All posts on September, 2007

Especially when home is Fenway Park. For anyone that doesn’t think home field advantage is a big deal in baseball, take a look at the …

The first couple seconds of this clip, shot with a cheap-ass camera by a drunken blogger while half of my place was being consumed in …

Too drunk and tired to say anything more than hell yeah. Except what the f@#k is Patrick Bateman doing standing behind Lowell in that screencap? …

Listen, Friday is Saturday’s surly mistress, inviting you to stay out a bit later, drink a bit more, have that second steak dinner and keep …

So the hitting’s coming together, Mike Lowell has been outed as a native of Krypton, and Manny’s back with a vengeance. And now the Sox …

Just to get you pumped, a couple of stats from sportsline.com… Lester allowed one run and three hits over 6 2-3 innings in his lastouting, …

Any photo of a Yankee pitcher walking off the mound in the 10th while an opposing player rounds the bases in triumph is like a …

While Red basks in the beauty of the Great White North, catching up on the latest hockey and curling news, the rest of us eagerly …

Jesse Litsch, now a close friend of Red Sox Nation, shut down the Yankees, holding them to one run on an A-Rod groundout. The Jays …

Well, with Red off wrestling Polar Bears or Penguins, or whatever the hell lives in Calgary, I had hoped to spend the week talking about …

When Theo Epstein was basking in his Caribbean retreat last off-season, setting up the players on the Red Sox like some multi-million dollar chessboard, last …

A great article in today’s St. Petersburg Times, in which Scott Kazmir and BJ Upton lament the fact that so many pesky Sox fans have …

Nothing like a visit to the Trop to cure what ails you. Especially if what ails you is not being able to win baseball games. …

In Wednesday’s post, I conjured a scenario in which the Papel-Bot gives up a grand-slam. Later that evening, he gave up a grand slam. Then, …

Dudes, being a Red Sox fan is like being a member of the KISS Army. Yes, you get up and shake your ass for Destroyer …

You’re in the heat of a pennant race. Your lead in the division has been sliced Kate Moss-thin. You’ve already lost the season series to …

For the “Classic Manny” file, ProJo’s Steve Krassner recounts this priceless bit: Manny Ramirez (strained left oblique) visited Terry Francona’s office early yesterday and asked …

The hype is over. The water-cooler crowd can go back to talking about Belichick and defensive signals and other things they know nothing about. For …

Watching the Sox and Yanks on ESPN is truly a special, wish-you-didn’t-have-ears kind of hell. Just a non-stop onslaught of how amazing A-Rod is and …

Meet Josh Beckett – 2007 Cy Young winner. Beckett’s dominating performance over the Yankees while former contender Chien-Ming Wang crapped the sheets pretty much sealed …

What better way to wash all the dirty of last night’s loss from our collective mouths than watching Giambi, A-Rod, Cano and company get hamstrung, …

If I woke up in a booze-and-grilled-meats-induced stupor and saw the final score of this shit-storm, I would have been fine. I fully expected Dice-K …

First things first, I’d like to see a sweep. What better way to put the exclamation point on the 2007 season — and tender a …

Folks, it’s official. Amalie Benjamin is the captain of my heart. The driver of my soul. Everything that makes my mind go zing. In what …

Remember the days when you didn’t pitch to Ortiz with the game on the line under any circumstances? I think those days are upon us …

I don’t know how it happens every year: one day I’m strolling the beaches ( looking quite fetching in my Speedo and peeling sunburn) with …

Any night the Red Sox can get 20 hits and score 16 runs is a good night. But the fact that all this clatter was …

Tonight’s game won’t start until 7:15pm, but with Tim “Rays Killer” Wakefield on the hill, I believe it will truly be something worth waiting for. …

I’ve come to the conclusion that Alex Cora is distantly related to Theo Epstein. Or that he’s holding evidence of Rico Petrocelli’s long-rumored participation in …

See, Lugo’s got the right idea. We take three of four from the Os, Beckett’s got his league-leading 18th win, and we’re back home tonight …

This afternoon, we have Josh Beckett versus Jeremy Guthrie. With Commander Kick Ass of the F@#k Yeah Brigade on the hill, sounds like a slam-dunk, …

Right after Huff mashed that would-be-grand-slam a few feet outside the foul pole, I expected Francona to sprint out of the dugout and drag Dice-K’s …

What is it about playing the Red Sox that makes the ball “slip out of the hand” of so many pitchers? The other night in …

That is to say, he, too, was once a wee kid and went through an awkward stage which was forever captured for posterity in grade …

22: The number of consecutive scoreless innings Wake has pitched. 59: The record for most scoreless innings pitched (Orel Hershiser). 26: Number of consecutive starts …