Archive for the ‘Boston Red Sox’ Category
Thursday, August 21st, 2008
Sorry we missed this, but something must be said to the apparently imminent loss of someone whose mouth will likely never stop running.
News out of Boston a couple days ago is Curt Schilling may have thrown his last pitch in Major League Baseball. What a goddamn shame. This is a ...
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
I'll keep this short because it's old news and everyone already knows Manny Ramirez hit his 500th home run Saturday night in Baltimore. As a matter of fact, he hit is 501st Sunday afternoon. Neat.But allow me to try and put a little perspective on this, if I may. Sure, ...
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
It makes people around the Midwest sick, but it's pretty hard to complain about an East Coast bias when all the good stuff happens over there.New York Giants. Boston Celtics. New England Patriots. Boston Red Sox. Hockey (they only play that on the East Coast, right?). Clay Buchholz.And now ...
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
Remember as a kid when you were out in the back yard and you did your best to impersonate your favorite baseball player at bat? Mark Grace was my man. But in some of my tee ball photos I clearly had a thing for Julio Franco's stance. Don't ask, I ...
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
It must have been a strange Sunday of conflicting emotions and tested convictions if you are both a Catholic and a Yankee fan.On the one hand, none other than the freakin' Pope himself held Mass from second base before a crowd of nearly 60,000 people at Yankee Stadium. That in ...
Posted in A-Rod, Boston Red Sox, MLB, New York Yankees, The Pope | 1 Comment »
Friday, March 28th, 2008
I just love it when the Wall Street Journal contributes something meaningful to the sports journalism world. It makes me feel warm, fuzzy and conservative. Which in turn makes me feel uncomfortable.Thanks to Baseball Musings, as good a baseball blog as there is, I found this interesting baseball manager grading ...
Posted in Boston Red Sox, Joe Torre, MLB, New York Yankees, Wall Street Journal | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
So it's mid-December and, aside from one mega-deal, not much has happened to change the landscape of Major League Baseball. A-Rod went back to the Yankees, Johan Santana is still with the Twins, Erik Bedard is still in Baltimore and Jake Peavy signed a big extension with San Diego. This ...
Posted in Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs, Jason Bay, MLB Rumors, New York Yankees, Pittsburgh Pirates, Rumors, San Diego Padres | No Comments »
Monday, August 13th, 2007
Remember when the Boston Red Sox picked up Eric Gagne at the trade deadline and all the ESPN hacks were saying how they had plugged their only real hole and that he might solidify them as the sure-fire World Series favorite? Gagne was supposed to be the guy who took ...
Posted in Boston Red Sox, Eric Gagne, MLB | 3 Comments »
