FRS

The Most Fun I’ve Had At Work In A Long Time

We are getting a front office update, no new cubical panels or furniture, just some new carpet, wallpaper and the trim painted a different color. They did Human Resources first and now they are continuing through the plant from right to left.

<sarcasm>Yippee my area will be second.</sarcasm> There really is nothing wrong with the way it looks now, sure there are a few places where the existing stuff is stained from use and there are a few holes, but we are a manufacturing facility, not a lawyer’s office. Six months from now the place will look nearly as well used as it does now.

I guess I should go pay attention to how HR looks to see what is in store for me, but it has got to be fairly blah, because I have been in there several times since their update and cannot bring to mind what it looks like.

I know no one else in the office is sure what the new wallpaper looks like! The room next door is first to get the rework, last night the contractor came in and removed the old two-tone gray wallpaper. All that was up this morning was the white liner paper covering the still older paneling. For giggles I printed out two colors of ‘wallpaper samples’ and tacked them to wall next to the door into my area.

Wallpaper Samples

I snagged the background from the Boston Red Sox home page on MLB.com. The idea came from my fellow front office FRS fan (thanks Gerry) and got the expected reaction from my MFY loving manager. The best part was the reactions from all the other people that pass that way each day. Quite a bit of them are obviously not baseball fans because hardly anyone noticed the real connection. I bet about half of them were actual arguing the merits of the all blue paper vs. the blue with red in it. Some noticed the socks in the pattern, but couldn’t figure out why they might be there.

The folks in the room that is all tore up, that the “samples” are in, were good sports about it and with as straight a face as they could muster, explained that that really is the choice of paper for the office remodel. Sometime in the afternoon one of the USC fans had made up a small sample with Gamecock logos all over it to add to the mix.

At the end of the day they must have tired of all the people asking about the redo because they published an FAQ and pinned it to the wall as well. It consisted of one question and one answer:
Q. Are y’all remodeling?
A. Yes

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Forget About the Hat

I’ve decided not to buy a Red Sox World Series hat, instead I’m going to get some of those fashionable Official MLB World Series Celebration Goggles.

Champagne Shower

Now if I can just find out where to get them…

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Millinery Maneuvers

My search for a FRS WSC hat continues.

2007 WSC Ugly Blue HatThis one offered at MLB.com was too pricey at $30 for me to buy. I don’t really like the look, but if it was cheaper I might have bought it.

 

 

 

2004 WSC Blue HatA little searching around the web led me to discover that the 2004 hat, that I had owned and liked, was still available and maybe I would just buy another. It is available for $20 at the Yawkey Way Store.

 

 

2007 WSC Blue HatOn the front page of the Yawkey Way Store page is a link that says World Series Champions Merchandise Click Here. It takes you to a sister site that has the same Yawkey Way Store title and look, but the URL is www.thesouvenirstore.com. There I found a hat that looks like the 2004, but with 2007 and the word Champions in script. It is $30, but I’d pay that much for this one, because I like the looks.

You have to register with the site to buy anything, so I put the hat in the shopping cart and start the checkout process. When I get to the shipping page I find out that the cheapest way they offer is UPS ground and that costs $10. So now I rethink this purchase because the hat is now a $40 hat. I like it, but maybe not that much.

Ten bucks doesn’t sound like too much to ship 2 hats, so I try to order both the 2004 and 2007 hats. Can’t be done. Even though they are technically coming from the same place the two web sites don’t talk to each other.

2007 WSC Khaki HatDo I get one $30 2004 hat or one $40 2007 hat or two hats for $70? Maybe I’ll call the 1-800 number tomorrow and see if they will ship me the 2 hats for a total cost of $60. If I do get 2, the 2007 hat will be in khaki to differentiate it between the 2004 hat.

Next year when the FRS win the 2008 series, I will get the hat, similarly styled, in red.

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New Hat?

OK, I lied to you. I did not go to bed at 11:00PM, I stayed up until 12:15AM and watched multi-millionaire kids dance for joy on a field of green on a late October evening in Denver. I did not stay long enough to see if Syndrome would do another River Dance in his underwear again though.

Three years ago when the FRS won the Fall Classic for the first time in 86 years, I bought a hat to commemorate the event. This year I will probably do the same, but I’m not sure yet. One, I don’t really like the looks of the hats available and Two, they are kind of pricey at $29.99. The 2004 World Champions hat I bought was $19.99!

2007 Wild Card LoserTo rub it in I was going to buy my MFY fan manager a 2007 Wild Card Winner hat as a gag when I purchased my Red Sox World Series Champs hat, but even it at $24.99 is a little too much to spend on a quick gag.

Maybe I’ll just buy the Wild Card hat for myself and on the back where there is a ’07 Division Series patch I’ll have the word Loser embroidered there. 🙂

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Has Anyone Seen Them In The Same Room Together?

SyndromeIf you hunt around on the web you can find loads of pictures of the Red Sox closer, Jonathan Papelbon, in mid grimace after the final out and some others of him doing his little river dance after the FRS won the ALCS, but I can’t find any of him in the dugout between the eighth and ninth innings during one of his long, 4 out saves to show you what I mean. But a couple times during this World Series he has been in there sitting on the end of the bench with his wild-eyed look, running his fingers through his hair vertically to make it stick straight up. This gave him a very distinctively disturbing look. Unfortunately for him this may have given away his evil super hero alter-ego – Syndrome!

Last night, Donna and I watched the whole freaking game three and it didn’t get over until like 1:00AM. Tonight we are going to bed at 11:00PM, no matter what, the Red Sox will win or lose whether I’m watching the game or not, because tomorrow is a work day and we won’t be able to sleep in until 8:30AM like we did today.

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And If The Band You’re In Starts Playing Different Tunes

Dark Side of the MoonPlanetologists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory studying this photo from the dark side of the moon Bownce, believe that the red areas are large deposits of copper and the faint yellow indicates that there might be sulphur just below the surface.

May not be big news where you are, but they opened a new Wal-Mart Supercenter here today.

They may have opened a new Wal-Mart in Beantown today, but I wouldn’t know because I don’t subscribe to the company newsletter. I know they opened one here because it was front page news in the local paper. If they did open one in the Boston area I bet they did a box office business in Red Sox paraphernalia.

I got exactly what I didn’t want last night, the FRS scored a baker’s dozen worth of runs, so although I didn’t see it, I bet somewhere in America a sports page headline read, “Sox Rock Rox.” I’m afraid to mention that I don’t want to see the Rockies score a bunch of runs on the Red Sox, so that someone can get to write the opposite, for fear of it happening, so mums the word.

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Liquid Sunshine

May not be big news where you are, but it rained here today.

Its raining in Beantown too, making for a messy game one of the MLB Championship Series. Posting may be light for the next 5 to 9 days as my normal blogging time coincides with the TV broadcasting of the FRS and the Colorado Rockies. Plus I can barely concentrate long enough to post something without any distractions…

As much as I’d like to see the Red Sox score tons of runs and win a World Series game, I don’t really want that to happen so in the morning I’ll see a sports headline that reads, “Sox Rocks Rox.” Whatever the score of a Boston win, I can bet somewhere, that that will appear in print.

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