12 championships in 18 years = 12 championship t-shirts in 18 years. One of my favorite traditions after a Boston title is making the late night drive to my local sporting goods store (You know what store I’m talking about but no free ads) and buying the shirt the players wear in the locker room…
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What we need to remember from the original Patriots vs Rams Super Bowl
Super Bowl 36 is what started it all. After suffering a championship drought since 1986 this game opened the door to a ridiculous 11 titles in 18 years. The Pats entered this game as 14 point dogs and faced the high powered “greatest show on turf.” An unknown second-year backup quarterback named Thomas Edward Brady…
Faith Rewarded: Finding the Entire 2004 Red Sox roster in Thrift Stores
My journey to find every 2004 Red Sox player t-shirt goes on. If you are not sure what this is referring to please follow the link to read my introductory piece in my ever-going quest to own every Red Sox player T from the 04 season. https://overlap.blog/2018/12/18/faith-rewarded-finding-the-entire-2004-red-sox-roster-at-thrift-stores/ Let me start by saying I, unfortunately, did…
Red Sox All Grit Team: Creating a Red Sox team with players who never made an All-Star team (Part 1: Line Up and Defensive Alignment)
Sometimes there is nothing better than a Red Sox deep dive. We all remember Ortiz, Schilling, and Lester but I think it fun to pay homage to the lesser remembered but no less important heroes of Sox past. As I was trying to refresh myself on the long twisted odyssey of Red Sox shortstops (thank…
SpiderMan into the Spider-Verse: 4 Reasons it works as a Comic Book on film
As soon as I saw that SpiderMan into the Spider-Verse opened with the “approved by the comic code authority” logo I knew I was going to be happy. In a world where comic book movies and not necessarily comic books themselves have become mainstream, it was refreshing and inspiring to see a fresh take on a superhero film. Into the Spider-Verse is…
Faith Rewarded: Finding the entire 2004 Red Sox roster at thrift stores
In order to start this blog, I thought I would really drive home this crossroads idea. I will start by combining two of my favorite entities in the world…the 2004 Red Sox and thrift shopping. My love of the 2004 Red Sox is prominent to those who know me and to those who don’t, here…
280 characters were not enough for me to express my thoughts I like sports, comics, and movies and now you people are going to hear about it