Typically, we save the prognosticating for people who know better. Like Nostradamus or that Seacrest fellow. But as the beginning of a new baseball season …
Dear Pete: I know your connections run the gamut from the Red Sox front office to the pearly gates of heaven. So will you please …
In today’s Herald, Sean McAdams points out that the Sox were approached by Pedro Martinez’ handlers to check our interest in Pedro II: The Adventure …
During a spring training game some Saturday afternoon in 2005, I got a call from my dad, who sounded like he’d been huffing motor oil. …
Josh Beckett: Still a monster. And extra good at striking out college players. Even though Brian Daubach filled in quite nicely for the ailing Remdawg, …
There’s still snow on my street. The economy’s in the crapper. My 401k won’t buy me a sack of mini Charleston Chews. Marisa Tomei won’t …
Just a week after I publicly appealed for Youk to keep his massive, dirty beard, the guy goes and whittles it down to a John …
Dustin Pedroia–wondrously described in a recent Herald article as “short,” “pre-mature bald” and “cocksure”–is gunning for yet another milestone this season. He wants to play …
And by “the new guys,” I mean Mr. Baldelli: Rocco Baldelli was asked how he’s feeling. “I was going to make a sign,” he said. …
If there’s one guy on whose shoulders our 2009 fortunes will surely rise or fall, it’s Our Man Ortiz. Last season, suffering through injuries and …
Our friends at NESN have been counting down the 25 best Sox games the station has ever broadcast, and the current tabulation can be found …
Look, I don’t ask a lot of the Red Sox players. Suffering through the Chico Walker, Nate Minchey and Dante Bichette eras has helped me …
With all the stuff we’ve seen Jon Lester accomplish, it’s sometimes hard to remember he’s only 25 years old. Christ, when I was 25 years …
Outside of their mutual pledge to rock and roll all night and party every day, their love of an occasional drink, and the fact that …
And I believe he uses these “performance enhancers” not because they give him an edge. But because he likes them. Especially, I’m guessing, the beer. …
I think this clip explains everything you need to know.
If you’ve been reading this blog for any stretch of time, you know the Truck Day drill. A joke about the song “Convoy.” A reference …
As if we needed any more reasons to love Jon Lester, the guy’s already made the scene in Fort Myers, more than a week before …
Why is this man smiling? For the same reason you are, sugar. Pitchers and catchers report in just ten days.
As has been well documented on this silly-ass blog, I don’t watch football. Nothing against the game or our own New England Patriots, but I …
Today marks the deadline for Captain Tek to make his decision for Christ. He can accept the Sox’ 5 million dollar offer, or he can …
Acclaimed author John Updike, who, among countless other things, penned “Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu,” the legendary account of Teddy Ballgame’s last at-bat, has died. …
We were fortunate to have recently been given the opportunity to interview NESN’s own Heidi Watney. Of course, as our reputations precede us, this interview …
Yeah, I miss baseball. But I miss Remy just as much. So thank god a fresh slate of pre-season baseball will soon be beamed into …
If you missed part one, well… here it is. Now, part two: Thanks for getting down to the lab so quickly. No prob. You’ve been …
It’s official: Jonathan Papelbon can order the large fries any time he damn well pleases. The Red Sox have announced that closer Jonathan Papelbon and …
In the latest episode of Man Vs. Food, host Adam Richman hit Eagle’s Deli in Brighton to settle this whole Boston-New York rivalry the way …
I remember my dad telling me how during the Blizzard of ’78, a convenience store down the corner upped the price of milk, knowing demand …
Everything you need to know about Dustin Pedroia comes through in this quote from yesterday’s Hot Stove Cool Music baseball roundtable: After [Rays outfielder Fernando]Perez …
The much-needed big bat continues to elude them, but the Sox are close to plugging a few more spare parts into the 2009 machine, including …
If there’s one guy I’d like to see come back in 2009 as a bencher, it’s Mark Kotsay. Sure, it seemed that everything he hit …
I found Cashman’s comments after yesterday’s press conference for He Whose Name I’m Just Too Damn Tired of Writing to be wildly appropriate–and somewhat headwarmer-esque: …
So one of my co-workers comes by my office the other day and, with a sly grin, says, “So… the Sox are looking at third …
Good music. Ample booze on tap. The chance to see Peter Gammons and Theo Epstein sling an axe and local music gods like Kay Hanley, …
