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- Reflections on Red Sox - Yankees (and some weekend links) This weekend the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees are getting together for another of their classic matches. (Having lived 8 miles west of Boston for 95% of my life, I fall heavily in that Red Sox fan club.) Though the Tampa Bay Devils (they choose to drop...
- Quick News on Red Sox-Yankees The Boston Red Sox own the Yankees this year. They won last night 6-5 and are 7-0 against them. Wakefield got the win and Papelbon got his 15th save. In the WNBA yesterday Washington beat Detroit, Minnesota beat the L.A. Sparks and Phoenix beat New York. I said the other...
- The Price of a World Series Championship It's being reported today that the New York Yankees have signed free-agent first baseman Mark Teixeira. For much of the last few weeks, their rival (and my favorite team) the Boston Red Sox were rumored to be a front runner in negotiations. It all changed in a matter of a...
- A Vote for Doris Kearns Goodwin is a Vote for the Red Sox! My friend Joey's mom is up for President of Red Sox Nation. You may have heard of her - she's a very well known, Pulitzer Prize winning historical author - and a genuinely wonderful lady. She is up against a veritable who's who of well-known Bostonians for the coveted position,...
- Did You Get Free Furniture From the Red Sox? Yesterday I wrote about free tacos from Taco Bell (available today), but that's small potatoes. The real winners are Jordan's Furniture customers who took advantage of a furniture promotion. The promotion offered to refund all the customers' money if the Red Sox won the World Series. Now thousands of people...
- Major League Baseball Stole My Money... As some of my regular readers know, I'm a huge Red Sox fan (which hasn't been easy this past week), living in Northern California. If I want to see Red Sox games, I have three choices... a $160 (or so) cable subscription, a Slingbox, or MLB.TV's service to watch the...
- Yankees Girardi, Red Sox Penny Trade Barbs Joe Girardi accuses Brad Penny of hitting A-Rod in the back in Thursday nights game intentionally. What Girardi fails to mention is that his pitchers hit 9 Red Sox batters in the series, to only three Yankees being hit. The problem with the American League is that the pitcher never bats,...
- Weekend Personal Finance Review - Red Sox Scare Edition It's August 11th and the Red Sox lead over the Yankees that was once 14 games is down to 5. It seems like this happens more often than not. The difference this time is that the Red Sox are still playing great baseball - good enough to be the #1...
Red Sox Revelry - This The Last Of It. Promise. Yet another small batch of photos from last night that have made their way to my inbox. This should be the final set, but it's going to be a very busy couple of days down here and I'm sure this site will be rife with images of Boston barfights and...- Weekend Round-up: Red Sox Clinch Edition With the Red Sox clinching the AL East for the first time in 12 years, I can finally relax a little bit. That relaxation is going to last only a couple of days. The playoffs start on Wednesday of next week, so it will be nail-biting time again. For the...
- On This Date in Baseball History-July 4 On July 4, 1985, the New York Mets defeat the Atlanta Braves, 16-13, in a wild 19-inning affair at Fulton County Stadium. Light-hitting pitcher Rick Camp hits a game-tying home run in the 18th, only to see his team lose. New York’s Keith Hernandez hits for the cycle. On...
- Red Lions rolled past Cardinals in NCAA Opener San Beda Red Lions overpowered Mapua Cardinals in the opening game of the National Collegiate Athletic Association Basketball Championship. Making a bold statement that they intend to extend their championship run, now three, to four. The Lions clashed with the Cardinals at 2 P.M. after United States Ambassador Kristie Kenney...
- Link hopping: Boston fern edition I finally went and bought a Boston fern for our computer room yesterday. I'd been wanting one for months, but kept putting it off. First there were other priorities for our money, and then we went on a couple of vacations. (I didn't want one more thing for someone to...
creepy and hatboy - someone's killing pizza delivery drivers “i don’t see why they don’t deliver to us, anyway. we’re valued customers. they said so in the pamphlets they handed out last fortnight!”
“they did. send a few drivers, i mean. apparently one went missing last night, which was why we didn’t get our vegetarian with triple pineapple.”
“i wondered about that.”
Building Your Blog's Tribe Everyone Wants To Belong To Something Special The word "community" is no longer sufficient to describe what we bloggers must build around ourselves and our blogs in order for us to thrive. Communities are for generic social sites. Successful bloggers build something more akin to a tribe. A brother and...- What the heck is Web 2.0? Opinions are like blogs, everybody has one. I love to read the debates in blogland about Web 2.0. "What it is" depends on which part of the blogosphere cafeteria you hang out in.
- Digging for Dollars: Links Are The Bees, Content Is The Honey In the Business 2.0 article, Sloan outlines one of Kovach's biggest successes in generating a high ranking for a trend in the scholarship arena: Boston University's whites-only scholarship...
Dear Jack, I sell enema kits, what in the world can I blog about? One of my favorite pastimes is answering prospective bloggers who ask the age old question: "I sell something boring. How do you expect me to blog everyday about boring stuff?" Well, I've been stumped before. Like with someone who actually was selling enema kits. It was the first and last...
Pay Per Play: Make Money on Page Loads? Have you ever wished you could just skip all the clicking-to-get-paid monetization schemes and just get paid a decent amount for every visitor who simply lands on your site? A new ad network seeks to give webmasters this opportunity soon. It's called Pay Per Play and many bloggers have been...- Baseball News and Transactions-July 4 Angels activated RHP Ervin Santana from the 15-day disabled list. Angels optioned Rafael Rodriguez to Triple-A Salt Lake. Braves placed 2B Kelly Johnson on the 15-day disabled list with right wrist tendinitis. Braves recalled IF Brooks Conrad from Triple-A Gwinnett Orioles released LHP Bobby Livingston Cubs signed LHP Casey...
- Movie Review: Ghosts of Girlfriends Past starring Matthew McConaughey and Jennifer Garner This is a fabulous contemporary update of the Christmas Carol. Matthew McConaughey is Connor Mead. Connor is the new Mr. Scrooge, except he’s gorgeous, charming, and wealthy. So what’s wrong with the guy? Connor is a miser, just like Scrooge. How? Unlike Scrooge, Connor withholds love/feelings instead of money/possessions. Just...
The Creative Inspiration of Jane Austen Today's article is a guest post written by Sharon Lathan, author of the Darcy Saga! It is such a thrill to be spending today on Love Romance Passion. Keira has been so gracious in allowing me two whole days (our fun interview will post on Thursday!) to hijack her...
Envirosax - The Organic Bamboo, Eco-Friendly Shopping Bag. Running a website about the environment gets you a lot of press releases and product samples sent to you, whether you want them or not. Most of these are from either A. a company trying to greenwash a product and asking me to do it for them or B. something...
What was I thinking? : What WAS I thinking? Disneyland during the holidays is an exercise in self abuse, that is all there is to it. Living in Bakersfield, Ca. One must travel some distance to the Magic Kingdom... about 2 hours and change, to be approximate. And once you arrive, you are anything...
Friday Stack: Big Spender Edition Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel is proposing tax cuts as a means to help Israel out of a recession. However, I'm not sure I want to move there just yet. Dick Morris believes that the president is contributing to the slowing of the economy. The federal deficit will near $2...- Psychological Marketing Blunders Most People Make Contained within this article are 3 psychological marketing tactics which have the power to totally transform almost anyone's business...-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Have you ever sent out an "advertisement," and much to your disappointment, received much less of a response than you had hoped for?Perhaps a little crash course in marketing psychology is in...
- Lower the Interest Rate on Your Mortgage Without Refinancing? On my trip to Boston a couple of weeks ago, I met up with a couple of my best friends from college. One is probably more into personal finance than me - but he's just not the blogging type. He can dazzle with Excel and Quicken and probably could tell...
- California Fires Hello all... For those reading this in the Fire Zones, I hope all is well. Please stay safe and if the call comes to evacuate, please consider your life and safety and that of your family. Life and Limb are more important than all those things you buy and collect......
Tips for Club Swinging One of the oldest and most commonly asked questions regarding playing golf has always revolved around learning how to swing a golf club. At the professional level, the study of biomechanics and how it affects golf swing has gone into some truly extreme detail, and deep investigations have been made...- Could Adam Lambert be first gay "American Idol"? Adam Lambert wears eyeliner and diamond stud earrings, sings like a dream and has won a rare standing ovation from tough-minded judge Simon Cowell. With three weeks to go before the "American Idol" final, Lambert, 27, is favored to win the No. 1 U.S. television talent show and become, possibly,...
