Red Sox Fans Feel Entitled to Vent
A documentary about the Boston Red Sox’s 2003 season is due out soon and filmmakers allowed Red Sox fans to come up with the title.
The somewhat optimistic “Still, We Believe: the Boston Red Sox Movie” won. The film follows the Red Sox from spring training to their late-inning collapse against the dreaded New York Yankees in Game 7 of the American League championship series. Other suggestions: “This Is the Year,” “The Ecstasy and the Agony” and “Always the Bridesmaid.”
The filmmakers asked fans to select a title online from among those four choices. Of course, Red Sox fans being Red Sox fans, some had a few other titles in mind, the memory of being only five outs away from the World Series last fall still fresh.
Among those suggestions posted on the Boston Globe’s website: “Dude, Where’s My Bullpen?” and “I Know What You Did Last Summer, I Wish I Didn’t Know What You Did Last Fall.”
How about, “Apocalypse Now ... And Forever?”
Trivia time: Which pitcher won the Angels’ first regular-season game?
Sockey town? Hockey’s hat tricks are celebrated with hats being tossed to the ice. The National Lacrosse League, which seems to be gaining a foothold in the Denver area, has come up with another apparel tradition.
When the Denver Mammoth’s Gary Gait scored six goals in a game, fans tossed hundreds of socks.
The sock trick began as a joke but has caught on.
Of course, in hockey, players who score three goals donate the hats to charity. In lacrosse? Players scooped up the socks and deposited them in trash cans.
Sack the vote: New York Giant defensive end Michael Strahan decided to call off his campaign for township councilman in Montclair, N.J. He had submitted 337 signatures last month, qualifying him to run for one of the two at-large seats on the council.
Strahan said he didn’t have enough time, even though his job with the Giants runs only from mid-July to December.
Baaaaa, humbug? Te Kuiti, a New Zealand town of about 5,000, was looking to create a Pamplona-like tradition by running 2,000 sheep through the center of town. The inaugural event, however, came off less than bullish.
No participant was chased. In fact, instead of running down the planned route, the sheep reportedly split into groups and headed in different directions. Spectators had to help round them up.
“The sheep, I think, panicked,” Colin Meads, a rugby player and celebrity participant in the event, told Associated Press.
Trivia answer: Eli Grba, in a 7-2 victory over Baltimore on opening day, 1961.
And finally: PGA golfer Chad Campbell spent four hours shooting a 30-second public-service announcement designed to bring out golf’s personalities and highlight the tour’s commitment to charity.
“I must not have been doing something right if it took that long,” he told Associated Press. “I guess we had to get the facial expressions just right.”
