PM
- laura k said...
I want to know who has been regularly reading the blog the longest.
- January 14, 2011 at 4:57 PM
- laura k said...
And at that time, in his links section, there was "Joy of Sox--the right Sox blog if you can stand the left leanings" or something.
I remember that! I'm surprised Allan doesn't, but I sure do.
- January 14, 2011 at 4:59 PM
- allan said...
Now it says: "Blogging about the Sox from Canada"
- January 14, 2011 at 5:00 PM
- allan said...
I love when the Jays lose, but that is about it for Toronto teams. Don't really care about the other ones. It would probably be neat to be here when the Leafs got to the finals (or won the Cup).
I got real pleasure when the Knicks or Giants blew games or fucked up when they should have rolled over someone. It was odd.
I can still vividly remember sitting in bed on June 1, 1994, watching Reggie Miller fuckin destroy the Knicks in Game 5 of the Conference Finals. Laura was asleep and I was freaking out as he drained one 3-pointer after another, all the while making choking motions and talking trash to Spike Lee. He had the entire game in the palm of his hand and he could do no wrong. It was surreal. I know parts of that are on YouTube, but I'd love to see the whole quarter again on DVD.
- January 14, 2011 at 5:15 PM
- allan said...
No Idea
That is the bar!!!
- January 14, 2011 at 5:17 PM
- allan said...
If you are in New York:
"No Idea's Name Night is legendary among Manhattan's young and downwardly immobile. Each night we post a new name; if it's yours you drink free from 5:00 to 11:00. ... You will not be eligible to receive free drinks if you show up alone."
Tonight: "Anphy"
They have normal names, too. (Matt, Maria, and Bill coming up this week.)
- January 14, 2011 at 5:23 PM
- Sean said...
I'm a long time Red Sox EMail list member and got a cross post from there.
I live in Australia and so the only way I can track the Sox is online.
I appreciate the effort that goes into JoS - it's always fresh and it's in my phone's podcast client :)
Thanks, keep it up, Sean in Sydney.
- January 14, 2011 at 5:42 PM
- FenFan said...
Most likely I found your site around the time that I was thinking about a site of my own, which became FenwayFanatics.com in March 2004, and I probably came here from BDD. I wouldn't say that I became a regular here until three or four years ago.
You have a loyal reader for as long as you continue this blog, Allan. :-)
- January 14, 2011 at 6:08 PM
- MacLeodCartoons said...
Great question! first of all, thanks for the awesome job - love it. I married into a Red Sox family in 98, and stuck in Indiana without any Sox on tv I pretty much depended on the internet; at the time I was reading Billmon's Whisky Bar [he was a Sox fan] - that was the first blog I ever read, and then found Bambino's Curse and Cursed to First Dirt Dogs and JoS all about the same time I think. Somehow that combo made all the pain of October 2003 bearable, and the joy of 04 even better. [And I don't agree with Steve's politics either but am glad he publishes my cartoons!] CHEERS!!
- January 14, 2011 at 6:16 PM
- laura k said...
Billmon's Whisky Bar
An excellent choice!
- January 14, 2011 at 6:21 PM
- Dr. Jeff said...
I don't remember a time before JOS, nor how I found it. I think I blocked out everything up to and including whatever Aaron Boone did at the end of 2003.
- January 14, 2011 at 6:40 PM
- tim said...
I'm glad this worked out! Interesting stories for sure, I suppose I should share mine.
During 2007, after watching a few years of NESN, I was amazed at how repetitive Orsillo had become so I decided to google one of his signature phrases to see if anyone else had commented on/discussed his frequent "catch phrases" or sayings. Fortunately enough, Allan was, and went so far as to make it a drinking game!
I think that post has my first comment on JoS (interestingly enough it has the old names and avatars too) and after that, I checked it occasionally to see if this 'redsock' dude kept it current. Sure enough, it was current and damn good, concise, no bullshit writing. So I stayed :)
- January 14, 2011 at 6:53 PM
- mattymatty said...
I think I found it through Jere's blog, but I might have found Jere's blog through JoS. I can't remember.
- January 14, 2011 at 7:06 PM
- laura k said...
Fortunately enough, Allan was, and went so far as to make it a drinking game!
We used to pick three phrases a night and glug our glasses of wine whenever he said one. I blogged about it once - eons ago - and still get hits from Google searches for it all the time.
- January 14, 2011 at 7:12 PM
- laura k said...
(interestingly enough it has the old names and avatars too)
Yeah, they stay in comments, but not in posts!
- January 14, 2011 at 7:13 PM
- allan said...
Billmon is a Red Sox fan?!?!? That is totally cool. (Or did I know that and my brain is leaking again?)
- January 14, 2011 at 7:23 PM
- allan said...
Poz: "When does a hitting streak become news? ... I say that for local fans, a hitting streak probably begins around 10 -- that is, if someone on your favorite team gets a streak to 10, you probably would like to know."
He is correct.
- January 14, 2011 at 7:42 PM
- 9casey said...
I think I just spelled the Joy of Sex wrong and the rest is just coincidence...
- January 14, 2011 at 7:52 PM
- MacLeodCartoons said...
Billmon is totally a Sox fan; after Aaron Boone I left a comment there to the effect that as a new - and foreign - Sox fan now I kinda knew what 86 felt like. It was very cathartic for me to write that. And Billmon totally shot me down - he was like, dude you have NO FUCKIN IDEA what 86 was like, this is NOTHING,etc. Hilarious in retrospect. He's almost definitely right, but I can't help feeling that the horror of 03 has been gigantically reduced in fans' minds by what happened after; if the Red Sox hadn't won in 04 and 07, I think by now 03 would be rising up there.... But Buckner trumps them all, I know!
- January 14, 2011 at 10:35 PM
- matthew said...
I think I saw the link on Dirt Dogs or maybe it was a Google search. I just know that I was bored at work and wanted to find a good Sox blog to read. This became my favorite; it's the only Sox blog I read daily. I rarely comment, but I'm always here. Nice work, allan.
p.s. - I like the left-leaning stuff that still trickles in from time to time. It's nice to know that I'm not the only one. Sometimes I feel like baseball is just overrun by Schillings, or even worse, Luke Scotts.
- January 14, 2011 at 10:39 PM
- allan said...
Billmon totally shot me down - he was like, dude you have NO FUCKIN IDEA what 86 was like, this is NOTHING,etc.
86 was horrific, no question about that. But for me, 03 was worse.
For very unique (and personal, if that is not redundant) reasons, though, so he may be right. Objectively, 86 probably is worse, WS vs ALCS and all.
- January 15, 2011 at 8:17 AM
- YardSox said...
As a non-commenter but a regular reader, I have followed Alan since the Projo Red Sox board where I used to post as YardSox. I also joined him in regular battle with Lou D. on his YankeeTradition blog. I agree with Alan and another Red Sox blogger - Lyford at Lyflines on about 99% of Red Sox analysis, so these are my two stops for Red Sox news. I think I have followed this blog since its inception.
Alan - on another note, I am starting to clean up old stuff around the house including lots of VHS tapes of Pedro pitching - including his first game against the A's in Oakland, which I attended when I lived out in San Francisco. Are you still interested in capturing them? It may take a while to go through everything, but I plan to later this year.
- January 15, 2011 at 10:41 AM
- Zenslinger said...
I also can't remember.
- January 15, 2011 at 12:34 PM
- allan said...
I also joined him in regular battle with Lou D. on his YankeeTradition blog.
Oh, man!!! Did I get into it with him? (I would have thought it wasn't worth it.) Is he still around? He must have been fun to deal with (eventually!) in 2004! ... And good ol' Warren, though he was a Sox fan! YT grew out of Art Martone's Off The Wall columns/postings. I remember back when Art put up contributors' posts once a day. And to get chosen you had to offer something substantial.
Collier Brothers Alert: I have a huge box of printouts of Art's stuff from like 97-99 (or more) that I should scan as PDFs.
lots of VHS tapes of Pedro pitching
Send me an email.
- January 15, 2011 at 12:55 PM
- allan said...
His site is still up. He links to Behind The Bombers, which I will stand up on a box and claim is the ugliest, tackiest, most cluttered, worthless, and full-of-shitist website of all time.
Does the person running that thing (and it has news from today!) have even an iota of self-respect?
(I admit I chuckled at seeing Bob Costas's face right below "Find sex offenders near me"!)
- January 15, 2011 at 1:11 PM
- Ish said...
How the fuck should I know?
Really. I don't know. I blame Google.
I don't even know what I was looking for. My brain is aching trying to figure it out. Guess I'll just have to blame some random Red Sox-related search on Google that turned up Joy of Sox.
Whatever I did, I'm glad I did.
- January 15, 2011 at 4:24 PM
- Benjamin said...
Is Hairy Monk that other Sox bar? 25th a few aves over from Bway. But it may have moved to there.
Hairy Monk is a Boston sports bar (3rd@25th). Newspaper ephemera all over the walls, etc.
- January 15, 2011 at 5:59 PM
- Stephanie said...
and i'm a casual commenter, entirely out of error on tim's part!
- January 15, 2011 at 9:28 PM
- Rob said...
Following in Allan's footsteps - something I wanted to do for a while... Ish reverts back to Rob. You're more than welcome to address me as Ish still, of course.
- January 15, 2011 at 11:19 PM
- Mort said...
I blame i Google for having to get my daily fix.
Usually just lurk and enjoy your common sense approach. Carry on
- January 16, 2011 at 7:53 AM
- johngoldfine said...
Is it something in the water, Rob? Everyone's changing their name! Laura K, Allan, even Amy threatens.
Maybe I'll become TCFKAJG. Kinda rolls off the tongue, eh?
- January 16, 2011 at 9:04 AM
- 9casey said...
I am amazed the amount of "lurkers"
who have posted, and wonder why they don't post more often. Believe me Allan's post are reason enough to read , but I believe the comments make it interactive and much more fun......
- January 16, 2011 at 10:15 AM
- laura k said...
I am amazed the amount of "lurkers" who have posted, and wonder why they don't post more often.
I don't get it either, but it seems to always be the case. Joy of Sox has more than 1,000 visitors per day, and how many people comment - maybe 20 or 30? Wmtc has 500-700 visitors a day, and maybe 12-15 regular commenters.
I'm only guessing on the number of commenters for either blog - I've never counted - but certainly it's a small percentage of total readership.
It's probably at least partly a time thing. If you're a heavy blog reader, you couldn't possibly participate in the community on all of them - you'd never do anything else.
- January 16, 2011 at 10:27 AM
- laura k said...
Whoa, Ish has become Rob! A serious trend is afoot.
- January 16, 2011 at 10:27 AM
- laura k said...
And after that, a symbol.
- January 16, 2011 at 10:28 AM
- laura k said...
and i'm a casual commenter, entirely out of error on tim's part!
Now is this really Stephanie or is it Tim-as-Stephanie?
- January 16, 2011 at 10:28 AM
- A Conformer said...
All I remember is that I discovered there's such a thing as a blog after the '04 win, looking to share a bit of the glory with anyone (being a baseball fan in Israel is a fairly lonely road), even if only by reading what others are writing about it. I think it was sometime during 2005and that the first one was Seth Mnookin's blog, and I branched out from there. The regular tour included YFSF, Jose Melendez, Rob Bradford's blog, and of course JOS (these may be chronologically wrong, since I think that Bradford's blog, at least, didn't start until '07 or '08.
I lurked here for a full season, I think, before first commenting. I enjoyed the group, and half-knew most of the regulars' "personalities". I'm pretty sure I started joining in on game threads sometime during the '07 season, when I was working in the US. Those days I had to spend way too much time in front of the computer, with nobody around and nothing active to do, so my regular tour of Sox blogs expanded, and my commenting and gamethreading became almost daily.
To the question at hand, I'm gonna go with Seth Mnookin--> Jose Melendez--> Joy of Sox. That's my best bet of how I got here.
- January 16, 2011 at 10:36 AM
- Ofer said...
And since all the cool kids are doing it, I'll go back to Ofer. I commented under that screen-name (does it count as a screen-name if it's your real name? And do people even use the word screen name, still?)
- January 16, 2011 at 10:43 AM
- allan said...
Plus Ofer saw two of the 2007 ALCS games with us! I cannot recall which two right now, though. It was fun, all 3 of us with our laptops in the living room.
I rarely comment on any blogs, so I understand just reading and enjoying stuff, but I hope if any lurkers do want to comment on a semi-regular basis (or whatever), they just jump in.
- January 16, 2011 at 11:06 AM
- Ofer said...
Oh, I just realised I didn't even finish my last comment. The last sentence, sans parenthesis, was meant to be "I commented under that screen-name all of '07, and that worked out well."
Yes! I watched two games of the series against the Spiders with A & L- both losses, I'm afraid. Before I check it out, I'm gonna say it was games 2 and 3. The first one was an extra-inning game that was lost by Gagne (and everybody knew it was over the second he walked on the mound), if I'm not mistaken. I almost said Timlin, but I was mixing it up with Game 2 of the '08 ALCS, when the exact same thing happened against the FKR. Anyway, I remember very well that all the games I watched while in Toronto were losses, and then I was sent back to Sandusky, Ohio, where I watched the last 3 games (and wins...) of the series at some shitty bar.
Thanks again, guys! Now I'm gonna check how much my memory misled me...
- January 16, 2011 at 11:17 AM
- Ofer said...
OK, so it was partly true. Gagne actually didn't even get the chance to blow the game away- he put two men on in the 11th, and was replaced by Javier Lopez and later Lester. Those two did most of the damage. But it doesn't change the fact that we just knew it was over when Gagne stepped up...
The second game was a 4-2 loss that I remember nothing about, even after reading a bit about the main events.
- January 16, 2011 at 11:26 AM
- allan said...
Nope. You were here for Game 1 (Sox win 10-3; you arrived a bit late; first post 8:33) and Game 2 (Sox lose 13-6 (11)).
- January 16, 2011 at 12:25 PM
- Ofer said...
Nope. You were here for Game 1 (Sox win 10-3; you arrived a bit late; first post 8:33) and Game 2 (Sox lose 13-6 (11)).
Oh, yeah! You're absolutely right. I very distinctly remember myself working up in a rollercoaster station while checking the score of game 1 often, and that Beckett was dominant. So I figured it couldn't be game 1, and during game 4 I was at a Porcupine Tree concert, so I thought it had to be games 2 & 3. But it turns out that that was Game 1 against the Angels, and not the Spiders.
So the Sox won! Hurray!
- January 16, 2011 at 12:37 PM
- westcoastsox said...
Wow. I can't remember, but I think I started reading during the '04 Series. Or maybe it was the next season. I found the blog by doing a Google search on how many games Big Papi had won on the last swing.
- January 16, 2011 at 1:05 PM
- Jere said...
"Is Hairy Monk that other Sox bar? 25th a few aves over from Bway. But it may have moved to there.
Hairy Monk is a Boston sports bar (3rd@25th). Newspaper ephemera all over the walls, etc."
I know, but Allan was asking about a certain one so I was asking him if that was the specific one he meant.
- January 16, 2011 at 2:41 PM
- tim said...
"stephanie" was me, L.
- January 16, 2011 at 8:49 PM
- tim said...
FY is ready for 2011, apparently.
When we asked Dustin Pedroia if he was 100 percent recovered from his broken foot, he responded, "Does a bear shit in the woods?'' We took that as a yes.
(swear re-inserted by me)
- January 16, 2011 at 11:35 PM
- mugro said...
I don't remember either. I think I started reading this blog during the 2004 season, when I could not get enough of Red Sox content. This blog fed my incessant need to know everything about the team, and helped me think that perhaps I was not the only crazy person who was living his life day by day, game by game throughout that roller coaster season.
- January 17, 2011 at 11:25 AM
- laura k said...
"stephanie" was me, L.
Keeping me on my toes, eh. :)
- January 17, 2011 at 12:23 PM
- Subodh said...
Boston Dirt Dogs has a link to this site on it. That's how I found ALL my Sox blogs.
- January 17, 2011 at 12:24 PM
- Amy said...
Everyone's changing their name! Laura K, Allan, even Amy threatens.
Yes, but I am threatening to change AWAY from my real name. I am always running counter to the cool kids and the trends.
But with Ish becoming Rob and Ofer returning to Ofer, I may just cave to peer pressure and keep things as they are. If SoSock, S1C and WestCoastSox start going by their real first names, I may not have the strength to become Catcherfan after all.
- January 17, 2011 at 3:53 PM
- laura k said...
I am not a cool kid.
Merely a trend-follower in this instance. :)
- January 17, 2011 at 4:03 PM
- Mrs.GotRibe said...
Damned if I know or remember, probably Dirt Dogs.
But, I'm glad I found it and thrilled that I started posting a couple years later.
- January 17, 2011 at 8:36 PM
- RedSoxDiehard said...
Someone mentioned Art Martone's column from the ProJo back in the late 90's, and I read that daily too. I lived in Atlanta from '97-'99, and that site became my lifeline to Red Sox Nation. After the '98 season I started my website, and sometime during '99 probably is when I traded links with Allan's Pedro site.
Can't remember when I found JoS specifically, maybe linked from the Pedro site, maybe from Jere's blog (but then how did I find his?)
Originally I'd visit maybe once a month or every couple of weeks. I do know I linked to this post in my "Papi should be the MVP" rant at the end of the 2005 season. And I remember emailing my brother a link to the Glossary, probably around that time, because it reminded me of a lot of the nicknames we used to give players growing up (though I can't remember the origins of how we came up with "Cheeseburger" for Ivan Calderon).
I don't think I started reading it (or any blog) on a daily basis until the '08-09 off-season when I started my own blog. Total laziness, but once it was in the blogroll on my own page it was just a click away instead of having to remember to find and look up a bookmark like I did before I had my own blog.
Last year, when participation in my own attempt to do game threads dwindled, that's when I started joining the game threads here.
- January 17, 2011 at 9:13 PM
- Grace said...
Recommended to me by Google Reader!
- January 17, 2011 at 10:16 PM
- Tony said...
Found while searching for Red Sox blogs during the 2004 annus mirablis. With no disrespect to the many fine RS blogs I read during that time, this is the only one I still frequent.
- January 18, 2011 at 9:28 PM
- Jake of All Trades said...
Can't remember how I found you, but I can remember why...
It was early in the 2006 season. I discovered this Yahoo service that would send you a text message based on an RSS feed -- just the headline and the first couple of sentences. (Kinda lame in the newfangled smartphone era, but at the time it was the coolest thing ever for me.)
This caused me to look for Sox blogs that would give me more of the game story than just a score alert. Back in those days you used to put the full line score at the start of each post -- and it fit into Yahoo's character limit for these SMS alerts almost exactly!
You stopped regularly doing the line score thing about 3 weeks into the season, but I stuck around :)
- January 19, 2011 at 3:02 AM
- nick said...
I had taken a hiatus in my interest in baseball for a decade and a half and really came back into getting into it at the start of the 2004 season (I'm very glad I didn't pin much on '03).
I started reading this blog in 2004. Going back through the archives, I remember various posts. I tried searching for my first comment here, but can't find a comment-specific search function and "nick" is far to generic. I know it took me a while to ease into commenting.
There are 4 other RS blogs in my RSS feeds, including Jere's, but there's nothing like this one.
- January 19, 2011 at 2:05 PM
- nick said...
Catcherfan? Not CactusLover? Too prickly?
- January 19, 2011 at 2:06 PM
- Amy said...
Sorry, Nick, but I am a general fan of catchers. Tek is just the most recent. And I would never call him a cactus! :)
- January 19, 2011 at 6:29 PM
- Pokerwolf said...
I think I found JoS in '05. Not sure where from although I know it was linked somewhere. I haven't had time to comment much (Hi, guys!), but I'm still around and I hope to comment more often these days!
- January 20, 2011 at 4:05 PM
- JimH said...
I'm a lurker - I think since 2007. I found your blog on Dirt Dogs. I live in WI and there is no Sox coverage here. Your blog is great & I gravitate to it most mornings during baseball season.
- January 21, 2011 at 8:29 AM
- Michael Holloway said...
Well, How Did I Get Here?
It all started early last year, right here in fact...
And then...
And finally...
In the streams last summer Allan said that this must be a pretty special place (for a Jays fan to come thread with Sox fans). I didn't respond to Allen's point then - but this IS a special place, Joy of Sox is unique. (plus I'm not a Jays fan - perhaps a Jays Critic) Joy of Sox is a community which 'includes the absence' (?) of the chest-pounding that you find so much of in sports culture these days. Even the Schadenfreude label includes with-in it a tough-in-cheekiness.
I must concede living in the Toronto Maple Leafs media market for most of my life has greatly informed who I am in the sporting life. Harold Ballard, the deceased owner (1967-1990), by the trashing my faith one too many years in a row, proved to me the truth of the phrase often credited to P. T. Barnum, "there's a sucker born every minute".
So now I put my sporting emotions in a box and watch generation after generation of young Toronto fans invest faith - and feel some 'I told you so' solace each spring as the team somehow finishes lower in the standings than the year before; and as the 'Cash Box on Bay' continues ring up league record profits.
I'm jaded for sure, I'll not flow with the river again; it takes actual *Winning* for me to get my fan on. Sports for me has become about reasoned statistical analysis, learning something about the way the game is played, the economics of professional sport, and about the psychology of fans. No more flowing underground for this fish; I'm not being held under again. I'm flopping up on the bank. That water can drown you, you know.
Whether it be the Leafs or the Blue Jays, the way teams are able to manipulate this media market is interesting, but probably not unusual. But laying in a Marshall McLuhan-esque 'warm bath' with them is not my kind of mixed metaphor - not here in Toronto anyway, it's too familiar - I've been fooled too often - and besides, I don't trust the guys preforming the ritual...
But a virtual Boston - a place I'm not vested in, never lived in, and the planet's great hub of baseball writing; this I think, may be more myself.
Thanks for 'Joy of Sox' Allan, really enjoying the run.
- January 23, 2011 at 11:59 AM


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Has anyone been baking? I haven't. And lately I consider baking to be putting together a salad in this hot weather. Why? Because my body is baking while doing it. Heatwave indeed. I really don't mind the heat so much as the humidity we've gotten on the cape is brutal, like rainforest brutal you know? And I'm getting kind of tired of sleeping with A/C on; I miss those nice cool breezes at night.
So as of late we've been eating a lot of hummus rollups, salads, and sushi. I have not been eating ice cream as I had a bad cold and need to watch the dairy intake. But I have been enjoying those coconut milk ice creams by Turtle Mountain. Have you tried them? I was amazed at how much they tasted just like dairy and yet it's dairy free. My favorite is the chocolate/pb (of course, no surprise there).
So if you're like me these days and loathe turning the oven on, would rather stay in your bathing suit all day (yes all day morning to night just so you're prepared at a moments notice to jump in the pool or ocean). Well ok you have to turn the oven on for this one, to boil the eggs. This is a fast easy meal with my favorite way to eat: layers of flavor. Complete with black olives, sweet pepper relish, romaine lettuce all served on warm garlic Naan. It's also great with green olives and chopped pimentos too.
What do you like to put in your egg salad? Have you ever kicked it up a few notches?


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Date: 4/22/2009
Venue: House Foreign Affairs Committee
Channel: C-SPAN 3
Howard Berman: The gentleman from Texas, Mr. Paul, is recognized for five minutes.
Ron Paul: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And welcome, Madame Secretary.
I have a general question I want to ask about foreign policy, but leading up to that question I would like to mention first that the election had something to do with bringing about change in tone with our foreign policy. And I think there have been some very positive changes in tone and many of us have argued for more diplomacy rather than more threats, so many of us are pleased with that. It goes back to the old saying of, "Speaking softly and still be willing to carry a big stick". But sometimes I wonder whether that big stick doesn't get wielded a little too often.
But I do want to caution all of us that what we say is very important and can be very beneficial, but what we do is also very important. So that may cancel out the benefits of speaking more softly and being willing to talk and negotiate. Some people say that we shouldn't talk to our enemies, but I remember the cold war rather well, and we did talk to kruchev and Mao Tse Tung when they were great threats to us. So, sometimes I think that when we look at how we stood up to tens of thousands of nuclear weapons, that we should be cautious as far as what we might do in Pakistan and put it into a proper perspective.
But my big concern is whether or not we can reverse the empire mentality that I think we have adopted over these many, many decades, and also the relationship of this to our financial burden. Though we are speaking more softly and would like to get some troops home, the first thing that was done was that our DOD budget was increased by 9% in a time when our national debt in the last 12 months went up 2 trillion dollars.
All great nations have been brought to their knees for economic reasons. We didn't have to fight the Soviets. The Afghanistan adventure that the Soviets were involved with was very significant and I don't know how we can ignore that.
So, I would like to ask the question about whether or not you can give me some signs or indications or some encouragement that maybe we shifted policies in the slightest manner. Have we brought any troops home? Are we less involved in Iraq? Will that war ever end? Or we really going in the opposite direction because we're seeing Pakistan as so necessary, we need more troops, more expansion, more money, more DOD funds.
So, coming from my perspective I can't see the difference even though, like I said, I am pleased that there is a willingness to talk and try to work things out and I think that is very positive. I always think that people who aren't willing to talk are insecure. This whole idea that we are so strong, to me, it seems that we lack confidence if we can't talk to people. And we are strong enough. Nobody is going to attack us militarily.
So, I see it as very important that we change our tone. I think it's good that you got rid of the term "war on terrorism". How can you have a war against a tactic? It doesn't make any sense. But I am not sure "overseas contingency operation" is more specific. So could you address that and maybe give me some answers that maybe we may be seeing actually some shift in our policy.
Hillary Clinton: Well, thank you, Congressman. I think that the president's actions in these nearly 100 days do match actions with words, although I admit there is a lot more to be done. We are still sorting out everything we've inherited and trying to make sense of it. We want to protect America's national security, but we think there are better and more effective ways of doing that. So we are ending the war in Iraq. There is a definite end date for our troops to be there. The president did close Guantanamo. The president is looking for ways to engage with those who nobody wanted us to talk to, which is a sea shift in how we are proceeding.
Words and actions both matter. I mean, at the end of the day actions count more. But you have to begin by at least articulating a new approach. In our budget we have asked for more money for diplomacy and development. And the budget committee, in both the house and the senate, cut back the president's request. It's kind of old thinking, in my view. I mean, the secretary of defense has said that there are fewer foreign Service diplomats posted oversees than there are sailors and marines on one aircraft carrier. There are more musicians in the military bands than there are diplomats across the board. So, we are trying to shift this gigantic ship of state, Mr. Paul. And we are looking for your help to do so.
And at the risk of going over our time, I just want to say having campaigned during the last presidential election, you had the most enthusiastic supporters of anybody I ever saw.
Ron Paul: I love to hear that.
Hillary Clinton: Well, I mean, my goodness! Everywhere I went they were literally running down highways holding your signs. So, I've never had a chance to tell you that, but your message obviously resonated with a lot of people.
Ron Paul: Thank you.
Howard Berman: You're going to encourage him.
It takes Ron Paul a long time to ask a question. Will it be the only chance he gets?
Does Secretary Clinton's response have substantialness?
I believe this is basically a stunt. This is all flash and no substance, sound and fury with not actions that help, ironically.
Obviously this encounter is not a conflict, a true "versus"....


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Leavenworth Regional Catholic School System's Board of Trustees announces that soccer, golf and tennis will be offered next school year.
It's official Raider fans — Immaculata soccer, golf and tennis have been saved.
Over this past weekend, the Leavenworth Regional Catholic School System's Board of Trustees announced through an e-mail "to faculty, staff, parents and friends" that it would be offering all three athletic programs next school year.
"We are excited to offer with the continued community support the IMAC sports program for soccer, tennis and golf," the correspondence, which can be read on the school's website, said.
The future of the three sports had been in danger for little over a month now. Back in late February, it was released that the board was looking at eliminating the athletics for multiple reasons.
Budget concerns, lack of participation and lack of participating schools within its upcoming new conference were the reasons given.
The proposal was met with a large amount of opposition, which was voiced by more than 50 parents and students at two public forums on March 18. The next day the administration relayed the information to its Board of Trustees.
That same week, LRCSS interim president Karen Davis resigned her post and since a blanket of silence had fallen over the issue. That is, until Sunday, when the official announcement of the sports' reprieve was handed down from the system's board.
"All three sports have been added to next year's budget and as long as we are meeting our enrollment goals, we are going to offer all three sports," said Stephen P. Mulcahy, Chair of the Board of Trustees.
"The community has been very involved with being supportive with keeping the sports in play. As with any school, we want to keep growing that so we have enough people for the teams."
One of the initiatives created to help salvage the trio of athletics, as well as aid other areas of need within the school district, is the reformation of the "Green Machine."
This aggressive booster-style project is being led by Raider alums Kelly Reick and Aaron Hund.
"We had our first meeting two Sundays ago and had 40 people show up just from word of mouth," Reick said Friday. "This is idea more than just for athletics. It's a way to help make Immaculata more sustainable.
The club's purpose is to organize several fundraisers and events that not only help raise monies, but also recruit new members according to Reick.
"We want to show what Immaculata is truly all about," Reick said. "This is about more than just soccer, golf or tennis. It's the whole deal."
The group's next meeting is April 21, 6 p.m. inside the high school's cafeteria. For more information, contact Reick at email@example.com.


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Thursday, September 17, 2009
New York City Media Mayhem
We have tried to put together a full list of all the media appearances by the 12 Chase drivers in New York City. Things start on Wednesday night with some TV.
First will be Ryan Newman, Kasey Kahne and Carl Edwards on the Late Show with Jimmy Fallon. The Wednesday program airs at 12:35AM ET, but check the NBC local listings for the time in your area.
Here is the rest of the official info for Thursday:
Television Shows
FOX & Friends: Jeff Gordon and Mark Martin will be appearing outside with a show car at 7:35 am.
Good Morning America: Tony Stewart and Carl Edwards will be on this morning show also with a show car at 8:30 am.
LIVE with Regis & Kelly: It is Guinness Book of World Record Week and six drivers will start by talking to Regis and Kelly about the Chase, the season and the upcoming race at NH. They will then join over 250 fans outside on the street for the World's Largest Custard Pie Fight. For every pie thrown a donation will be made to Meals on Wheels. Those are the pies shown above, show airs at 9AM ET but check local listings.
ESPN First Take: Tony Stewart and Jeff Gordon will both be on ESPN's morning show via satellite. Program begins at 10AM ET on ESPN2.
NASCAR Now: Jeff Burton will be the co-host with Mike Massaro in Bristol, CT. This program has now been confirmed to have expanded to 90 minutes and will begin at 5PM ET. Interviews will include Roush Fenway drivers from Fenway Park in Boston and other Chase drivers from media day in NYC. This show will also re-air at 10PM Pacific/1AM Eastern.
National Radio Programs
SiriusXM Studios: Four drivers will be making their way to the studios: Kasey Kahne, Ryan Newman, Greg Biffle and Kurt Busch. Tradin' Paint will be broadcast from 12-3PM ET from the Hard Rock Cafe and will feature the remaining eight drivers.
The Bob and Tom Show: Greg Biffle will be a guest at 9 a.m.
Big D and Bubba: Several drivers will be calling in throughout the day - Mark Martin will be calling into the show at 9:45 a.m., Greg Biffle at 10:30, Carl Edwards at 11:15 and Denny Hamlin at 11:30 a.m.
Dan Patrick Radio Show: Tony Stewart will be calling into the show at 9:45 a.m.
FOX Sports Radio: Mark Martin will be a guest at 10 a.m., Carl Edwards will be on at 11, Kurt Busch will be on at 2:45 p.m. and Ryan Newman at 3:15.
New York City Local TV
CW Morning Show: Brian Vickers will be appearing on this local New York City morning show tomorrow morning at 7:15 am. The Sprint Cup Series trophy will also be on set.
Good Day NY: Ryan Newman (between 9:15 and 9:45) and Greg Biffle will be appearing at this local FOX morning show. They will be outside by the Sprint show car.
Various Local Radio Shows
ESPN 1080 Orlando: Mark Martin will be a guest at 10:15 a.m., Greg Biffle will be on at 12:45 p.m.
WKNR Cleveland: Greg Biffle will be a guest at 10:20 a.m.
KRLD Dallas: Juan Pablo Montoya will be a guest at 11:20 a.m.
CBS Radio Boston: Brian Vickers will be a guest at 11:30 a.m.
WSCR Chicago: Carl Edwards will be a guest at 4 p.m
Thanks again to the NASCAR PR staff for the info. This post will serve to host your comments as you watch and listen to all the TV and radio appearances of the 12 drivers on Wednesday and Thursday.
To add your opinion about these programs, just click on the comments button below. This is a family-friendly website, we would ask that you keep that in mind while posting. Thanks for taking the time to help us out with your reporting skills!
33 comments:
- PammH said...
I will tape JF tonite (Thurs morn), but passing on pie fight. I know I'll be able to see it elsewhere. Is there a set time for NN tomorrow?
- September 16, 2009 at 7:46 PM
- Anonymous said...
I think you're forgetting Letterman. Unless something has changed, don't the drivers always do a Top 10 list on the Late Show when in NY?
- September 16, 2009 at 7:53 PM
- Debby said...
Thanks for the info!!
@anon 7:53 I read that Letterman is in reruns this week.
- September 16, 2009 at 8:07 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
We just confirmed that the show will air at 5PM ET for 90 minutes and then re-air at 10PM Pacific/1AM Eastern. Jeff Burton is Mike Massaro's c-host.
There is no Letterman this time, the stage is dark and the show is on hiatus. The Kimmel appearance on Wednesday is the only time the drivers will be doing late night stuff until the end of the season.
Look for the Chase winner to make the rounds when it is all over.
- September 16, 2009 at 8:14 PM
- hotaru-raganbaby_6 said...
Except for the local call-in to the Orlando stations, I'll pass. Just more chase over-hype.
- September 16, 2009 at 8:55 PM
- PammH said...
ty JD!! Was hoping for the 5:30 start like they were talking about earlier this wk, but I will be setting up a tape for that also! yikes...veri word-ommen..scary!!
- September 16, 2009 at 9:42 PM
- Karen said...
JD and PammH, I'm sure JD meant to say Jimmy Fallon and not Jimmy Kimmel.
- September 16, 2009 at 9:47 PM
- TexasRaceLady said...
Karen said...
JD and PammH, I'm sure JD meant to say Jimmy Fallon and not Jimmy Kimmel.
ROTFL --- Karen, I think JD had a "senior moment."
I think I'll pass on the custard pie fight. Blecch.
- September 16, 2009 at 11:26 PM
- Karen said...
trl, I don't know if you've watched the pie fight in the past, but it's funny as heck. No holds barred. You may want to check it out.
- September 17, 2009 at 12:02 AM
- Dot said...
I'm recording the pie fight only. Thanks for the tip, Karen.
No time to record and watch more. I'm finally working full time!
- September 17, 2009 at 1:09 AM
- Charlie said...
On cable here in upper Michigan the LIVE with Regis & Kelly starts at 10am Eastern time.
- September 17, 2009 at 1:14 AM
- Anonymous said...
No taoday show?
- September 17, 2009 at 6:50 AM
- Gary said...
Again, why New York? Is it because they could care less about NASCAR? Is it because they are the most indifferent people? They change the Championship Banquet because of the lack of interest, and yet the first place they go is the place that hates them the most. Is Brian France a glutton for punishment? Why would I go to a party where I just got my A** kicked, and ask to come back inside?
- September 17, 2009 at 7:50 AM
- DL said...
Unfortubately most media with live national feed originate in NYC. Besides, it was Fashion Week. Maybe next year, when the fancy NASCAR studios are finished, live media Chase feed will be able to originate from there.
Missing the Letterman Top 10.
I thought Kurt did a good job on NN, he was thorough, concise and articulate, and even managed a flash of Busch fire when talking to Brad. Like Jimmy Spencer, hard to believe Kurt's the same guy that I spent a few years despising.
- September 17, 2009 at 8:27 AM
- DL said...
Just a heads up, my TV guide for DVR is showing NN to begin at 5:30ET, I had to manually set the 5pm program to record to capture all 90 min. of NN.
- September 17, 2009 at 8:54 AM
- Vicky D said...
The pie fight has always been good and I think Kelly & Matt Kenseth have some sort of record for it too. Lots and lots going on this week in the big apple but it's the same old same old.
- September 17, 2009 at 10:23 AM
- Newracefan said...
Pie fight didn't work out well. Someone jumped the gun and all we got were wide shots. Too bad it was the only thing I caught. Am not home so wasn't able to set the DVR after the announcements of where and when
- September 17, 2009 at 10:32 AM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
Just to reconfirm, NASCAR Now on ESPN2 will be from 5PM to 6:30PM.
This change was made too late for the cable schedules and lots of channel guides.
You may have to manually program your DVR for that time period.
- September 17, 2009 at 10:41 AM
- Dot said...
I just set the DVR to record NN. My guide showed it as 90 minutes. My guess is that it will be on time as there are no live games beforehand. For once.
- September 17, 2009 at 11:02 AM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
Well, from uninformed questions to bad stunts, that was an interesting morning.
At least it got some faces out there, but the NFL sure has the stories going right now.
It should be fun to watch Massaro and Burton on NN at 5PM. Jeff has a future in TV, so this will be a good exercise for him.
- September 17, 2009 at 12:20 PM
- Lou said...
Good Morning JD,
ref: your comment September 17, 2009 12:20 PM . I agree. I am so disappointed in the coverage this morning.
I thought it was an embarrassment to the sport i love. yes, it did get some faces out there. But at what price?
and the pie throwing on regis and kelly, please, give me a break on that. It was so lame. I was so let down by that. As I said elsewhere, what a waste of nascar pr.
Brian France, I am really trying to stay a loyal fan of this sport for the last 30 yrs. I even built a new home in Dover,DE But you are not helping.....The Daly Planet has for the last 3yrs w/our comments, oh never mind you are not listening anyway.
- September 17, 2009 at 1:07 PM
- matriarch said...
Now if I could only receive $5.00 for each time MM says how much he loves his car, Alan G, HMS, his teammates, his pit crew. and racing, I could take a trip to NY too.
- September 17, 2009 at 1:23 PM
- Tom said...
Carl Edwards, Kasey Kahne and Ryan Newman were on with Jimmy Fallon for a short bit with a goofy device they called the "shock-a-tron," and they all took turns playing it up to the hilt.
It was a little goofy - then again, so is Jimmy Fallon - but the bit was FUNNY!
- September 17, 2009 at 1:26 PM
- Tracy said...
The Regis and Kelly pie fight is a good example of why ESPN doesn't rank Nascar up there with other sports. Can you see the Williams sisters doing that? Tiger Woods?
Just humiliating, tho the guys were good sports and did their best to act as if they wanted to be there.
- September 17, 2009 at 1:51 PM
- Sophia said...
I thought the Fallon show bit seemed very disorganized and Kasey did not seem amused to get the first shock. I guess it was funny but not that much. Waste of time.
Saw video of the pie fight which I found totally LAME.
NASCAR deserves better than this, good grief. This pie fight was more suitable for a Girl Scout troop rather than race car drivers.
- September 17, 2009 at 2:05 PM
- Susan said...
Not only was the pie fight lame (except for the one civilian who clobbered one of the drivers), no one wished Jimmie Johnson a happy birthday. They could have saved one pie for him and put a candle in it. Regis should know by now there are 10 races in the Chase. At least Kelly knew that JP had driven in F1 (too bad she didn't know he did CART as well).
- September 17, 2009 at 4:14 PM
- Karen said...
Pie fight this year was disappointing. The only good thing about the whole segment with the guys was the clip they showed of last year with the guys throwing cream pies at Regis & Kelly. Jimmy Fallon show was pretty cute. Ryan Newman was the funniest.
- September 17, 2009 at 7:54 PM
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- September 17, 2009 at 8:29 PM
- darbar said...
What the heck was the point of Good Morning America? They were on for what, 40 seconds? This whole NYC tour is totally stupid and a waste of time. Regis makes them look stupid, they're an afterthought on GMA, and the Fallon show is always silly. Why does Nascar waste their time? NYC residents don't care about Nascar, and actually get pretty hacked off if anything disrupts their day. Most fans are at work and they don't care about pie throwing. What are they going to throw in Las Vegas when they get there? Cactus?
- September 17, 2009 at 8:30 PM
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- September 17, 2009 at 9:20 PM
- Anonymous said...
nascar signed off on the pie fight
they know all about it
they even set out advance press release
perhaps it did not work for you - which is fine
i love it - very entertaining
- September 17, 2009 at 9:22 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
Anon 9:20PM,
Come on, easy on the language. Just change a couple of words and feel free to repost.
Perhaps, you could tell us if you watched any of the live TV from NYC on Thursday this time as well.
- September 17, 2009 at 9:30 PM
- Sophia said...
the pie thing might've worked with better camera work & some conversation with said NASCAR drivers. I just saw the clip.
Somebody said on Twitter they thought the pie throwing looked redneck....I said it could've been worse...
they could've used cow pies :-)
- September 17, 2009 at 10:12 PM