Thursday, June 24, 2010

List of 36: Things it Would be Nice to See Live at Fenway.

1. A batter hit for the cycle
2. The return of a former Sox favorite
3. A ring ceremony
4. A well-known person throw out the first pitch
5. A Major League record set
6. A future Hall-of-Famer
7. Throwback uniforms
8. A walk-off win
9. A playoff game
10. A flyover
11. A major league debut
12. An inside-the-park homerun
13. A famous person in the stands
14. A bench-clearing brawl
15. A 100 mph pitch
16. A number retirement ceremony
17. A pitchers duel
18. A statistical career milestone
19. A ball off the Pesky pole
20. A Yankees loss
21. A no-hitter
22. A home opener
23. A position player pitch
24. An out at the plate
25. A three-homerun game
26. A pitcher strike out 15 batters
27. A grand slam
28. A well-known singer sing the National Anthem
29. A triple play
30. A pitcher throw a perfect game
31. A pick-off
32. An All-Star player
33. A steal of home
34. A World Series game
35. A player’s last game
36. A clinching victory
 
Oh, and for the record…I’ve seen 29 of these. How about you?

8 comments:

  1. 30 total:

    2. lots
    3. both that happened in my lifetime
    4. lots
    5. yes
    6. yes
    8. lots
    9. a few
    10. a few
    11. lots
    13. yes
    14. yes
    15. yes
    16. two
    17. yes
    18. yes
    19. yes
    20. YES
    21. yes (D Lowe)
    22. yes
    23. yes (McCarty '04)
    24. yes
    25. hmmmm...
    26. yes (Pedro in loss vs. TB 5/6/2000)
    27. yes
    28. yes
    31. yes
    32. yes
    33. yes, Jacoby
    35. yes
    36. yes, AL East and ALCS, 2007 (and saw Yanks clinch AL East in '05 and Angles clinch ALDS in '10--neither were nice to see)

    1, 7, 12, 29, 30, 34: no.

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  2. i meant '09, not '10, in that last one.

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  3. Actually, I forgot that I saw the Yanks clinch twice. (1999 ALCS and 2005? division) So, that puts me at 30 as well.

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  4. 1. No
    2. several
    3. '08 (saw the '05 game but since I was in the day-of-game line I wasn't inside yet for the ceremony)
    4. lots
    5. several (12 runs before the 1st out of an inning & 12 assists by an outfielder in a 9-inn. game last year to name two)
    6. Rice, Henderson, & others
    7. 8/30/97 vs. Braves
    8. Several (Thanks Papi)
    9. Several (Thanks, 10th Man Plan)
    10. several
    11. Several, most recently Felix Doubront
    12. Pokey, Millar, Youk, David Newhan of BAL, & Junior Spivey of AZ in '02
    13. ? Walked past Selig at the Ted Williams memorial, if that counts
    14. Several
    15. Most recently by Bard
    16. Yes, #27
    17. Several
    18. Several, most recently Wake's 2000th K
    19. Not sure off the top of my head
    20. Several, but not as many as I'd like
    21. Yes, D-Lowe's
    22. Every one from '01-'10
    23. McCarty in '04 and Dusty Brown in '09
    24. Yes
    25. Adam Lind in '09
    26. Yes (Thanks, Pedro)
    27. Several
    28. Several
    29. No
    30. No
    31. Several
    32. Several
    33. Yes, Ellsbury
    34. Not yet
    35. Burks in '04, plenty of others I'm sure
    36. WC in '03, ALDS in '08

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  5. Oh, and add yankees in '05 and Angels in '09 my last one... but I'm still trying to forget those.

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  6. So now I'm going through old scorecards to see if I have any notes on a HR hitting Pesky's Pole. I believe I have seen one, but can't think of a specific.

    Haven't found any yet, but the '04 scorecard book did turn up these gems:

    - "Base on balls" chant for Bellhorn
    - All Star ballot: they announced Ortiz should be written in
    - Peanut vendor in Sec 43 tossing them to SRO on RF roof
    - 83 [game-time temp] got applause
    - Malaska re-inflated confiscated beach ball & threw it back out
    - PP = pigeon poop [meaning I got hit by some]
    - Timlin spraying sec. 40 w/ hose

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  7. OK, found a homer off Pesky's Pole - Adam Lind 9/29/09. I noted it as "Lind's HR off the Bellhorn Pole".

    Also:
    Troy O'Leary 9/22/01
    B.J. Upton 9/12/07

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  8. I love that you keep notes like that on your scorecard. I'll have to start doing that.

    I was at game 1 of the '04 WS. Bellhorn off Pesky's Ploe is pretty well remembered.

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