Well, at least using movable type anyways. Tomorrow, I'm going to flip over my site if I can get two or three little bugs worked out. As a result, the site will be in all sorts of error message hell for awhile. It's probably best that you don't check it out, because it will just be confusing and unsatisfying (not that a visit here is ever anything but).
Just to point out though, my old pages (except the main page) will remain. If you want to visit the blog, go to
http://chrisboylan.com/blog/.
To visit the forum, go to
http://chrisboylan.com/forum/.
My audio page will still be up at
http://chrisboylan.com/audio.php.
And so on, until I move over all the content. It should take a few weeks.
As a last story, I met a man I never thought I would meet, especially down here in Fayetteville. For his protection, I will not disclose his exact location.
I was doing a remote at a car dealership down here this afternoon, when a man that I did not recognize came in to buy a car. He talked to a salesman for awhile, and I think agreed to buy a car when they shook hands and he started to leave. Being a wacky radio guy, I yelled down to him to stop on by and have some free pizza, which we were giving away. He looked confused for a minute, and then politely declined. I persisted, at which point he said "no" and began to walk away.
Another salesman came over to me to get some pizza, and then dropped this bomb:
"You know that guy's, like famous or something?"
"No. Who is it?"
"He used to be a baseball manager."
I still couldn't place the face. "What's his name?"
"Grady Little."
"HOLY S**T! That's Grady Little! What the hell is he doing in this (little town an hour outside of Fayetteville)? Wait. I know. He's hiding from Red Sox fans."
For those of you who are lost, check out these Bill Simmons columns:
Paradise Lost, again.
Paradise Lost, postscript.
Mailbag.
In short, Grady Little was the manager of the Boston Red Sox during the 2003 ALCS. He (for reasons still unknown) decided to leave Pedro Martinez in the deciding game WAY too long - despite the fact that every viewer and fan in America knew Pedro was done. As Bill Simmons says, we didn't second-guess him, we first-guessed him. As a result, the Yanks tied the game and went on to win on an Aaron Boone home run in the 11th, to go to the World Series where they lost to the Marlins. If the Sox did not win this year, he may have begun to replace Bill Buckner as the focus of Boston's rage and the keeper of the Curse of the Bambino.
Well, now he's hiding out in NC, but maybe not for long as after people read this, he may need to relocate again.
Good Times!
P.S. The Simmons links are via
The Wayback Machine aka the Internet Archive. It is a site that saves a ton of pages on the internet and allows you to browse them. It comes in real handy when site goes down or some tool like ESPN starts charging for access to its archives. If you ever find a link to a page that used to be free but is no longer, get the old link and search for it on the archive. That along with Google's cached feature are a godsend.
