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Entries from October 2007

Download today’s sports cover

October 29th, 2007 · No Comments

It’s one to keep, celebrating the Red Sox’ second world championship in four years.
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In brief

October 29th, 2007 · No Comments

• Trabber (a contraction of travel + grabber, apparently) is a new search engine that searches across the main online flight providers, compares all the flight offers and shows the final prices of the flights. It’s pitching itself at travelsupermarket.com and kayak.co.uk, but it doesn’t feel like a totally finished service just yet.
• WatZatSong (geddit?) […]

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Port Wagoner Dies At 80

October 29th, 2007 · No Comments

Porter Wagoner has died at the age of 80.
I can remember my folks watching the Porter Wagoner Show when I was a child. I barely remember seeing it though.
We offer our heartfelt condolences to his family and friends, and his fans.
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$30 million and 5 years is just not enough, so let’s upstage the World Series Championship of the Red Sox

October 29th, 2007 · No Comments

It’s too bad he had that game, and then in the playoffs went back to form. The form that had Mr. Torre place him 8th in the lineup as the Yanks went down to defeat in Detroit last year.

However, on a day when the Red Sox proved it was men against boys, and a cancer […]

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Country music legend Porter Wagoner has died

October 29th, 2007 · No Comments

When I was growing up in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Porter Wagoner was a staple of country music radio and television. He died yesterday of lung cancer at the age of 80. He was also credited for having discovered Dolly Parton. Click here for a news report on his death. Click here for […]

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Inside Baseball

October 29th, 2007 · No Comments

Congratulations to the Red Sox for their ALDS, ALCS, and World Series victories and to their opponents — Anaheim, Cleveland, and Colorado — for bringing us scrappy and well-played October baseball.
Here is the play-by-play of last night’s game, as immortalized in text messages between me and one of our nurses. (Everybody at BIDMC will know […]

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Damn, This is Fun :)

October 29th, 2007 · No Comments

It’s so different from 2004. No underdog status, no great unburdening, no tears for those who lived their whole lives never seeing a championship. All we have now is…a tremendous accomplishment. The Boston Red Sox are 2007 World Series champions.
It’s very different from 2004. Then, we had several players we knew wouldn’t be here the […]

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It’s all over. (For now.)

October 29th, 2007 · No Comments

Just wait ’til next year: Jon Lester hung on into the sixth inning without allowing any runs, despite giving up three walks, by scattering the three hits and notching three strikeouts.
Just wait ’til next year II: In the 9th, with the Sox only one run ahead, Jacoby Ellsbury goes back, back, back to the left […]

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Three of Past Four Years A Sox Team Has Won the Series

October 29th, 2007 · No Comments

Thats twice for the Red Sox and once for the White Sox in the past 4 years. So maybe next year the White Sox can do it again, but this year belongs to the Red Sox after their sweep of the Rockies completed last night.
Looks like that dreaded “Curse of the Bambino” is dead and […]

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Daylight Savings Time - learning about DST on Google HotTrends - differing opinions of weather it’s good for us or not

October 28th, 2007 · No Comments

Daylight Savings Time - who actually remembers when Daylight Savings Time kicks in and we have to set our clocks back one hour? 
I always get confused but I see I’m not the only one based on a quick scan of Google HotTrends where Sunday, October 28th there are several people wondering if today is the […]

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