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Digging out old boxes, found photos of being on the top of Boston from the John Hancock tower observatory in 1995. I still remember the elevator up and down, it feels like you are sinking when it drops. Weird feeling indeed. Sad they won't let folks see the city from above it anymore.
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SOX prove they can also throw a man out at home. Nice play. Sorry, Sanchez.

 

When the season isn’t on the line and there isn’t much pressure they can do some neat things lol.

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I would watch Weber anytime rather than goofy Mitch Barnes

 

His breaking pitches move a foot. He should give lessons how to throw this thing. Anybody with the arm to do it can throw 95 for some number of pitches. But throwing benders like Weber has been driven down to a particular type of pitcher that either can do it or can't.

 

Ryu is about the only guy I can think of that throws a decent FB and throws very consistent benders with a fair amount of break.

 

Sale of course when he has his FB and his Slider. Not sure how much of that we will ever see again.

 

Verander...but I think when he finally expires some many years from now, they are going to do an autopsy and discover he is an alien. Same for Scherzer.

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Digging out old boxes, found photos of being on the top of Boston from the John Hancock tower observatory in 1995. I still remember the elevator up and down, it feels like you are sinking when it drops. Weird feeling indeed. Sad they won't let folks see the city from above it anymore.

 

Is that the same building where the windows kept falling out back in the early 80's?

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His breaking pitches move a foot. He should give lessons how to throw this thing. Anybody with the arm to do it can throw 95 for some number of pitches. But throwing benders like Weber has been driven down to a particular type of pitcher that either can do it or can't.

 

Ryu is about the only guy I can think of that throws a decent FB and throws very consistent benders with a fair amount of break.

 

Sale of course when he has his FB and his Slider. Not sure how much of that we will ever see again.

 

Verander...but I think when he finally expires some many years from now, they are going to do an autopsy and discover he is an alien. Same for Scherzer.

 

Nolan Ryan was the ultimate alien.

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Is that the same building where the windows kept falling out back in the early 80's?

 

yes that one. it goes by a different name now. But all Bostonian over 30 know it as the Hancock Tower.

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Is that the same building where the windows kept falling out back in the early 80's?

 

Yup, although any sort of elevator discomfort has got to be better than what me and my wife went through many years ago when we lived in Boston. We were going to the Jazz Workshop on Boylston St and we were early downtown from Brookline. It was a beautiful night. We did not want to just show up in time for the show we were going to.

 

So we went to the top of the adjacent to the Hancock, Prudential building top floor restaurant and bar. As luck would have it, this was the night of the big Boston Blackout which took out everything from downtown all the way out to our place in Brookline. Well everything died in the Pru and they had no backup power. No air conditioning, no elevators, no nothing and it was packed up there. I was not real thrilled with that circumstance as my wife had left her meds home figuring we would not possibly be out long enough for that to matter. Told the maitre d and he had a waiter with a flashlight walk us down all those flights of stairs to the basement garage where I was parked. While that was a heck of a walk nobody else got out of there but me, my wife and a few other people that decided they had issues with staying in that building. Everybody else was there till the next morning!

 

Very very eery ride home. No attendants to take your ticket out of Pru Center parking, no lights all the way home. Virtually nobody on what was normally Boston's most packed streets in the summer. Just nothing....the kind of nothing that would impact the city in those years during a big winter snow storm but in the dead of summer! Very strange experience. I think we actually had power at the house. But as I recall, the very last traffic lights before our house were the first lights that were working and every block ahead of our block had no lights, no power.

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