Baseball season in full swing, pardon the pun, and the Red Sox are far ahead in the American League East division.  Since 2004, I’m filled with an ever-present faith in the Sox and am excited for this season’s roster.  The pitchers are doing their jobs, players are coming up with key plays, the bats are coming together.  It looks to be an exciting season and so with that in mind, I’m dedicating this posting to the Boston Red Sox.

Of course, the first stop has to be the great Red Sox web site setup through MLB.  The MLB team sites are packed with information, up to minute scores and updates, stats, rosters, schedules, etc.  The MLB has consistently hosted some of the best corporate web sites from the very early days and embraced a variety of technologies to deliver the best in baseball.  Fans can even subscribe to watch every game of the season through their new MLB.TV.

The Jimmy Fund is a charity for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute “where children and their families find hope”.  Dana-Farber does great work for children with cancer and they’ve held deep ties with the Red Sox organization since its inception in 1948 and the then Boston Braves joined forces to help a 12-year-old cancer patient.  Their site has a great selection of photo galleries.  The 50 Year Anniversery gallery is particularly nice, especially the photo of Mo Vaughn walking 11-year-old Jason Leader back from the mound after the young clinic patient got a chance to throw out the first pitch.

The Boston Public Library has many great sites and an extensive collection of photos including their Boston Cicra 1918 exhibit.  You can see what Boston looked like when Babe Ruth played for the Sox and Calvin Coolidge was governor of Massachusetts.  And when the Red Sox had won the World Series before a long, 86 year drought that finally ended in 2004.

There are lots of great Red Sox blogs available.  Red Sox Connection is a fun site that has a lot for all types of fans.  The Joy of Sox blog is an in-depth blog with frequent updates, analysis, and a long list of links.  Soxaholix is a very interesting site that features a daily comic strip about an office of die-hard Sox fans.  And of course, any discussion of Red Sox baseball has to include reference to the great Yankees Suck blog.

Go Sox!

I recently bought a Macintosh computer.  I needed a new computer that I could put into the kitchen and wanted something sleek, stylish, functional and easy-to-use.  I initially figured I’d put together a new PC that would fit my needs or buy an already-built Dell, but after playing around with Windows Vista on a friend’s laptop, I was a little disappointed.  I started thinking outside the box a little and decided to check out a Mac.  I was impressed.  So far, it’s been easy to setup, looks great, and does everything I need.  I’m not ready to completely abandoned my Windows-based PC, but the Mac has made a nice addition to my network.

Macspoofs.com features a large assortment of Apple, Macintosh commercials and spoofs.  Most feature the now-familiar PC guy and Mac guy standing before a camera, or a variation thereof.  However, there are also other variations, including the pro-Obama/anti-Hillary variation of the Apple 1984 commercial that was directed by Ridley Scott and debuted during Superbowl XVIII.

http://www.macspoofs.com/

Here’s something fun for South Park fans. It’s the South Park Create-a-Character from South Park Studios. You choose the head, body, hair, eyes, mouth, hands, and props that you’d like for your character and the site puts them together for you. There are many different pieces and styles to choose from to get your characters to look exactly the way you’d like to see them, including this one of me unwinding after work on a Friday night.

http://images.southparkstudios.com/games/create/