{"id":9243,"date":"2009-04-09T06:16:30","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T10:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=9243"},"modified":"2022-10-12T22:47:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T02:47:04","slug":"time-to-re-visit-nancy-the-harassed-mentally-unbalanced-wife-of-a-red-sox-shortstop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=9243","title":{"rendered":"Time to re-visit Nancy, the harassed mentally unbalanced wife of a Red Sox shortstop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just in time for the startup of baseball season. I did want to do a part 2 to this series, to check in with Nancy’s hellatious progress through the streets of Boston. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n

Oh, and I took these pictures of myself with my computer before I figured out how to basically turn the photo around so the “B” in the Red Sox hat isn’t backwards. So let’s just pretend that we are staring at a woman through the looking glass, so out of control and mentally unstable, that even the “B” turns around.<\/p>\n

For now:<\/p>\n

Nancy is married to a Red Sox shortstop. A dude who is now at the top of his game. At the top of the game, in general. He has become a celebrity. He’s good-looking. One of the untouchables. One of the Gods.<\/p>\n

Nancy was completely unprepared for what would happen when they moved to Boston. Or – she thought she was prepared, but nobody can prepare you for such a paparazzi onslaught. She’s also a drunk. She thinks she just “drinks socially”, at least that’s what she always says, but it is impossible to “drink socially” when you live in Boston and you are the wife of a famous Red Sox shortstop. She is caught out, here, there, everywhere, drunk, sloshy, by herself, getting in and out of cabs. Her behavior becomes increasingly erratic. Her husband does press conferences, asking the press to back off, because obviously “my wife is shy”. This does not stop the bloodhounds. They smell her weakness. They stalk her everywhere. She does time in a rehab. When she comes out, after a couple of months, a barrage of photographers wait for her at the gate.<\/p>\n

She is a PR nightmare for the Red Sox front desk. She tells reporters to “screw themselves”. She says things at press conferences like, “I can’t stand baseball. I prefer football. I hate baseball players<\/em> even more than I hate baseball itself.” She doesn’t bond with the other Red Sox wives. She called one of them a “nitwit” at a charity function.<\/p>\n

She’s slowly being driven insane by the flashbulbs of the cameras.<\/p>\n

Here are some photos detailing the disintegration of her personality.<\/p>\n

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Just in time for the startup of baseball season. I did want to do a part 2 to this series, to check in with Nancy’s hellatious progress through the streets of Boston. Stay tuned. Oh, and I took these pictures … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[25],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9243"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180909,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9243\/revisions\/180909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}