The Boston sports press is such a bunch of unredeemable jackals. They will no doubt find some slighting, cynical, or mean-spirited take. It is useful to note that of the 7 Red Sox players of the past 20 years who achieved "perennial All-Star" status (Rice, Boggs, Clemens, Martinez, Ramirez, Nomar, Vaughn), all of them ended up persona non grata.
"Well sure, he'll jump in these days when the water's still warm -- who wouldn't? Believe me, you won't be hearing about any more of these Nomar maritime rescues come December."
(I can't believe it, but this news actually makes me sad that Jimmy Fallon left SNL)
No, that's his actual known identity. Mild mannered, health deteriorating, skills declining, possibly P-whipped. At the very least he needs a Hulk-like raging alternative identity. More likely, he needs the roids!
I'm not a Noma Hata but the story sounds sketchy to me. Where'd the husbands come from so suddenly, and why did they whisk away their wives before they could even get an autograph? Were they worried Nomarstud would keep them and add them to his Harem?
Thanks for asking, bg. I made it through Tuesday's classes--had enough to talk about Enron for the undergrad class, and then the people who were presenting in the graduate class carried me pretty far (they actually know this stuff); I think I may have to do some recap next week about some of the more general material on conflict of interests and how they arise. I still need to prep for Thursday (usually I try to get that done at the beginning of the week), and I'm behind in updating the course website and all that. But I should be able to scrape through; maybe I'll have to skip some services. This wasn't the best week to have tons of meetings on Monday and Wednesday.
Are Nomar's and Mia's children going to be superhuman? Agassi's and Graf's?
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 10-12-05 9:35 AM
Nomar needs a mild-mannered secret identity.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 10-12-05 9:47 AM
Ramon Arrapaicrag.
Posted by rehportsopa | Link to this comment | 10-12-05 9:52 AM
Nomar needs a mild-mannered secret identity.
One who knows nothing about baseball.
Posted by Saheli | Link to this comment | 10-12-05 10:38 AM
The Boston sports press is such a bunch of unredeemable jackals. They will no doubt find some slighting, cynical, or mean-spirited take. It is useful to note that of the 7 Red Sox players of the past 20 years who achieved "perennial All-Star" status (Rice, Boggs, Clemens, Martinez, Ramirez, Nomar, Vaughn), all of them ended up persona non grata.
Posted by baa | Link to this comment | 10-12-05 10:41 AM
"Well sure, he'll jump in these days when the water's still warm -- who wouldn't? Believe me, you won't be hearing about any more of these Nomar maritime rescues come December."
(I can't believe it, but this news actually makes me sad that Jimmy Fallon left SNL)
Posted by tom | Link to this comment | 10-12-05 11:45 AM
But still happy overall that he's disappeared, right? Right.
Posted by Tarrou | Link to this comment | 10-12-05 11:47 AM
You know, Tom, I had the exact same response! I flashed immediately to the Fallon/Derek Jeter "Point-Counter-Point" skit.
Posted by baa | Link to this comment | 10-12-05 12:29 PM
"Nomar needs a mild-mannered secret identity.
One who knows nothing about baseball."
No, that's his actual known identity. Mild mannered, health deteriorating, skills declining, possibly P-whipped. At the very least he needs a Hulk-like raging alternative identity. More likely, he needs the roids!
Posted by diddy | Link to this comment | 10-12-05 12:56 PM
I'm not a Noma Hata but the story sounds sketchy to me. Where'd the husbands come from so suddenly, and why did they whisk away their wives before they could even get an autograph? Were they worried Nomarstud would keep them and add them to his Harem?
Posted by ogmb | Link to this comment | 10-12-05 1:38 PM
> Victor Garciaparra jumped from the balcony to the water 20 feet below.
His uncle is a stud too.
Posted by Joe O | Link to this comment | 10-12-05 2:09 PM
why did they whisk away their wives before they could even get an autograph
To take them to the hospital, it seems?
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 10-12-05 2:13 PM
Weiner--how did the restatement thing go? Have you gotten any sleep?
Posted by bostoniangirl | Link to this comment | 10-12-05 2:18 PM
I read that part. It just set off my bullshit detector, is all.
Posted by ogmb | Link to this comment | 10-12-05 2:23 PM
Thanks for asking, bg. I made it through Tuesday's classes--had enough to talk about Enron for the undergrad class, and then the people who were presenting in the graduate class carried me pretty far (they actually know this stuff); I think I may have to do some recap next week about some of the more general material on conflict of interests and how they arise. I still need to prep for Thursday (usually I try to get that done at the beginning of the week), and I'm behind in updating the course website and all that. But I should be able to scrape through; maybe I'll have to skip some services. This wasn't the best week to have tons of meetings on Monday and Wednesday.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 10-12-05 2:41 PM