Just Say No to YES (Network) and Even Twitter!?

I miss NESN, but not a whole hell of a lot, to be honest. I only miss it because not nearly enough Red Sox games air on ESPN, TBS etc…. which is why I’m looking forward to our four game series versus the Yankees next week. I figure if we can roll over and die, or choke a fat one against mediocre teams like the A’s, the task of facing the Yanks for four full games is less daunting than exciting. Any L’s we drop will be justified, as we’ll be facing our most challenging opponent, although maintaining the streak in the rivalry for at least the first game or two wouldn’t kill me.

Other aspiring and more established writers won’t stop bugging me about how useful Twitter is. I can’t really say I agree. As far as I’m concerned, Twitter’s nothing more than a glorified RSS feed of shameless self-promotion and I’m not that eager to participate. I also admit I don’t like doing the whole 160 character play-by-play of my life, my reactions to the games, and so on. It’s a better platform for my purposes than facebook, but I still haven’t come around.

I always relish being that asshole at the bar who cheers when the Sox do something good. In fact, I prefer going to bars that don’t advertise themselves as “Boston bars.” 

I have become a bar fly at a popular place down the street called Landsdowne Road (free advertising alert!) Not only are they one of the few go-to places that have NESN around here, but they have a good balance between offering cheap beer specials and typically bad-for-your-cholesterol-level pub food, while maintaining a clean environment that doesn’t smell like dead rats rotting behind nooks and crannies like certain Boston bars I used to work at…. I may have indulged in 25 cent wings (hot I might add) all by myself during Monday night Sox games (that’s the only night wings are THAT cheap). And I think I’ve developed a rep with the staff as “that random girl who comes in for Red Sox games and seems like kind of a loser, but tips well.” What I like most about the place aside from my sports and binge-eating/drinking needs is that they play old school music videos and have a cool, albeit slightly useless ice bar to rest your beers on. Unlike Joshua Tree in Murray Hill, who plays similar music videos to a packed-to-capacity crowd of Jersey toolbags, Landsdowne is never overrun with random amateurs. Just local sports fans and a decent chunk of Yuppies during Happy Hour, the only time I consider it too busy (but it usually winds down by first pitch).