Lowell, MA

Al:
With all due respect to Clay Buchholz and yet anothah dominant performance and honest to goodness run at the Cy Young, I'd like to begin today with a melodramatic yet earnest tip o' the cap to Mike Lowell.

 

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Al:
Lowell's decided to retiah at the end of the season. And he'll go out wearing Red Sox.

 

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Doug:
As someone born and raised in the town named for Mike Lowell, I second that emotion.

 

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Mike:
Lowell is etched in the annals of Boston glory as one of only two men who have won a World Series MVP award while wearing a Red Sox uniform.

 

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Al:
His 2007 season was up there with some of the best Red Sox third base seasons of all time.

 

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Doug:
Makes it all the more poignant how swift has been the decline.

 

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Mike:
That which we are, we are; / One equal temper of heroic hearts, / Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will / To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.* å

 

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Comments

[Go Sox. Go Heels, etc.]

The wife is in love with Mike Lowell. I'm so okay with that.

[Kaz]

It looks like I only have 3 more good years in me if my schedule is anything like Mike Lowell's. I better start stuffing my IRA and 401(k)...

[Bob]

//I cried over beautiful things knowing no beautiful thing lasts.//

[Billy Mahty]

FYI, It looks like the third panel just shows as text on my computer: "r />"

Safari

[h.b.]

Oops. Code typos. Should be fixed now.

[pseudosanity78]

*slow motion single tear falling*

[ponch]

remember this in several years when the MFY won't be able to get the broken-down Slappy McBluelips and his onerous contract out the door quickly enough

[LarryE]

Nice tribute to Mikey today, h.b.

The "throw-in" to the Josh Beckett deal has performed more consistently well over the years that Beckett, although Beckett was fantastic in 2007 (20-7, 3.27 in reg. season, complete game shutout in divisional series, 2-0, 1.93 in ALCS and 1-0, 1.29 in the WS). But Mike had a great year too in '07 -- .324, 191 hits, 21 HRs and 120 RBIs). We'll miss you, Mike.

[Harwich Rich]

A class act from day one.His kind are few and far between.

[Jeff in NC]

I was thinking just a few games ago, I wish there was some way for Mike Lowell to always play for the Redsox, forever. I like everything about the guy.

[jar in chicago]

Waiver claim on Damon? That has go to be the craziest headline I've seen in awhile. Yet, I don't know what to think. He was instrumental to 2004 so what they hey. I'd welcome him back and hope for some magic.

[soxdownunder]

Like mrs go sox go heels, Mrs sdu says: No, he's too young.

[soxdownunder]

In other news from the anitpodes,
(1) Collingwood won the minor premiership.
http://www.collingwoodfc.com.au/newsfeatures/news/newsarticle/tabid/5586/newsid/100866/default.aspx
Tears and mental breakdown commence in two weeks.

(2) We have draws (ties) in cricket, soccer and AFL, so why no federal elections:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/08/23/2990782.htm

When it first became clear that there would be no winner on Saturday night, and there would be a hung Parliament, the ABC's chief reporter said:
The question is which way will it hang?

[Rob in CT, er, AL]

Stated another way, SDU, the ABC reporter was asking will the country "dress right" or "dress left". Sounds like you need a good tailor down there... :-D

[Kaz]

FUCK. NO.

Damon burned his bridges! What's he gonna do? Walk on water to get back here? Fuck him.

[jar in chicago]

Kaz,

NICE

[Larry Here]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUDe7kwS4k8

[soxdownunder]

That's gold Larry Here. God I love Fenway Park (sorry Lou but you're just wrong) - I want to go to there.

[urm]

What Harwich Rich said; also the Sox have been fortunate at 3rd for a while; Bill M and then Mikey. Hard to come up with any one - much less 2 - who did a better job of playing the game the way it should be played.

[urm]

What Harwich Rich said; also the Sox have been fortunate at 3rd for a while; Bill M and then Mikey. Hard to come up with any one - much less 2 - who did a better job of playing the game the way it should be played.