Mr. Mac describes what happened when a Red Line train, stuck in the tunnel for quite some time at rush hour, pulled into Park Street and discharged passengers this morning:

... Instead of letting people on the train, the conductor kept closing and opening the doors in a chopping fashion, striking the passengers entering the train with no warning. This went on for a full minute. I saw an old woman get violently knocked in the head a few times while she was trapped in the doorway - enough to disorient her, as well as some other sturdier people get knocked off balance as they were trying to get on the train. I expected, at the very least, to hear an announcement that the doors would be closing and then re-opening, or that this train is out of service - but no. The conductor kept saying "Use all of the cars, use all of the cars, use all of the cars, use all of the cars" (?) in a mocking fashion ...

But there's a happy ending, sort of. Read the note from Maureen Shirkus, Chief, Red Line Operations.

RallyCuff exempts only David Ortiz from a rant so scorching I had to move a couple feet back from my monitor. She probably needs to replace her F and U keys now.

But since we all know the score this morning (8-7), can we take a moment to discuss Jerry Remy? Like, Jerry, WTF is up with the camera focusing on you gesturing toward somebody behind a curtain none of us can see WHILE THE GAME IS GOING ON? But I'm a Certified Curmudeon (tm) and not really a New Englanda, so what do I know?

Turns out I'm not alone. Dave is really starting to dislike the RemDawg:

... [T]he more I watch him (which is a lot, considering that I watch, almost, every sox game from start to finish) the more I feel like he's kind of a douche bag, especially to the play-by-play man Don Orsillo. ...

Frecklegirl reports:

I walked into my kitchen today to refill my mac and cheese from a pot on the stove and I was greeted by the sight of a wriggling mouse butt squeezing into one of the burners. (cheap gas stove) ...

For a medium that thrives on visuals and graphics, local television stations have sure done a miserable job on the Web.

Take Channel 5 (please!). The site is packed with information, and Channel 5 does a great job of quickly posting breaking news, but the home page looks like a head-on collision between two paint trucks and should come with a bottle of extra-strength asipirin. Channel 25? Could somebody tell them frames are so 1997? Now, to be fair, this is hardly unique to Boston - local-TV sites across the country are mediocre at best (in fact, many of them use the same godawful toolbar and throw-everything-on-the-wall design as Channel 5). But still: Ick.

So it's amazing to see the new cbs4boston.com.

The look is clean and simple - but with a bunch of cool features, such as Track It, which lets you build a page of articles using your own keywords. And every page comes with a well integrated, page-specific video window - just what you'd expect from a TV site. The actual content is a bit barebones right now - a search on "Menino" only brings up four hits - but give it time.

To be sure, the site is larded up a bit with extraneous syndicated content (has anybody been dying to read "What's New: Our Bodies, Ourselves, Our Cosmetic Cases" on a Channel 4 lifestyle page? No, I didn't think so). Better they should ditch the third-party content deals and hire somebody to make sure they're competing with thebostonchannel.com and boston.com on breaking news.

But in general, this is one hella TV news site.

Quck! Find the day's main story on Channel 4 and Channel 5: