A wise man named Wesley Snipes once said, “Always bet on black.” If you can find Wesley these days, hiding from IRS agents in a …

Even after watching it 500 times, Manny’s game-two-winning, heart-attack-inducing, pimped-out-to-the-extreme, earned-you-or-a-teammate-a-fastball-off-the-jublees home run still gets me giddy. And bonus props to the guy for coming …

Tonight, Daisuke Matsuzaka will take the mound in his biggest start to date. Bad enough the guy’s gotta follow-up Josh Beckett’s ridiculously spectacular performance Wednesday …

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 …