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Thursday, May 9, 2002 1:00am ET Take off from SFO on United flight 32 bound for Boston. Sleep four reasonably sound hours. Arrive 6:30am, get home at 7:30am, shave, shower, breakfast. 8:30am Depart with Jennifer and the boys for CMGi Field, the new home of the New England Revolution and the New England Patriots. The Revolution are hosting media day in advance of their home opener Saturday night. Read details at "If you build it will they win?" 9:30am Along with 30-40 other media members and their families, depart from the Pro Shop for a tour of the stadium. High point, literally, is the state of the art press box near the top of the stadium. At the end of the tour, I spend time interviewing players and coaches while the boys get their soccer balls autographed. Every player signs each ball. The Boston Globe even gets (and prints: 5/10/2002, page E8) a photo of them talking with the Rev's two starting forwards: Mamadou Diallo of Senegal and Taylor Twellman of St Louis. 12:30pm Depart CMGi, heading for Framingham 14, lunch, and Spider-man. 1:45pm Spider-man begins, 2 hours and 20 minutes including previews, definitely worth the 3 stars given it by the Boston Globe. 4:30pm Home in time to take an I/PRO conference call that lasts an hour. 5:30pm Taylor (Dieffenbach, not Twellman) and I leave for his baseball game at nearby Happy Hollow elementary school. Taylor records an unassisted putout while playing first base, his only fielding chance of the game. In two plate appearances, he strikes out once (hey, just how old was that pitcher ...) and walks once. In the first year of kid-pitch, strikeouts and walks are far too common occurrences. 7:45pm Arrive home, dump Taylor off on Jennifer and change into my soccer stuff for an indoor game in Revere. 9:00pm We play for an hour, losing 2-1 to the first place team (going into the game, a 7-1 record vs. our 4-4-1). 11:00pm Home and showered, I crank up the word processor to dash off my Soccer365 article on the CMGi visit. 1:00am (Friday, May 10, 2002) Press send and shut down. |