Now Back To Your Irregularly Scheduled Boston Red Sox Coverage

Ok, let me explain to Red Sox Nation as to where I have been & what I have been doing. Let's just say that NONE of it is Baseball Related. I did not jump ship to cheer for The NY Yankees. I will root for the Yankees when Josef Goebbels is honored for Humanitarian Causes by B'Nai Brith.
Please realize that there is a new manager, one who has been out of touch with MLB for sometime. He has spent several years in Japan. At one point in 1999, in The Sporting News, he was called The Most Hated Manager in Baseball. But there is a good side to the Son In Law of Ralph Branca, for he infuriated that noted Baseball Nitwit, by the name of Jeffy Wilpon, who is also despised to no end by NY Mets Fans, not unlike M. Donald Grant.
For Bobby Valentine, a man of many skills, is Manager of the Boston Red Sox. Diplomacy, however, is not one of his skills. Since WHEN did Kevin Youkilis become Chopped Liver?
Terry Francona had the Patience Of Job. Bobby Valentine has all the Patience of Steve Jobs. Francona handled the Media, adeptly. Valentine blasts the goose liver out of players in the press.
Valentine seems to be playing to the Intellectually Challenged Callers to WEEI, WBZ-FM & WFAN in one felt swoop.
But, to be fair, the Red Sox have grown old in a lot of places. And Bobby V is terrific for younger players.
M

A Favorite Greeting In The Chasaidic & Orthodox Jewish Areas

On Friday Afternoon, the favorite saying is "Have A Good Shabbos". Shabbos is Yiddish for Sabbath.
These Jews do not do any Servile Work, including turning on & off light switches. For this, a person called a "Shabbos Goy", would do this.
Way back when, at the corner of Lincoln & Liberty Avenues, in East NY, my father was a Shabbos Goy, who would turn on & off the lights in a small synagogue at that corner.
Currently, there are no Jewish Residents of that area.
M

"The 'Sweet Caroline' Dispute"

This has been a dispute in Boston & New York for awhile. It is in the 8th Inning at Fenway Park, when this unofficial anthem of all things Boston Red Sox.
Neil Diamond came from Brooklyn, NY, is a Yankees Fan & wrote The Song in a Memphis, TE, Hotel Room.
Methinks, John Henry got his idea for "Sweet Caroline" @ Shea Stadium.