Looking Back
Half of the World Champion team has filed for free agency. King George wants Pedro. Pokey and Mirabelli will likely go to teams where they …
Half of the World Champion team has filed for free agency. King George wants Pedro. Pokey and Mirabelli will likely go to teams where they …
The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America is ruled by it like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased …
The St. Louis Cardinals are on life support, and the Boston Red Sox are standing on their air hose. Tomorrow, Derek Lowe will try to …
The Red Sox are going to win the World Series. There. I said it out loud. And I am not afraid. I know we were …
Bless me, Big Papi, for I have sinned. After the game 3 nightmare, I stopped believing. I did NOT stop hoping. I did NOT stop …
One of Surviving Grady’s faithful followers spreading the word. When I was in Baltimore for the last weekend of the regular season, I saw a …
There is just too much to say for me to try to fit it into the comments on Red’s fine post, so I decided to …
Scores of bleary-eyed Red Sox fans are stumbling to the coffee-maker, tired but happy. Last night (this morning?) the Red Sox took an enormous 2-0 …
Standing in the shadows of Camden Yards is a statue of none other than Babe Ruth. For those of you who haven’t had the fifty-cent …
Last night worked out about as good as Red Sox fans could hope. The bats continued their assault on AL East pitching with a 10-run, …
Forget all of the recent quotes from Pedro. Forget the blown saves by Foulke last week. Forget the two months of .500 baseball. This is …
A dejected Joe Torre yesterday during the second straight Yankee smackdown. True, this would be a much sweeter picture in mid-October, but we’ll take it. …
The seed of doubt was planted back in July when Keith Foulke blew three saves in a two-week period. The roots never took and, as …
This photo could be from when Schilling struck out Newhan in the eighth (his 14th of the night, all swinging) or when Foulke gave up …
“It was too cold in the clubhouse”…”It was windy on the field”…”I was getting squeezed”… Embarrassing. What happened on the field the past two days …
Surreal. It’s the only word to describe what took place in the Bronx on a rainy Friday in September. From wire to wire, this game …
With deadly Hurricane Ivan bearing down on the gulf coast of Florida, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays make a timely visit to Boston. For the …
He is the Jekyll and Hyde of the Boston Red Sox. Four days out of every five, he is the Clown Prince of the dugout. …
Can you imagine a less-than-sold-out Fenway Park in September against a bitter rival? Never. That’s what they had in Oakland last night, twenty-nine thousand plus …
There is something in the air in Red Sox Nation. It’s not just the throngs of college students returning to Boston to rejoin the bandwagon. …
Fenway Park, Boston. Thirty-five thousand rabid, championship-starved faithful watched their team take one step closer to their goal. The World Series. The Fall Classic. God …
They are mirror images of each other. One bats from the left side of the plate, one from the right. They will beat you using …
Dale Svuem is every bit as bad a third base coach as Red Sox Nation has portrayed him as. Another player gunned down at the …
These guys are playing scary-good baseball. 17-7 in the month of August and the only loss in their last ten games was on a career …
It is well documented that we at Surviving Grady do not believe in curses. But for those of you who are believers, add this to …
Best wishes to the creative genius of Surviving Grady! This is as close as I could get to fulfilling his “being-Johnny-Damon-for-a-day” birthday wish. Enjoy!
With very little fanfare the Red Sox have won 8 of their last 11 games. Could this finally be the streak we have been waiting …
We have heard all of the commentary on yesterday’s game, yet we will hear it all again. Why? Because yesterday was “same as it ever …
Pedro Martinez turned the clock back in the series finale with the D-Rays. Complete game shutout, 6 hits, 10 strikeouts, no walks. In the month …
Looking every day as old as his 38 years, Curt Schilling was pulled in the sixth inning after surrendering his third homerun of the night. …
Pedro Martinez wasted no time last night in issuing a statement to the Tigers – this is my game. He struck out the first five …
The Cubs and the Red Sox both have a new look. A superstar boards a plane for Chicago to don a funny-looking uniform with a …
Seven-and-a-half games. It can be done. The long-awaited streak is here and this team is poised to make one last run at the division. If …