Winning Ugly
How best to explain this disease that is Red Sox fandom? Let me take a comment left yesterday by grunherz a couple steps further. Monday, …
How best to explain this disease that is Red Sox fandom? Let me take a comment left yesterday by grunherz a couple steps further. Monday, …
For the record, the worst ways to lose a ballgame are: a) Letting it get away after the grind of extra innings b) Giving up …
My man Denton will be chiming in with his thoughts on yesterday’s win, but I wanted to drop some keen observations from friday night’s KISS …
Understand: I like Tim Wakefield. Like him a lot. In in era in which team loyalty has been all but flushed away, he’s been with …
Cool: Watching David Ortiz get medieval on ump Matt Hollowell, whose strike zone went through more permutations over the course of three hours than Manny’s …
The best thing about a west coast game when Derek Lowe is pitching? Once he gets zapped by a misplayed fly ball or grounder and …
As we wait for tonight’s late show in Anaheim (fingers crossed, fingers crossed), we present recent conversations about the Olde Towne Team, both real and …
Some thoughts on the All Star Game (or, as I like to call it, Yankeepalooza): — Fantasia Barrino can sing — twits like me who …
Without a Sox game to watch, I get a little bit silly. So please indulge me as I blabber on about nothing in particular. Or, …
Instructions: 1) Tape NESN replay of yesterday’s 6-5 loss to the Rangers. 2) Label tape as “tough losses, volume 329” 3) Add tape to library …
Wow. Is there anything else we can say this morning, after the Sox unloaded the hurt on the Texas Rangers for the second straight evening, …
Last month, as the Sox squandered opportunity after opportunity, I’d sit in anguish as I listened to the post-interview cliches. “Just wait until we start …
What a difference a week makes. Last night, I found myself howling at the TV, angered beyond belief that, in a critical 9th inning at …
Are they really this good, on track to sweep the last homestand before the All-Star Break and ensconce themselves in a far prettier position relative …
Timely hitting? Damon cracking 5 hits? Millar actually engaging in bat-on-ball contact that results not in the ball drifting lazily into an infielder’s glove but …
Turns out that, unfortunately, I was wise to bury my enthusiasm after Saturday’s win. Yesterday, the Sox took another two steps back, getting pummeled by …
Last night’s victory was a bloody good one, what with a sensational pitching performance by the Schill-Dog, some fantastic defense (including Pokey going airborne to …
It’s difficult to find words to appropriately capture the dismay I’m feeling as the Sox spiral toward what could become the most depressing season I’ve …
Cesar Crespo pinch-hitting with men on in the top of the thirteenth inning against your mortal enemies? Kevin Millar playing right field during critical extra …
During periods of my life marked by undue stress — long stretches of unemployment, selling and building a home, the release of a new Rob …
Maybe we should have threatened to trade Manny to Texas years ago. Despite speculation that the proposed A-Rod deal would propel him to bold new …
Sox lose in 10. Nomar throwing error gives it away. Offense still not showing up. Millar 0-for-4. D-Rays only four back in the loss column. …
Heaven help me. I think I’m starting to crack. I’m usually stronger than this. A lifetime of Sox worship has conditioned my body and feeble …
I’ll say this much for the 2004 edition of the Olde Towne Team: They don’t do things half-assed. When they lose, they lose in stellar, …
From the wife. For Father’s Day. Because she understands. So, how ’bout this: We trade Shoppach and Youkilis for Beltran, then trade Nomar to Oakland …
First, I am not angry. Alright, maybe Saturday’s game got me a little peeved. After Friday’s blow-out, a neat comeback win could have sparked that …
At last! Hating Barry Bonds is even easier! Bonds, whose knowledge of baseball history had him humorously mocking a visitor stumbling to draw comparisons between …
I hate being in second place. Hate it more than losing two straight to a team with the second-worst record in all of baseball. Hate …
Remember back to the start of the season, when the Sox swept up in the Bronx and all anyone wanted to talk about was how …
So I’m watching ESPN’s coverage of the Cubs/Astros game last night and I find myself rooting for Clemens. The last time I did that was …
My new drug of choice? It’s Pokey. I’m buying an HDTV monitor just to watch him tear it up even clearer than I do right …
Just as Pedro and Lowe have seemed to find themselves again, at least based on their last starts, Tim Wakefield keeps falling further into the …
Sox win! Yanks lose! Mussina tweaks groin! Curt hurt!? Friday rocks my ass off! More tomorrow morning!
If there is anything we can say about last night’s game that is completely expletive-free, it is that it provided a neat encapsulation of the …
Okay, the Globe is now confirming what Bostondirtdogs.com reported earlier this morning: Nomar WILL be in the line-up tonight.