Nobody gave Boston Red Sox pitcher Tim Wakefield any potato salad at last year's Picnic in the Park so if you're going to it after Sunday's game all I ask is this.
PLEASE GIVE WAKE SOME POTATO SALAD!!!!
I wasn't around to post this until tonight but apparently NESN color analyst Jerry Remy isn't a fan of the Kiss Cam.
During Tuesday night's Boston Red Sox vs Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim game, the RemDawg and Don Orsillo were featured on the Angels Stadium Kiss Cam. DO leaned over to kiss the RemDawg but he wanted no part of it.
Here's the video for you to enjoy:
Former UConn Huskies guard Mel Thomas (2004-08) has decided to pursue a career in coaching as she works towards a graduate degree in business. Thomas, 24, recently joined the staff of Karl Smesko as the Director of Basketball Operations at Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU) in Fort Myers FL.
After tearing her ACL in her senior season (2007-08) at UConn, Thomas missed out on the 2008 WNBA draft due to the injury. She later recovered well enough to play her first professional season in Ireland as a member of the Bausch and Lomb Waterford Wildcats of the Irish National Basketball League.
After a personally successfully season , Thomas returned home with the hope of playing in the WNBA. After being invited to training camp by the Seattle Storm last year she tore her meniscus in her knee just weeks before reporting and was unable to play once again until the fall. In October of 2009,, Thomas went off to play in Poland for Artego Bydgoszcz in the Polish league, PLKK.
This year after not being signed by a WNBA team and disappointed in her overseas experiences, Thomas has decided to try her hand at coaching and finds herself about to pursue her coaching career and her MBA (Masters of Business Administration) at FGCU starting this fall.
Recently, Sox & Dawgs asked Thomas a few questions about her new position, coaching, playing professionally and about her future. Always there will a smile and willing to answer just about anything Mel took some time from her busy schedule of studying for her GMAT’s (Graduate Management Admission Test), helping out at basketball camps and doing book signings for her book “Heart of a Husky” to answer these for us
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Former Oakland Raiders safety Jack Tatum died Tuesday at age 61 of a heart attack. He had battled diabetes and other illnesses for years. Tatum, who had 37 career interceptions, played 10 seasons in the NFL , nine of them with Oakland, and went to three Pro Bowls and won one Super Bowl.
But he is best remembered as the man who paralyzed New England Patriots WR Darryl Stingley in a 1978 preseason game. Stingley, who over the years would regain some limited use of his body, spent the rest of his life in a wheel chair until he died in 2007. Tatum never apologized nor ever spoke to Stingley after the incident. Stingley’s former QB Steve Grogan just couldn’t forgive the man for that.
"I have a hard time trying to find something nice to say," Grogan said about Tatum. "That bothers me because I'm not like that normally. You may talk to guys that played with him, and they might tell you he was greatest teammate in the world and everybody loved him.
"The circumstance that we were involved with, just the way he handled it, that will never come out of any of our mouths or minds."
"When something like that happens and you can't apologize for it, go out and write a book to make money and try to get famous off the incident, that's just not right," Grogan said. "I thought he handled it very poorly."
Tatum, who wrote three books called “They Call Me Assassin”; “They Still Call Me Assassin” and “Final Confessions of NFL Assassin Jack Tatum” once suggested that he and Stingley have a live televised reconciliation to promote one of his books.
It never came to be, although Stingley as late as 2003 told the Boston Globe he would welcome a visit or call from Tatum that didn’t have a commercial agenda attached to it.
"If he called me today, I'd answer," Darryl Stingley said. "If he came to my house, I'd open my door to him. All I ever wanted was for him to acknowledge me as a human being. I just wanted to hear from him if he felt sorry or not. It's not like I'm unreachable. But it's not a phone call I'll be waiting for anymore."
NFL Hall of Fame writer John Clayton wrote in his remembrance of Tatum that his behavior toward Stingley likely kept him from the Hall of Fame.
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After coming from behind last night, the Boston Red Sox look to conclude their ten-game west coast road trip with a sweep of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim this afternoon at Angel Stadium of Anaheim.
This afternoon's game will start at 3:35 p.m. and will be shown on NESN in the Red Sox television market. The game can be seen in the Angels television market on Fox Sports West. If you can't catch the television broadcast, you can always listen to the game on the 2010 Red Sox radio network.
Josh Beckett will make his second start since being activated from the disabled list on July 23rd. He's made ten starts in 2010 for the Red Sox and is 1-1 with a 6.66 ERA. He hasn't faced the Angels in 2010 and is 2-3 with a 4.13 ERA in eight career starts. He's made three career starts at Angel Stadium and is 1-2 with a 4.05 ERA.
One-time member of the Red Sox, Joel Piñeiro, gets the start for the Angels this afternoon. He's made 20 starts in 2010 and is 10-7 with a 4.18 ERA. He took the loss back on May 5th against the Red Sox after allowing two runs in six innings. Overall in his career, the former New Haven Ravens pitcher has made 11 starts against the Red Sox and is 3-6 with a 5.94 ERA.
Lineups, batter/pitcher matchups, and links after the jump.
The New England Patriots have signed their first round draft pick CB Devin McCourty (1st Round -27th overall) out of Rutgers University. McCourty inked a five year deal with a max value of $13.2 million of which $7.825 million is in guarantees and bonuses.
He is the last of the teams 12 draft picks to sign a contract but only the second of all the first rounders in the league. Only Dallas WR Dez Bryant (21st overall) had signed prior to McCourty.
McCourty is likely to be in camp today ready for the start of team workouts tomorrow.
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no commentsNESN's Kathryn Tappen is down in Ft. Myers and sat down with injured Boston Red Sox outfielder Jacoby Ellsbury to talk about the rehab process among other things.
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Boston Red Sox starter John Lackey returned to the place he called home for all of his major league career until this season in search of his elusive 10th win of the season. His buddy, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim starting pitcher Jered Weaver, had every intention of spoiling Lackey's quest.
Lackey started and ended his Tuesday night with boos from the crowd of his former team but it was he who had the last laugh as the Red Sox rallied for a 4-2 win. Weaver was actually quite surprised the Angels fans booed him.
"The ovation wasn't quite what I thought it would be," Weaver said. "This guy's done a lot for the organization for eight years. It's very disappointing people didn't understand."
The pair engaged in a good ol' fashioned pitcher's duel last night with the Angels getting to Lackey for a run in the third. And that's how the score would stay as they matched zeroes until the top of the 7th inning.
Weaver had gotten the first two outs before a walk to Darnell McDonald, who was late addition to the lineup after J.D. Drew was scratched with a sore hamstring. Marco Scutaro got McDonald to third with a single and both would come around to score when Jed Lowrie hit a double over Juan Rivera who had been playing shallow.
The Red Sox added a run in the 8th on an Adrian Beltre double and it was a good thing because Bobby Abreu ended Lackey's night with a solo home run to cut the lead back to one. Daniel Bard finished the inning off for him and after a run in the top of the 9th, Jonathan Papelbon closed the door on the Angels.
Lackey had said that he would have a good second half and he's shown that in his three starts since the All-Star break. He's 1-0 with a 1.61 ERA (5 runs/4 earned in 22.1 innings).
Despite throwing a lot of pitches early on, he was sharp on the mound. He had great command of his offspeed stuff and that's what helped him keep pace with Weaver who mowing down Red Sox hitters like they weren't even there. And the fact that he gutted it out for as long as he did allowed Terry Francona to use the guys he trusts most in the bullpen in Bard and Papelbon.
A win today against the Angels would go a long way for the Red Sox to finish off this 10-game west coast swing before tomorrow's off day.
We'll be back in a short while with this afternoon's lineups, batter/pitcher matchups, news and any links from the day but for now enjoy the overnight links after the jump.
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