Tessie Moment

We’ve all seen the commercials during the games on NESN, the piano solo from Tessie, leading into the chorus, while the screen is showing a dramatic highlight from one of the games this year (they did this last year as well).

Moments from this year have included Renteria’s bunt single to get on base followed by Big Papi’s blast into the black covered seats off B.J. Ryan to beat the Orioles, Millar and Varitek’s consecutive day game winning shots against the A’s, and most recently, Manny being Manny as the clock strikes 4pm, the trading deadline has passed, and Manny comes up in the eighth inning and grounds one back up the middle to drive in the go ahead, and eventual game winning run against the Twins.

Last night was another “Tessie Moment”. I haven’t heard the term used yet, so I’m going to coin it here. Nixon comes up in the bottom of the ninth and with 2 outs and the bases loaded he lines one into right off TB closer Danys Baez, scoring Papi from third and sending the Faithful home happy.

These are exciting moments in Red Sox Nation. I get goose bumps every time I see one of those commercials and I never get tired of seeing them, unlike all of the other commercials that are played over and over during Sox broadcasts.

Here’s hoping there are plenty more to come and they help carry us deep into October.

Speaking of moments, I saw what I thought was a very cool one at Fenway on Monday night. Carlton Fiske was at the game and when it was announced the crowd went crazy, prompting him to stand up and waive to everyone. That was cool enough by itself, but what I thought was even cooler, was when they cut to the Tampa Bay dugout and there was Lou Pinella standing there with a big smile on his face, looking up at Pudge and clapping along with the Faithful. It's just not something you see very often and I thought it was awesome.