Sox parade
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magidI work along the route, so I watched the parade from the fourth floor.
-Yay for labeling the duckboats with the names; I'd have no clue otherwise (ok, I recognized only some of them anyway, but whatever).
-There were things shooting bits of red, white, or blue paper into the crowds; sort of the inverse of a tickertape parade.
-For some reason I got a giggle from a big banner announcing that one of the local hospitals is the official hospital of the Red Sox.
-Lots of police. Mostly Boston, some Cambridge. Some in cars, some on motorcycles, some SWAT-looking ones walking (and obviously standing on guard when there were stops), a huge cluster on bicycles (yay, bike cops!), and some on... an MBTA bus (the front "route" was "Boston Police"). No horses, though.
-Huge truck with a Sox band on it.
-Someone with a homemade "The Red Sox Nation loves the Navaho Nation" poster.
-Most of the players waved to the people in the office buildings as well as those on the streets.
-The end was three street sweepers clearing as much as they could of the confetti.
Zillions of happy people shouting, waving, cheering. And yet, for me, the wild marching band parade a couple of weeks ago was much more wonderful. I have obviously just forfeited any chance I had of becoming one of the Red Sox Nation!
-Yay for labeling the duckboats with the names; I'd have no clue otherwise (ok, I recognized only some of them anyway, but whatever).
-There were things shooting bits of red, white, or blue paper into the crowds; sort of the inverse of a tickertape parade.
-For some reason I got a giggle from a big banner announcing that one of the local hospitals is the official hospital of the Red Sox.
-Lots of police. Mostly Boston, some Cambridge. Some in cars, some on motorcycles, some SWAT-looking ones walking (and obviously standing on guard when there were stops), a huge cluster on bicycles (yay, bike cops!), and some on... an MBTA bus (the front "route" was "Boston Police"). No horses, though.
-Huge truck with a Sox band on it.
-Someone with a homemade "The Red Sox Nation loves the Navaho Nation" poster.
-Most of the players waved to the people in the office buildings as well as those on the streets.
-The end was three street sweepers clearing as much as they could of the confetti.
Zillions of happy people shouting, waving, cheering. And yet, for me, the wild marching band parade a couple of weeks ago was much more wonderful. I have obviously just forfeited any chance I had of becoming one of the Red Sox Nation!
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Date: 2007-10-30 05:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-30 05:41 pm (UTC)I ran out from my office to see the parade. It was fab. Watching Papelbom rocked out to Dropkick was totally worth it.
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Date: 2007-10-30 05:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-30 05:48 pm (UTC)There's plenty of room for more citizens here in Sports? Huh? Nation.
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Date: 2007-10-30 05:52 pm (UTC)I was surprised to find myself watching sports when on business trips this summer, then realized they weren't sports that would lose me Sports? Huh? Nation cred in the US: Wimbledon and the Tour de France aren't "real" sports :-)
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Date: 2007-10-30 06:16 pm (UTC)As I work in the same building and as the office of my absent-today-boss overlooks the parade street so I could so easily have wandered in to take a peek, and as I didn't, I claim that I forfeit more.
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Date: 2007-10-30 06:56 pm (UTC)As for the horses they where in their typical spots in the Park.
I also liked the bike cops that they had :)