Apr
22
I Scream for Ice Cream!
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Apparently, they removed the ice cream box from the Red Sox clubhouse and the players are pretty pissed off about it, according to this article, albeit tongue-in-cheek. Josh Beckett demanded a trade if it’s not returned. Mike Lowell expressed his frustration about why they couldn’t have the ice cream box back, saying “we won the World Series with it there.” I guess the Yankees are in a similar frosty situation: the manager Joe Girardi has requested the ice cream box to be removed from the players’ clubhouse, and people are pissed, except for A-Rod, I bet, who probably prefers gelatos. And strippers.
Alice McDermott, who was probably my favorite writing teacher amongst many, wrote a story in The New Yorker years ago, called “Enough.” It was about a woman who loved eating, especially ice cream -
If you want to begin with the ice-cream dishes licked clean by a girl who is now the old woman past all usefulness, closing her eyes at the first taste. If you want to make a metaphor out of her lifelong cravings, something she is not inclined to do. Pleasure is pleasure….If you have an appetite for it, you’ll find there’s plenty. Plenty to satisfy you—lick the back of the spoon. Take another, and another. Plenty. Never enough.
(Tipped hat to Joy of Sox)
Oct
22
Four More Wins!
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John Cheever once said, “All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.” Perhaps he’d said such a thing after drinking one gimlet too many, railing against post-modern literature (Pynchon & DeLillo, born and bred in Long Island and the Bronx, respectively.) I don’t know if I’d like being classified as a Red Sox “literary man” if the binary means Cheever/Updike (Red Sox) vs. Pynchon/DeLillo (Yankees). Then I’d probably be a Pittsburgh Pirates man. Chances are, I’m over-reading this stupid quote. Chances are, I’m going to get to watch Papelbon do another Riverdance after a WS Game 7 save; his routine, which came during a post-game celebration after the Sox swept the Angels in ALDS, is one of the most disturbing yet compulsively watchable sights captured on tape in the annals of TV broadcasting.
Anyhoo - I hope Francona will permanently go with Ellsbury instead of Crisp for the WS, and let’s move Lester into the starting rotation and put Wakefield in the pen, who still looks a bit gimpy from his injury. Let’s win four more.