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Boston, stop living in the past – The Boston Globe
Thanks to the science of cryogenics — portions of Williams’s body are reportedly frozen in an Arizona life-extension lab — there is always hope of a Second Coming. A real treat for the Fenway Faithful!
Hardly had we shaken off the dust from Opening Day than we were greeted by the inevitable, garment-rending remembrances of the 2013 Marathon bombing. I well remember the civic trauma, and my heart goes out to the survivors and the many injured.
Having said that, a bombing that claimed three fatalities in Gaza or Ukraine wouldn’t cause anyone to cancel a day at the beach. “Hundreds killed in Darfur in the past week alone,” said a Globe story.
You would think it’s time to move on. But we won’t. Boston is the city that is always looking back, never looking forward — “a winter city,” as the embittered ex-Bostonian Elizabeth Hardwick called it in a famous 1959 essay. Hardwick reviled Boston as a musty antiques barn that “attracted men of quiet and tasteful opinion, men interested in old families and things, in the charms of times recently past.”
Don’t get me wrong. I love Boston history. I think it’s grand that people dress up as redcoats and rebel militia to reenact the primal events of our successful Revolution. This is a great city, a cradle of America’s industrial revolution, once the headquarters of militant abolitionism, a town that once credibly claimed to be the “Athens of America.” Ho Chi Minh worked at the Parker House, Martin Luther King got his PhD here, Malcolm X got turned on to books here: What’s not to love?
It’s the mawkish sentimentality of manufactured nostalgia that rankles me.
To be fair, some progress has been made. We seem to have finally shucked off the Kennedys, and none too soon, as the thinning of the bloodline becomes all too apparent. For the first time in years, I’m not aware of some literary or movie project seeking to capitalize on the glory years of the Winter Hill Gang or Boston’s answer to Robin Hood, James “Whitey” Bulger.
And, after three solid years of stultifying Brady-Belichick-Kraft programming, my beloved sports talk radio seems to have finally moved on to more pressing concerns, e.g., how Mike Vrabel will mess up the NFL draft and how the Celtics will run the table in the National Basketball Association playoffs.
Good luck with that.
By way of self-torture, I have watched a few episodes of the HBO series “Celtics City,” a shot-through-gauze remembrance of Boston’s basketball glory days — Red, Russ, Couz, Larry — weren’t they marvelous, blah blah blah. Yes, I admit that the Reggie Lewis segment was tragically moving. Sportswriter Jackie MacMullan was choking up on screen, and I was tearing up in my living room.
In the first episode, the producers stuck a microphone in the face of a contemporary Causeway Street fanatic, who insisted that “Bill Russell is in the house, Johnny Most is in the house, Red Auerbach is in the house …”
His conclusion? “The ghosts are out, you can feel it.” Yes, I can feel it all too well.
Alex Beam’s column appears regularly in the Globe. Follow him @imalexbeamyrnot.
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Red Sox at Reds preview: Sonny Gray makes his first start for Boston – The Boston Globe
Gray, acquired in a November trade from the St. Louis Cardinals, was one of Boston’s key rotation additions, along with Ranger Suarez, in the offseason. He was 14-8 with a 4.28 ERA in 2025.
“He’s very specific about his work. Every day has a purpose,” Red Sox manager Alex Cora said of Gray. “Two hundred strikeouts, that’s something that we were looking for. The competitor. Every five days, this guy is going to give you everything.”
In his five career appearances against the Reds, Gray is 1-3 with a 4.18 ERA.
“It’s pretty much one of the only things that is continuing to push me, is to get to a World Series, to win a World Series, to pitch in big games,” said Gray. “I love the moment, and I am chasing that moment.”
Here’s the preview:
RED SOX (1-0): TBA
Pitching: RHP Sonny Gray
REDS (0-1): TBA
Pitching: RHP Brady Singer
Time: 4:10 p.m.
TV, radio: NESN, WEEI-FM 93.7
Red Sox vs. Singer: Wilyer Abreu 2-5, Roman Anthony 1-2, Willson Contreras 2-7, Jarren Duran 3-10, Caleb Durbin 0-1, Isiah Kiner-Falefa 6-16, Marcelo Mayer 0-1, Andruw Monasterio 1-4, Carlos Narváez 1-1, Ceddanne Rafaela 1-5, Trevor Story 0-4, Connor Wong 2-8, Masataka Yoshida 2-7
Reds vs. Gray: Will Benson 0-5, Elly De La Cruz 5-11, TJ Friedl 1-8, Ke’Bryan Hayes 4-17, Nathaniel Lowe 2-10, Noelvi Marte 0-5, Matt McLain 2-2, Spencer Steer 4-9, Tyler Stephenson 0-8, Eugenio Suárez 7-13, Jose Trevino 0-2
Stat of the day: Sal Stewart become the first Cincinnati rookie since 1958 to record three hits on Opening Day.
Notes: Cincinnati sends righthander Brady Singer (14-12, 4.03 in 2025) to the mound … With Hunter Greene and Nick Lodolo already on the injured list to start the season, Singer is considered one of Cincinnati’s most durable pitchers, leading the Reds with 32 starts last season … Singer has made five career starts against Boston, posting a 2-2 record with a 4.88 ERA over 24 innings … His last appearance against the Red Sox, on July 1 in Boston, ended after just three innings when he allowed two earned runs on three hits.
Cam Kerry can be reached at cam.kerry@globe.com.
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Mayor Robert Van Campen talks about priorities in Everett
Nearly three months since assuming office as mayor of Everett, Massachusetts, Mayor Robert Van Campen isn’t wasting any time.
The former city councilor ousted 18-year incumbent Carlo DeMaria in decisive fashion last November, but even so, issues surrounding his predecessor still linger at City Hall.
A state-led salary audit of DeMaria found $180,000 in overpayment, a finding the former mayor disputes. Van Campen says the city is monitoring ongoing investigations.
“What I’ve conveyed to my partners in government here, locally, is to allow that state process to play itself out, and then we, as a community, will make a decision,” the mayor said. “In addition to that, I recently met with Inspector General Jeff Shapiro, who visited me at City Hall. We had a great conversation about transparency in government, best practices, putting in the right systems to ensure that that type of financial oversight doesn’t happen in the future.”
Beyond the audit, Van Campen is placing emphasis on school overcrowding.
“My objective is to try to implement solutions as quickly as I can,” he said. “Our high school today, which was built for I think 1,650 students, now houses around 2,200.”
The World Cup is creating buzz across Massachusetts, including in Everett, where the Kraft Group is looking to build a soccer stadium.
To alleviate that problem, the mayor is using federal ARPA funds to repair the old Everett High School and seeking out other spaces that could be used in the future.
“Would I like to build out new classroom space for the students of Everett in the next one to two years? Yes, that’s my ideal,” Van Campen said. “But I want to make sure that if we do it on a quick timeline, it’s done in a correct and proper fashion.”
Also in focus for the mayor is a new soccer stadium for the New England Revolution on the shores of the Mystic River.
The Kraft Group, Boston, Everett and the state Legislature have all taken steps to make the project a reality, but Van Campen says there’s still more work to do.
“It’s a transformative project, it’s a breathtaking project,” said Van Campen. “But I’ve been clear with all the stakeholders around that project, and the other larger developments going on down there, that we have to make sure that transit issues are comprehensively addressed, that pedestrian access issues are comprehensively addressed, that all those issues have to be addressed to perfection in order for these projects to succeed.”
Tune in on Sunday, March 29 at 9:30 a.m. for our extended @Issue Sit Down with Van Campen.
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