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January 26, 2007

Shaughnessy: Friday, Jan. 26

Some highlights of today's ADD special:

Suppose Barry Bonds gets hot early. Suppose he's closing in on Hank Aaron when the Giants come to Fenway June 15. Highly unlikely, but just suppose . . .

Wow! That hadn't occurred to me! At least until Gordon Edes mentioned it on the Globe's Red Sox blog yesterday. But I'm sure the notion came to Dan independently, since who reads blogs?

Just who are the loyal 16,199 who went to the Celtics' game against the Hawks Wednesday night? And why?

One, I had good seats. Two, part of being a diehard fan is meaning sometimes you die hard. Sometimes harder than others. I know that the thing these days is for hotshot columnists and other idiots to ignore the local teams when they're losing, then show up in full colors as soon as things get interesting. But people like that make pond scum look principled and honorable. People like that are not worthy of being pulled out of burning cars, let alone share in the triumph that comes after years of suffering. In other news, I have a 0.000002% chance of getting Red Sox tickets this weekend.

Speaking of the Celtics' golden days, did you catch the Wall Street Journal's "Private Properties" listing in late December?

If you ever hear me asking that question, put a bullet in the back of my head. I am absolutely serious.

Cornerback Johnathan Joseph Monday became the ninth Bengal to be arrested since Jan. 1, 2006, when he was charged with possession of marijuana. Wonder if Joseph is a nickel back or plays in the dime package.

OK, that one was pretty good.

"Friday Night Lights" is pretty good television.

You know what else is good? Butterscotch pudding. Yes sir, not bad at all. Did Dan walk away for a second and let Larry King take the keyboard?

With Rex Grossman on deck, a popular parlor game is listing the worst Super Bowl quarterbacks in history. The staff of the New York Daily News came up with David Woodley, Trent Dilfer, Joe Kapp, Vince Ferragamo, and our own Tony Eason.

Parlor game?!? Are you serious? It was also the poll on the front page of ESPN.com yesterday, which I realize is flying under the radar a little bit. And anyone who didn't vote for Tony Eason is not to be trusted.

Did you know that Dave McCarty worked a night as Wally the Green Monster when he was on the disabled list in 2004?

Actually, no, I didn't. And it's nice that 80% of the way through a column written by an award-winning sportswriter at a highly-regarded newspaper, I finally learn something that I didn't know and actually was interesting.

Vern Ruhle died in Cincinnati last week at the age of 55. If you don't know Ruhle's place in Red Sox history, you're definitely new to the Nation. Ruhle was the hurler who hit rookie Jim Rice with a pitch, breaking the slugger's hand Sept. 21, 1975.

Or maybe you just didn't pay attention to regular-season games. I looked that game up out of curiosity; Rice played five innings after he got hit with that pitch and broke his hand. Yikes.

Folks in Southern California can set their alarm clocks to 7:05 a.m. if they want to put on the television to watch the Angels play the Red Sox in Fenway Park April 16.

That cracks me up. Nothing like listening to the ballgame when you're driving into work in the morning.

I'm still trying to find the Versus network on my cable. It was much easier back in the 1970s when we just had to put aluminum foil on the antenna to bring in snowy Channel 38.

Your cable company, if requested, will send you a little pamphlet with channel listings. Did you know I get BBC America now? Unfortunately I never have time to watch it, since now that we have the DVR, we don't miss a single hour-long crime drama or Arrested Development rerun.

Dan Shaughnessy is a Globe columnist. His e-mail address is dshaughnessy@globe.com.

Michael is a blogger (read: loser, frustrated journalist). His email address is bunkosquad@gmail.com.

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so, uh, what i'm learning is that the "passing thoughts" column is to journalism what the "flashback" episode is to a sitcom or other tv show?
like the 2nd episode of the clerks animate series, where they showed a surprising number of clips from the 1st episode of clerks the animated series?
yeah, that was a good one.
you should totally watch those.
after, of course, the 25 movies.

Posted by: kari | January 26, 2007 11:48 PM