The other half of the Boston Blog Brothers

Mouth full of Cavities

Actually, I have perfect teeth (Jared too). Never had braces and didn’t get my first cavity until I was 23 years old. People, no soda in the house, and sugarless gum! My parents never allowed me either of those things and they saved a ton on dental work until my brother Jake who got the short end of the genetic stick.

Instead of thrusting myself into a sports blog I wanted to do an introduction of sorts so all of you can get to know your new faithful local blogger. So I am 27 years old a current second year graduate student at Northeastern University dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Biology. I love lifting weights (Oak Sq. YMCA) and drinking beer. Not anything from St. Louis MO or Golden CO, but good craft beers that actually have FLAVOR! Just because you guys/girls watch sports doesn’t mean you have to fall in line with the advertising gigantism of Bud/Miller/Coors and thier awful yellow water products. Beer shouldn’t look like piss (apologies to drinkers of good pilsners, cream ales, and Belgian golden ales) Anyways, I am going to post a weekly beer review on a new beer that I hope you can gain insight into and initiate some variety into your beer drinking lives.

Sports in this order: I love hockey and the Bruins, I love the patriots and Brady and Bellicheck, and I get a kick out of coach’s press conferences. I like the Celtics but find it hard to watch a whole game this year because of the blowouts…and boredom expressed by the big 3 with the regular season, can not wait for the playoffs though.
Now the Sox…(bear with me)
I know being from Boston one is supposed to follow the local 9 with fervor and passion and blindly be led over the plank by Red Sox nation and its yahoo fans…but I can’t. Not anymore. I watched every inning in the Pedro years up to 2005, after the Clement game in Chicago I was slightly annoyed. 2006…snooze, and 2007 I couldn’t believe how apathetic I had become towards the sox (probably the best sox team assembled in my lifetime). I fell asleep before most of the games ended in Colorado, whatever. It really started in 2004, after they won. I mean I really enjoyed rooting for a team that I never thought would win, I know it sounds stupid but after they won it just didn’t feel the same. But the straw that broke the camels back was when there was a conflict between a meaningless Red Sox regular season game head to head with a BRUINS-CANADIENS PLAYOFF TILT…two guesses as to which one was shown on NESN. I happened to be working at EF International language school and set up the satellite dish to watch while I worked, but all I saw was Red Sox pre-game. DirecTV didn’t carry whatever the channel the B’s game had been moved to, and the NESN-Red Sox cartel and loser nation had officially lost a customer. A team that happened to be hot at the time was the Tampa Bay Devil Dogs, so I rooted for them all year long, got a little lucky (not so much with rooting for the Bill Simmons inspired Tottenham Hotspurs in the EPL)…If its any consolation Red Sox Nation, I did find it hard to openly root against the sox in the playoffs, so this year I am going to watch the sox, be a fan again, but be more objective because I have seen both sides of being a rabid fan and a rabid red sox hater.

I also like lots of music, the websites hotchickswithdouchebags.com, rotten.com, I’m a left wing lunatic that believes the government which governs best governs least, so a bit of a political curmudgeon. So I am looking forward to being one half of the Boston Blog Brothers (alliteration), and I hope you all enjoy said blog.

J-1