If we have to get swept better in April than October. Although I have taken the recent losing streak pretty hard. I actually cried in my seat at Fenway when the Angels defeated the Red Sox 7-5 on Thursday, April 24. It was my third game this year & the first one we lost but I loved seeing David Ortiz hit that home run and Justin Masterson was pretty awesome for someone who has only played AA Ball. But I'm not even going to talk about the series with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays

I just keep telling myself It's only April & once the guys are over the flu and injuries we'll be winning again. I can't wait to see Jason Varitek and Schilling  and Lowell back in the game. I was so GLAD when the SOX re-signed him. We haven't seen enough of Jonathan Papelbon either. But they're my Red Sox & I love them whether we win or lose

 

The last few games have been heartbreaking but when I got my picture taken with these trophies yesterday morning it really made my happy. It makes me want to sing "Sweet Caroline.'

World Series Trophies

Sat in Shonda Schilling's Seats for Marathon Monday game

Yankees Yuck

My North Shore Spirit Exhibit is at Lynn Historical Society

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

I love Johnny Pesky "MR. RED SOX" and I FINALLY have an autographed Johnny Pesky baseball & hat. A neighbor of mine is related to Pesky & I took over a baseball and she said she would ask him to sign it for me. He did & he bought me a pink Red Sox hat that he autographed on the brim too. I am so pyched! I touched Pesky's pole at Fenway once. Now if I just can get some more red Sox autographed stuff and more baseball cards. If anyone has any Red Sox tickets they can't use let me know.

I bought 3 baseball cards I have been dying to get on eBay. I got Tony C, Billy C and 1971 Red Sox Team card. I was so excited when I won the auction.  My Red Sox baseball card collection is doing good. If anyone has a Johnny Pesky baseball card I'm looking for one. Retire Tony Conigliaro's #25

This is our last chance to thank the North Shore Spirit & Nick Lopardo for 5 great summers of baseball- so let's make this a success!
The parade is on Dec. 24 at 5 p.m.
The Kevin Kennedy Band has offered us the use of a sound system for the float. We have a white reindeer & sleigh we can use on the float along with a white Christmas tree.
Judging from the response we're getting there may be too many of us to ride on one flatbed- the company we're getting it from is limiting the number of people for safety reasons. I'm still trying to find out what happened to the Slugger uniform-- does anyone know how we can get our hands on that?
BJ Weed & Andy Theriault have agreed to ride on the float. We'd love to get as many players as possible so if you have contact information for any of the boys pass this along.

Here are some of my thoughts on this:
***Steve and mayor Clancy are wrong! Some college kids playing college ball for a couple of months will not fill the void left by the Spirit leaving.I don't know why people are excited about this. Think about it. If the Red Sox were booted out of Fenway Park would everyone be jumping for joy if the Pennsylvania Road Warriors decided to play at Fenway. I don't think so.

*** Someone suggested having the NECBL Holyoke Giants use the Spirit name. NO! There will only be one Spirit. That's like having the Red Sox leave Fenway & naming some non-pro ball team that decides to play at Fenway the Boston Red Sox. It would be terrible. It's like swearing.

*** I'm only 9 but even I know the difference between college baseball, CanAm league ball, Indie Ball and farm teams. I've seen college baseball games and they are not very good. And how can you be a real fan of a team that has a whole new set of players every season? That's lame.

I'm having a World Series Baseball Party next Saturday so I made my Halloween Graveyard in front of my house all about Baseball. I buried the Indians, Yankees, Devil Rays and other Sox Foes. I hope you like my pictures.





RIP all Red Sox foes.

I know everything is down at Fraser Field and the Spirit probably won't come
back. But I have over 700 signatures and am going to give them to Mayor Chip
Clancy on Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. City Hall is open until 9pm on Tuesday and the Mayor will be there because there is a city council meeting that night. If you can please come and wear your Spirit gear if you have any. Maybe we can't save the Spirit but we can show the mayor how much we love the Spirit and how much we support Nick Lopardo & our North Shore Spirit. Nick and the Spirit gave us 5 awesome summers of baseball and this is the least we can do to say thanks. Maybe the TV and newspapers will show up too.

I have almost 600 signatures now. I emailed Mayor Chip Clancys office for 2 weeks and called to try to get a time when I can take him the Save Our Spirit petitions. He hasn't answered my emails or calls. I know other people that emailed and called him too and he hasn't answered them either. How Rude!
There was a story about the North Shore Spirit on the front page of the Lynn Journal today. There was a picture of me with Alex Trezza. And Sam Stevens in Canada writes "The Baseball Files." He sent me a link to a story he put on his blog about the Spirit. Here's the link.
http://www.baseballfiles.com/the-dugout/losing-the-spirit/
THE GOOD NEWS IS I THINK THE RED SOX WILL WIN THE WORLD SERIES THIS YEAR! GO SOX!

This is an article Bob Wirz wrote about me and the North Shore Spirit. http://www.indybaseballchatter.com/ If you don't know who he is you should. Bob Wirz used to be the spokesman for Major League Baseball Commissioners Bowie Kuhn and Peter Ueberroth. He also used to work for the Kansas City Royals. He said he talked about me last night in a speech about baseball. Bob sold the Spirit to Nick Lopardo so I wrote to him and asked him to buy the Spirit back and keep them in Lynn but he can't. But at least he wrote a good story:

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"I have a new pen pal, and I have to admit she has stolen my heart. Don't worry, my wife will not be jealous. All of the Independent Baseball world needs to know about Victoria Glidden. Many know about her already. Victoria is 9, and she is crushed that the North Shore Spirit, the Can-Am League team in Lynn, MA, will not be playing again. Owner Nick Lopardo, who poured a great deal of money and energy into the Spirit for five seasons, has closed up shop. He has not said it in so many words, to my knowledge, but the Spirit apparently did not receive the support they needed from the City Hall or the business and fan base to stop the financial losses. "The Spirit is the best part of living in Lynn and it's being taken away from us," Victoria wrote in her first email to me. "We love the Spirit. I'm just a kid but I want to help find a way to keep the team in Lynn." But unlike so many people who might say something similar, Victoria Glidden is not stopping with a few emails. She started a petition, and the last I knew she had collected 447 signatures. She got 209 from the internet and 238 from "talking to people". "I want a million (signatures)", she wrote, and she may be well on her way by now. Victoria's plight has been on television and in newspapers in Massachusetts although she admits Mayor Chip Clancy, the primary target in her effort, has not responded. "One of the things I want to do when I have enough money is buy a baseball team," Ms. Glidden told me in her most recent message. "The kids could always go to games and I'd give free tickets to the poor kids too so everyone can have fun." Victoria's grandmother, Debra, told me "she (Victoria) is a wreck over the Spirit leaving. Spirit games are the highlight of her life. She has been to almost every game for five years." "I'm so sad thinking I won't be able to go to any Spirit games next summer," was the most heartfelt of all of her lines. "It makes me want to cry." Victoria even asked me if I would buy the team. I am afraid I remain powerless in this situation, Victoria. Maybe your message will get through to someone who can help. And regardless, Victoria, your determination will win out in life."

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He asked me to put this with his post: Bob Wirz has 16 years of major league baseball public relations experience with Kansas City and as chief spokesman for two Commissioners and runs his own sports consulting company in Stratford, CT. He is the author of a newly-published book 'The Independent Minor Leagues: 2006 Season in Review' and this blog, www.IndyBaseballChatter.com. Subscriptions to the book and this weekly Independent Baseball Insider column are available at www.WirzandAssociates.com .)

Here's a link to the North Shore Sunday Article
http://www.townonline.com/northshoresunday/homepage/x2033924180

Link to Boston Globe Story
www.boston.com/north


Leave it Lynn to get rid of the best thing in the city for kids. Guess what Lynn has an ice skating rink and it has public skating. Great right? NOT! It's CLOSED IN THE SUMMER and open for public skating Monday through Friday during the school year from 12:30 until 2:20 WHEN KIDS ARE IN SCHOOL so we can't even use it!
WHAT ARE KIDS IN THIS CITY SUPPOSED TO DO?

Today Nick Lopardo posted a letter on the North Shore Spirit Website saying the team won't be back but I'm not giving up. I'm still continuing my SOS campaign and I have 427 signatures. the story was in the Boston Globe North today. it's online at www.boston.com/north and wbz.com has a video of the last game. If I can i'll try to get a copy of the channel 5 story and post it on my blog too.
The bad news is Alex Trezza was sold to the Worcester Tornados. I wish i could go to the games to see him play but it's too far. Even if I went to Worcester I WILL NEVER cheer for the Worcester Tornados even if Trezza is on the team. My only teams are North Shore Spirit and the Red Sox. People wouldn't think it was no big deal if the Red Sox stopped playing and quit Fenway. People wouldn't just go pick another team to cheer for and I won't do that to the Spirit. I'm still going to try to save the team. I grew up at Spirit games at Fraser Field and made a lot of friends there. The mayor didn't even talk to me about all the petitions I sent him. This stinks.

I'm still going to try to turn this around and bring the Spirit back next year! Please sign my online petition and send the link to everyone you know. use the link on the right to download and print out a petition. Take it to soccer practice, football practice, Red Sox games and anywhere else there are LOTS of people. The lease on Fraser Field doesn't run out until the end of Oct and Nick has at least until the league meeting on Oct. 7 to tell the league if he's coming back so this is NOT over. Nick has exercised the option on the team and the mayor said he would renew the lease. Email me and I'll tell you how to get the petition to me so I can get them to Mayor Clancy and Nick Lopardo! I emailed the mayor some of the petitions but he didn't answer my so email so I'll have to take to his office in city hall. Please help SOS (SAVE OUR SPIRIT) for all us kids.

AND GO RED SOX!

YES! The Spirit beat the Surf in Atlantic City to take 3 of 4 tonight in the series and we're in the championships! We're unstoppable! We get see them again at Fraser Field! YES!!!

The bad news is the Spirit won't be coming back next year. I'm just a kid but I'm not going to let the Spirit leave at the end of the season without a fight so lets keep working on ways to bring the Spirit back to Fraser Field next year! So read the rest of my blog and see how you can help. Maybe we can get our Spirit back for 2008.

This was posted on the CanAm league Website under transactions on September 7, 2007 "North Shore: Exercised the 2008 option on the following players: RHP Jamie Baker, RHP Matt Bishop, RHP Gary Galvez, LHP Brandon Martin, LHP Joey Siak, C Alex Trezza, INF Gilbert Gil, INF Luis Lopez, INF Gary Roche, OF Joe Hough, RHP Ryan Bicondoa, RHP Derek Drage, LHP Donny Langdon, RHP Dennis Robinson, C Allen Mottram, INF Vic Davilla, INF Josue Lopez, INF Jerson Perez, INF Mike Torres and OF John Welch."
SO WE HAVE A TEAM!

And in todays Daily Item Mayor Chip Clancy said he would extend the lease on Fraser Field
AND WE HAVE A FIELD

&
we have lots of fans signing petitions

so lets do everything we can to bring the Spirit back in 2008
&
if anyone has a $1 million they can give me I'll buy the NORTH SHORE SPIRIT

YES! The Spirit beat the Surf in Atlantic City 5-4 to take game 3 tonight and Trezza hit a home run! BJ Weed, Torres and all the guys were great! We're unstoppable! Lets finish it Saturday night by taking Game 4 then it's 2 on the road and 3 at home for the CHAMPIONSHIP! GO SPIRIT! GO SOX!
I'm just a kid but I'm not going to let the Spirit go without a fight so lets keep working on ways to bring the Spirit back to Fraser Field next year! Sign the petitions and get everyone else to sign! Lynn needs the Spirit!
Please sign my online petition and send this to everyone you know
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/SaveOurNorthShoreSpirit/

This link is to a petition you can print out and have people sign. The blog entry before this tells you where to send them
icesk8ingtrezzafan.googlepages.com/saveourspirit

Please visit this website and print the petition I wrote.

icesk8ingtrezzafan.googlepages.com/saveourspirit

Get it signed by everyone you know and people you don't know!
PLEASE make copies and send 1 copy to each of these 3 places:

Mayor Chip Clancy
3 City Hall Square
Lynn, MA 01901
Phone: 781-598-4000
jmarsh@ci.lynn.ma.us

North Shore Spirit
P.O. Box 8120
Lynn, MA 01904
info@northshorespirit.com
bconnolly@northshorespirit.com
tel: 781-592-0007

And email or mail LOTS of letters to the editor at:
The Daily Item
38 Exchange St.
Lynn,MA 01901
news@itemlive.com

Please Help!

I also posted an online petition:
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/SaveOurNorthShoreSpirit/
Please send this link to everyone you know! Thanks to my friends on the Fraser Faithful Blog for the tip about the on line petition

I am so sad thinking this is could be the last Spirit game I'll ever go to at Fraser Field unless the Spirit win this round of playoffs. Someone has to talk to Mayor Chip Clancy. Everyone should write, email and call Chip Clancy. Tell him he has to let the Spirit come back next year. It'll be so sad for the kids that won't have anything to do. I'll miss going to the games with all my friends and seeing the new friends I made at the ballpark. The Spirit is the best part of living in Lynn and the city is taking it away from us. We love the Spirit and Nick Lopardo! I'm so sad I'll never get to see another game at Fraser Field. I'm sad I'll never get to sing the National Anthem at a Spirit Game. Bye Alex Trezza! Bye Spirit!

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