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The Sox are showing early signs of a “June swoon” that I refer as “May decay.” I’m reminding myself that the season is young and it’s only a game, but I still shriek at the TV and curse the score. On the bright side, Lester and Buchholz have been unbelievable and Big Papi had a [...]
Read More →No More Picking Winners and Losers
If Major League Baseball decided that the Chicago Cubs needed to win the World Series this year and gave them $39 million in talent to try to make it happen, I can almost guarantee that no one (outside of Chicago) would think that this was fair. So why would anyone suggest that Rhode Island taxpayers [...]
Read More →When Terrorists Come to Town
While Boston is celebrating the successful end to the hunt for the marathon terrorists, we can’t forget that four young people are dead, nearly 200 were injured or maimed, and we once again suffered a large-scale terrorist attack in an American city. The act of horrific cowardice at the Boston Marathon, ricin-laced letters addressed to [...]
Read More →Sharing the Political Locker Room
While I’ve always loved baseball, it has never crossed my mind to try to play competitively. Like most young girls, I wasn’t particularly assertive and back then, girls weren’t playing Little League. Fast forward through ten years of single-sex education, and I launched into a career in public affairs and politics, a field that was [...]
Read More →Nowhere to go but up
With Easter behind us and MLB Opening Day today, it’s time to turn the page and start anew – not only for Christians (and those who do their praying at Fenway) but for the Rhode Island Republican party and for the Chafee administration. Like the Red Sox, they’ve hit rock bottom and there’s nowhere to [...]
Read More →Legacy: it’s how you play the game
As he walked off the field after giving up Aaron Boone’s walk off home run in game seven of the 2003 ALCS, Tim Wakefield feared that pitch would make him the new Bill Buckner, shunned and blamed for yet another historic Red Sox loss. He worried that his legacy—like Buckner’s—would be tied to the failure, [...]
Read More →Manager for a day
Have you ever wanted to be a major league manager? I have. I can imagine sitting on my perch in the dugout, gnawing on Swedish Fish (I’m not a gum chewer) and telling guys to “find a pitch you can hit” and “hustle” and then patting them on the rear when they return. Of course [...]
Read More →A Team to be Named Later
In the winter of 1933, Bruce Sundlun and John Chafee were at Camp Yawgoog and playing with a group of boys on a frozen pond. Suddenly the ice broke and Bruce plunged through into the frigid water. All of the boys—except for John Chafee—ran off the pond to get help. Chafee, “doing exactly the right [...]
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