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Sep 27
On this day in 1964 the Warren commission concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone to kill president John F. Kennedy. On this day in 1998 Mark McGwire hit home runs 69 and 70 to break the home run record long held by Roger Maris. Coincidence? I don’t think so. Popularity: 7% [?] Sep 27
The best story about the making of the movie is that they were filming this during the year that the Red Sox won the world series, but of corse they did not know that the Red Sox would win. So at the end of the movie when they realized that the Red Sox might win they had to scramble and get a film crew and the two stars to the World Series. The shots of them running out onto the field were real. Of course it helps that it is a Fox movie and that the World Series was being televised by Fox Sports. Having that footage they were then able to make the necessary re-write of the script that included the fate of the team without having to spend enormous amounts of money recreating the events. Popularity: 6% [?] Sep 27
I enjoyed this article after just watching Fever Pitch last weekend. We already knew that Red Sox fans were fanatical, but you don’t expect them to be saying “oh it’s only bleeding a little and it is only the top of the 7th”. From the Washington Post: Everyone knows that Boston Red Sox fans endured decades of pain and suffering waiting for their team to win the World Series. But it turns out that Boston area residents literally put off taking care of real medical emergencies so they could watch last fall’s climactic games. A study in the Annals of Emergency Medicine reported yesterday that emergency room visits in six greater Boston hospitals were significantly affected by the seven American League Championship Series games between the Red Sox and the New York Yankees and the subsequent four-game sweep of the St. Louis Cardinals in the World Series. During the biggest games, emergency room visits declined precipitously — as much as 20 percent below the historical average. In the less important games — and especially in ones in which it looked as though the Red Sox might lose the series — emergency room visits were 30 percent higher than during those sudden-death matches. The researchers, from Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, looked at Nielsen ratings for the 11 games to see how many people were watching in the Boston area (more than 1 million households per game, on average). They then collected from six hospitals the average number of emergency room visits while those games were in progress and looked at the correlation. The result, they said, was a “dose response” in emergency room use: The bigger the game, the less likely people were to seek immediate medical help. “These findings suggest that timing of [emergency room] utilization has a strong discretionary component,” they wrote. Especially if an 86-year-old curse is on the line. Popularity: 5% [?] Sep 12
For a brief moment the crowd thought that Barry Bonds had hit home run number 704 tonight at Pacbell Park. But after the scoreboard started to flash “704″ the 2nd base umpire signaled a double due to fan interference. We all booed but the call was correct. A fan had reached down below the top of the wall to try and catch the ball. In any case the evening was electric and the moment was terrific. Barry helped bring the crowd back into a game after an awful awful start by Kevin Correa. It was only luck that I was able to be at the game as we share season tickets with a group of people and we arranged to get these tickets months ago. Popularity: 4% [?] Sep 02
Someone recently commented to me that you can judge a first baseman by his infield’s throwing errors and I thought “hey, we can do that!”. What did they conclude? Yup, what we already knew. That J.T. can play first base. Popularity: 4% [?] |
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