u/AreaManNYC

** update ** food is off to a good home

Our pooch just passed after a good long run. We have some expensive prescription diet dog food we’d prefer not to throw away. We talked to the vet and we know they would take the cans, but this nearly full > $50 bag of dry food is open so they probably won’t. It was just opened a few weeks ago and is 90% full.

We have 9 unopened cans of the Royal Canin.

If you or someone you know could use these let me know. We’re in the low 100s but I could meet you too.

Looks great. I want to lie down and take a nap. A little sad to see the dirt infield gone, but I guess it’s for the better. I was wondering what the bags were - it’s turf “infill.” I guess those tiny little pebbles you get stuck in your shoes are a feature, not a bug….

It would seem the field should be ready for games soon, but I assume they had to plan the whole WSLL season without it?

His 20 strikeout game, on a dank weeknight in late April hit like a lightning bolt. A bolt that hit in the forest, because the announced attendance was 13,414 and it was on NESN (which existed at the time!). I learned of it as breaking news and then the recap on the 11 o'clock news. But they replayed it that weekend on Channel 38. I've since had Ned Martin's "Aaaand the record" (19) and "A new record!" (20) seared in my head. It still was as formative an event as Flutie's Miracle in Miami.

Clemens was already my favorite player entering the season - I saw him throw his first shutout in his rookie year in '84. He scuffled in '85 before breaking out with his MVP season in '86. It was electrifying for me. I was an aspiring pitcher and did everything I could to model my mechanics after him (watch the video - he really was something).

For anyone who has grown up in this era of specialization, behold his baseball reference stats from 86-92. 81 complete games and 32 SHO in 7 seasons. Can you even imagine? (irony - he only had 1 shutout in 1986).

I left for college in 1992 and he delivered four ass seasons from '93-'96 before "magically" 💉turning things around at the end of '96 with his 2nd 20K game, just in time for free agency. By the time I moved back to Boston in 1997, he was a villain. Jacked up on 'roids and starting his renaissance with TOR/NYY and HOU.

Pedro arrived a year later and became my all-time favorite Red Sox player ;)

This is just past the stairs at 103 - the path that was already being closed for the work starting up at 106.

With all of the runoff issues in the upper part of the park, these big trees have seemed vulnerable for some time. Lots of big branches have come down on nice days. I was expecting to see more damage with the big snows we had this winter. But nothing like this. I’m no tree expert but this could not have been a healthy tree. I don’t think there were any lighting strikes yesterday and the wind was negligible.