Musings from Mandy

Blogger hates me today. Hopefully be back later.

Sox1Fan has some great quotes from our All Stars, including these, Of Manny’s absence, Papelbon quipped: “Manny is here. I think he might have checked into the wrong hotel or something, knowing him. He did come on the flight with us here. After that, I think he got lost. It’s more like, ‘Where’s Waldo?”... we give him a hard time about it all the time, (but) he just tries to be as private as he can”. The Red Sox all-stars were transported to San Fran on John W. Henry’s Leerjet after the three game debacle in detroit wrapped up on Sunday. Asked about the trip westward, starting pitcher Josh Beckett said: “It was great. We got to listen to Cinco Ocho (Papelbon) yell at Mike Lowell for beating him in cribbage the whole way, it was great”.

I'm going to have my road trip recap tomorrow, but in the meantime, I leave you with the single greatest link of all time. http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid910267413?bclid=715977971&bctid=1027011680

Well, I'm back. I hope everyone missed me. I'm starting off today with a Home Run Derby recap and will then have a road trip recap later on today. The quote of the road trip definitely goes to our cab driver the last night who said, "You girls know what the best thing about Detroit is? Chicago is only 3 and a 1/2 hours away". Right on sir, right on. We have a pregame concert by the Counting Crows, which, whatever, but we do also have....Mike Lowell videotaping the CC with baby Mike Lowell! This is absolutely my favorite part of the HR derby, cute pictures of cute players with cute little kids. The Home Run Derby starts off with all the players being introduced by the always horrific Chris Berman. Honestly! What does he bring to the table? He's just loud and annoying and I don't know anyone besides Bill Belichick that likes him. I can't wait for him to tell us that a ball is hit to Japan when we clearly see it landing in the bleachers. Grrr. We ...

Hi from Canada...eh. I did not bring my laptop because I forgot my charger at work, but I did just pay 5 dollars for 10 minutes of internet. Anyway, we left NH at 5:45 and got to Cooperstown at noon. We went through the Baseball Hall of Fame in a about an hour. I would love nothing more than to do it over myself. I think it's a great take, but I think that the set up makes it easy to miss stuff. I did see Cy Young's jersey, Curt's bloody sock, Manny's bat, and of course the plaques of Bobby Doerr, Ted Williams, Yaz, Fisk and all the others. I took some nice pictures that I'll post when I get home. One final thing, Okajima is IN! And the fact that him and Chris Young both made it when I voted about 34 times for both is no slim coincidence. At least I am pretending it isn't.