Josh Beckett was particularly Josh Becketty last night, smothering the Angels with a complete-game, four-hit shutout and basically stopping short of hog-tying Garret Anderson, stomping …
I said something very similar to this before the 2004 playoffs. For mojo’s sake, I felt it needed to be said again. Baseball in October …
Superstitious punk that I am, I avoid rallies that occur before the playoffs even start like the plague. But I will say this: Yesterday, during …
Ladies and gentlemen, your mission statement for the 2007 post-season. In handy photo format.
The first couple seconds of this clip, shot with a cheap-ass camera by a drunken blogger while half of my place was being consumed in …
Too drunk and tired to say anything more than hell yeah. Except what the f@#k is Patrick Bateman doing standing behind Lowell in that screencap? …
Listen, Friday is Saturday’s surly mistress, inviting you to stay out a bit later, drink a bit more, have that second steak dinner and keep …
So the hitting’s coming together, Mike Lowell has been outed as a native of Krypton, and Manny’s back with a vengeance. And now the Sox …
A great article in today’s St. Petersburg Times, in which Scott Kazmir and BJ Upton lament the fact that so many pesky Sox fans have …
In Wednesday’s post, I conjured a scenario in which the Papel-Bot gives up a grand-slam. Later that evening, he gave up a grand slam. Then, …
Dudes, being a Red Sox fan is like being a member of the KISS Army. Yes, you get up and shake your ass for Destroyer …
You’re in the heat of a pennant race. Your lead in the division has been sliced Kate Moss-thin. You’ve already lost the season series to …
For the “Classic Manny” file, ProJo’s Steve Krassner recounts this priceless bit: Manny Ramirez (strained left oblique) visited Terry Francona’s office early yesterday and asked …
Watching the Sox and Yanks on ESPN is truly a special, wish-you-didn’t-have-ears kind of hell. Just a non-stop onslaught of how amazing A-Rod is and …
What better way to wash all the dirty of last night’s loss from our collective mouths than watching Giambi, A-Rod, Cano and company get hamstrung, …
First things first, I’d like to see a sweep. What better way to put the exclamation point on the 2007 season — and tender a …
Folks, it’s official. Amalie Benjamin is the captain of my heart. The driver of my soul. Everything that makes my mind go zing. In what …
Remember the days when you didn’t pitch to Ortiz with the game on the line under any circumstances? I think those days are upon us …
Any night the Red Sox can get 20 hits and score 16 runs is a good night. But the fact that all this clatter was …
Tonight’s game won’t start until 7:15pm, but with Tim “Rays Killer” Wakefield on the hill, I believe it will truly be something worth waiting for. …
I’ve come to the conclusion that Alex Cora is distantly related to Theo Epstein. Or that he’s holding evidence of Rico Petrocelli’s long-rumored participation in …
See, Lugo’s got the right idea. We take three of four from the Os, Beckett’s got his league-leading 18th win, and we’re back home tonight …
This afternoon, we have Josh Beckett versus Jeremy Guthrie. With Commander Kick Ass of the F@#k Yeah Brigade on the hill, sounds like a slam-dunk, …
That is to say, he, too, was once a wee kid and went through an awkward stage which was forever captured for posterity in grade …
Please tell me that Bobby Kielty is still nursing a bad back, or was tied up in the back of a van somewhere in Chelsea …
After Game Three of the 2004 ALCS, my blood still tainted with the residue of 2003’s immortal, blog-spawning collapse, I famously threw in the towel. …
So I return from my Labor Day extravaganza last night, sunburnt into submission and head wracked with hangover, and I see that the Sox have …
Thrown at twice in Yankee Stadium Thursday afternoon. Hit by a pitch twice yesterday at Fenway. What did Kevin Youkilis do to piss you off, …
Dude, if ever there was a time that I needed to see the boys back in the friendly confines of Fenway Park, it’s right now. …
Dropping two in a row to the Yanks isn’t quite as scary as that headline in today’s Extra Bases blog: “Manny Could Be Out a …
Clemens vs. Beckett in the Bronx on a late August night? Dude, anyone who calls you between 7:00pm and 10:30pm tonight is clearly not your …
I have a dream. And that dream is that at some point in the 2007 season, J.D. Drew is going to pull off something so …
Typically, a late season series with the Yankees is reason to board up the windows, unscrew some vintage Nightrain and put the local authorities on …
Abhorrent as the recent Jose Offerman incident may have been, it still takes a backseat to the infamous Izzy Alcantara spectacle from a few years …
Although it hardly makes up for the sweepage we endured in the 2005 ALDS, I must say I got a perverse sense of satisfaction from …
