…but until then, I’m doing a shot of Jaeger for every one of those miserable goddam balks. Who’s with me?

Aw, who am I kidding. All we got here is two teams on a roll with just five and a half games separating them. But …

I figure Josh Beckett to be one of the more competitive guys in the Red Sox clubhouse. As in shooting a teammate in the foot …

Any concerns we had about Jon Lester have been temporary shelved after last night’s complete game, 8K, 6-hit win. Yes, it was against the Seattle …

“Now look. I understand that you thought you’d be getting some serious output from the likes of Ellsbury, Youkilis, Crawford and Bailey this season. Alright, …

“The reverberations of the lavish lifestyle that Royals management helped me finance in the 80s is still being felt today! Ergo, you probably somehow kinda …

Yesterday’s loss to the Os was a neat encapsulation of the season thus far. I went in with high hopes, thinking Aaron Cook might surprise …

I had three entertainment options presented to me last night: I could stay home surrounded by my good friends Bud Light and Heineken and watch …

I don’t think any Yankee struck fear in the hearts of mortal men quite like Mariano Rivera. Creepy-looking enough to be a Batman or James …

Look, I’m just a guy in a house who writes a blog. And unless you count that weekend in Vegas with Jenny McVincent, I very …

a) “How can they even think about making an Avengers movie without The Vision?” b) “Is vanilla actually a flavor? Or, rather, is it the …

A pitcher can only pull so many rabbits out of a hat. So with the Sox facing a pitcher who’s last outing was a perfect …

After that fiasco last weekend, in which the Sox blew a nine-run lead and sent Bobby V into emergency meetings with his career counselor and …

“Great game tonight, guys. And I really appreciate the runs. I mean, seriously. When the bats get all f$%knasty–I’m looking at you, Aviles–it’s good for …

I’m with Denton. We gotta take this season one game at a time. We got the win last night, and now we’ve got Commander Kick …

It’s quite disheartening that the Red Sox’ first assignment on this road trip is to take down a team managed by the absolute doppelganger of …

There are worse things than blowing a nine run lead to your most hated rivals and losing your fifth straight game on the weekend of …

Not much I can say other than we’re dead-ass last in the East, sporting the second worst record in the American League, in danger of …

I was drinking myself silly with a couple friends last night when I reiterated something I had tweeted earlier: If Kevin Millar isn’t managing the …

We took Puppet Red out of the mothballs for this special Surviving Grady Puppetcast. Because nothing sets the tone for mirth and celebration like a …

Our friends at TiqIQ have launched a new Facebook application called TiqIQ CONNECT. Unlike the majority of other widgets/applications, this one is pretty cool–not obtrusive–and …

Yesterday, I said something pre-game about not sweating the boys from Texas. Then they promptly stepped on our balls for roughly four hours. That’s what …

I want the opposite of Total Recall on last night’s game. I want to purge it completely from my mind, like the time I took …

We respect them, to be sure. But we don’t sweat them. Sure, they got the AL’s best record so far. And they haven’t lost yet …

Look, the world is gonna kick your ass. That’s what the world does. That’s its job. But knowing that there’s fresh, all-new, never-before-seen baseball played …

The last person I expected to be a motherflipping force of nature during this series with the Rays was David Ortiz. But the Large Father …

I like to think that shortly before the Sox took the field this afternoon and proceeded to have their way with the Rays, the team …

For all of yesterday’s Opening Day pomp and circumstance, my greatest concern was the thought of Beckett unraveling again, leaving us with yet another question …

Dad and I never missed an Opening Day. Sometimes we were in the stands — Manny’s first-pitch-at-Fenway-as-a-Red-Sox home run and the Mo Vaughn Ninth Inning …

Elvis Costello once said that writing about music is like dancing about architecture. I have no idea what that means but on this episode, we …

When your ace throws eight-inning, three-hit ball but the offense can’t score enough to get him the win, they’ve done f$%ked the guy.

The Sox play the Jays today at 12:37pm (not 12:36 as originally stated). So those of us who are gainfully employed must now choose between …

All day long at the office, I’ve been just walking up to people in the hall, getting up in their faces, and screaming, “Are you …

Look, when the Sox head up to Canada to play the Jays, I’m gonna bust with the silly-ass references to Rush lyrics. That’s just how …

Considering that this was only the third game of the regular season, and that we were playing against the reigning AL Central champs, a team …