Five Good Things from the First Red Sox Spring Training Game
It’s tough to accurately assess a baseball team after the first month of the regular season let alone one measly spring training game. I think …
It’s tough to accurately assess a baseball team after the first month of the regular season let alone one measly spring training game. I think …
“2015 is all about the Rod.”
Because we are romantics at heart. And cheap shits, too.
Let me explain. I grew up in the ’80s in a baseball household. The Red Sox were my dad’s religion, and that’s how he raised …
It’s his birthday. How do YOU think the former AL Rookie of the Year is gonna spend it?
I was pretty happy to see Daniel Nava re-up with the Sox. In a world full of professional athletes who seem to swill too often …
Dear Red Sox Ownership: It’s me again. The guy with the puppet and the blog. You may have stopped reading my mail after my petition …
Meanwhile I’m sitting here with ten boxes of “Ring Dings” and a Netflix subscription.
The MLB season is a grind that can wear any team down, and a roster can be a hit with just a couple of key …
An amazingly simple (and booze-inspired) analysis.
This is the time of year when some sites post their wish lists for next year’s Red Sox team or their expert analysis of what …
While he wasn’t necessarily the most spectacular pitcher to ever don a Red Sox uniform, Jon Lester had somehow come to represent everything that is …
With all the crap I’d been hearing about Hanley Ramirez over the past 24 hours — shitty teammate, punk-ass attitude, not the kind of fella …
If history — or, I should say, recent Red Sox history — has taught us anything, it is that a shit year is normally followed …
Puppet Red makes his glorious return to our site, but now he has a new friend: Puppet Denton. To everyone who has ever thought to …
A couple days ago, Kevin Youkilis, AKA Yooooooooouuuk, AKA The Greek God of Walks, AKA Shemp McManus, announced he was retiring from baseball. As someone …
Look, it’s hard for me to get violent over a World Series game in which I have no emotional stake. But last night’s game seven …
Today marks the ten year anniversary of game six of the 2004 ALCS, which will forever be known, at least in France, as “Le Game …
Before The Steal there was The Walk, Kevin Millar’s improbable base on balls against Mariano Rivera that help fit Dave Roberts for his Superman cape. …
Although the Boston Red Sox were unable to make the World Series this time around, it was very much a season of change for the …
The night David Ortiz saved us. Again.
Folks, it has been ten years to the month since the Red Sox drop kicked us all into the promised land, winning the World Series …
Still one of my favorite 2013 memories.
That John Henry is building him some kid of funky but well-appointed, state-of-the-art family pad underneath Fenway Park. With secret Batcave-like entry and exit points, …
Say what you will about the Jeets send-off today at Fenway, it was an effectively emotional affair, pulled together nicely by the Red Sox brass. …
It may seem like a long-ass time ago, but just one year ago today — or tonight, to be more specific — the Boston Red …
Stop me if you’ve heard this before: the Red Sox are down to last rites when David Ortiz shuffles to the plate like a goddam …
The Red Sox have always been this city’s personal embodiment of a Shakespeare play. For six months each year they bring us comedy, tragedy, farce …
So our old pal Jonathan Papelbon got tossed from a game today after making an “obscene” gesture to the fans who booed him for another …
Who knows. YOU may be on this list as well.
For a few, bitter moments, last night’s Fenway homestand opener against the Jays seemed a terrible, terrible microcosm of this 2014 season. Specifically, I’m talking …
Hell, I would. Look at the way he’s holding that baby. The man knows from keeping shit safe from the horrible world we live in. …
I’ve known it was over for a long, long time. But after last night’s implosion in the Bronx, now I know it’s over over. As …
Pretty much the only thing we have going for us for the last month of the regular season is the chance to play spoiler. And …