Word: summering
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Picked by Sports Illustrated to capture their first world championship since 1918, the Sox began the summer with high hopes and lofty goals. After Pedro Martinez gave up his first earned run in more than 32 innings (including playoffs) in his second start of the season, he was asked if he had thought he would ever give up another earned run. "I'm only a man," he said...
Sure, I booed John Rocker last summer; and, caught up in the moment, I loved booing John Rocker. It was fun, a lot of fun. But I wish him no ill will, and I surely don't hate him. If anything, I hate his beliefs. I'll spend my time attacking them, and treat John Rocker the way those people who propound such view beg to be treated. I'll ignore...
...booed John Rocker this summer. No, scratch that. Let me be more specific. I booed, jeered, taunted, harangued and even hissed (for a bit) at John Rocker this summer. And let me tell you it was great...
This guy, in short, was asking to be hated, and sports fans were more than happy to accommodate him. And so, with the visit of the Braves to Fenway last July, it occurred to me and a friend that there was no better way to spend a warm summer evening than to go see (boo, scoff, deride, etc.) John Rocker. The event, we hoped, would be memorable; but it was so much more than that...
...said he lived in Watertown with his friends over the summer. He tried to get his short stories and fiction published, but now he is interested in a consulting job where he says he hopes to use his English tutoring skills...