'As a non-sports-fan, could someone explain to me Howie's comment about Foxboro?'
where the Patriots play (today!!) but to get further into it, remember when sKerry and Teresa flew across the country to make a 'surprise' visit to Fenway Park for a big Red Sox/Yankees game?
Since he was so late, they actually held up the game, also forced many ticket holders a great deal of grief going thru extra security, and then he blew out onto the field to throw the first pitch to a local-hero soldier.
FIRST, the crowd started BOO-ING him. The TV stations quick shut down the volume.
He actually threw from in front of the mound (girly)..
his pitch was too short, so it bounced...(girly)
the soldier missed it because it was such a bad pitch, but Kerry told reporters that the 'soldier was nervous, so he threw it easy to him"...(girly)
He returned to his box-seats, (amid boos), posed for a million photos with the soldier and Teresa, then all of a sudden the soldier was shuffled off to like the top row...
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:t02yeDKkSK4J:www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp%3FARTICLE_ID%3D39633+John+Kerry+baseball&hl=en
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:DVqgERp_tG8J:www.chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp%3Faid%3D8696+John+Kerry+baseball&hl=en
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:V4xPWJgJIfEJ:www.boston.com/news/politics/president/articles/2004/10/22/the_baseball_bump%3Fpg%3Dfull+John+Kerry+baseball&hl=en
Thanks...now I get it.
>>"By stepping up to the podium and saying, "I'm John Kerry, and I'm from Boston -- home of the Boston Red Sox," he will push a button that will make people feel, at least for a few moments, good about things, good about themselves, and good about him."
From the Glob(e), not too surprising
On that Sun. night before the CONvention, when he appeared at Fenway, ESPN kept showing pix of him in the crowd and they actually got him to talk with them in the booth.
Want Kerry to come over to you? Point out you have a TV camera. They don't call him Liveshot for nothing.