Truck Day is Here!

[Sin Duda]

WCVB channel 5 article

All the rending of garments and gnashing of teeth can be put behind us. Truck Day is here and hope springs eternal!

 

[LogansDad]

YAY

 

[BaseballJones]

Always a great, great day on the calendar, though this time it feels earlier than normal? I'll take it.

I'm fired up for this baseball season. I believe the Sox are going to be better than a lot of people think, and they've got a ton of guys who are, or should be, really, really fun to watch.

 

[SumnerH]

The annual repudiation of Punxatawney Phil's pessimism.

 

[steeplechase3k]

Always a great, great day on the calendar, though this time it feels earlier than normal? I'll take it.

I sometimes add it to my google calendar because it means the baseball is getting closer (and that makes me happy). These are the dates I have
Feb 11, 2012
Feb 8, 2014
Feb 12, 2015
Feb 6, 2017
Feb 4, 2019
Feb 3, 2020
Feb 3, 3023

So it looks like Feb 3 is on the early end, but not by that much.

 

[Over Guapo Grande]

I sometimes add it to my google calendar because it means the baseball is getting closer (and that makes me happy). These are the dates I have
Feb 11, 2012
Feb 8, 2014
Feb 12, 2015
Feb 6, 2017
Feb 4, 2019
Feb 3, 2020
Feb 3, 3023

So it looks like Feb 3 is on the early end, but not by that much.

Have the Powerball numbers while you are at it?

 

[Sin Duda]

I sometimes add it to my google calendar because it means the baseball is getting closer (and that makes me happy). These are the dates I have
Feb 11, 2012
Feb 8, 2014
Feb 12, 2015
Feb 6, 2017
Feb 4, 2019
Feb 3, 2020
Feb 3, 3023

So it looks like Feb 3 is on the early end, but not by that much.

Nice! You're in the early lead for SoSher of the year!

 

[ifmanis5]

They can't get these items off the shelf in Florida? They need to ship them specially on the company dime? Seems weird.

• 20 cases of bubble gum
• 60 cases of sunflower seeds

 

[simplicio]

Presumably they get them wholesale from a regular supplier and it's easier to throw everything in the truck at once than sourcing odds and ends locally in Florida.

 

[moondog80]

Presumably they get them wholesale from a regular supplier and it's easier to throw everything in the truck at once than sourcing odds and ends locally in Florida.

Right. And since the truck is going down there either way...

 

[steeplechase3k]

Have the Powerball numbers while you are at it?

If I had that I'd have won enough to be a part owner of the team.

Nice! You're in the early lead for SoSher of the year!

Thanks, but I'm just a dork who adds all kinds of stuff to his calendar and never deletes anything.

 

[Jim Ed Rice in HOF]

They can't get these items off the shelf in Florida? They need to ship them specially on the company dime? Seems weird.

• 20 cases of bubble gum
• 60 cases of sunflower seeds

@sittingstill used to provide a photo album and always tried to include a photo of the vacuums that were moved - they looked like they hadn't bought a new one since Williams was patrolling left field. Found a picture of one back in her 2013 Truck Day album:

 

[YTF]

They can't get these items off the shelf in Florida? They need to ship them specially on the company dime? Seems weird.

• 20 cases of bubble gum
• 60 cases of sunflower seeds

Aren't they on, like a really big truck that's already going there?

 

[TheDogMan]

WCVB channel 5 article

All the rending of garments and gnashing of teeth can be put behind us. Truck Day is here and hope springs eternal!

First sign of Spring!

 

[Norm Siebern]

Let the 50th Anniversary Celebration begin!

 

[Lose Remerswaal]

When we planned our cross country move and called a few companies, these guys bragged about moving the Sox every year.

we chose them.

 

[Red(s)HawksFan]

Always a great, great day on the calendar, though this time it feels earlier than normal?

Season keeps starting earlier than ever, so it tracks.

 

[Big Papi's Mango Salsa]

Season keeps starting earlier than ever, so it tracks.

Good. The fewer days without baseball (in some capacity) on the calendar, the better.

 

[Ale Xander]

Anyone going to JetBlue before the actual games? Either to see position players or even more daring, pitchers?
(or for that matter any of the 3
Atlantic Ocean side parks? (5 teams) )

Probably personally most looking forward to seeing Campbell and Rafaela.

 

[Omar's Wacky Neighbor]

When we planned our cross country move and called a few companies, these guys bragged about moving the Sox every year.

Wasn't there a tug boat service that bid $1 to turn the Constitution, just so they could advertise/brag that they're the ones who turn the Constitution every year?

 

[SumnerH]

Wasn't there a tug boat service that bid $1 to turn the Constitution, just so they could advertise/brag that they're the ones who turn the Constitution every year?

Doubtful. The Constitution's tug, the Boomin' Beaver, is a Navy mini-tug.



View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WokB3q0mtg

 

[ifmanis5]

@sittingstill used to provide a photo album and always tried to include a photo of the vacuums that were moved - they looked like they hadn't bought a new one since Williams was patrolling left field. Found a picture of one back in her 2013 Truck Day album:

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Hahaha, fantastic pull.

 

[streeter88]

Hope does spring eternal - maybe help me to forget some of the other dreck that is going on. Go Sox!

 

[CarolinaBeerGuy]

Truck day is the best day of winter! It’s this time of year that I really miss living in Fort Myers.

 

[AB in DC]

Doubtful. The Constitution's tug, the Boomin' Beaver, is a Navy mini-tug.

Man, if that tug went out of service, it would be a real crisis.

 

[bsj]

What a small crowd.

 

[soxin6]

What a small crowd.

Are you really surprised? The average fan no longer cares about this team. They won't come back until the Red Sox win something.

 

[8slim]

What a small crowd.

Did it used to be bigger? I've always read about Truck Day but don't recall seeing video of the send off, other than the truck driving away.

 

[Red(s)HawksFan]

Did it used to be bigger? I've always read about Truck Day but don't recall seeing video of the send off, other than the truck driving away.

It certainly felt bigger during the peak of the sell-out streak era (say 2003-2011). Of course, that's about the time they started making it an actual fan event. I think it's lost its luster, to be honest. There's only so long you can maintain a fever pitch such that a couple moving trucks is a must-see, must-be-there kind of event.

 

[8slim]

It certainly felt bigger during the peak of the sell-out streak era (say 2003-2011). Of course, that's about the time they started making it an actual fan event. I think it's lost its luster, to be honest. There's only so long you can maintain a fever pitch such that a couple moving trucks is a must-see, must-be-there kind of event.

I'm sure you're right. Everything was huge back then. And I agree, 18 years after you win the title it's kinda hard to ask a lot of people to go watch a truck drive down the street.

 

[RS2004foreever]

I'm sure you're right. Everything was huge back then. And I agree, 18 years after you win the title it's kinda hard to ask a lot of people to go watch a truck drive down the street.

I used to work next to Fenway. In 2015 it was basically news reporters and a couple of bystanders.

 

[LogansDad]

I am a dork, but if I lived there I would show up every year that I could.

I need it more than ever right now.

 

[sezwho]

I am a dork, but if I lived there I would show up every year that I could.

I need it more than ever right now.

Hear that. I did go a couple times back when living in Boston, once by accident actually just walking by on truck day lol, and that was enough for me. It was a box to check for sure for me though.

Edit - this was 00-03ish so juuust before the big push.

Pretty sure it was not an event at that time.

 

[sittingstill]

@sittingstill used to provide a photo album and always tried to include a photo of the vacuums that were moved - they looked like they hadn't bought a new one since Williams was patrolling left field. Found a picture of one back in her 2013 Truck Day album:

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I miss those vacuums! Things changed for me at work and it got a bit more challenging to run over every year... I wanted to go this year but I got taken down by one of the respiratory miseries going around. The incredibly mundane things they were loading on a giant truck that would play a small part in the joyous return of baseball was the best. It was actually a little less fun when they started to try to make it more fun.

Except when they let Johnny Pesky think about taking the truck... that was fun.

 

[S. H. Frog]

Are you really surprised? The average fan no longer cares about this team. They won't come back until the Red Sox win something.

Or don't, for decades.

 

[mwonow]

Anyone going to JetBlue before the actual games? Either to see position players or even more daring, pitchers?
(or for that matter any of the 3
Atlantic Ocean side parks? (5 teams) )

Probably personally most looking forward to seeing Campbell and Rafaela.

What, no Roman? COMMIE!

I'm sure you're right. Everything was huge back then. And I agree, 18 years after you win the title it's kinda hard to ask a lot of people to go watch a truck drive down the street.

Wait - are you saying that 2007 was "the" title???

 

[BoSoxLady]

Anyone going to JetBlue before the actual games? Either to see position players or even more daring, pitchers?
(or for that matter any of the 3
Atlantic Ocean side parks? (5 teams) )

Probably personally most looking forward to seeing Campbell and Rafaela.

We attend every workout.