Good times last night at Fenway, where the Red Sox hung on to beat the Orioles 6-3 in front of the usual packed house. With me were my buddy Dave (the Bachelor in my soon-to-be-published Vegas bachelor party story for Penthouse Magazine, and a groom-to-be in 10 days), the wise-cracking, Fenway Frank-eating Kris of walkoffwalk.com, and Dave’s fiancee’s uncle Harvey, who’s literally a rocket scientist, yet may very well be more knowledgable in sports-related discussions.
Thanks to Dave, the seats were among the best I’ve ever had, third row right over the visitors’ third-base dugout. This enabled us to heckle Ramon Hernandez (Kris let him have the .240-something OBP catcher have it after a particular weak strikeout, and Hernandez actually said something back, since he was just a few feet away) and Aubrey Huff. My favorite random moment came when Harvey asked me a particularly obscure question: Who’s the leading pass catcher in CFL history? Being a Canadian, I kicked myself for not knowing the answer. Doug Flutie’s sure-handed brother Darren Flutie, said Harvey, who then turned to his left and introduced me to…Darren Flutie. Hilarious, especially when Flutie started rooting louder and louder for the Orioles (he’s originally from Baltimore) with random, very loud shouts of support for Luke Scott and others.
The journalist in me wanted to interview the guy, but I couldn’t think of any CFL old-timers publications that might actually pay me for a Darren Flutie interview. Too bad. Seemed like a fun guy, especially after the first couple beers.
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Red Sox game shenanigans
Good times last night at Fenway, where the Red Sox hung on to beat the Orioles 6-3 in front of the usual packed house. With me were my buddy Dave (the Bachelor in my soon-to-be-published Vegas bachelor party story for Penthouse Magazine, and a groom-to-be in 10 days), the wise-cracking, Fenway Frank-eating Kris of walkoffwalk.com, and Dave’s fiancee’s uncle Harvey, who’s literally a rocket scientist, yet may very well be more knowledgable in sports-related discussions.
Thanks to Dave, the seats were among the best I’ve ever had, third row right over the visitors’ third-base dugout. This enabled us to heckle Ramon Hernandez (Kris let him have the .240-something OBP catcher have it after a particular weak strikeout, and Hernandez actually said something back, since he was just a few feet away) and Aubrey Huff. My favorite random moment came when Harvey asked me a particularly obscure question: Who’s the leading pass catcher in CFL history? Being a Canadian, I kicked myself for not knowing the answer. Doug Flutie’s sure-handed brother Darren Flutie, said Harvey, who then turned to his left and introduced me to…Darren Flutie. Hilarious, especially when Flutie started rooting louder and louder for the Orioles (he’s originally from Baltimore) with random, very loud shouts of support for Luke Scott and others.
The journalist in me wanted to interview the guy, but I couldn’t think of any CFL old-timers publications that might actually pay me for a Darren Flutie interview. Too bad. Seemed like a fun guy, especially after the first couple beers.
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