Dear sirs: I received your most recent letter, threatening certain and swift legal action if I do not surrender payment in the amount of twenty …
Long before America’s Favorite Offensive Liability, Jason Varitek, was crowned Cap’n, there was only one man fit to wear the title: Captain Carl Yastrzemski. Although …
These days, every time Jon Lester takes the mound, I’m reminded of that blurb I read in ESPN: The Magazine’s 2008 baseball preview issue: “Jon …
Tonight, our Feel Good Story takes on the O’s Feel Good Story as Jon Lester faces Jeremy Guthrie. What’s so feel-goody about Guthrie, you may …
In no particular order: — 2004: The Lost Footage: Throughout the 2004 playoffs and post-championship pomp, you guys pretty much videotaped every move the team …
When Roy Halladay’s locked in, opposing pitchers have little margin for error. Last night, he was, limiting the Sox to 7 hits. On the flipside, …
…I’d be perfectly happy to see the Chicago Cubs do it. Just sayin’.
Just when I thought the Sox would be lost without Manny in the line-up, they’ve gone positively batshit over the last few games, scoring nine …
The thing about cancer is that it doesn’t give a shit who you are or how old you are or who you know or how …
Remy, THE GAMMONS and DO, testing OSHA’s limits for the amount of unregulated awesome allowed in one booth. Today, I had the fries. Yeah, I …
Typically, when the Sox put up double digits in the first inning, my first reaction is, “Save some of those runs, motherflippers! Bank ’em for …
With my newfound hobbies–petty larceny, vintage soda bottle collecting, clockin’ the hos–I’ll admit I may not be giving the Sox the undivided attention that they …
Okay, not “terror” as in people rushing madly into the streets, arms flailing, eyes spun wide with fear and madness as if they’ve just been …
Driving home from New Hampshire last night, after watching the Sox drop another to Chicago, I pulled off the highway for a lemonade Coolatta (which, …
Despite all the shits and giggles we like to dispense with, Denton and I are, at least part of the time, upstanding citizens within our …
::on phone:: Yeah, so I’m feeling pretty good, Terry, and I figure I’ll be back any day now to– ::knock at door:: Hold on a …
The good folks at Bigelow Tea sent us a link to this video, which shows Wally the Green Monster getting his bag on. Noteworthy for …
Look, if you’re gonna get swept by the Angels then you damn well better be applying foot to ass every time you face teams like …
One of the most bizarre, lasting images from the 2004 ALCS–besides that look of faux shock on A-Rod’s face when he realized his “ball slap” …
Like Allan at Joy of Sox, I, too, was taken aback by the WEEI-issued “Manny Who?” signs being waved by some folks at Fenway during …
Heidi Watney: Yet Another Perk of Playing in Boston So Jason Bay shows up, explains during his Fenway presser that he grew up with Rice …
I remember the night we signed him. I flipped on boston.com and the headline read, “Sox Sign Ramirez.” And I did what I typically did …
Today is the trade deadline. A day of magic and mirth. A day of action and suspense. A day which typically ends rather anti-climactically–much like …
Ladies, since the All-Star break, you have played twelve games. And of those twelve games, you have won approximately four. Four measly f@#king games. So …
Go ahead and call Manny a troublemaker. A burden. A lousy teammate. A loose cannon. A guy who likely voted Republican and loiters far too …
You know, in many ways, I wanted to see John Lackey no-hit our boys tonight. Because being shut down by a guy with a 7.61 …
When the Sox dropped the World Series in 1986, while I tried to wash away the pain with Spiderman comics and soda (hey, I was …
Honestly, I thought we’d mop up the place with Jered Weaver. Thought we’d send him reeling back to his surfboards and Evanescence CDs (’cause you …
Thanks to NESN for their mighty “Fenway Forecast” feature, which tells me the weather should be quite accommodating as the Sox attempt to show the …
To us, Manny is many things. Lovable. Forgetful. Laughable at times, and I mean that in the nicest sense of the word. He is also …
What kind of a world do we live in where Julio Lugo serves as the voice of reason. Yet here it is, from the Extra …
I suppose if we have to drop a game to the Most Expensive Team That Hasn’t Won a World Series This Century, it’s better to …
Funny what an All-Star Game can do. Coupla weeks back, the Yanks were literally the furthest thing from my mind, tucked somewhere between the films …
The baseball foodchain dictates that you gotta feast on the lesser teams, and the Sox did just that in Seattle, sweeping away the Mariners and …
Attention, boss: You know I love you dearly. But my dream job–the job I was clearly destined to hold since day one–has finally become available. …
