These seats are, um, pretty good.


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anybody want to go to a bruins game this season? full-time students get cheap nosebleed tickets (under $25) for weekday games.

...because it's sunday at 11:45pm, and even though i have to get up and go to school tomorrow, my brain isn't quiet enough to really go to bed right now. ( long and rambly )

even the most casual fan of baseball (a category that i am reluctant to admit i belong to) understands that if there is one rule about announcing a ballgame, it's that you do not jinx a pitcher who is in the middle of throwing a no-hitter by saying so ( Read more... )

one of the fine traditions out here is the conferee v. pelicans softball game. ( Read more... )

lots of folks take sunday off. yesterday, with the weather as hot and sticky as it was, we hung out on Shack deck again and reveled in the breeze and the bright sun. you're not really supposed to go swimming anywhere but the swimming beach (which is on the harbor side and protected by the pier). but most of us know a couple of good spots to go ( Read more... )

this probably doesn't mean anything to any of you, but Bob Lobel went off the air yesterday. he was a Boston sportscaster - the Boston sportscaster, really - for only a few years less than I've been alive. besides doing tons of charity work, he was always one of the most entertaining and recognizable people on local television. he spawned the ( Read more... )

can we please stop complaining about how poorly MLS games draw at the gate?

last season's ticket sales show that the overall league average was 16,485 per game. New England did slightly better than that, at 16,742 per game. granted, those numbers (a) are tickets sold, not bodies through the gate, and (b) include some doubleheaders with big- ( Read more... )

this game is turning out to be as entertaining as everybody pretty much expected it to be.

At halftime28-0 New England ( Read more... )

http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2007/10/26/start_times_explained/