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Happy (belated) birthday to OTM!

OK, so I'm a bad parent. I mean a really bad parent. How many parents forget when their child's birthday is? I did. That's me.

On Feb. 22, 2009, Over The Monster (yup, my kid) turned four years old. It's still in that pretty damn cute stage, but it's starting to get obnoxious. It's eating solid foods, which is nice, and is running around the house with no disregard to its health. It's out of control essentially.

And it has a lot of friends. A LOT of friends. A lot more than it used to have. I guess that's cool. More the merrier, right? I just can't feed them all...

It's amazing that this Web site is four years old now. I remember the first post, the World Series victory, the Manny moments, the exploding game threads, the dead game threads, the spammers, the trolls, the hilarious posts that get rec'd for weeks on end, the Dougie Going Deep references and everything else under the sun that we've covered.

Here's to another four or forty years.

(P.S.: Go Sox!)

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Happy birthday, OTM.

Adopted Giant: Clayton Tanner (unless someone tells me he's already been adopted)

by walkoff baltimore chop on Mar 2, 2009 5:15 PM EST reply actions  

Keep up the Great Work Guys

I may be across the pond but this is my lifeline to all things Sox. Cheers, Mates.

You can take the boy outta Boston, but you can't take the Boston outta the boy.

by B Cap on Mar 2, 2009 5:49 PM EST reply actions  

congrats.

It’s been fun and thanks to all the posters and writers who contribute.

by sydneysox on Mar 2, 2009 5:59 PM EST reply actions  

Thank you OTM

here’s to another great year, both for the Sox and the blog!

Well, I'll appreciate for you to keep my zingers outta your mouth!

by BoSox415 on Mar 2, 2009 8:35 PM EST reply actions  

Wow! Four years!

Congrats! The Bottom Line will turn two this April… I hope that in four years time it will be as popular and successful at OTM!

by bottomlinesox on Mar 3, 2009 8:06 AM EST reply actions  

Congrats!

Pension Plan Puppets*
* Blog contains less than 2% puppet content by weight.

by Chemmy on Mar 3, 2009 10:54 AM EST reply actions  

Congrats man

You, Allen, Ecoli and everyone else are fucking great, I love it here.

"Hey we got a lot in common here... I'm gonna rape you"

by MerryGoByeBye on Mar 3, 2009 1:54 PM EST reply actions  

Randy and Allen got'em dancin on it!

You guys da bomb! ON DA HOPPP!!!! OH BABY!….
Hopefully over the monster will live to see many more World Series Championships

Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.

by sox-inda-south on Mar 4, 2009 1:01 PM EST reply actions  

Actually, I started my old blog before the 2004 season. OTM started shortly before the ’05 season.

by Randy Booth on Mar 4, 2009 7:33 PM EST up reply actions  

Oh.

So you broke the curse. And I fail at math: 2009-4=2005. I’m stuck in 08.

by bdalebs on Mar 5, 2009 7:38 PM EST up reply actions  

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