Proposing to the woman you love can be one of the most pressure filled situations a man can endure and handling that pressure charmingly can make for a memorable moment for everyone involved. Or you can act like Boston’s Matt Cawley and drop your $9,000 family heirloom engagement ring, losing ]]>

Proposing to the woman you love can be one of the most pressure filled situations a man can endure and handling that pressure charmingly can make for a memorable moment for everyone involved. Or you can act like Boston’s Matt Cawley and drop your $9,000 family heirloom engagement ring, losing it forever. Equally memorable.

According to a report out of WBZ:

Cawley’s plan was to surprise [potential wife Stacey] Scanlon with the ring during a romantic walk along Lighthouse Jetty in South Yarmouth on Monday morning.

He tied it to a big sand dollar with some string, slipped it onto a rock when she wasn’t looking, and then slyly called her attention to it.

She grabbed the sand dollar, but the ring tumbled into the rocky nooks of the jetty — and vanished.

“You could just hear it go — click, click, click — down through the rocks,” said Cawley, a 30-year-old from Dedham who works in his family’s restaurant. “I knew it was gone.”

[F]our hours of searching proved fruitless.

“It was good even though we didn’t find it,” says the retiree. “Everybody helped. That couple will come back here on their anniversary and say ‘That’s where our ring is!’ It was quite the human interest story.”

You can read more of the couple’s reaction here, if you’re interested in making your life feel less terrible.

Scanlon did still accept Cawley’s proposal despite the lack of a ring, which definitely makes the story a little less crappy. Especially because if you told 99% of women out there that they’d get a proposal but not get a ring, they’d probably walk away from you and/or spit on your face. At least that’s what happens when I propose to random women I see on the street. Our lack of an actual relationship or anything in common may seem to indicate this isn’t meant to be, but the fact that you have big boobs and a lack of Down’s Syndrome indicates this love is one that can last a lifetime.

$9,000 Engagement Ring Lost During Proposal [WBZ-TV]

Most people have had fantasies of being a hero and doing something straight out of an action movie. This candid footage of a man fighting off six others in a Boston batting cage armed with only a bat is this guy’s Sylvester Stallone moment.

All I can say is ]]>

Most people have had fantasies of being a hero and doing something straight out of an action movie. This candid footage of a man fighting off six others in a Boston batting cage armed with only a bat is this guy’s Sylvester Stallone moment.

All I can say is good thing they were at the batting cages so the victim had access to a baseball bat. Something tells me he would have been way less successful at warding this gang off if they were at the pillow factory or the strip club. Probably equally as successful at the sperm bank, though. Location, location, location.

Boston just completed its century long construction of its downtown area and the villagers rejoiced. Until, that is, they found out that rats the size of alpacas are now taking over.

Rats “big enough to put saddles on” are running amok in Allston and Brighton, leaping ]]>

Boston just completed its century long construction of its downtown area and the villagers rejoiced. Until, that is, they found out that rats the size of alpacas are now taking over.

Rats “big enough to put saddles on” are running amok in Allston and Brighton, leaping from trash bins, chewing their way into homes and terrifying residents who blame Harvard’s own “Big Dig” for unleashing the vermin.

“They pop out of the trash. A couple of weeks ago one ran right across my hand. It’s nasty,” said Gerry Gentilucci, 43, an MBTA equipment operator who lives on Myrick Street in North Allston.

Ted Gallagher, 27, a bartender who lives on Franklin Street, said he now kicks his garbage cans – some of which rats have gnawed holes through – before handling them to scare off any critters. But even that doesn’t always work.

“I dragged it into the kitchen and I noticed there was a rat sitting right on top of the barrel. It was a foot long. I freaked out,” he said.

On the plus side, the rats are slightly less obnoxious than Boston’s main other annoying inhabitant, drunk Irish guys in Red Sox hats.

I relate to the rat problem though. I never tell this story, but rats have affected me too in a meaningful way. At my old job, I was trying to get a promotion. So I came in every day, working hard, really letting my boss know that I was kicking ass. Then, one day, this rat came in and fed my mouth while I was at my desk. I was like, “hghemrmrmggggpfffff” which loosely translates to “What the f, rat?” So my boss came over and saw and said, “Great news! You got the pro…” then saw the rat there, gleefully f’ing my face with his red eyes glaring up to the ceiling. And then he said, “Sorry. We don’t tolerate ratf’ing here, sir. Good day.” So yeah, I’ve got a grudge. Quite a grudge indeed.

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Good to know this isn’t just a Detroit or East Lansing thing now. Boston, we are more than happy to pass our title onto you.

Wear it with honor.

H/T: You Been Blinded via Ballhype

Throughout the entirety of my life, one thing has always held steadfast. One thing has always been constant.

And that is that Boston sucks. Not just the sports teams, not just the fans, not just the people, everything.

So with apologies to the few Boston friends I have ]]>

Throughout the entirety of my life, one thing has always held steadfast. One thing has always been constant.

And that is that Boston sucks. Not just the sports teams, not just the fans, not just the people, everything.

So with apologies to the few Boston friends I have left, a tribute to my hate for all things Boston.

*****UPDATE*****

Those evil Boston fans have responded and have torn our precious city to bits. And though I consider RedsArmys a fellow blog friend, its war now.

Its on like donkey kong.

“There’s a steal by Bird”..

The over-under on the number of times this is played in the series is 5. The worst part of the clip is the pan to that ahole Bill Walton who didn’t even play because he was broken. Its the equivalent of panning to Chuck Nevitt on the Pistons bench.

Robert Parish KOs Laimbeer…

In maybe the worst no-call in NBA history, Parish absolutely clocks Laimbeer right in front of referee Jess Kersey. In today’s NBA, Parrish would have been suspended for 30 games. But then, nah, not even worthy of a technical.

Buckner and the Bambino…

Instead of just admitting that their beloved Red Sox blow, fans and media always used something else as their scapegoat. “Buck-nah should have it”….”That damn Curse of the Bambino”….

Own up to the fact that your team was a bunch of chokers for the better part of 8 decades.

They don’t know how to speak English…

I understood about 10 words from this clip.


Cheaters, Cheaters, Cheaters…

You will never convince me that Belichick and his gang of roid-raged goons didn’t prosper from Spygate. If it didn’t help them, why’d they keep doing it. And you know what, Brady looked rather pedestrain in this past Super Bowl. I wonder…

Yeah, you read that right. Alexa and no, I’m not just rippin on A-Rod cause he’s a pretty boy.

She was touring Fenway Park on a school trip Thursday and was attacked by a resident red-tailed hawk that drew blood from her scalp. Rodriguez wasn’t seriously ]]>

Yeah, you read that right. Alexa and no, I’m not just rippin on A-Rod cause he’s a pretty boy.

She was touring Fenway Park on a school trip Thursday and was attacked by a resident red-tailed hawk that drew blood from her scalp. Rodriguez wasn’t seriously hurt.

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Thanks to WOI contributor “Doc Gilly” for the heads-up