Charles Steinberg
Charles Steinberg
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This is a day for kids. This is a day that brings out the children in all of us. You can imagine when you were 8 years old or 10 years old how, with such reverence, you viewed the phrase 'pitchers and catchers report.' And the van leaving is that trigger of emotion that tells you it's just five days until pitchers and catchers report. And on a day when New England is blanketed with snow, the reminder that pitchers and catchers report in a few days by virtue of the van leaving, those are good words. Those are soothing to any New Englander's soul.
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There's tremendous enthusiasm. Some of the ordinary metrics you use are ticket sales, and they're well ahead of last year, but you really want to use the anecdotal metrics, you want to hear what people say to you as you're walking down the street, and they're thrilled that you have Coco Crisp and they're thrilled to see what Josh Beckett looks like in a Red Sox uniform ... you can certainly feel the buzz throughout the Boston area, and I trust, throughout New England.
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My understanding is Carroll worked fewer than 1,000 hours and got a watch. There is a security staff of several hundred who are not full-time.
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We inherited a policy we have grave questions about. But we haven't come up with a new policy.
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To fans in New England in the 1950s and '60s, his was the voice that told the stories of the Red Sox to a generation of fans. He was the voice under the pillow.
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What we have not seen in any significant numbers is people who refuse.
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We are finding out that a lot of Bostonians are making plans to go to Spring Training. I think we've probably gotten more calls about that than I've seen in our years here. One lady sent me an e-mail, she said, 'I know that the van is leaving, I don't care. I'm already in Fort Myers, when is the van arriving?