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The night Doug Mirabelli returned to Fenway

By adamg on Fri, 04/29/2016 - 10:27pm

Hardball Times provides an oral history of that famous night when air-traffic controllers from San Diego to Boston cleared a private jet ahead of other planes and then Sox fans on Storrow Drive pulled to the side so a state trooper could get Doug Mirabelli to Fenway in time to catch Tim Wakefield in a game against the Yankees.

Massachusetts State Police (via a statement): We wouldn’t do something like that again, certainly not with lights and siren. As a public safety agency, that was not an appropriate use of our assets.

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Doug Mirabelli
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Tim Wakefield


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Comments

By anon on Sat, 04/30/2016 - 5:55am.

Public service agencies should not have stars in their eyes. Yes, I know it happens, but it shouldn't.

It's not supposed to be one government for the rich/famous, other government for everyone else.

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By dmcboston on Sat, 04/30/2016 - 11:00am.

There are folks that are still butthurt over the Babe Ruth trade. The one that financed 'No No Nanette'.
I read the article. Apparently, most of the cars heard what was going on on the radio and made a concerted effort to get out of the way.
So, what harm? Sox won, anyway.

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By SwirlyGrrl on Sat, 04/30/2016 - 11:07am.

That's the harm - using scarce publicly-funded resources for the express benefit of a high-profit private entertainment enterprise and not public safety.

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By SoBo-Yuppie on Sat, 04/30/2016 - 5:15pm.

the only people that thought this was cool was people from the burbs. not actual bonstonains.

move fenway to foxborough!

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By adamg on Sat, 04/30/2016 - 6:32pm.

Do you actually know any? Your comments over the months would lead one to think you're working as hard as you can to replace actual Bostonians with New Yorkers or something.

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By anon on Sat, 04/30/2016 - 8:33am.

If the Governor calls the colonel and tells him to provide an escort for whatever reason we all can agree that the answer won't be "NO PROBLEM WE PUT HIM ON THE MBTA"

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By Tim on Sat, 04/30/2016 - 10:42am.

The staties did this last year for refs at foxboro who forgot the game balls at the hotel #freebrady

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By dmcboston on Sat, 04/30/2016 - 10:54am.

Funny. I wonder how crazy the ATC people went when they found out who was on the plane?

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By Neighbor4 on Sat, 04/30/2016 - 9:12pm.

Is it right; no. Probably not.

But do I still think it was OK? Well, yeah. I guess I do.

* if police failed to respond to an actual crime, or were taken far from their regular pateol area, or if someone had been brought in on overtime to cover, that would be much worse. But if the regular shift guys did it as a lark, then I have trouble getting too worked up.

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By boo_urns on Sun, 05/01/2016 - 11:30am.

Former Globe Bruins (and before that, Red Sox) Beat Reporter, Amalie Benjamin,

Yes, I did ask Mirabelli if he wore a cup in the first inning after the game that day. Shining journalistic moment.

I chuckled at that. Found here: https://twitter.com/AmalieBenjamin/status/726152734886354945

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