It should be noted that the "editorial" of Phyllis Hull is purely a mock of how her mind works, and I do not agree with any single thing listed in that said editorial, as a matter of fact, just the opposite.
Wakefield Daily Item
Tuesday, July 21, 2009 copyright VII XXI, MMIX
Hull at it again
Hull issues another editorial to the ITEM saying to "get real!"
-WAKEFIELD
-EDITORIAL
-PHYLLIS HULL
-When certain people make a pact to carry out certain ideals, it is expected that that pact will be carried out with--what else? Certainty! But our egalitarian bleeding-heart liberals see no such matter deserves its limelight. They focus too much on the little things, not enough on the big picture. How have Democrats survived, nay, thrived, all these years with this idiotic approach? But that's a tangent, something for a different day. I come here with the intention of a better Wakefield, of course, that has ALWAYS been my intention, and so I trust that you will trust and put your faith n me, as I do, despite my being voted out of office, offer countywide service to those true few conservative souls. You. Yes, you. I know you're out there! Why not come and cast a vote for a better Wakefield, and a better Middlesex County? And Middlesex County comprises over half of the Boston Metropolitan Area, so why not cast a vote for a better Boston metro, too? Yes...sounds appealing NOW, doesn't it? See, that's the magic of an effective campaign. Using those appealing words, ones that mesmerize you, ones that hypnotize you, ones that have a naturally wondrous description such to voluntarily draw you in. Why, how do you think I could have gotten my way on the Board of Selectmen so many times without this strong sense of mesmerizing wording? Why, that's right, I wouldn't have been able to do it at all!
I have been called many things--pompous, miserly, unlovely, monstrous, arrogant, pushy, selfish, and, in a political sense, as put by a rival Selectman, "hopelessly and annoyingly pugnacious." I have been called all these things, and many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many more. I have in front of me a list of insulting adjectives directed towards me that comes out to 269. But the one that bothers me the most is "UnWakefieldish." I have always stood solely for the good of Wakefield. Why, that's why I became involed in Wakefieldian politics in the first place! Duh! I love Wakefield as much as any one of you, and when you insult me in such ways, I invite you to get real! Vote Hull 2010!
WE ASKED LOCAL WAKEFIELDIANS! Of a survey of 1,400 Wakefieldians:
What was your first response to Hull's "invitation" for Wakefieldian voters "to get real"?
Stupid 32%
Another annoying attempt to get us on her side 21%
Well, at least we finally know what method she used to get everyone on the B.O.S. on her side! 18%
I'm just tuning out what she tries to preach to us now 7%
She makes a few good points, but they still won't convince me she's the best choice for county 6%
She's no longer on the B.O.S., so we're supposed to be done with dealing with this idiotic person! 5%
Oh, wow, she's sunk this low now? 4%
She stands there and drafts this editorial insulting all of us and then expects us to go to the polls and VOTE FOR HER?!?! 3%
Why do WE need to "get real"? If ANYONE needs to "get real," it's her! 2%
Inspiring and wonderful, I will definitely listen to her 1.4%
I believe in conservative values, but even I know Hull has gone loco on this one. 0.6%
Beyond the Polls:
"Hull needs to get it together. When will she accept that she's a dried up wrinklebag on the political scene? She's been booted off, rightly so, and she shouldn't be pursuing a further office! She can go jet off to Tahiti and have the resort workers there be her slaves, I don't care, as long as she gets OUT of the Wakefieldian politics scene--and pronto."
-Sherm, Court Street
MGLD still not giving in as tension mounts
-WAKEFIELD
-The Municipal Gas and Light Department is still staving off continuous complaints from its customers for rescinding its online payment program. An MGLD spokesperson, Rick Joyce, said Monday, "the townspeople just don't understand what a fiscal dilemma we would have if we let that program continue. We would have collapsed!" But this did not work, as Richard Toaentimmer, a spokesperson for the WTHWA (Wakefield Townspeople and Homeowners Welfare Association), shot back, "So? We'll just switch over to Pyburn Oil Company! It's something we've already been considering anyway!" Yet another emergency debriefing has been set for the MGLD today at 1:30 p.m. Townspeople are invited to come but are urged to keep quiet, after most previous briefings since the incident have been filled with jeering. Said one MGLD worker, "It was horrible in there [during the last debriefing]. Everyone was jeering, and only one person from the WTHWA spoke, so they only cheered one person. Everyone from the MGLD who spoke, even those on their side, was jeered and booed, myself included. I approached the stand, uttered maybe two or three words out of my mouth and they acted as if I was Alex Rodriguez in front of a Fenway crowd. I understand these people are upset, but, holy, we can barely get any business done in there." For today's debriefing, citizens will be allowed to speak up if they approach the stand, but any unauthorized jeering, yelling, or booing will result in the deportation of any and all from the meeting room. Said Toaentimmer in response, "So throw us all out then! Because, trust me, there WILL be more jeering for what the MGLD has done to us."
OF BROWN D.L. ONE IS WHS GRAD, WEINHAUSTIN, JEREMY, OF WAKEFIELD (2003-2007), FORMERLY OF NORTH READING (1989-2003), CLASS OF 2007, FOR SPRING SEMESTER.
Cane/walker thieves strike again
-WAKEFIELD
-The cane/waler thieves, two persons who disguise themselves as old men with canes and walkers, have struck again! They slapped a man on Pheasantwood Ter. on his knee and took his wallet, which contained $150, three credit cards, and a driver's license, which they flung back at the victim. The victim also reported the two persons approaching an elderly woman and possibly tampering with her purse. The matter is being investigated by Offc. Rick Pikee, who found a pair of canes abandoned roughly in the area of the latter incident.
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More foreign currency was found outside of the Epsilon Office Building at 9:19 a.m. The money was reported as $25 worth of Norwegian currency, or "kronor."
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Pete Roscherer, 29, of 163 Main Street, and Keely Anna Dobres, 29, of 2 Fosters Lane, collided at the Junction yesterday at 2:20 p.m. Roscherer (rah-SHAIR-er)'s 1988 blue Dodge Vision swerved out of control when approaching a stoplight and fender-bendered Dobres' 1990 Chevrolet Chevette, which swerved out of control into a large shrub. Roscherer was taken to Melrose-Wakefield hospital for medical examination after he kept wincing and rubbing his right shoulder during the accident investigation. A hairline fracture in his shoulder was found. Dobres complained of a leg pain, but doctors found her to be completely intact and merely a little startled from the crash.
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In other business yesterday (Monday) and this morning, police:
- found a group of youths around the Common bandstand a 6:49 a.m. Subsequent investigation revealed they were putting up posters for a lost dog. The police recommended using trees and phone poles for posting the signs instead of the bandstand. Shortly after this suggestion, the youths had left the area.
- deported a screaming man in a Starbucks to Vale View Road at 7:50 a.m. The man was also reportedly screaming, "MORE CREAM! MY COFFEE NEEDS MORE CREAM!"
- issued a summons to a Stoneham man at 8:55 a.m. on Lowell Street. The man had been driving a foreign vehicle that was unregistered in the U.S. and had license plates from Nicaragua. The man himself was legal American.
- sent youths banging on and vandalizing the playground equipment at Yueull School on their way at 11:03 a.m. The vandalism was mostly in terms of mild spray painting. The vandalism was mostly random letters and one large message on a basketball backboard that read "Yankees ****." The groundskeeper of the playground saw no harm in the small random letters, but, as he claimed to be from Manhattan, ordered the Yankees comment to be removed. It only took about five minutes to remove the vandalism.
- found a 1:46 p.m. Salem Street call about a heavy-set men throwing an extreme and unsubduable diatribe to be unfounded.
- found that a situation at 2:50 p.m. on Foundry Street wherein a teenager was blasting loud songs on a boom box had been resolved.
- called in the MGLD to resolve a 20-minute power outage on 2nd Street in which a squirrel had chewed through wires.
- found that an 8:55 p.m. call regarding Wyoma Street fireworks was unfounded.
- responded to a 9:32 p.m. call from Jefferson Road about youths "behaving suspiciously." It turned out that the suspicious behavior was simply the youths behaving well.
- attended to a dumpster that had been left entirely open on Victorino Avenue, causing stench complaints at 9:58 and 10:01 p.m.
- sent youths on Granada Street on their way at 1:16 a.m. They were all walking home anyway, it transpired.
- received a report at 1:54 a.m. that a youth was asleep in a tree on Weaver Road. The youth had left by 2:30 a.m.
-WAKEFIELD
-After two consecutive wins Saturday and Sunday, the Amerks 11/12 year-old All Stars fell yet again, this time to Winchester, to finish 3rd in the double round-robin tournament. Robby Shelley and Bobby Allan both pitched fantastic games, up until the top 9th, when Allan was relieved by Kenny Wooster, who walked twice and gave up a 3-run homer by Craig Belton of Winchester. Horace Wilks then drove in a solo shot to give Winchester the 4-0 win and foil the chances of the Amerks for a .500 winning percentage. Wakefield was able to ward off the last-place finish, with Woburn finishing below them.
Qpwt. Angler Championships find 2.9 pound carp
-WAKEFIELD
-Mark Droy, Danny Ross, and David Meennall all won in their respective divisions for the Carp Angler Championships on Lake Quannapowitt, held on a two-day course over Sunday and Monday. 16-year-old Meennall snagged a shattering 2.9-lb. carp.
WINNERS
4-7 Male
Robby Ayford, Wakefield--1.6 lb.
Kyle Sohor, Wakefield--1.6 lb.
4-7 Female
Jauna Lilles, Reading--1.4 lb.
8-10 Male
Joshua Ryan, Woburn--1.8 lb.
8-10 Female
Josie Simmonds, Greenwood--1.9 lb.
11-12 Male
Shawn Xaviahway, Wakefield--1.7 lb.
11-12 Female
Rosy Pilham, Montrose/Wakefield--1.6 lb.
13 Male
Mark Droy, Wakefield--2.3 lb.
13 Female
Suzy Lay, Melrose--2.0 lb.
14-15 Male
Roy Russ, Wakefield--2.4 lb.
14-15 Female
Sally Ayer, Greenwood--2.1 lb.
16 (Both Genders)
Wallace David Meennall, Montrose/Wakefield--2.9 lb.
Nats 11s/12s pull one over on Lynn-Wyoma
The younger counterpart to our champion Nats 13s/14s open the playoffs with a 10-8 jubilee over Lynn-Wyoma's Little League All Stars.
-WAKEFIELD
-With all the craziness over the Nats 13s/14s championship victory, have we stopped to think that the champions' younger brother team, the Nats 11s/12s, could be putting on a championship run as well? The Wakefield National League 11-12 Year Old All Stars, who were not expected to advance beyond the first round of the winners' bracket playoffs having been seeded 7th, got past monstrous 2nd seeded Lynn-Wyoma Monday by using great hitting and a strong pitching gallery.
In part, the Nats claimed the victory off two grand slams by Petey Lochler and Benjamin Benson in the 8th and 9th innings, respectively, for a comeback victory, no less.
The crowd in Wyoma was loud and jeery. With Wyoma Youth Rec Park known as the park with the fiercest crowd in the little leagues, Nats manager Adam Mohalson stressed to the preteen players the importance of tuning out the loud boos and jeers made by the crowd. "Our players letting down on road games has been a problem before due to that very issue," said Mohalson.
In the first little league game since the Nats Championship to be broadcast on WCVE, fans across Wakefield tuned in for the 7:05 start. At Taniato's Bar and Tavern downtown, where little league games are taken as seriously as Red Sox games, the crowd was unimpressed as they gazed upon Alan Moling of Lynn-Wyoma smacking a 2-run homer to put Lynn-Wyoma up ahead in the bottom 1st. The disappointment continued, as Will Kent and Juan Rodriguez both doubled for an RBI in the bottom 2nd. Meanwhile, in the early top innings, Lynn-Wyoma starter Alan Pierson was pulling off a fantastic game, striking out nine batters out of ten in the first third of the game. The one batter who didn't strike out in the first three innings for Wakefield was Mark Schuber, an average second baseman who just barely got his ball to inch over the fence, got Wakefield on the board to make the game 3-1.
In the bottom 3rd, however, two consecutive base hits and the avoidance of a rundown at home plate by Scotia Amanden gave Lynn-Wyoma its fourth run.
The bottom 4th saw Nats starter Alexander Cornfield melting, letting a double and a home run go by him to make the score 5-1 in favor of Lynn-Wyoma. Before the bottom 5th, Cornfield was relieved by Kyle Kyston, who is, incidentally, the twin brother of ace reliever Brad Bryan Kyston of the Amerks 11s/12s squad (which see article above).
The bottom 5th saw a solo jack by powerhouse hitter Adam Thoulsfeld.
The bottom 6th saw a defensive error on the part of Wakefield, when a throw to home to tag out Juan Rodriguez, advancing from second after a double, was grossly undercompensated for by catcher John Gregory. The score upped to 8-1 Wakefield, but this was the last run Lynn-Wyoma would see.
The top 7th, which was an easy one-two-three inning for Timothy Whalen, who had relieved Alan Pierson in the top 6th, found closer Danny Blaucher relieving Kyle Kyston. Manager Mohalson, when asked about his decision to bring in Kyston in as early as the 7th, responded, "We were down seven runs, we only had a couple chances left, and the Lynn-Wyoma fans were getting louder and rowdier. We needed good pitching, and fast. Blaucher is our best pitcher; I wasn't going to wait until the 9th to put him in; we needed him NOW. I motioned to Blaucher and asked him if he'd be willing to run in a little early for me, and he nodded with definite affirmation and agreement, so, we sent him out, and, boom, the comeback all started there."
Blaucher would pitch perfectly, hurling 8 strikeouts and allowing only one hit.
But the story of the comeback comes from the unprecedented hitting pulled off by the Nats in the 8th and 9th. Patrick Wander and Adam Warner singled, and John Gregory was walked. Petey Lochler, right fielder, then stepped up to the plate and smashed a crushing longball 381 feet over the dead center fence to make the score 8-5.
The raucuous Lynn-Wyoma crowd was quieted slightly, but they came back in all their vulgar vim.
The Lynn-Wyoma crowd exploded in the bottom 8th, when Danny Blaucher stepped to the mound to face the heart of the Lynn-Wyoma lineup, Will Kent, Jasper Michaels, and Adam Thoulsfield. In a moment of confusion, Blaucher jogged back into the dugout and the manager called time. Blaucher emerged shortly after with earplugs to block out the taunts and jeers from the crowd, which, as called by a Little League regional manager, "have no place in a game being played by kids." (Examples: "You're gonna get ******' knocked off the mound, Blaucher!" and "My kid can ******' obliterate you!") Breathalizer tests at some games revealed that many of the parents, the fathers mostly, become intoxicated before the game and do not behave in a regulated manner. But Blaucher's earplugs blocked the vulgar expletives, and he silenced the crowd by throwing nine straight strikes, seven of which were swinging strikes (none foul balls), to retire the side with immediacy for the Nats.
The top 9th saw Wakefield still down, though, and an incredible offensive rally pulled through to set up another grand slam for Wakefield, this one by Benjamin "Benny" Benson, giving the Nats the lead, 9-8.
The crowd at Toniato's back in Wakefield exploded.
Lynn-Wyoma finally relieved Timothy Whalen with closer Thomas Appier-Williams with one out in the top 9th, but to no avail. After the grand slam, Mark Schuber hit a pop fly but Mark Stone, a third-string bench player, pulled off his first career and season home run, a solo, to up Wakefield 10-8. In the bottom 9th, Juan Rodriguez pulled off a triple, reigniting the Lynn-Wyoma crowd, but comeback flames were ousted when Lynn-Wyoma hit into two straight infield pop outs and a strikeout by Blaucher to close out the game. Pierson of Lynn-Wyoma will be rewarded with the win, and Cornfield with the loss, but due to the spectacular comeback Blaucher picks up the save.
The Nats face Swampscott on Friday in Swampscott, against a crowd that, fortunately, is much more well-behaved.
Townies and Rowley split five-inning cutshort due to light malfunctions
-WAKEFIELD
-A game between the Townies and Rowley was cut like ice cream cake in half last night when stadium lights broke about a half inning into the game. The lights were not needed then, as it was still twilight, but questions arose as to if the game should continue with pending darkness. A rule put forth by League Umpire Bob Detron stated that the game would go until 85% darkness, which would be measured by a light meter in the ballpark. If, by that time, four innings or less had been played, the game would continue the next day. If at least five innings had been played, the game would end. Five innings were fit in just in time to avoid a game the next day (a welcome avoidance for the Townies as a postponement of the game until the next day would result in six playing days in a row for the team), but on the bleaker side of things, each team went home dissatisfied at the 2-2 tie that resulted. Both managers rallied for a sudden death inning to break the tie, but Umpire Detron pressed the rules in place and consulted the league rule book to see if ties could be allowed under such situations. They can be.
Knowing that they had little to work with, both teams got to work early. Adam Blackpool of Wakefield tripled in the bottom 1st, and then a Ken Yueull single brought him in. Ron Rosh had a solo jack in the bottom 3rd.
Wakefield's lead was slim, but it looked strong as starting pitcher Paul Monaergan kept hurling strikeouts and easy grounders and pop flies. Part of the reason the game was able to extend into the 5th was because Rowley retired so quickly in the first three innings. But all it took for Rowley to change that was an off pitch by Monaergan that allowed Johnny Jenks to hit a booming double to righty. Monaergan melted and nearly cost Wakefield the game, but would be saved by his fellow fielders. Monaergan delivered Ken Kelly a slow ball that he easily crushed for a 2-run homer, tying the game. Monaergan then walked two batters in a row and allowed a single. During the single, Grant Farmten got caught in a rundown at home and was tagged out by catcher John Sloman. Monaergan was wise, delivering a mid-speed curveball to batter Shawn Shendel, which skipped into double-play depth. An easy 5-4-3 double play retired the side and prevented the lead.
The Townies tried to falicitate a comeback, but to no avail. In both the bottom 4th and bottom 5th, the Townies were able to get runners on 2nd and 3rd bases, but a medley of good double plays and pop flies ensured no further runs were scored.
The Townies pick up their second tie of the season, the first against Merrimack Valley on June 21 due to a similar lighting problem. The Townies' record is now 8-10-2. Rowley's becomes 10-9-1.
