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Fenway West Article Gets Highlighted in the AP
Written by Matt O'Donnell   
Tuesday, 03 November 2009 22:25

Last month I put up a post about how annoying champagne goggles are and earlier this week I was contacted by an Associated Press reporter about the story.  I was interviewed for about 15 minutes for a story that was published tonight.  Here is the quote from the story:

"I guess it was funny when they first poured Champagne on somebody, but it's just too prepared, too scripted now," says Matt O'Donnell, a high school history teacher and baseball fan in Sebastopol, Calif. "The way they have the plastic tarps all laid out in the locker room, and they have the goggles already set up there."

O'Donnell, 39, is an ardent Boston Red Sox fan (his 4-year-old son's middle name is Fenway, after Fenway Park.) "Please, No More Champagne Goggles!" he pleaded on his baseball blog in September, when his team was about to clinch a playoff spot.

After every big victory, he complained, the plastic sheets go up, "and then a few players will put on the readily available ridiculous looking champagne goggles and begin spraying their teammates. A manager or coach will inevitably be sprayed with bubbly ... and the perpetrator will think it is the funniest thing ever. Yawn."



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Red Sox Sonoma said:

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 Nice!
Hey Matt, nice score, but they didn't put a link to FW!
 
November 04, 2009 | url
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Matt O'Donnell said:

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Believe me, I gave the link but it is still the MSM and they are not all on board with blogs yet.
 
November 04, 2009 | url
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Craigga said:

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 Wow
Congrats Matt!

P.S. LOVE that your son's middle name is Fenway! haha
 
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shelley1005 said:

shelley1005
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Ok. I'll admit it. I like the champagne goggles. For one reason and one reason alone...it gives reason for the likes of Lord Cinco Ocho to instead wear scuba goggles and walk around the clubhouse like a fool. Yep, I'm sold.
 
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