Sometimes, Sports Really Are Just Fun and Games

I’ve been asked to write a blog for the New England Sports Network. This is my first blog.

As some of you know, this summer, I began Tweeting after Jack Welch convinced me that it could be entertaining and fun -- for me, not for my readers!

But I quickly found out that having a sense of humor on Twitter produces quite an effect. Perhaps people don’t generally expect a baseball owner to have a sense of humor. It’s almost certainly of paramount importance to have a sense of humor, though, over the course of the seasons. Tom Werner and I manage to laugh about certain things on a daily basis. When you lose 60 games a year, you need comedy. And Tom’s had a magnificent career in comedy. 

Now I realize that if I, for instance, joke around about a curse ... oooeuff! Some people seem to take everything seriously in sports -- everything. I don’t know how anyone can take curses seriously!

I kidded about Yankees Universe and the fact that Red Sox Nation has ceded many of the planets in our own solar system to the Yanks ... oh boy. Some took great offense. “SOX OWNER BASHES YANKS!”

So let's be clear.  This blog will often be written with a sense of humor.  And it will be controversial for at least a couple of reasons.  Number one -- I'm writing it.  Number two -- I have had a lifelong tendency to be blunt. 

I'll try to write about meaningful subjects and provide meaningful information when I can about what I can. Most of it will simply be my opinions because I don’t have all of the answers regarding the Boston Red Sox, Roush Fenway Racing, Fenway Sports Group, NESN, iRacing.com, JWH or Fenway Park -- they're too large and dynamic -- each in their own right.  But I'll try here at NESN.com to give you a view on these entities from my perspective.

I stopped Tweeting a couple of months ago and stopped updating Facebook at the same time for reasons I'll go into in my next entry. Go Sox fans!