That "everybody" is an exaggerated way of saying "I, the person writing this, hate these guys" doesn't matter when likability is not in the qualifications, but it's the more fun part of the back-and-forth.
(Lifelong New Englander Challenge: Name a person we *haven't* hated at one point or another.)
Imagine having built a Hall of Fame system where neither Robert Kraft nor Bill Belichick are immediately elected.
If this was a thing you genuinely cared about doing well and you came up with a system that did this? I don't know. Maybe time to fold up shop and take up needlepoint or something.
"Couldn’t even go to Stop n’ Shop and get lunch meat."
I enjoyed this story more than I thought I would, and the lunch meat absolutely helped.
Great day to have functioning eyes and a working brain
Had to make a call to the IRS I wasn't looking forward to. The matter was handled quickly, simply, and the person was pleasant. Dealing with the government can be a drag sometimes, but when one actually deals with it one usually sees how ridiculous cable news-style demonization of it is.
Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
Exterior of the Club Zanzibar gentleman's club in Toronto, advertising to "Support the Blue Jays with Lapdances."
No wonder they're leading the division.
The nature of the last seven seasons of Red Sox baseball makes it well nigh impossible to trust anything about this run they're on.
Increasingly, though, I think it's important to try. Because something's happening, and that might be most (if not all) that matters.
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Yeesh. That escalated quickly.
Was missing where Steer's homer landed a "NESN Celebrates 1975" thing, or just general crapulence?
(Also, shout out graphics people who, if they're anything like me, deeply enjoyed making a 70s style scorebug when scorebugs were two decades off in 1975. I see you better than I see the scorebug.)
It was a good run, Matt Turner.
Imagine how bad it would be if they left that cursed Ortiz jersey in the foundation.
In 2007, I got pulled with a few other reporters to do a segment about Daisuke Matsuzaka. It involved being asked some questions, holding up a little sign with a happy/sad type thing on it, then answering.
Remember thinking, "Wow, this feels very goofy Japanese TV."
NESN now does it every night.
Always the danger of hyperbolizing in the moment, but Sunday feels like an organizational failure to top them all.
Blame? Everywhere. Fallout? The season that was supposed to be the end of the struggle had its legs taken out at a point that felt like the spark toward a fun summer.
Gross.
Spare a thought for the people in the Red Sox ticket office this morning, who two weeks ago were already in the "two free hot dogs with every ticket purchase" portion of their Rolodex.
![Clayton Kershaw sucks
It was Pride Night at Dodger Stadium on Friday evening. As is usually the case on Pride Night, the home team wore a rainbow version of their logo on their cap. Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw donned the rainbow cap but he made an addition to it: [insert photo of Clayton Kershaw with a Pride cap with a bible verse citation next to it].
That writing is a citation to Genesis 9:12-16, which is a passage in the Bible which is commonly used by homophobic Christians who are part of what they call the "Take Back the Rainbow" movement. They claim that the LGBTQ+ community stole the rainbow symbol from God and they view it as their mission to "rescue" gay people from what they consider to be a sinister movement.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vevk6lgrt6o4wncrbp7joij3/bafkreiec3waq53w54fnqqcv6ud5n4ga2res4lxyfhs475atlyew27mwgeu)
Clayton Kershaw sucks It was Pride Night at Dodger Stadium on Friday evening. As is usually the case on Pride Night, the home team wore a rainbow version of their logo on their cap. Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw donned the rainbow cap but he made an addition to it: [insert photo of Clayton Kershaw with a Pride cap with a bible verse citation next to it]. That writing is a citation to Genesis 9:12-16, which is a passage in the Bible which is commonly used by homophobic Christians who are part of what they call the "Take Back the Rainbow" movement. They claim that the LGBTQ+ community stole the rainbow symbol from God and they view it as their mission to "rescue" gay people from what they consider to be a sinister movement.
Clayton Kershaw has been around long enough and he's a big enough deal to where (a) vanishingly few reporters would ask him about this; and (b) even if they did, he'd have some canned response on which no one would follow up, but he knows goddamn well what he's doing here. Whether or not Kershaw actively adheres to the Take Back the Rainbow movement, he's endorsing it with that bit of Sharpie on his cap. It's in keeping with his past sentiments surrounding Pride Day in which he decided to police those who could or could not take part in it and used the controversy he himself created in order to get the Dodgers to commit to moving up a Christian identity promotion in response. It was shitty behavior then and this is shitty behavior now. As was the case with those Tampa Bay Rays players who, a few years ago, tore the rainbow logos off their caps and jerseys in protest to the team's Pride Night, I expect nothing to happen to Clayton Kershaw for blatantly undermining the team's public-facing messaging and violating selectively-enforced rules about defacing one's uniform with personal messaging. Indeed, it would not shock me if people in and around the game defend Kershaw on a "hey, everyone has a right to freedom of speech" basis. Not that he even needs the defense. He pitched on Saturday night after I and others had pointed out the thing he did with his cap. As far as I can tell, not a single person asked him about it after the game. It was all "Kershaw tosses seven scoreless innings against the Giants!" But ask yourself: what would happen if a player wrote a message of protest next to the American flag-logos or the camouflage logos teams wear on their Fourth of July or Memorial Day and Military Appreciation caps? If you think the response to such a thing would be benign – if you think people would ignore it and merely focus on what the player did on the field – then Colin Kaepernick has a bridge to sell you.
Today's newsletter is one of the few places where you'll read about Clayton Kershaw defacing his Pride Day cap with a bible verse widely used by homophobes to discredit the LGBTQ+ community.
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Might learn a few new three-syllable words today. There are worse things!
Good morning. Today is the day a Yalie and Sam Kennedy will explain the Rafael Devers trade.
There are Mondays, and then there are Mondays.
Five out of six against the Yankees. By the Red Sox team that, last time I wrote, I compared to a colonoscopy.
Baseball seasons are long, stupid things.
Carlos Narváez is this generation's Sandy León. #RedSox
The "11" on Devers' Fenway Greens uniform is absolutely squashed together and looks terrible. Front and back.
I don't want the kerning people fired, but I want them reprimanded.
That "I wish my manager bet on us" quote a couple months ago took me right back to his glory days.
Trevor Story's home run would have only cleared two MLB fences: Yankee Stadium and Steinbrenner Field.
I feel like we need a specific term for this type of home run. Pinstripe Poke is terrible, but it can get us started.
It has legitimately nuked my whole day and I'm kinda OK with it.
We watch tens of thousands of hours of sports because, a handful of times in our lives, we get a Sinner-Alcaraz.
I mean, it's that or go outside.
Joe Davis, after Aroldis Chapman trips at first: "Red Sox are saying, 'Can't we just have a nice thing? Can we have anything good?'"
Joe Davis doesn't miss.
On Fox tonight, there's going to be a muddy, sloppy, gambling-laden mess of a competition that might make you feel a little bit queasy.
And before the Red Sox game, the Belmont Stakes is on.
Based on his last appearance there, Walker Buehler may think the best way to beat the Yankees is to fall five runs behind them.
Welcome to the new generation about to learn that "Sturm Face" was a meme before we really called them that.
Much like I just learned searching that yields a different German's line of anti-aging creams.
Especially compared to the 24 hours before.
