Are You Ready For Some Baseball!?

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I am so ready for the regular season to begin, specifically Red Sox games. Light up the grill, get out the Fenway Franks, fill the cooler with plenty of ice-cold brew, with an occasional batch of Crescent Park original recipe clam cakes . Free parking for Sox fans!

 

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Pregame warmups begin an hour before game time!

 

[Spudboy]

Of course you have to have a nice 55 inch tv outside for this to work.

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Trust me, this 44" screen gives you a 'wall-seat' sense of being there!

 

Hi neighbor, have a Gansett!

[Kimmi]

I think we've all been ready for some baseball pretty much since last season ended.

 

We have to get past winter first.

 

What is up with the forecast of snow (albeit only 1 inch) for my area this weekend??? That is insane!

 

Go baseball!

[Spudboy]

Trust me, this 44" screen gives you a 'wall-seat' sense of being there!

 

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Hi neighbor, have a Gansett!

 

Most excellent. I will bring some Pickwick Ale and some Haffenriffer Private Stock. I hope you have plenty of fridge capacity. You know how skunky Haffenriffer can taste when it warms up! I'll be wearing my old Ricco Petrocelli Game jersey.

[Spudboy]

I think we've all been ready for some baseball pretty much since last season ended.

 

We have to get past winter first.

 

What is up with the forecast of snow (albeit only 1 inch) for my area this weekend??? That is insane!

 

Go baseball!

 

Lol.

 

Suck it up Teach.

 

You are almost at the finish line.

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Most excellent. I will bring some Pickwick Ale and some Haffenriffer Private Stock. I hope you have plenty of fridge capacity. You know how skunky Haffenriffer can taste when it warms up! I'll be wearing my old Ricco Petrocelli Game jersey.

 

After moving here from the Northeast in 1977, I quickly learned that to become a true Southerner required an abundant supply of duct tape, numerous cans of WD-40, and more than a couple of large ice chests to keep the beer cold. And, although I try to keep up, I'm still mildly picked on per my Boston accent and love of the Red Sox. But all is forgiven by the neighborhood reprobates because of the availability of my various-sized ice chests, with one, more often-than-not, containing plenty of free beer.

 

And just for the record, today is a bit overcast in Pensacola, but the temperature is a mild 68.

 

While I'm at it Spud, it's interesting that you mentioned Haffenreffer as it brought to mind a distant memory. Back in the early sixties while in college, I worked part time as a bartender at the then very exclusive Agawam Hunt Club in Rumford, RI. Membership was at that time almost exclusively old-money families from the area and definitely Anglo-Saxon oriented.

 

One notable exception was Carl W. Haffenreffer, grandson of Rudolph Frederick Haffenreffer, a German immigrant who arrived in Boston after the Civil War and founded the Haffenreffer Brewery. The brewery closed in 1965, after having operated for nearly a century, leaving Massachusetts without a brewery for the first time in 300 years.

 

But I remember Mr. Haffenreffer as being a very dignified gentleman who was always warm and kindly toward the staff.

 

Thanks for the memory-stimulant.