Bob Lobel: Jerry Remy Impresses on Opening Day

By Bob Lobel (@boblobel)

We know how the Red Sox did in game number one, but a more difficult measurement is the Jerry Remy factor. 

On a scale of one to 10, how do you think it was? I’m putting him down for a solid seven, and the reason it wasn’t higher was the opening of the game, when he was on camera in the most intimate, for lack of a better word, setting. 

Bob Lobel: Massachusetts Roots in March Madness and the Upcoming Remy Trial

By Bob Lobel (@boblobel)

Some quick notes before we do the weekly launch. That may actually be “weakly” after these first two items.

Item one, at the NFL league meetings in Orlando, all the coaches posed for a group photo. Actually all but one.

You guessed it, Mr. Bill was absent, and that’s why we love him.  There is always room at the table for a maverick. A winning maverick, of course, but nonetheless a maverick. 

The other quick hitter was mentioning another maverick of sorts. This one picked Duke to win the NCAA basketball tournament. I don’t really have a good reason for picking them, except I wanted to get out of the bracket game early this year because I was sick of trying to show I know anything about college basketball anymore.  

Bob Lobel: Fixing the NFL and Jerry Remy Back to Work

By Bob Lobel  @boblobel

Kick it 40-plus yards for one, or run it from two yards out for two.  

That’s the NFL’s new proposed extra point degree of difficulty for the once automatic play. Don’t know what to do except try for two most every time. Looks like that’s what they want the teams to do, hoping to add more excitement to an extra point. 

Obviously, it does need something since most people use the extra point time to go to the bathroom in order to be back for a kickoff run back that rarely happens anymore either.  

Give us our game back! 

Bob Lobel: Thinking of Jerry Remy and Chet Curtis this Super Bowl Week

By Bob Lobel  @boblobel

So chose one! 

Isn’t that what this week is all about? Pick a winner.

Best ever? Manning or Brady? Does it matter? Really? 

Not at all... Really!

Bob Lobel: The Value of Giving Over Getting

By Bob Lobel  @boblobel

Somewhere along the road of life, the season to be jolly changed dramatically. 

It has become the season to see how well we are able to deal with stress.  The “season of getting,” which we all embraced as children, and still secretly wish would magically return, has become the “season of giving.” Most of us are so ill prepared for this. The cycle of “guilt induced stress” is now driving the bus. 

Bob Lobel: Boston Sports a Welcome Distraction This Summer

By Bob Lobel  @boblobel

Boston sports always have a way of providing stuff to talk about. 

Ryan Dempster decided to do the honors this week, taking it upon himself, in incredibly selfish fashion, to give us all something to cling to. Of course, he threw at A-Rod. Of course, the fans at the park cheered. 

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