October 17, 2025 • 37 mins
We kicked off the program with four news stories and different guests on the stories we think you need to know about!
House of Possibilities is a nonprofit that provides programs for children & adults with developmental disabilities. Located on the Stonehill College Campus, they frequently partner with the Best Buddies chapter there, one of the largest chapters in the state. They will be at Saturday’s Best Buddies Friendship Walk in Charlestown.
Guest: Katie Terino, President & CEO of House of Possibilities
Some very rare baseball cards are now up for auction after they were found in an unlikely place…
Guest: Logan Hall – WBZ-TV Reporter
Greater Boston Weekend Forecast for the Head of the Charles Regatta.
Guest: Matt Benz - AccuWeather Meteorologist
The 2025 Head of the Charles Regatta.
Guest: John Powers – Boston Globe reporter
House of Possibilities is a nonprofit that provides programs for children & adults with developmental disabilities. Located on the Stonehill College Campus, they frequently partner with the Best Buddies chapter there, one of the largest chapters in the state. They will be at Saturday’s Best Buddies Friendship Walk in Charlestown.
Guest: Katie Terino, President & CEO of House of Possibilities
Some very rare baseball cards are now up for auction after they were found in an unlikely place…
Guest: Logan Hall – WBZ-TV Reporter
Greater Boston Weekend Forecast for the Head of the Charles Regatta.
Guest: Matt Benz - AccuWeather Meteorologist
The 2025 Head of the Charles Regatta.
Guest: John Powers – Boston Globe reporter
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's nice eyes with Dan Ray. I'm going easy Boston's
News Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
We are almost at the weekend, everyone, it's still Friday night.
We still have four hours of radio to do here
in WBZ. I'm delighted to be here. I know Rob
Brooks is back in the control room. He's actually dancing
with Joy right now. Though Joy is an intern, only kidding, folks,
only kidding. Rob is very excited about tonight as well.
I don't want Rob's wife to think that he was
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dancing with another woman. So anyway, with all of that frivolity,
we will get to the matters at hand, which are
four really good guests this hour. I think you'll enjoy
them for sure. I also want to mention just a
sort of I tend not to promote special guests that
are upcoming here on Night Side, So I'm just going
to take a very quick moment to tell you that
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on Monday November tenth, Monday November tenth, at eight pm,
we will have the Deans of Admission to Harvard University
in Boston College. Bill Fitzimmons of Harvard University will be
the ninth teenth year that Bill Fitzsimmons has participated in
what we call our Nightside College Admissions Panel. Grant Gostling
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of Boston College is relatively newcomer. I think Grant's been
with us now for five years. Anyway, before him, his predecessor,
John Mahoney was with us for the balance of those years.
So this is a staple of Nightside every year, particularly
for people whose children and for the students themselves as
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they approach the process of applying to colleges. It can
be overwhelming. And Bill Fitzsimmons of Harvard and Grand Gostling
will be available on Monday night at eight o'clock. For
generally we do a couple of hours. If we tell
you your nieces, your nephews, your children, your grandchildren, whatever,
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they should be listening and you should be too, and
asking questions about financing, about different types of schools, what
are offered, all any question you could ask. We have
two experts for you on Monday night, November tenth, so
that's coming up in about three and a half weeks
or so. Anyway, we have four great guests tonight, and
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we're going to start off with the President and CEO
of the House of Possibilities, Katie to Reno. I'm very
familiar with the House of Possibilities. We have some close
friends who take advantage of this wonderful program for one
of their sons with us, Katie Torino. Katie, for those
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who do not know what the House of Possibilities is,
give us a little description and then we're going to
talk about this. You'll be partnering this weekend with Best Buddies.
They're having the Saturday's Best Buddies Friendship Walk in Charlestown. So,
first of all, Katie, welcome to Knights. I tell us
about the House of Possibilities because it's a great a
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great institution.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Thanks so much, Dan, and for the opportunity to talk
to you and your listeners this evening. The House of
Possibilities is a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to improving
and enhancing the lives of children and adults with disabilities.
We opened our doors in two thousand and nine in
a facility on the campus of stone Hill College thanks
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to the generosity of Stonehill College and the Yackey Foundation,
and our goal is to create a welcoming and inclusive
environment that empowers the members that we serve to thrive,
to participate in our communities and to achieve greater independence.
We serve about three hundred families each year out of
Easton and a location in Boston, and our largest program
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is a Pathways to Employment program in partnership with JVS Boston,
the largest workforce developer in the state. We're really proud
of the program. It offers our members the opportunity to
reach their goal of employment as well as life skills
and participation in their community, social and recreational programming. And
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we also offer overnight respite stays and coaching and college
navigation services.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
It's just a great program. Do families stay for a
period of time. Have you had families who have been
literally with you since two thousand and nine or is
there a turnover every couple of years. There is such
a great need.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Yeah, Actually it's a combination of both. We do have
families and members that we've been serving since our Doors opened,
and I'm proud to say some staff as well. And
the organization has grown so much since our Doors first opened,
more than tripled in size, so we have a lot
of new families that have joined us along the way.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Now tomorrow Best Buddies which is another great organization that
works in very similar situations to help people in similar situations.
They have a Friendship Walk in Charlestown and as I
understand it, House of Possibilities is partnering with the Best
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Buddies organization to participate in this walk. Can you give
us a little bit of information as to how folks
can participate? Supposed to be a nice day tomorrow. Obviously,
got to navigate around the head of the child's traffic
and all of that, but if they can get there,
tell us what we need to know.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Absolutely. The walk is tomorrow from one to three thirty
at the Shaft City Center in Charlestown, and it's a
walk to really build community and awareness and bring together
all of those who support Best Buddies of Massachusetts and
Rhode Island. We have been incredibly fortunate that the stone
Hill College Best Buddies chapter has been working with our
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organization and serving our community since our doors opened, and
we have between sixty and seventy stone Hill College Best
Buddies coming to the House of Possibilities every week to
build friendships and community with our members and our families.
Since opening our program in downtown Boston, we've also been
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building a relationship with the Northeastern University Best Buddies, and
we have about forty five best Buddies who come to
our Boston site and build friendships and community with our
Boston members. So we're really excited to be there tomorrow.
This is our opportunity to cheer on our buddies. Many
times they're coming to our facilities and working with our
members and giving of themselves and we get to turn
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around and cheer them on and be part of their
event and their day tomorrow and.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Such such great programs and such such great cooperation between
two wonderful organizations. If folks want to get more information tomorrow,
obviously it's a little late is show up and I
assume that everyone would be welcomed, But if they'd like
to get more information on either how to avail themselves
or the services the House of Possibilities all for, or
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perhaps to find a really great charity that some people
might want to support, either financially or through volunteering. I'm
not exactly sure what you need for volunteers is, but
certainly financing is something that is always the need. How
can they get in touch with the House of.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Possibilities Absolutely the best way to find more information and yes,
you're write Dan. We need all of the above, from
volunteers to being available to serve individuals who are looking
for our services, and of course that financial support that
makes it possible to do everything that we do. House
of Possibilities dot org is the url for our homepage.
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That's House of Possibilities dot org. We're also on Instagram
and Facebook and LinkedIn, so there's also information on social media.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Last question, I just want to give you a chance
to brag on this a little bit because I'm very
familiar with House of Possibilities and I know the success
that you have had. What sort of a difference does
your organization make, not only in the lives of these
people sometimes you know, younger people, sometimes older people who
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need a little little support. What what is the the
What does it feel like to make such a positive
difference in the in the in the lives of not
only the individual, but also the family of the individual
who you're supporting.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Well, Dan, it's it's very rewarding work, and it's a
combination of them, the little moments and the big moments,
from when our members walk through the building every day
just excited to see their friends and see their staff
and take on new tasks or activities or accomplishments to
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that moment when they get their first paycheck, or the
moment when they get their driver's license, or find a
roommate and get to move out of their home and
live on their own. Those big moments, those little moments,
they add up and they make for such rewarding work,
which is so important because it's hard work. It can
be really hard work for the staff who support our community,
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and yet it's so rewarding to see individuals who are
exceeding their goals, who are reaching accomplishments and milestones that
they never thought they could reach. And it's that confidence
of being able to do these things that just allows
them to reach hire and hire, and we're just so
proud of everything that they are able to accomplish.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Well, Katie, you're truly doing God's work. So thank you
very much for doing what you do. And again, House
of Possibilities dot org a great organization, one that my
family supports and which I hope many of my listeners
will support as well. Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Thank you so much, Dan, We appreciate it absolutely.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
When we get back with a change topics, going to
talk with WBCTV reporter Logan Hall about a really interesting
story that he did within the last day or so
about a gentleman in Providence who had the good fortune
of buying a wooden chest. Paid all of seventy five
dollars for this wooden chest, but attached were a bunch
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of rare and valuable baseball cards. That's in my wheelhouse.
Always good to talk with a WBZ TV reporter because
frankly I used to be one back many years ago.
I'm back on Nightside in a moment, Logan Hall, and
we're going to talk about baseball cards, and that's a
great way for me to end the week. I love
these sorts of conversations back on Nightside.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
After this, it's Nightside with Dan Ray on Way Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
All right, I have delighted to welcome Logan Hall, who
I don't know, but he works at a newsroom that
I haunted for about thirty one years from nineteen seventy
six to two thousand and seven. Logan Hall, Welcome to Nightside, sir.
How are you There is life after television. I want
you to know that.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Well, thank you very much. It's great to be here.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
I'm happy to be on the program.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Yeah, you're kind of a sports guy too. I noticed
that your sports are racketball and tennis and tennis racket
racket sports. I was involved in a couple of other
sports during my younger days, and one of them was baseball.
And you did a great report about this wooden chest
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that somehow someone lucked into and attached to the wooden
chest were a bunch of early twentieth century baseball cards.
Tell us about how this. We dream about that stuff,
but this actually happened. Tell us about it.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
It's the find of a lifetime. Let me tell you,
it's one of those stories that you know when it
pops up in your inbox, you just see it and
it's jaw dropping. So I met this guy, Frankie Mitten,
when I was actually covering the Republic trash Strike, and
I was trying to get him to talk about all
the trash that was piling up in front of his house.
And he ended up reaching out to me about a
week ago and he said, Hey, trash strike's over, but
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I've got an even better story for you. My buddy
and I came across a wooden crate full of baseball cards.
It was at in the state sale. We bought it
off Facebook marketplace. We bought it for seventy five dollars,
and we think there's some golden here. And he sent
some pictures and I mean, this thing is loaded. It's
got Cy Young card, Christy Mathewson, John McGraw. These cards
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are all from nineteen oh nine to nineteen eleven, and
I mean you just you look at it and it's
a piece of history. And so the guy Tom Conrad,
who actually is in possession of this crate full of
one hundred and twenty two baseball cards, he's an antique collector.
So you know, I showed up at his house and
I walk into his garage and it is full of
old advertising signs, oil cans, old soda bottles. But his
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biggest love and his first love when it comes to collecting,
just like you, it's baseball. And so this to him,
I mean, it really was the find of a lifetime
to come into contact with something like this. So he's
been pouring through all of these cards and working on
getting them evaluated, and he's got them up on a
Facebook page right now auctioning them off. I mean again,
he bought this for seventy five dollars and the top
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bit is almost at seven grand.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Right now, Wow, when you said old oil cans, I
wanted to make sure that he didn't have oil can
boy in a former Red Sox pitcher in his collection
or actual oil cans. Okay, So now the catch is
that these baseball cards were apparently glued to the inside
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cover of this chest. Correct.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
You know, it's unbelievable. It wasn't anything that was done
in a secretive or harmful way. It was just the
way that these cards happened to be stored when they
were purchased. It was probably a young kid's collection. And
so whoever was originally in possession of these cards had
glued them into this wooden chest. And in doing that,
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you think that would ruin them. But what's crazy here.
We took these cards in to a card expert, somebody
that evaluates these cards. He works at the Card Vault,
it's a Tom Brady owned card shop, and he said,
taking them in this condition right now, the only reason
that they look the way they look is because they
were glued into the chest. It actually helped preserve them.
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So most of these cards either have been destroyed or
they've disintegrated, but to find one hundred and twenty two
of them in near perfect condition, it's unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
So logan my question then is this, how do they
extract the card? I mean, has the glue so dried
up that the cards just almost of the glue off easily?
Speaker 4 (14:38):
You got it, you got it. Most of the glue
has dried up. So that Cy Young card, for example,
probably the most valuable card in that collection, it came
right off and there was next to no residue on it.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Wow, Wow, Cy Young, the hero of the nineteen twelve
World Series. Just, oh my goodness, what great memories. This
was the dawn of baseball cards, you know, late late
nineteenth early twentieth century. Did you get a chance to
physically be in the room with the cards or a
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handle any of them?
Speaker 5 (15:12):
Or I did.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
I you know, I was right there with him going
through most of them. I got the chance to hold
the Cy Young card. I mean, this card is from
nineteen oh nine, in perfect condition, was sold about a
year ago for a million dollars, for not a million, sorry,
one hundred thousand dollars. So the card evaluator that we
talked to said that even in the condition that it's in.
If it was even in worse condition, they could easily
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get a couple grand for it. I mean, this was
like being, you know, in a room full of American
history looking down at this set full of cards.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
What I don't understand is this. It would seem to
me that if I assume Facebook, Marketplace is a website
of some.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Sort, it is, so it's an extension of Facebook. So
people go on there to list odds and ends baseball cards.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
So no one else aw this set of car or
this group of cards ensconced inside. Did he just buy
the chest for seventy five dollars and then when he
bought us delivered you know I'm saying, Then when he
delivered it, did he open it up and say, oh
my god? Or did he know and no one else
bid on this, this chest with the cards? When when
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he made the bid, did he realize the cards were here?
Or did it come as a surprise once he took
possession of the chest.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
No, thankfully he knew the cards were there, and so
did the owner. That would have made for some big
problems after the fact. But even then, buying something like
this for seventy five dollars all those cards displayed. I mean,
I mean it. You know, the question came up when
I was talking to Tom. You know, I said, are
you are you going to try and find a way
to compensate the guy you originally bought it from? And
you know he had he had mentioned, yeah, of course,
we'll try and find a way to take care of him.
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But you know it was it was one of those
fines for him. That was a find of a lifetime.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
He why would why would they? Why would some again
bought it? The story now would be to go find
the person who owned the check. Why would they sell
a chest like that knowing that these old baseball cards
were inside the chest, even if they were glued to
the chest. Oh my goodness, our minds worked the same way.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
I've been trying to backtrack and find out who the
original owner of this chest was. But you know, it
was in the state sales, so it's one of those
things you're not really sure and it might have been
sold just somebody thinking maybe it's artwork, right, I mean,
not even knowing that they're baseball cards, but true gold
inside of that chest.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
I remember being at the nineteen I had to tell
this story very carefully at the nineteen eighty four Red
Sox Old Timers Game. Okay, we were up in that
time in the WBZ box and it was great. You know,
there's a drinks and food and everybody's watching old timers.
Ted Williams' is in left field, Jimmy pearsall and centerfield
and all these old great Red Sox players. And to
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begin the game, they rolled Cy Young. Do the math,
it's nineteen eighty three or eighty four, right, he's like
eighty years or seventy years past his performances in the
in the nineteen twelve World Series. They put him. They
rolled him on a wheelchair, put him up three feet
in front of home plate, put a ball in his hand,
and almost reflexively, the ball popped up, you know, went
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three feet thirty seven thousand people standing ovation. My date
that day, who I eventually married, looked at me and said,
what's so great about that? And I said, Young, Yeah, yeah,
it just was. I learned that day she was not
a baseball fan. We got married. We got married, nonetheless, though,
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oh my goodness, it was some moment in time though. Yeah,
so I can actually tell you I have laid eyes
on Cy Young. Not when he was pitching. I want
to make sure not when hell uh kind of flipped it,
molded through it, Logan. I enjoyed the story, enjoyed making
acquaintance with you, and anytime you get an interesting story.
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We'd love to have w b Z reporters that join
us here at night side, and hopefully someday our paths
will cross. Okay, thank you so.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Much, Lullie Dan, thank you so much for having me on.
Appreciate it, my pleasure.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Right back at you were we get back going to
talk about the weekend. We have two great guests coming up. One,
Matt benz Acu medic Accu Weather Meteorology, is going to
talk about a good weekend forecast, which of course will
also preview the weather beginning tomorrow for the Head of
the Child's Regard. And then we will talk with my
high school classmate John Powers of the Boston Globe, who wrote,
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and as always a brilliant piece, what would you expect
from a Boston Latin school of grad on the he's
covered the Head of the Child's REGARDA since their inception
regatas or Regardtai. I guess I don't know either way.
The races for since the mid nineteen seventy. So Matt
Ben's and John Powers coming up to stay with us,
and then later on tonight we're going to talk a
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little politics and also interwoven with what your energy costs
might be this year. And then later tonight at ten
o'clock we'll talk about is ven Wila next on President
Trump's hit list? If you get my drift coming back
on night Side.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Well, here we are, Matt Matt Ben's ACU weather meteorolisis
joins us. Matt, I think we talked last Friday night
about a very different type weather forecast.
Speaker 6 (20:22):
If you recall, yeah, we were talking about the nor'easter
that was coming up the coast kind of made a
mess of the at least part of the weekend, though
some others it really wasn't that bad.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Well let me tell you where I live. I live
down on what you might call the South Coast. You
nailed it, Matt. I'm telling you this. You guys hit it.
When it was going to start, the intensity all the
way from when it started midday on Sunday down here,
and it just picked up and I was waking up
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like Sunday night Monday morning, saying whoa, where where is
Noah in the arc when we meet him? And where
are the animals lining up? It was brutal, But it
looks a little better, and it looks actually quite good
for the head of the Charles Regatta this year, which
right over on soldiers Field Road and Store Drive right
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that river that bisects Boston and Cambridge. Tell us what
we should be looking at weatherwise.
Speaker 6 (21:21):
Yeah, I mean it did the Unlike last weekend, which
was obviously pretty nasty with wind and rain, this weekend
dealing with an area of high pressure that will be
moving overhead. High pressure it's a big H on the map.
It usually means nice weather, and that's what we'll have
nearly overhead, at least to start the weekend, even though
I think it's dry here through Sunday. I wouldn't be
surprised if the breeze started to pick up a little
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bit by Sunday afternoon as at high begins to shift
off of the coast. But at least through the weekend,
things that are looking pretty good for the regatta, not
only for tomorrow but Sunday, but tomorrow if I had
a place a bet, Tomorrow's probably the nicer day of
the weekend.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
So speaking about placing bets, by the way, I'm just
curious if you happen to look the Patriots are playing
in Nashville this weekend, if I'm not mistaken, and I'm
wondering if you, you know, maybe took a look at
the weather down in Tennessee, if what the weather looks like,
oh say, about one o'clock on Sunday afternoon. Yeah, we
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are not that that could impact, you know, the game
or the playing conditions on the field, which in turn
could affect the score. This is merely a weather inquiry.
Speaker 6 (22:27):
Yeah, no, Yeah, looking at the latest forecast, we have
this large storm that's going to be swinging through the
Great Lakes in the Tennessee Valley, bringing a lot of
rain for the middle Tennessee area as we head into
Tomorrow night and the first part of Sunday. So where
I'm going with it is is it looks pretty nasty
there tomorrow night into the first couple of hours Sunday morning.
Rain probably starting to taper off a bit by the afternoon,
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but you know, at least the field conditions could be
wet out there could be dealing with some gusty winds
as well out of the northwest behind the storm. So
maybe not quite the downpour during the game, but I
could be some gusty winds kickoff and beyond into Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Well that's something that everyone needs to take into consideration.
Speaker 5 (23:07):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
When you if you're sitting up here in New England
watching the game, you've got to dress appropriately. So if
it's raining, they put on a raincoat so you really
feel like you're in the stadium. That's why I asked
the ask the question in the wedge time and stuff.
I opened the windows, you know, at the house and
just let the snow fly in, and it's it's it's
it makes the experience more realistic. Man. I know you
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think I'm nuts, but that's okay. So that I think
we've turned the corner here. I think that that summer
is definitely gone and obviously we're in fall. Uh. The
weather is generally it's going to get tough the next
few months. I guess when I ask you about a
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long range forecast here, what's it look like, you know
for November and particularly for those who will be traveling
around Thanksgiving. I'm really putting you on the spot here,
but you're good and you can handle it. Tell me, yeah,
you think long range.
Speaker 6 (24:03):
Yeah, the ACU weather forecast going into this winter, especially
the first half the winter. I know November is still
that gray area that's late fall, but expecting temperatures near
or above average at least through November into December. So yeah,
it's going to progressively get cooler a course over the
next few weeks or so, but at least with above
average temperatures. If we do see any storms rolling through
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the area, likely to stay more rain than maybe something else.
So we'll see if that pattern holds true. I think
there may be more of an uptick with the chances
of snow as we head into the middle of winter
January and February. That's when you see more of a
fight with a cold there that was expected now across
the Great Lakes and the Upper Midwest to make incursion
incursions here into New England, so to start off the winter,
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especially in the November December time period, probably remaining warm
for this time of the year, and then things progressively
perhaps getting a little more wintery as we get towards
the middle of the season.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
That's kind of been the pattern, it seems to me,
for the last few years. Obviously, my sense was that
the pattern really changed in that winter of twenty fourteen fifteen,
where it was fairly nice in December. I don't think
there were any major snow snowstorms at all, and then
the snow started and it just didn't stop. I know,
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we haven't had a winter like that since, but that's
when the first time that I felt that we might
get through December without snow. But that doesn't mean we'll
get through the way. The lesson I learned was winter
seems to be lasting longer and getting more intense as
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December turns into January and February. That's the pattern that
I've seen for the last or at least I think
of experienced. Am I fairly close to the money on.
Speaker 6 (25:45):
That, Yeah, that would seem reasonable, And that's actually one
of our forecasts that we've looked back to as a
twenty fourteen to fifteen season that this could have some
parallels to that. Not saying we're going to get one
hundred inches of snow, but it's one of those instances
where you have very warm waters off the Atlantic coast,
kind of shields you from winter for a bit, and
then yeah, once you get more into the teeth of winter,
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especially if we get those really cold shots coming into
the Great Lakes and the Upper Midwest and they make
a bee line towards New England, that's what could get
us into trouble again January into February. But the first
half of winter may kind of lull you into it.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Yeah, a sense of false security. Last question, El Nino Ninho,
whatever the heck those differences are. I think this. You know,
I didn't do as well in Latin as I should have,
but I guess that's Spanish. What's that situation looking like?
And what impact does it potentially have on our weather?
Speaker 6 (26:35):
Yeah, you know what we talked about the El Nino Laninia.
We're talking about the ocean tempters across the eastern Pacific
and we're kind of oscillating back and forth. I expected
to trend kind of closer towards in al Nina once again. Now,
when it comes to al Nino or l Nina, really
it's when you have the strong events that's what gives
you a better indication of what a winter could be.
So for us, a strong al Ninia would indicate maybe
(26:57):
a warmer winter, drier winter here for the region. But
when you have these weaker events, it doesn't have as
big of an impact. And we look towards things like
the Northern Pacific where it's very warm right now that
can drive the jet stream and where that goes this winter.
So while we've taken into account, of course Lenina and
al Nino, there's other factors that go into the forecast,
and perhaps this winter it's more of the Northern Pacific
(27:20):
that may help to drive the jet stream overall.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
So what I think I'm hearing you say is on
that question, the jury is still out.
Speaker 6 (27:27):
Yeah, the jury's still out of that. Okay, enough, if
you had a clear indication it was going to be
for sure a strong you know al Nino, that I
think we'd have a better signal for what we'd expect.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
All right, matt As always appreciate your time, a particular
in a Friday night. Thank you so much. Have a
great weekend, enjoy it, Okay, thank you, take care you too.
When we get back, we will talk specifically about the
head of the Child's regad it's history. John Powers from
the Boston Globe, classmate of mine in high school who
went on to bigger and better things as a sportswriter,
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has covered the world Olympics, big events, and he is
an expert on the head of the Childs. I think
he's literally been at all of them. We'll talk with
John Powers has a great piece today in the Boston
Globe on the head of the Childs regard to headlines,
something for everybody if you get a chance to look
at your Globe sports page. Coming back on night Side
right after.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
This, you're on night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Well, the big event in Boston this weekend is the
head of the Charles Regatta, as John Powers wrote today
and Boston Globe something for everybody at this regard to
a really comprehensive piece. John Powers, my high school classmate.
I'm one guy made it in the business as John Powers. Congratulations,
You've had a great career covering Olympics around the world.
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And you were at the first head of the Chiles Regatta.
Were still in sconstin Avenue Louis Pasteur in those days.
Speaker 5 (28:56):
Yeah, and remember when Latin School crew absolutely at Boston
Crew they rode in railboats. Remember that it was the
crew team.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
It was baseball and hockey for the Yeah. Wow, so
do you actually remember the first regatta you know, to
or whatever. I think you referred to it as a
as a motley flotilla in your article in the Globe today.
Speaker 5 (29:21):
It made me so yeah, yeah, yeah. Basically they thought
it was kind of a fun time because what happens
in October is people start training for the season, but
the season is not until a screen, so there's a
lot of drudgery and there wasn't any competition or anything
that even made it fun. So two guys from the
Cambridge Boat Club, but you know, why don't we have
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this thing on a Saturday and all that, And they
basically went around the local prep schools and the clubs,
especially the Cambridge Boat Club. They went down to Harvard
and said, hey, you know, here's that appol case. Just
fill out. So that was it was one day. Now,
it's three days. Now, Now it's twelve thousand people, and and.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
It's six twelve thousand competitors, competitors, competitors, and you're talking
about what is the best guestimate. I mean, Fenway Park
is thirty seven thousand full, and so that's take a
third of Fenway Park as competitors. What does that extrapolate
to to to people along the river banks, on the
(30:23):
bridges overlooking the trials. What's the best It has to
be a guestimate of people who will stop by either
Saturday or some well, I guess it started.
Speaker 5 (30:33):
Yeah, the estimate that the people give is four hundred
thousand people. And what they're trying to do this year,
the new not New Jesus is her second year. Executive
director is Tory Stevens, who had a background at festivals
and the idea is just as a festival vibe to it,
(30:54):
but it's more like a reunion for the rowing people.
How about getting people from the Boston area you come
down as they do in the fourth of July, I
mean that as they do in the marathon and celebrate
Boston and Cambridge. And that's what you're going to see
this weekend. You know, you're going to have the Berkeley
School of Music having roving musicians. You're gonna have you know,
games for kids, all sorts of stuff that will make
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it just fun to be done by the river on
what's supposed to be a lovely weekend.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
And it's also in your article and if anyone has
not read this piece, it's obviously very important to read it.
Lists in pro's form, I might add all sorts of
restaurant tours, thing drinks that folks can imbibe for people
(31:44):
both well, the regular drinks for people under eight twenty one,
and then there's stuff that people can have over twenty one.
It sounds like it's going to be a real festival
this week.
Speaker 5 (31:56):
Yeah, yeah, I think you know. The thing is that
underlie you know, the esplanad or I'm like, you've got
three miles of riverfront and there is a ton of space.
So what they're gonna do is use the stuff around
the Lars Anderson Bridge, Right, we're kind of up on
the road up to Harbor Square. That area and downstream
(32:17):
is a whole ton of space, and you'll have tents
and various kiosk that you can do. You know, there's
gonna be a Duncan display on the week's foot bridge,
So it's gonna feel Boston. It's almost like a Boxton
calling kind of nautical if you will.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Yeah, on the river. Yeah, just think of it quite
that way. So now I must tell you that I've
never actually been to a Head of the Charles because
I used to work over there when WBZ well WBC TV,
and it was always crazy to try to find parking
(32:53):
spaces and a lot of that.
Speaker 5 (32:55):
You know.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
But for those who are going, is there any admission?
I'm sure that there must be some tents VIP tents
for which their invitations and admissions, But most people, if
they want to, can just go over and pick out
a spot and watch right.
Speaker 5 (33:11):
Absolutely, because I think for a while there were kind
of upscale things, you know, where you could go in
the tent and have cocktails and lunch, but they wanted
to open up to people that didn't want to be
paying four hundred and ninety five dollars a day. So
now I think, for example, there's a thing called the
River Bend that's right down around where the largs Anison bridges,
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a little bit someth of that.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
Yep.
Speaker 5 (33:35):
So for forty dollars you can go in and basically
spend the whole day, and you know, you have lounge
chairs and games and then there'll be a DJ and
if you don't want to spend anybody at all, I
can just want it back and forth. I mean, there's
the thing is that there's a long, long bike path
that runs along the Cambridge side. You can just walk
liply two or three miles, sure, and shoes stop the
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little place where you can stop and get something rinkerk
and you know again this is this is a long day.
Begins at like seven or eight in the morning. It
ghost about four in the afternoon.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
I saw seven the earliest races. And all of my
folks better be in bed at this point. And then
how many you I know you well enough to know
that you have a I can ask you a question
and you'll have an answer. How many countries will be
represented on the river in the boats this year? How
many countries have they? They? They from all over the world.
Speaker 5 (34:30):
Yeah, it's basically going to be twenty nine countries all
the way. Tom exapt from New Zealand, Australia, Ukraine, South Africa,
a lot a lot of from England. And the thing
is that it isn't though that it isn't though that
they pay these people to come. People just fly in.
What happens is with the new now that at least
the last ten fifteen years, you're Olympic and World champions
(34:53):
are outcoming. For example, the women single on Saturday. As
far as going to be the Olympic Women's champion, the
World open weight champion, the World lightweight champion. It's it's
just astomic. But see they get money. Here was a prize.
There was a ten thousand dollars prize. Okay, sure for
the men and women. Sohow it's worth coming here?
Speaker 2 (35:16):
You know? Yea? What makes it like the marathon? At
one point, remember they used to get a laurel wreath
and a cup of beef stew.
Speaker 5 (35:24):
And right, you know what what it was? It was
denting warl right out of the camp.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Yeah, oh yeah, only the best, only the best, John
real quickly. I know that people know your story career,
but for those who don't, how many Olympics Winter and
Summer Olympics in your career have you covered? And how
many continents did you visit during the.
Speaker 5 (35:47):
Twenty four in Olympia? Yeah, the winter is summer twenty
For my first one was seventy six Montreal, Yeah, and
then I was in Paris left summer. So it's uh, yeah,
it's interesting, you know, it's it's always someplace different, always
something new. And plus we've got Rook Cup soccers coming.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Yeah, well that's right, and don't worry about Trump is
not going to take World Cup soccer out of Gillette.
I don't think he realizes it's not in Boston, it's
actually in And I don't think he's gonna take it
away from Bob Kraft of all people. So I think
we'll be. I think will be okay, John, Thanks, thanks
(36:32):
so much for being available tonight. Love talking to you.
You know, one of my classmates of whom I am
most proud. I think you have you win. You win
the prize for having traveled farthest and most often of
all of us from the class that we won't mention
the year. Okay, thanks Joe, right, Oh you bet you.
(36:53):
You keep moving. They can't catch up with you. Thanks.
Was it sat your page? Don't look over, don't look
over your shoulders from beginning. You got it, You got it.
Speaker 5 (37:03):
John.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
Great, great to hear your voice. Great to talk to you.
Thanks so much for doing this tonight for an old classmates.
Thank you, Thanks, Palf, good night. All right, a great guy.
When we come back. When we come back, we're going
to talk about a tough subject, and that is your
bills this winter, your gas bills, your oil bills, your
(37:24):
electricity bills. I think everything's going up, and we're going
to talk about it and what the government cano cannot do.
This is Nightside. My name's Dan Ray. Stay with us.
We have an interesting few hours coming up, including a
twentieth hour. I still have to figured out we're going
to do in the twentieth hour. And also is Venzuela
next at ten? Venzuela next on Donald Trump's hit list?
(37:47):
Beginning to look that way.
It's nice eyes with Dan Ray. I'm going easy Boston's
News Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
We are almost at the weekend, everyone, it's still Friday night.
We still have four hours of radio to do here
in WBZ. I'm delighted to be here. I know Rob
Brooks is back in the control room. He's actually dancing
with Joy right now. Though Joy is an intern, only kidding, folks,
only kidding. Rob is very excited about tonight as well.
I don't want Rob's wife to think that he was
(00:27):
dancing with another woman. So anyway, with all of that frivolity,
we will get to the matters at hand, which are
four really good guests this hour. I think you'll enjoy
them for sure. I also want to mention just a
sort of I tend not to promote special guests that
are upcoming here on Night Side, So I'm just going
to take a very quick moment to tell you that
(00:47):
on Monday November tenth, Monday November tenth, at eight pm,
we will have the Deans of Admission to Harvard University
in Boston College. Bill Fitzimmons of Harvard University will be
the ninth teenth year that Bill Fitzsimmons has participated in
what we call our Nightside College Admissions Panel. Grant Gostling
(01:09):
of Boston College is relatively newcomer. I think Grant's been
with us now for five years. Anyway, before him, his predecessor,
John Mahoney was with us for the balance of those years.
So this is a staple of Nightside every year, particularly
for people whose children and for the students themselves as
(01:29):
they approach the process of applying to colleges. It can
be overwhelming. And Bill Fitzsimmons of Harvard and Grand Gostling
will be available on Monday night at eight o'clock. For
generally we do a couple of hours. If we tell
you your nieces, your nephews, your children, your grandchildren, whatever,
(01:51):
they should be listening and you should be too, and
asking questions about financing, about different types of schools, what
are offered, all any question you could ask. We have
two experts for you on Monday night, November tenth, so
that's coming up in about three and a half weeks
or so. Anyway, we have four great guests tonight, and
(02:12):
we're going to start off with the President and CEO
of the House of Possibilities, Katie to Reno. I'm very
familiar with the House of Possibilities. We have some close
friends who take advantage of this wonderful program for one
of their sons with us, Katie Torino. Katie, for those
(02:33):
who do not know what the House of Possibilities is,
give us a little description and then we're going to
talk about this. You'll be partnering this weekend with Best Buddies.
They're having the Saturday's Best Buddies Friendship Walk in Charlestown. So,
first of all, Katie, welcome to Knights. I tell us
about the House of Possibilities because it's a great a
(02:55):
great institution.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Thanks so much, Dan, and for the opportunity to talk
to you and your listeners this evening. The House of
Possibilities is a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to improving
and enhancing the lives of children and adults with disabilities.
We opened our doors in two thousand and nine in
a facility on the campus of stone Hill College thanks
(03:17):
to the generosity of Stonehill College and the Yackey Foundation,
and our goal is to create a welcoming and inclusive
environment that empowers the members that we serve to thrive,
to participate in our communities and to achieve greater independence.
We serve about three hundred families each year out of
Easton and a location in Boston, and our largest program
(03:42):
is a Pathways to Employment program in partnership with JVS Boston,
the largest workforce developer in the state. We're really proud
of the program. It offers our members the opportunity to
reach their goal of employment as well as life skills
and participation in their community, social and recreational programming. And
(04:06):
we also offer overnight respite stays and coaching and college
navigation services.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
It's just a great program. Do families stay for a
period of time. Have you had families who have been
literally with you since two thousand and nine or is
there a turnover every couple of years. There is such
a great need.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Yeah, Actually it's a combination of both. We do have
families and members that we've been serving since our Doors opened,
and I'm proud to say some staff as well. And
the organization has grown so much since our Doors first opened,
more than tripled in size, so we have a lot
of new families that have joined us along the way.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Now tomorrow Best Buddies which is another great organization that
works in very similar situations to help people in similar situations.
They have a Friendship Walk in Charlestown and as I
understand it, House of Possibilities is partnering with the Best
(05:07):
Buddies organization to participate in this walk. Can you give
us a little bit of information as to how folks
can participate? Supposed to be a nice day tomorrow. Obviously,
got to navigate around the head of the child's traffic
and all of that, but if they can get there,
tell us what we need to know.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Absolutely. The walk is tomorrow from one to three thirty
at the Shaft City Center in Charlestown, and it's a
walk to really build community and awareness and bring together
all of those who support Best Buddies of Massachusetts and
Rhode Island. We have been incredibly fortunate that the stone
Hill College Best Buddies chapter has been working with our
(05:49):
organization and serving our community since our doors opened, and
we have between sixty and seventy stone Hill College Best
Buddies coming to the House of Possibilities every week to
build friendships and community with our members and our families.
Since opening our program in downtown Boston, we've also been
(06:10):
building a relationship with the Northeastern University Best Buddies, and
we have about forty five best Buddies who come to
our Boston site and build friendships and community with our
Boston members. So we're really excited to be there tomorrow.
This is our opportunity to cheer on our buddies. Many
times they're coming to our facilities and working with our
members and giving of themselves and we get to turn
(06:32):
around and cheer them on and be part of their
event and their day tomorrow and.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Such such great programs and such such great cooperation between
two wonderful organizations. If folks want to get more information tomorrow,
obviously it's a little late is show up and I
assume that everyone would be welcomed, But if they'd like
to get more information on either how to avail themselves
or the services the House of Possibilities all for, or
(07:00):
perhaps to find a really great charity that some people
might want to support, either financially or through volunteering. I'm
not exactly sure what you need for volunteers is, but
certainly financing is something that is always the need. How
can they get in touch with the House of.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Possibilities Absolutely the best way to find more information and yes,
you're write Dan. We need all of the above, from
volunteers to being available to serve individuals who are looking
for our services, and of course that financial support that
makes it possible to do everything that we do. House
of Possibilities dot org is the url for our homepage.
(07:40):
That's House of Possibilities dot org. We're also on Instagram
and Facebook and LinkedIn, so there's also information on social media.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Last question, I just want to give you a chance
to brag on this a little bit because I'm very
familiar with House of Possibilities and I know the success
that you have had. What sort of a difference does
your organization make, not only in the lives of these
people sometimes you know, younger people, sometimes older people who
(08:11):
need a little little support. What what is the the
What does it feel like to make such a positive
difference in the in the in the lives of not
only the individual, but also the family of the individual
who you're supporting.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Well, Dan, it's it's very rewarding work, and it's a
combination of them, the little moments and the big moments,
from when our members walk through the building every day
just excited to see their friends and see their staff
and take on new tasks or activities or accomplishments to
(08:50):
that moment when they get their first paycheck, or the
moment when they get their driver's license, or find a
roommate and get to move out of their home and
live on their own. Those big moments, those little moments,
they add up and they make for such rewarding work,
which is so important because it's hard work. It can
be really hard work for the staff who support our community,
(09:12):
and yet it's so rewarding to see individuals who are
exceeding their goals, who are reaching accomplishments and milestones that
they never thought they could reach. And it's that confidence
of being able to do these things that just allows
them to reach hire and hire, and we're just so
proud of everything that they are able to accomplish.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Well, Katie, you're truly doing God's work. So thank you
very much for doing what you do. And again, House
of Possibilities dot org a great organization, one that my
family supports and which I hope many of my listeners
will support as well. Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Thank you so much, Dan, We appreciate it absolutely.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
When we get back with a change topics, going to
talk with WBCTV reporter Logan Hall about a really interesting
story that he did within the last day or so
about a gentleman in Providence who had the good fortune
of buying a wooden chest. Paid all of seventy five
dollars for this wooden chest, but attached were a bunch
(10:13):
of rare and valuable baseball cards. That's in my wheelhouse.
Always good to talk with a WBZ TV reporter because
frankly I used to be one back many years ago.
I'm back on Nightside in a moment, Logan Hall, and
we're going to talk about baseball cards, and that's a
great way for me to end the week. I love
these sorts of conversations back on Nightside.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
After this, it's Nightside with Dan Ray on Way Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
All right, I have delighted to welcome Logan Hall, who
I don't know, but he works at a newsroom that
I haunted for about thirty one years from nineteen seventy
six to two thousand and seven. Logan Hall, Welcome to Nightside, sir.
How are you There is life after television. I want
you to know that.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Well, thank you very much. It's great to be here.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
I'm happy to be on the program.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Yeah, you're kind of a sports guy too. I noticed
that your sports are racketball and tennis and tennis racket
racket sports. I was involved in a couple of other
sports during my younger days, and one of them was baseball.
And you did a great report about this wooden chest
(11:23):
that somehow someone lucked into and attached to the wooden
chest were a bunch of early twentieth century baseball cards.
Tell us about how this. We dream about that stuff,
but this actually happened. Tell us about it.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
It's the find of a lifetime. Let me tell you,
it's one of those stories that you know when it
pops up in your inbox, you just see it and
it's jaw dropping. So I met this guy, Frankie Mitten,
when I was actually covering the Republic trash Strike, and
I was trying to get him to talk about all
the trash that was piling up in front of his house.
And he ended up reaching out to me about a
week ago and he said, Hey, trash strike's over, but
(12:01):
I've got an even better story for you. My buddy
and I came across a wooden crate full of baseball cards.
It was at in the state sale. We bought it
off Facebook marketplace. We bought it for seventy five dollars,
and we think there's some golden here. And he sent
some pictures and I mean, this thing is loaded. It's
got Cy Young card, Christy Mathewson, John McGraw. These cards
(12:24):
are all from nineteen oh nine to nineteen eleven, and
I mean you just you look at it and it's
a piece of history. And so the guy Tom Conrad,
who actually is in possession of this crate full of
one hundred and twenty two baseball cards, he's an antique collector.
So you know, I showed up at his house and
I walk into his garage and it is full of
old advertising signs, oil cans, old soda bottles. But his
(12:48):
biggest love and his first love when it comes to collecting,
just like you, it's baseball. And so this to him,
I mean, it really was the find of a lifetime
to come into contact with something like this. So he's
been pouring through all of these cards and working on
getting them evaluated, and he's got them up on a
Facebook page right now auctioning them off. I mean again,
he bought this for seventy five dollars and the top
(13:10):
bit is almost at seven grand.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Right now, Wow, when you said old oil cans, I
wanted to make sure that he didn't have oil can
boy in a former Red Sox pitcher in his collection
or actual oil cans. Okay, So now the catch is
that these baseball cards were apparently glued to the inside
(13:32):
cover of this chest. Correct.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
You know, it's unbelievable. It wasn't anything that was done
in a secretive or harmful way. It was just the
way that these cards happened to be stored when they
were purchased. It was probably a young kid's collection. And
so whoever was originally in possession of these cards had
glued them into this wooden chest. And in doing that,
(13:56):
you think that would ruin them. But what's crazy here.
We took these cards in to a card expert, somebody
that evaluates these cards. He works at the Card Vault,
it's a Tom Brady owned card shop, and he said,
taking them in this condition right now, the only reason
that they look the way they look is because they
were glued into the chest. It actually helped preserve them.
(14:18):
So most of these cards either have been destroyed or
they've disintegrated, but to find one hundred and twenty two
of them in near perfect condition, it's unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
So logan my question then is this, how do they
extract the card? I mean, has the glue so dried
up that the cards just almost of the glue off easily?
Speaker 4 (14:38):
You got it, you got it. Most of the glue
has dried up. So that Cy Young card, for example,
probably the most valuable card in that collection, it came
right off and there was next to no residue on it.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Wow, Wow, Cy Young, the hero of the nineteen twelve
World Series. Just, oh my goodness, what great memories. This
was the dawn of baseball cards, you know, late late
nineteenth early twentieth century. Did you get a chance to
physically be in the room with the cards or a
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handle any of them?
Speaker 5 (15:12):
Or I did.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
I you know, I was right there with him going
through most of them. I got the chance to hold
the Cy Young card. I mean, this card is from
nineteen oh nine, in perfect condition, was sold about a
year ago for a million dollars, for not a million, sorry,
one hundred thousand dollars. So the card evaluator that we
talked to said that even in the condition that it's in.
If it was even in worse condition, they could easily
(15:35):
get a couple grand for it. I mean, this was
like being, you know, in a room full of American
history looking down at this set full of cards.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
What I don't understand is this. It would seem to
me that if I assume Facebook, Marketplace is a website
of some.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Sort, it is, so it's an extension of Facebook. So
people go on there to list odds and ends baseball cards.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
So no one else aw this set of car or
this group of cards ensconced inside. Did he just buy
the chest for seventy five dollars and then when he
bought us delivered you know I'm saying, Then when he
delivered it, did he open it up and say, oh
my god? Or did he know and no one else
bid on this, this chest with the cards? When when
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he made the bid, did he realize the cards were here?
Or did it come as a surprise once he took
possession of the chest.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
No, thankfully he knew the cards were there, and so
did the owner. That would have made for some big
problems after the fact. But even then, buying something like
this for seventy five dollars all those cards displayed. I mean,
I mean it. You know, the question came up when
I was talking to Tom. You know, I said, are
you are you going to try and find a way
to compensate the guy you originally bought it from? And
you know he had he had mentioned, yeah, of course,
we'll try and find a way to take care of him.
(16:48):
But you know it was it was one of those
fines for him. That was a find of a lifetime.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
He why would why would they? Why would some again
bought it? The story now would be to go find
the person who owned the check. Why would they sell
a chest like that knowing that these old baseball cards
were inside the chest, even if they were glued to
the chest. Oh my goodness, our minds worked the same way.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
I've been trying to backtrack and find out who the
original owner of this chest was. But you know, it
was in the state sales, so it's one of those
things you're not really sure and it might have been
sold just somebody thinking maybe it's artwork, right, I mean,
not even knowing that they're baseball cards, but true gold
inside of that chest.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
I remember being at the nineteen I had to tell
this story very carefully at the nineteen eighty four Red
Sox Old Timers Game. Okay, we were up in that
time in the WBZ box and it was great. You know,
there's a drinks and food and everybody's watching old timers.
Ted Williams' is in left field, Jimmy pearsall and centerfield
and all these old great Red Sox players. And to
(17:50):
begin the game, they rolled Cy Young. Do the math,
it's nineteen eighty three or eighty four, right, he's like
eighty years or seventy years past his performances in the
in the nineteen twelve World Series. They put him. They
rolled him on a wheelchair, put him up three feet
in front of home plate, put a ball in his hand,
and almost reflexively, the ball popped up, you know, went
(18:12):
three feet thirty seven thousand people standing ovation. My date
that day, who I eventually married, looked at me and said,
what's so great about that? And I said, Young, Yeah, yeah,
it just was. I learned that day she was not
a baseball fan. We got married. We got married, nonetheless, though,
(18:34):
oh my goodness, it was some moment in time though. Yeah,
so I can actually tell you I have laid eyes
on Cy Young. Not when he was pitching. I want
to make sure not when hell uh kind of flipped it,
molded through it, Logan. I enjoyed the story, enjoyed making
acquaintance with you, and anytime you get an interesting story.
(18:56):
We'd love to have w b Z reporters that join
us here at night side, and hopefully someday our paths
will cross. Okay, thank you so.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Much, Lullie Dan, thank you so much for having me on.
Appreciate it, my pleasure.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Right back at you were we get back going to
talk about the weekend. We have two great guests coming up. One,
Matt benz Acu medic Accu Weather Meteorology, is going to
talk about a good weekend forecast, which of course will
also preview the weather beginning tomorrow for the Head of
the Child's Regard. And then we will talk with my
high school classmate John Powers of the Boston Globe, who wrote,
(19:27):
and as always a brilliant piece, what would you expect
from a Boston Latin school of grad on the he's
covered the Head of the Child's REGARDA since their inception
regatas or Regardtai. I guess I don't know either way.
The races for since the mid nineteen seventy. So Matt
Ben's and John Powers coming up to stay with us,
and then later on tonight we're going to talk a
(19:49):
little politics and also interwoven with what your energy costs
might be this year. And then later tonight at ten
o'clock we'll talk about is ven Wila next on President
Trump's hit list? If you get my drift coming back
on night Side.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Well, here we are, Matt Matt Ben's ACU weather meteorolisis
joins us. Matt, I think we talked last Friday night
about a very different type weather forecast.
Speaker 6 (20:22):
If you recall, yeah, we were talking about the nor'easter
that was coming up the coast kind of made a
mess of the at least part of the weekend, though
some others it really wasn't that bad.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Well let me tell you where I live. I live
down on what you might call the South Coast. You
nailed it, Matt. I'm telling you this. You guys hit it.
When it was going to start, the intensity all the
way from when it started midday on Sunday down here,
and it just picked up and I was waking up
(20:52):
like Sunday night Monday morning, saying whoa, where where is
Noah in the arc when we meet him? And where
are the animals lining up? It was brutal, But it
looks a little better, and it looks actually quite good
for the head of the Charles Regatta this year, which
right over on soldiers Field Road and Store Drive right
(21:15):
that river that bisects Boston and Cambridge. Tell us what
we should be looking at weatherwise.
Speaker 6 (21:21):
Yeah, I mean it did the Unlike last weekend, which
was obviously pretty nasty with wind and rain, this weekend
dealing with an area of high pressure that will be
moving overhead. High pressure it's a big H on the map.
It usually means nice weather, and that's what we'll have
nearly overhead, at least to start the weekend, even though
I think it's dry here through Sunday. I wouldn't be
surprised if the breeze started to pick up a little
(21:42):
bit by Sunday afternoon as at high begins to shift
off of the coast. But at least through the weekend,
things that are looking pretty good for the regatta, not
only for tomorrow but Sunday, but tomorrow if I had
a place a bet, Tomorrow's probably the nicer day of
the weekend.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
So speaking about placing bets, by the way, I'm just
curious if you happen to look the Patriots are playing
in Nashville this weekend, if I'm not mistaken, and I'm
wondering if you, you know, maybe took a look at
the weather down in Tennessee, if what the weather looks like,
oh say, about one o'clock on Sunday afternoon. Yeah, we
(22:17):
are not that that could impact, you know, the game
or the playing conditions on the field, which in turn
could affect the score. This is merely a weather inquiry.
Speaker 6 (22:27):
Yeah, no, Yeah, looking at the latest forecast, we have
this large storm that's going to be swinging through the
Great Lakes in the Tennessee Valley, bringing a lot of
rain for the middle Tennessee area as we head into
Tomorrow night and the first part of Sunday. So where
I'm going with it is is it looks pretty nasty
there tomorrow night into the first couple of hours Sunday morning.
Rain probably starting to taper off a bit by the afternoon,
(22:49):
but you know, at least the field conditions could be
wet out there could be dealing with some gusty winds
as well out of the northwest behind the storm. So
maybe not quite the downpour during the game, but I
could be some gusty winds kickoff and beyond into Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Well that's something that everyone needs to take into consideration.
Speaker 5 (23:07):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
When you if you're sitting up here in New England
watching the game, you've got to dress appropriately. So if
it's raining, they put on a raincoat so you really
feel like you're in the stadium. That's why I asked
the ask the question in the wedge time and stuff.
I opened the windows, you know, at the house and
just let the snow fly in, and it's it's it's
it makes the experience more realistic. Man. I know you
(23:28):
think I'm nuts, but that's okay. So that I think
we've turned the corner here. I think that that summer
is definitely gone and obviously we're in fall. Uh. The
weather is generally it's going to get tough the next
few months. I guess when I ask you about a
(23:49):
long range forecast here, what's it look like, you know
for November and particularly for those who will be traveling
around Thanksgiving. I'm really putting you on the spot here,
but you're good and you can handle it. Tell me, yeah,
you think long range.
Speaker 6 (24:03):
Yeah, the ACU weather forecast going into this winter, especially
the first half the winter. I know November is still
that gray area that's late fall, but expecting temperatures near
or above average at least through November into December. So yeah,
it's going to progressively get cooler a course over the
next few weeks or so, but at least with above
average temperatures. If we do see any storms rolling through
(24:25):
the area, likely to stay more rain than maybe something else.
So we'll see if that pattern holds true. I think
there may be more of an uptick with the chances
of snow as we head into the middle of winter
January and February. That's when you see more of a
fight with a cold there that was expected now across
the Great Lakes and the Upper Midwest to make incursion
incursions here into New England, so to start off the winter,
(24:46):
especially in the November December time period, probably remaining warm
for this time of the year, and then things progressively
perhaps getting a little more wintery as we get towards
the middle of the season.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
That's kind of been the pattern, it seems to me,
for the last few years. Obviously, my sense was that
the pattern really changed in that winter of twenty fourteen fifteen,
where it was fairly nice in December. I don't think
there were any major snow snowstorms at all, and then
the snow started and it just didn't stop. I know,
(25:17):
we haven't had a winter like that since, but that's
when the first time that I felt that we might
get through December without snow. But that doesn't mean we'll
get through the way. The lesson I learned was winter
seems to be lasting longer and getting more intense as
(25:37):
December turns into January and February. That's the pattern that
I've seen for the last or at least I think
of experienced. Am I fairly close to the money on.
Speaker 6 (25:45):
That, Yeah, that would seem reasonable, And that's actually one
of our forecasts that we've looked back to as a
twenty fourteen to fifteen season that this could have some
parallels to that. Not saying we're going to get one
hundred inches of snow, but it's one of those instances
where you have very warm waters off the Atlantic coast,
kind of shields you from winter for a bit, and
then yeah, once you get more into the teeth of winter,
(26:05):
especially if we get those really cold shots coming into
the Great Lakes and the Upper Midwest and they make
a bee line towards New England, that's what could get
us into trouble again January into February. But the first
half of winter may kind of lull you into it.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Yeah, a sense of false security. Last question, El Nino Ninho,
whatever the heck those differences are. I think this. You know,
I didn't do as well in Latin as I should have,
but I guess that's Spanish. What's that situation looking like?
And what impact does it potentially have on our weather?
Speaker 6 (26:35):
Yeah, you know what we talked about the El Nino Laninia.
We're talking about the ocean tempters across the eastern Pacific
and we're kind of oscillating back and forth. I expected
to trend kind of closer towards in al Nina once again. Now,
when it comes to al Nino or l Nina, really
it's when you have the strong events that's what gives
you a better indication of what a winter could be.
So for us, a strong al Ninia would indicate maybe
(26:57):
a warmer winter, drier winter here for the region. But
when you have these weaker events, it doesn't have as
big of an impact. And we look towards things like
the Northern Pacific where it's very warm right now that
can drive the jet stream and where that goes this winter.
So while we've taken into account, of course Lenina and
al Nino, there's other factors that go into the forecast,
and perhaps this winter it's more of the Northern Pacific
(27:20):
that may help to drive the jet stream overall.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
So what I think I'm hearing you say is on
that question, the jury is still out.
Speaker 6 (27:27):
Yeah, the jury's still out of that. Okay, enough, if
you had a clear indication it was going to be
for sure a strong you know al Nino, that I
think we'd have a better signal for what we'd expect.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
All right, matt As always appreciate your time, a particular
in a Friday night. Thank you so much. Have a
great weekend, enjoy it, Okay, thank you, take care you too.
When we get back, we will talk specifically about the
head of the Child's regad it's history. John Powers from
the Boston Globe, classmate of mine in high school who
went on to bigger and better things as a sportswriter,
(27:56):
has covered the world Olympics, big events, and he is
an expert on the head of the Childs. I think
he's literally been at all of them. We'll talk with
John Powers has a great piece today in the Boston
Globe on the head of the Childs regard to headlines,
something for everybody if you get a chance to look
at your Globe sports page. Coming back on night Side
right after.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
This, you're on night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Well, the big event in Boston this weekend is the
head of the Charles Regatta, as John Powers wrote today
and Boston Globe something for everybody at this regard to
a really comprehensive piece. John Powers, my high school classmate.
I'm one guy made it in the business as John Powers. Congratulations,
You've had a great career covering Olympics around the world.
(28:46):
And you were at the first head of the Chiles Regatta.
Were still in sconstin Avenue Louis Pasteur in those days.
Speaker 5 (28:56):
Yeah, and remember when Latin School crew absolutely at Boston
Crew they rode in railboats. Remember that it was the
crew team.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
It was baseball and hockey for the Yeah. Wow, so
do you actually remember the first regatta you know, to
or whatever. I think you referred to it as a
as a motley flotilla in your article in the Globe today.
Speaker 5 (29:21):
It made me so yeah, yeah, yeah. Basically they thought
it was kind of a fun time because what happens
in October is people start training for the season, but
the season is not until a screen, so there's a
lot of drudgery and there wasn't any competition or anything
that even made it fun. So two guys from the
Cambridge Boat Club, but you know, why don't we have
(29:41):
this thing on a Saturday and all that, And they
basically went around the local prep schools and the clubs,
especially the Cambridge Boat Club. They went down to Harvard
and said, hey, you know, here's that appol case. Just
fill out. So that was it was one day. Now,
it's three days. Now, Now it's twelve thousand people, and and.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
It's six twelve thousand competitors, competitors, competitors, and you're talking
about what is the best guestimate. I mean, Fenway Park
is thirty seven thousand full, and so that's take a
third of Fenway Park as competitors. What does that extrapolate
to to to people along the river banks, on the
(30:23):
bridges overlooking the trials. What's the best It has to
be a guestimate of people who will stop by either
Saturday or some well, I guess it started.
Speaker 5 (30:33):
Yeah, the estimate that the people give is four hundred
thousand people. And what they're trying to do this year,
the new not New Jesus is her second year. Executive
director is Tory Stevens, who had a background at festivals
and the idea is just as a festival vibe to it,
(30:54):
but it's more like a reunion for the rowing people.
How about getting people from the Boston area you come
down as they do in the fourth of July, I
mean that as they do in the marathon and celebrate
Boston and Cambridge. And that's what you're going to see
this weekend. You know, you're going to have the Berkeley
School of Music having roving musicians. You're gonna have you know,
games for kids, all sorts of stuff that will make
(31:17):
it just fun to be done by the river on
what's supposed to be a lovely weekend.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
And it's also in your article and if anyone has
not read this piece, it's obviously very important to read it.
Lists in pro's form, I might add all sorts of
restaurant tours, thing drinks that folks can imbibe for people
(31:44):
both well, the regular drinks for people under eight twenty one,
and then there's stuff that people can have over twenty one.
It sounds like it's going to be a real festival
this week.
Speaker 5 (31:56):
Yeah, yeah, I think you know. The thing is that
underlie you know, the esplanad or I'm like, you've got
three miles of riverfront and there is a ton of space.
So what they're gonna do is use the stuff around
the Lars Anderson Bridge, Right, we're kind of up on
the road up to Harbor Square. That area and downstream
(32:17):
is a whole ton of space, and you'll have tents
and various kiosk that you can do. You know, there's
gonna be a Duncan display on the week's foot bridge,
So it's gonna feel Boston. It's almost like a Boxton
calling kind of nautical if you will.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Yeah, on the river. Yeah, just think of it quite
that way. So now I must tell you that I've
never actually been to a Head of the Charles because
I used to work over there when WBZ well WBC TV,
and it was always crazy to try to find parking
(32:53):
spaces and a lot of that.
Speaker 5 (32:55):
You know.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
But for those who are going, is there any admission?
I'm sure that there must be some tents VIP tents
for which their invitations and admissions, But most people, if
they want to, can just go over and pick out
a spot and watch right.
Speaker 5 (33:11):
Absolutely, because I think for a while there were kind
of upscale things, you know, where you could go in
the tent and have cocktails and lunch, but they wanted
to open up to people that didn't want to be
paying four hundred and ninety five dollars a day. So
now I think, for example, there's a thing called the
River Bend that's right down around where the largs Anison bridges,
(33:34):
a little bit someth of that.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
Yep.
Speaker 5 (33:35):
So for forty dollars you can go in and basically
spend the whole day, and you know, you have lounge
chairs and games and then there'll be a DJ and
if you don't want to spend anybody at all, I
can just want it back and forth. I mean, there's
the thing is that there's a long, long bike path
that runs along the Cambridge side. You can just walk
liply two or three miles, sure, and shoes stop the
(33:58):
little place where you can stop and get something rinkerk
and you know again this is this is a long day.
Begins at like seven or eight in the morning. It
ghost about four in the afternoon.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
I saw seven the earliest races. And all of my
folks better be in bed at this point. And then
how many you I know you well enough to know
that you have a I can ask you a question
and you'll have an answer. How many countries will be
represented on the river in the boats this year? How
many countries have they? They? They from all over the world.
Speaker 5 (34:30):
Yeah, it's basically going to be twenty nine countries all
the way. Tom exapt from New Zealand, Australia, Ukraine, South Africa,
a lot a lot of from England. And the thing
is that it isn't though that it isn't though that
they pay these people to come. People just fly in.
What happens is with the new now that at least
the last ten fifteen years, you're Olympic and World champions
(34:53):
are outcoming. For example, the women single on Saturday. As
far as going to be the Olympic Women's champion, the
World open weight champion, the World lightweight champion. It's it's
just astomic. But see they get money. Here was a prize.
There was a ten thousand dollars prize. Okay, sure for
the men and women. Sohow it's worth coming here?
Speaker 2 (35:16):
You know? Yea? What makes it like the marathon? At
one point, remember they used to get a laurel wreath
and a cup of beef stew.
Speaker 5 (35:24):
And right, you know what what it was? It was
denting warl right out of the camp.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Yeah, oh yeah, only the best, only the best, John
real quickly. I know that people know your story career,
but for those who don't, how many Olympics Winter and
Summer Olympics in your career have you covered? And how
many continents did you visit during the.
Speaker 5 (35:47):
Twenty four in Olympia? Yeah, the winter is summer twenty
For my first one was seventy six Montreal, Yeah, and
then I was in Paris left summer. So it's uh, yeah,
it's interesting, you know, it's it's always someplace different, always
something new. And plus we've got Rook Cup soccers coming.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Yeah, well that's right, and don't worry about Trump is
not going to take World Cup soccer out of Gillette.
I don't think he realizes it's not in Boston, it's
actually in And I don't think he's gonna take it
away from Bob Kraft of all people. So I think
we'll be. I think will be okay, John, Thanks, thanks
(36:32):
so much for being available tonight. Love talking to you.
You know, one of my classmates of whom I am
most proud. I think you have you win. You win
the prize for having traveled farthest and most often of
all of us from the class that we won't mention
the year. Okay, thanks Joe, right, Oh you bet you.
(36:53):
You keep moving. They can't catch up with you. Thanks.
Was it sat your page? Don't look over, don't look
over your shoulders from beginning. You got it, You got it.
Speaker 5 (37:03):
John.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
Great, great to hear your voice. Great to talk to you.
Thanks so much for doing this tonight for an old classmates.
Thank you, Thanks, Palf, good night. All right, a great guy.
When we come back. When we come back, we're going
to talk about a tough subject, and that is your
bills this winter, your gas bills, your oil bills, your
(37:24):
electricity bills. I think everything's going up, and we're going
to talk about it and what the government cano cannot do.
This is Nightside. My name's Dan Ray. Stay with us.
We have an interesting few hours coming up, including a
twentieth hour. I still have to figured out we're going
to do in the twentieth hour. And also is Venzuela
next at ten? Venzuela next on Donald Trump's hit list?
(37:47):
Beginning to look that way.
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