Archive for February, 2012
The Past and Future of the Nation
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 Spring Training Workouts On Wednesday we headed back to JetBlue Park for another day of workouts. When we arrived at 9:00, we saw that some players had already taken the field. Reclamation projects Aaron Cook and Ross Ohlendorf as well as Chris “The Other One” Carpenter, whom the Sox just received […]
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Working It Out
Tuesday, February 28, 2012 Spring Training Workouts On Tuesday we got off to a late start, and arrived at the ballpark a little after 9:00, right around the time that the team should be taking the field. But instead, the players were nowhere to be found – even the orange cones that normally line the […]
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Spring Training Workouts
Monday, February 27, 2012 Spring Training Workouts On Monday we were back in Ft. Myers early for more Spring Training workouts. Again we watched them stretch out on the new “agility field” before they spread out to the six practice fields for their drills. This time I mostly watched rounds of live batting practice, where […]
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Time to Report to the Fort
Sunday, February 26, 2012 Spring Training Workouts The day after the 2012 Red Sox held their first full-squad workout, it was time for me to make my annual pilgrimage to Spring Training. This is my tenth straight year of making the trip, and a lot has changed in that time. My first year, 2003, was […]
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Truck Day 2012
Saturday, February 11, 2012 – Fenway Park Truck Day I know there are some unsentimental types who think that the hype over a moving van is too over-the-top or some kind of commercial gimmick. It may be a silly tradition, but I happen to be a silly traditionalist, so Truck Day – when the Red […]
