Please take a moment sometime during the day today to remember the victims and countless heroes of the fateful day known as 9-11-01.

Happy Birthday to all those born on this date. Let our celebration of life be a reminder to those that attempted to break us that we are still standing proudly and believe that America is the best place to live!!

Please don't forget our troops who are overseas defending our great country and those who gave their lives.

I found this very moving video on YouTube aptly named "9-11 World Trade Center Memorial - Jeff Buckley/Hallelujah"

And even though my mom doesn't celebrate her birthday anymore on this date, I am still going to wish her a Happy Birthday.

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Just a friendly reminder that I'll be without internet or cell phone service starting in just a little while. This means I won't be able to do the lineup post tonight or any posts tomorrow. I should get back into the swing of things tomorrow night at the earliest.

My apologies for the inconvenience. I do thank you for your continued support of SOX & Dawgs.

I just wanted to let everyone know that this weekend will be a light one here at SOX & Dawgs.

While I'm hoping to do as much as I can while I'm away for the weekend, it's highly unlikely I'll be able to. Friday's posts should be on their normal schedule. On Saturday, I'm expecting the same for the morning stuff but the lineup post will either be a watered down version or not at all.

On Sunday morning, the normal posts should be there. But from there, I wouldn't expect any posts until Monday night or possibly Tuesday morning. Sunday and Monday I'll be in area where there's no internet or even phone service. So obviously I won't be able to do anything.

Just wanted to keep everyone informed in case they were wondering where the posts were. Because without you, I wouldn't be here.

Thanks for your support of SOX & Dawgs.

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Have a great and safe holiday everyone!!!! If you're going to drink, make sure you have a designated driver.

After the one day hiatus due to my computer crashing, we are back in business today and it should be business as usual.

I do apologize for the inconvenience and thanks for your support of SOX & Dawgs. It's well appreciated.

After four years and nine months of service, my Dell Vostro 1500 passed away this morning at approximately 1:56 A.M. After an autopsy, the cause of the death is thought to be multiple blue screens of death caused by various parts that stopped working.

She lived a timely life helping SOX & Dawgs become what it is today. While she'll be missed, she's been replaced by her cousin the Dell Inspiron.

I do apologize for the lack of posts but without access to my email and RSS feeds, I haven't been able to do much. I hope to get things back up and running at some point tonight. For now, I'll be getting the essentials setup and over time, I'll get things back to the what I use all the time.

So please bear with me. And yes, I'll be getting the Trot videos up as well. That will be one of the essentials of setting up.

Until then, thanks for your support of SOX & Dawgs.

I just want to thank everyone who voted for us in the Hartford Courant's contest, The Websters, for the top blogs of 2012 in Connecticut.

While we got in late due to a technical error and missed the first three days of voting, we were able to pull off the miracle and we won Best Sports Blog!!!

I really can't thank everyone enough for their votes. Steve and I really appreciate them.

You can see the full list of winners for The Websters at the Hartford Courant website.

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A few weeks ago, I asked y’all to nominate me for Best Sports Blog, Best UConn Blog and best overall blog at the Hartford Courant. Well the voting began Monday and didn’t include us.

So I took my brother’s advice and asked SOX & Dawgs wasn’t included. It turns out they made an error and forgot to include my site.

So despite the fact that they are 3 ½ days into the voting, I’m hoping to make a splash and be the cardiac kids and pull this win out.

So if you could vote 10x today and tomorrow with each of your email addresses for SOX & Dawgs blog as the best sports blog, I’d would sincerely appreciate it immensely.  Also tell your friends to do it as well. And then thank them for me!!

http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/websters/

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We apologize for the lack of posting on this Saturday. Bloguin switched over to a new hosting solution for the network and for the most part, everything went smoothly.

I say for the most part because 15 sites didn't make it over in the first transition. Unfortunately, we were one of the "15" sites and didn't come back online until later in the day.

But now that things are running smoothly, we'll get back to action. We won't catch up on the UConn post as I'll just combine it into one post in the morning. The same goes with the Red Sox post from today.

I'll do what I can with what I wanted to post and we'll be ready for the full day of normalness on Sunday.

Thanks for your patience!

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