Category: Boston MA (Page 2 of 13)

Yet Another Sign That Western NYers Are Taking Over Massachusetts

10 September, 2011 / Kat

The following is yet another sign that Western New Yorkers are gradually taking over Massachusetts. This also could be a sign that Massachusetts kids spend their formative college years in Western or Central New York. Maybe it’s a happy mix of both.

While reading the Boston.com home page this afternoon, I glanced over at the “Most Popular” widget on their right sidebar. During this visit, the widget was showing their most emailed stories.

What is Boston.com’s most emailed story?

“Wegmans to open Burlington store.”

Don’t believe me? Here’s a screen capture, with my mouse hovering over the link for full effect:

Yes, more people have emailed a news story about Wegmans tearing down an office park in the most quintessentially suburban of all Massachusetts suburbs to build its first store within a half hour drive of Boston proper than anything about the giant Texas wildfires, secrets to anti-aging, and exercise recommendations.

(And I promise I wasn’t logged into any Facebook or other social applications to skew those results any.)

Soon enough, all Massachusetts residents will be able to know the wonder that is Wegmans. What can us Rochesterians, Buffalonians and Syracusans influence next? The second coming of Tim Hortons coffee in New England? The availability of real Buffalo wings in Boston? The garbage plate? Tully’s?

The possibilities are endless.

Win Tickets to the Red Sox’s Picnic In The Park

20 July, 2011 / Kat

Hoping for tickets to the pricey but oh-so-fun-filled Red Sox Picnic in the Park this Sunday? As part of my baseball season long partnership with Tickets for Charity (TFC), you have an opportunity to win tickets by playing a good ol’ game of I Spy.

The low-down from my friends at TFC:

The event is so special, the team at TFC decided to put together a fun contest to give away the tickets. It’s called “I Spy with my Fenway Eye,” and here’s the catch: entrants will need to bring their Fenway-insider A-game to name 10 people, places and things we found around the park last week.

The game is tough—but worth it for a chance to win the Picnic tickets, where players will be signing autographs and auctioning off amazing prizes. And of course, it’s all to support the great work of the Red Sox Foundation. Details about the Picnic event can be found here.

Try your hand at this fun game with a great prize here. But hurry! This contest ends on Thursday, July 21 and the winner will be notified via email 9 a.m. on Friday morning so they can make their weekend plans. So give it a try and see if you can snag tickets to this popular event!

What Are Your Sports Superstitions?

13 June, 2011 / Kat

The TD Garden lit up with Bruins spirit. (Photo by me and my iPhone.)

The Boston Bruins are going to lose tonight because I am wearing pants.

Preposterous, you say. What does making a choice between a black skirt and black pants have to do with if the Bruins will tie up their Stanley Cup Finals series against the Vancouver Canucks this evening? Continue reading

Win Red Sox-Brewers Tickets For June 18th! (Or Why I Own a Brewers Shirt)

11 June, 2011 / Kat

In my sports related t-shirt drawer, I have a Milwaukee Brewers player t-shirt. It’s a Gabe Kapler shirt, purchased during my favorite outfielder’s brief stint with the Brewers in 2008. I now only wear the Brewers shirt around the house, because wearing it in public elicits a series of questions in which I don’t think I have good answers for.

“Are you from Milwaukee?” No, but I drove past highway signs that pointed in its direction when I was in Chicago a few summers ago.

“Why do you have a Kapler shirt?” Because back when I just moved to Boston, I hitched my fandom wagon to Gabe Kapler for partially superficial reasons. Okay? I’m a smart sports fan, I swear, but sometimes I can be swayed by superficiality. We’re all human. It happens.

What does this long rambling about Gabe Kapler and the Brewers have to do with anything? Well, my buddies at Tickets For Charity (the kind people that sell tickets to games and concerts to make money for charity) are giving away two tickets in the infield grandstands for next Saturday’s (June 18, 2011) Boston Red Sox-Milwaukee Brewers matinee game. To enter to win these tickets, all you have to do is click here, and if they ask, make sure to tell them I sent you.

If you win, be sure to get a sausage and beer to enjoy during the game. It’s really the only fitting way to watch a Brewers game – or so I’ve heard.

The Glow From Fenway

21 May, 2011 / Kat

Late Thursday night, around 10:30pm, I was walking down Commonwealth Avenue from work to Kenmore Station. It was foggy, misty and dark – unless you looked in the direction of Fenway Park. In that direction, it looked nearly dawn like. The Boston Red Sox – Detroit Tigers game had just ended with a walk-off single in the Red Sox’s favor by Carl Crawford, and the crowds were spilling from the ballpark into the area. But this section of Comm Ave was still unaffected.

Between the street lights, the glow of Fenway’s lights and massive new scoreboards, and the wetness of the air, this atmosphere just begged to be photographed.