Crundy and I were on chatting it up on instant messenger while the ring ceremony was taking place covering topics from Buckner to RBI Baseball to Neil Diamond and more.  Here’s the transcript:

Session Start (jaymansf:lifeafterdesk): Tue Apr 08 10:29:11 2008
[10:29] lifeafterdesk: that is funny
[10:29] jayman SF: buckner?  wtf?
[10:30] lifeafterdesk: i think i would boo him
[10:30] lifeafterdesk: nah…i’d boo morgan probably…
[10:30] jayman SF: me too
[10:30] lifeafterdesk: and shiraldi
[10:31] lifeafterdesk: it would be funny if they had shiraldi, buckner and mogan out to reenact the losing of the 1986 world series
[10:31] jayman SF: do you think they”ll toss the ball to buckner?  or just stick it right in his hand?
[10:31] jayman SF: they should roll him a grounder.
[10:31] lifeafterdesk: argh….
[10:32] lifeafterdesk: you know i have the 1986 world series on discs around here someplace…
[10:32] lifeafterdesk: maybe i should see if i can track them down  and post the last few innings of game six
[10:33] jayman SF: if you do…do it side by side with the RBI baseball reenactment
[10:33] lifeafterdesk: i went to get may haircut at the place i go in cambridge last week -
[10:33] lifeafterdesk: raining out
[10:34] lifeafterdesk: no biz at the barber
[10:34] lifeafterdesk: the owner and the other guy there where playing rbi baseball on the oldest color tv in existence with weei on the radio in the background
[10:34] jayman SF: thats so sweet
[10:34] jayman SF: you should have gotten a picture of that
[10:35] lifeafterdesk: i meant to - i actually thought video would have been good for the site - it was pre-game chatter on the radio and the sox memorabilia on the walls…right in harvard square too…
[10:36] jayman SF: do you remember what teams they were playing?
[10:36] jayman SF: was there a Franco v. Franco sighting?
[10:36] lifeafterdesk: one guy was teaching another guy and he was telling something about fred mcgriff i think
[10:37] lifeafterdesk: dont you want to log onto some website right now and play greg?
[10:37] jayman SF: of course
[10:37] jayman SF: we would have to eat some dinner first, though
[10:37] jayman SF: the funniest thing was to watch greg play todd herman
[10:38] jayman SF: todd would always try to fast pitch him…and greg would get pissede
[10:40] jayman SF: oh crap…here comes papelbon
[10:41] jayman SF: good, he didnt do anything stupid
[10:41] lifeafterdesk: yet
[10:46] lifeafterdesk: i think eric wilbur sucks by the way
[10:46] jayman SF: yeah, me too
[10:46] lifeafterdesk: maybe my twitter will be Not Eric Wilbur
[10:46] lifeafterdesk: too obscure probably
[10:46] jayman SF: Fake Manny is sooooo much better
[10:47] jayman SF: broken english…random trade demands
[10:47] lifeafterdesk: I’d have to adopt his dialect
[10:47] jayman SF: oh bullshit!
[10:47] jayman SF: mlb.tv just cut out of the ring ceremnoy
[10:47] lifeafterdesk: One of my fav manny quotes was right after 04 weries win
[10:47] lifeafterdesk: “I Did It!”
[10:47] jayman SF: how i’m going to watch the buckner pitch?
[10:47] jayman SF: yeah…i remember that
[10:48] lifeafterdesk: I like Manny too much to make fun of him
[10:48] lifeafterdesk: Maybe I should do Fake Curt Schilling…that would piss him off
[10:48] lifeafterdesk: he is such a blow hard
[10:49] jayman SF: ‘would send a cease and desist
[10:50] jayman SF: you need to let me know if buckner gets cheered or booed
[10:50] lifeafterdesk: okay - when is the first pitch?  now ish?
[10:50] jayman SF: no idea
[10:50] lifeafterdesk: game starts at 2, right?
[10:50] jayman SF: think so
[10:50] jayman SF: it should be any minute
[10:51] lifeafterdesk: did you see the clip of bush being booed at teh first pitch for washington last week?
[10:51] jayman SF: yeah
[10:51] lifeafterdesk: i love the look important people get when they pretend not to notice the booing…there should be a name for that
[10:51] lifeafterdesk: like a sniglet of some sort
[10:52] jayman SF: damon returing as a yankee is the poster child for that
[10:52] jayman SF: he so didnt know what to do
[10:52] lifeafterdesk: can you believe neil diamond want more than 200k to come to fenway to sing one song?
[10:53] jayman SF: seriously
[10:53] jayman SF: thats lame
[10:53] lifeafterdesk: he’s the “one concert per year” guy this year
[10:53] lifeafterdesk: so he’ll probably play sometime around then but last year they tried to get him durin the playoffs and he wanted more $
[10:53] lifeafterdesk: the only other thing i know is that he recently got divorced and his wife got 130MM
[10:53] jayman SF: i’d like to see a study of the royalties he’s been getting as a result of sweet caroline being played every night
[10:54] lifeafterdesk: it’s kind of skeevey that he wrote that for carolyne kennedy when she was a teenager
[10:54] lifeafterdesk: the song definitely has some sexy undertones
[10:54] jayman SF: yeah…i told keturah’s mom that (big neil diamond fan) and she went “Eewwww, thats icky”
[10:55] lifeafterdesk: gotta go watch the first picth